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My main account is here. I'm also using this one: solo@piefed.social, because I really like the feed feature.

Btw I'm a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

  • The duality of the machine

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  • You say you want a conversation with me but you don't even bother taking into account my suggestion which was actually very simple:

    do a search of the word "sexism" and read at least something about it.

    Instead, you chose to write this comment. Your approach doesn't make me want to give you any more of my time at this point. So bye bye for now

  • The duality of the machine

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  • If the term "mother earth" is sexist or not is something that depends on the context. Well, imo.

    The characteristics you project to motherhood and fatherhood are totally stereotypical.

    To me it seems obvious you haven't spent any time on this topic and I assume that since you like writing, most probably you like reading? If that's the case, I invite you to use your favorite search engine and start researching this topic. I really hope you'll enjoy the findings!

  • The duality of the machine

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  • Tbh the only thing I got from this text was sexism, not an image

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions

    www.desmog.com /2026/04/18/mapped-nigel-farage-reform-uk-money-income-donations-tracker/

  • Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember

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  • Green Energy @slrpnk.net
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    Engineered wood provides solar power even after the sun goes down

    techxplore.com /news/2026-04-wood-solar-power-sun.html

  • Any suggestions for clothes available in the UK or EU which are at least hard wearing?

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  • That sounds like an excellent idea, so on a similar note I could suggest to go to shops that sell clothes for kitchen professionals. I have owned plenty of those, mainly trousers. They are super comfy and they kinda last forever.

  • Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more @slrpnk.net
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    'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
  • Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more @slrpnk.net
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    ‘Without them there is no life’: the race to understand the mysterious world of Africa’s fungi

    www.theguardian.com /environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe

  • We went to Finland to hear about the new 'sand battery' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid

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  • I did a little bit of digging on this and if it looks like sand batteries are a subcategory of thermal batteries, which in their turn are part of what is called thermal energy storage . Wiki mentioned something that I found fascinating and that I totally didn't know:

    Thermal batteries are very common, and include such familiar items as a hot water bottle. Early examples of thermal batteries include stone and mud cooking stoves, rocks placed in fires, and kilns.

  • Green Energy @slrpnk.net
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    We went to Finland to hear about the new 'sand battery' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid

    www.livescience.com /technology/engineering/we-went-to-finland-to-hear-about-the-new-sand-battery-that-will-turn-stored-renewable-energy-back-into-power-for-the-electrical-grid
  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    See the intricate worlds of parasites and algae -- March’s best science images

    www.nature.com /immersive/d41586-026-00901-5/index.html

  • fgo kropotkin from the top rope

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  • Try and explain how lobbying currently works then, without including corruption

  • fgo kropotkin from the top rope

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  • Sure corruption is not an invention of capitalism, but one of the problems of capitalism is that it promotes and favors corruption. Lobbyists are an easy example of what I mean.

  • Discarded Plastic Can Be Converted Into Parkinson’s Drug

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  • It seems to me you are missing the point. This is an article about a new scientific discovery. It is not an article about how capitalist industries implement science.

  • Tree Huggers @slrpnk.net
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    In the copper-rich mountains of Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant

    insideclimatenews.org /news/22032026/ecuador-amazon-indigenous-communitys-paraecologists/
  • Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more @slrpnk.net
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    How “Fire Fungi” Help Put Burnt Landscapes Back Together - bioGraphic

    www.biographic.com /how-fire-fungi-help-put-burnt-landscapes-back-together/
  • collapse of the old society @slrpnk.net
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    The whole food system must be converted – not just the farming system

    gardenearth.substack.com /p/the-whole-food-system-must-be-converted
  • Green Energy @slrpnk.net
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    Record efficiency for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells

    actu.epfl.ch /news/record-efficiency-for-perovskite-silicon-triple--2/
  • Solarpunk technology @slrpnk.net
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    Compostable robot endures over 1 million uses before becoming plant food

    techxplore.com /news/2026-03-compostable-robot-million-food.html
  • Fungi: mycelia, mushrooms & more @slrpnk.net
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    Scientists Discovered An Organism That Can Become Two Different Life Forms

    www.popularmechanics.com /science/health/a70259515/one-organism-two-life-forms/

  • Newly Discovered Species Changes the Origin Story of Magic Mushrooms

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  • Could you share the link of this review you are talking about? I ask this because it seems to me it could easily be another study. For example, in the references there are over 90 of those.

  • Newly Discovered Species Changes the Origin Story of Magic Mushrooms

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  • Why the world's food system is more fragile than you think

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  • Fungi turn shredded mattress foam into lightweight building insulation

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  • For the first part, I suppose the answer is that the products made from mycelium (like insulations, packaging, furniture etc) they are dried beforehand, and the fungus dies. If it is not dried well, you get mushrooms. So, in a giy (grow it yourself) project, if the fungus used is an edible one, the failed projects gives you lunch. This is a process: Flower Pot from Mycelium and Cardboard

    For the second part, about the rats, I really don't know but I will keep an eye out for this topic.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • I am saying “isn’t earmarked for the federal government” and you come up with a fact check saying that it is not earmarked for military use. Which is the same thing.

    No. “Isn’t earmarked for the federal government” is not the same as “isn’t earmarked for military use".

    Any links to back what you say would be highly appreciated.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • I'm really sorry that this is what you got from what I wrote. I definitely don't think we should keep using fossil fuel. On the contrary, I am all in for phasing out extractions and usage.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Cuz the US strategic oil reserve isn’t earmarked for the federal government

    According to a factcheck site it looks like the U.S. Oil Reserve Created for Supply Disruptions, Not Strictly Military Use. So maybe your statement is wrong? Otherwise could you share the source you got this from?

    the share of the military energy usage in the federal energy usage is entirely meaningless tot the oil consumption of the US economy

    I don't understand what you are saying, could you please explain and/or share a relevant link? Btw maybe I should clarify that by talking about "consumption" I was not talking in economic terms, just in the sense of "utilizing".

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • I have watched only a few minutes of this vid so far, as well as the timestamps and I must admit I don't agree with this approach because of something I learned today.

    He says around 2 m something like: the strategic US reserve of oil even tho the number of barrels sounds huge, they could sustain the US only a month of our current use. From the context my understanding is that he implies that this is due to casual, everyday-people consumption.

    Well, it looks like the Department of Defense is the U.S. government’s largest fossil fuel consumer, accounting for between 77% and 80% of all federal government energy consumption since 2001. So why is this huge percentage missing from this long analysis?

    Anyways, if he talks about the US military petroleum consumption, please let me know. Or if I got something wrong with this new info I got about the US military, let me know too.

  • How Fungi Built a Social Safety Net Under Your Feet

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  • Thank you so much for saying that :)

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    All Plastics Eating Bacterias is Only Way to Get Rid of Plastics & Making It Illegal to Produce A Single New Piece of Plastic Anything, But to Go about It is Extremely Serious Issue.

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  • I tend to agree with several things you talk about, but I have the impression we see things differently. For example, on one hand I agree with you when you say that we cannot let the Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners to just produce even a single new piece of plastic, but on the other hand for me the root of the problem is that the extraction of oil worldwide is still expanding instead of phasing out. Meaning that, as long as this is the case, more and more plastic will be produced.

    Apart from that, of course bacteria eating plastics sound like a great option, but they are not the only way to get rid of plastics. Some alternatives would be fungi that "eat" plastic, or mycelium that replace plastics. Here are some relevant articles.