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silmeth 🇺🇦
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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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@mawhrin (it was probably the first one)
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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
@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
@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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mstdn.social
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
@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
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
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.
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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
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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mstdn.social
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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
February 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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#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 […]

[Original post on agora.echelon.pl]
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 AM
@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
Do bhuaileas um chúpla sacán inniubh.

#birdsofmastodon #DarkTable #olympus #fieldfare
February 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
@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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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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mastodon.social
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
@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
Just some screenshots with data and their sources (see alt text), for no particular reason today.

#NuclearPower #nuclear #greenenergy
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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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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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
@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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mstdn.social
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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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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.
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
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
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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January 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM