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Más ar an Bsky atáir, ní bhead in ann t’fheiscint ná do leanúint mura leanair-se @ap.brid.gy.

Polannach ag foghlaim na Gaelainne ⁊ a staire (.i. inna […]

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silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin (it was probably the first one)
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Yeah, I don’t get the idea of “good” bourbon either.

But for a _really_ surprisingly strong paint thinner taste you should try Mhoba High Ester Rum.

I’m not sure which one that was, either this: https://www.mhoba.com/products/mhoba-pot-stilled-high-ester-rum-750ml-65-20 or this […]
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mstdn.social
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin That said, my own ability of recognizing and naming flavours is shit so take what I wrote with a middle-sized barrel of salt. ;-)
February 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin I had the pleasure of trying Ardbeg Hypernova (very limited edition, I don’t think I’m ever gonna see another bottle of it) which is the most smoked Ardbeg ever.

But then any Octomore just tastes and smells of smoke (though maybe not ash and tires on fire).

I don’t know any specific […]
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February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin Some more interesting whiskies can have that too tbh. And it also tries to kill you – though unlike whisky through your lungs rather than the liver.
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@TOrynski/116057770738999580

This magical time of the year when the air in Poland has the smell of a fine peated whisky.
mastodon.scot
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
This is another good read about Anglosphere bias in humanities in general: https://dariuszgalasinski.com/2018/04/14/foreigner-academia/

Anything dealing with humanities in English-speaking societies is human universal. Anything outside is very specific to local community.
An excerpt from the post with this part highlighted: I hit a wall. A journal editor told me that if I wanted to write an article on boasting based on Polish data, first and foremost, I would have to explain what’s different about Polish boasting. In other words, if I had data in English, I could simply publish an article on boasting, because I had data in Polish, I could only write about Polish boasting. English data tell us about the human universal, Polish data tell us about Poland. Another part of the text with this paragraph highlighted: Now, second, I don’t know how many times I was told by anonymous reviewers that my English was crap. But I quickly discovered a pattern. If I wrote an article which placed the data or research in Poland, my English was very bad. Whenever I wrote something that didn’t identify me as Polish, problems with my English disappeared.
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I remember being first curious about generative grammar – wanting to learn some _modern_ linguistic theory and realizing I couldn’t find _anything_ that wouldn’t focus exclusively on English. And I was specifically interested in other languages and syntactic diversity…
February 11, 2026 at 12:04 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
An interesting (though not very surprising IMO) read about #anglophone #linguistics and English bias: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921

> Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking a doctor how many diseases they have.

Chomsky managed to […]
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February 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Grianghraf suimiúil a dheineas de thaisme tá seachtain ó shin i meitreo na Bruiséile, nuair a bhíos ag FOSDEM.

Níor thugas aire don luas comhla is ní raibh ar intinn agam na daoine sin a chur sa bhfráma mar sin, ach d‘éirigh liom an toradh.

#StreetPhotography #metro #brussels #microfourthirds
Cúpla daoine, bean is fear, ina stad ar ardán meitro – táid siad le feiscint go soiléir trí fhuinneog an mheitreo, ach níl cruth na traenach soiléir in aon chor toisc gur bhog sí agus tá sí ina paiste doiléir timpeall na ndaoine. Deineadh le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus an lionsa M.Zuiko 12–40 mm f/2.8 @ 1/10 s, f = 19 mm, ISO 200.
February 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy
#ember has just rediscovered hydraulic fracking - but make no mistake, what was in 2000-2010 presented as the ultimate technology of apocalypse (‘earthquakes’, ‘toxic mud leaks’, ‘methane coming out of the tap’ and, in general, a total mayhem) has been […]

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Ember graphic which shows how geothermal fluid is passed through a fracked rock which is euphemistically called 'artificially fractured rock'
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin I’ve recently seen a joke (not really) by one Isaac Gantwerk Mayer: a difference between a normal person and a linguist is that a normal person thinks Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either.
February 9, 2026 at 9:47 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Do bhuaileas um chúpla sacán inniubh.

#birdsofmastodon #DarkTable #olympus #fieldfare
Sacán ina shuí ar chraoibh croinn, tá toraidh thirim ar an gcraoibh leis. Sacán eile ar an gcrann céanna. Sacán ar chraoibh croinn agus toradh an chroinn ina ghob Agus grianghraf eile le sacán ar an gcrann.
February 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@mawhrin We’re the true masters of turning up on the right side of history by coincidence.
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing […]
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February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@collectifission I’m all for it – as long as this will be electricity available to consumers and not just using resources for LLM bubble nonsense…
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mstdn.social/@silmeth/115917933807039506

@collectifission
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy silmeth 🇺🇦 @silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d
Just some screenshots with data and their sources (see alt text), for no particular reason today.

#NuclearPower #nuclear #greenenergy
Death rates per 1 TWh of electrical energy produced, measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity. Brown Coal: 32.72 Coal: 24.62 Oil: 18.43 Biomass: 4.63 Gas: 2.82 Hydropower: 1.3 Wind: 0.04 Nuclear: 0.03 Solar: 0.02 Nuclear power is safer than wind turbines (people die eg. when falling from the turbine during maintenance) – that’s including casualties of the Čornobyľ disaster and Fukushima. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh In 2023, 23 percent of natural uranium used in EU final nuclear products originated from Russia (equivalent to 3,419 tonnes (tU), Figure 4). Replacing the Russian supply of uranium ore does not pose a significant challenge as natural uranium is available abundantly, with Russia providing approximately 5 percent of global primary supply. However, Europe is fully dependent on imported uranium. The EU should renew investment in logistics, strengthen partnerships with stable uranium-producing countries including Canada, Australia and Namibia, and support the development of alternative supply routes from Kazakhstan and other central Asian producers. Ie. Europe imports most of its uranium from other countries than Russia and does not need to import Russian uranium (although European nuclear plants do depend on imported fuel). https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium Uranium contributed only about 6% (1403 mln eur out of 22964 mln eur total) of European import value of energy products from Russia in 2024. Before that the percentage was much smaller. Russia earns orders of magnitude more on gas and oil. https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium “Combined death toll from Chernobyl (…) – 2 workers died in the blast. – 28 workers and firemen died in the weeks that followed from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). – 19 ARS survivors had died later, by 2006; most from causes not related to radiation, but it’s not possible to rule all of them out (…). – 15 people died from thyroid cancer due to milk contamination. These deaths were among children who were exposed to 131I from milk and food in the days after the disaster. This could increase to between 96 and 384 deaths, (…) There is currently no conclusive evidence of adverse health impacts in the general population across affected countries, or wider Europe. Combined, the confirmed death toll from Chernobyl is less than 100. We still do not know the true death toll of the disaster. My best approximation is that the true death toll is in the range of 300 to 500 based on the available evidence, but this comes with significant uncertainty.” https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima See reports from UNSCEAR and WHO reporting thyroid cancer diagnoses in thousands. With ~99% survivability rate that’s dozens to low hundreds casualties, unclear how many attributed to iodine intake. https://www.who.int/activities/mitigating-health-consequences-of-chernobyl/ https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.html Wikipedia has a well-sourced overview too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy
This is actually a great debunk of some persistent myths surrounding Chornobyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftGqBYJEaY
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy
A classic story from #ukraine occupied territories as told by Eric Gebaide from Save Ukraine in Davos:

> “There was a young woman who was 19 in a hospital giving birth. She needed a C-section. She was told, while she’s in labor, that unless she takes on a Russian passport, she’s not getting a […]
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agora.echelon.pl
January 23, 2026 at 12:36 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
@collectifission And he’s right to openly admit it. The next step, as he also says, is to actually start behaving according to those values, without giving a pass when it’s convenient.

But his own attitude changed quite a bit during Q&A when asked direct questions, he was still “avoiding […]
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January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
They don’t want responsibility, they want to be victims.

How dare you take that away from _them_ of all people.
January 21, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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flere-imsaho.circumstances.run
accept it as a fact. don't demand compassion from people who are on the business end of your guns. don't expect pats on the head because you “didn't vote for trump”. stop making everything about yourself. shut up for a moment. plan to fix your mess. act on fixing your mess.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22d
look fair enough but i never know what any of us are supposed to do with this information lol
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
That said, it’s true that in 2022 France depended a lot on energy imports because it turned off a lot of their nuclear capacity for maintenance. And a lot of that import from Germany (though also seems more from the UK, and some from other countries).
January 18, 2026 at 10:07 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I heard today French nuclear plants get shut down every summer and Germany saves France’s power grid. Doesn’t seem so.

France limits the output of or turns of those reactors which use river water for cooling – when keeping high yield would risk environmental […]

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A chart of energy production and export/import in France in June 2025. Nuclear production doesn’t fall below 26 GW at any time. During that time France exports energy almost all the time (exported power reaching ~15 GW at times) with only occasional a few hour long periods of imports on the level of ~2–3 GW. https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR&interval=month&year=2025&month=06&source=public&legendItems=2wew4 A chart of physical energy flow during June 2025 to and from France. Again it can be seen that France mostly exports energy (values below 0), at no point France only imports energy – even when they’re a net energy importer, they still export almost as much as they import (the net balance being up to 3 GW imported). June is the month with most energy imports in France last month. https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR&interval=month&year=2025&month=06&source=cbpf_saldo&legendItems=7z6&stacking=stacked_absolute Chart of France’s nuclear power production by reactor during June 2025.
January 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM