Wandering Adventure Party

Today I learned that my colleagues refer to the method I discovered for easily inserting a temperature probe into compost as "Jules's wiggly worm trick", and while I suppose I always wanted a scientific method named after me I wish it hadn't been this one

Time to tap the lossy jpg of a vintage Tumblr post again.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

If people have just come here from Bluesky. Or finally got around to closing their Airbnb account. Or leaving Meta or whatever. Don't immediately jump on them to tell them they should have done it sooner, say well done for doing it now. Or, y'know, saying nothing at all is also an option that exists.

I think what a lot of people who go "Mastodon is just a lefty echo chamber for people who can't handle debate!" don't understand is that not everyone uses social media the same way and most of us don't see Oxbridge debating society type arguments as a leisure activity. Normal people are just here to laugh at some memes, maybe see some cat pictures, discover a new band or learn some facts about sea creatures. Not everything has to be about challenging the foundations of your ideology.

Injured Ukrainian solider escapes enemy lines on e-bike airdropped by drone

This is an incredible feat of bravery and endurance on the soldier's part, and an incredible feat of logistics and planning on behalf of the people who got the bike to him. But also if this isn't an advert for ebikes I don't know what is.

Injured Ukrainian soldier escapes enemy lines on e-bike airdropped by drone

The soldier was stranded in Siversk, northern Ukraine before comrades came up with an inventive plan to retrieve him

The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)