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this is moreso an observation I made while googling around and I don't really have a reason but here's what an article had to say:

Interestingly, large felines like tigers and lions do not have slit-shaped pupils but round-shaped. The reason for this is not exactly defined, but it is thought to be due to their greater height off the ground, their behavior as active foragers rather than ambush predators, or differences in their circadian rhythms compared to cats.
https://www.catster.com/lifestyle/why-do-cats-have-slit-pupils/

A month or two ago I made a few posts on reddit to nudge people to join PieFed
More details here
The posts got 500,000 views and a couple thousand people joined PieFed.

This is the insights of a Reddit community, as you can see the vast majority of people prefer using a mobile app.
~98% of users are using a mobile app.

One issue I kept seeing in the comments was that there's no "PieFed" app on any of the app-stores.

I want to be able to tell people, "Hey there's this cool PieFed app, just search for it from the App-Store"

With age verification and other BS looming, the next Rexit is coming, we need to be ready. Ideally people can just comment, "Yea Reddit sucks, Just download PieFed from the app-store"

Can we make this happen? I'm sure it'll greatly benifit Voyager, PieFed and the Fediverse

Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new species of pit viper in Myanmar that seems to blur the very definition of what a species is. This snake, now named the Ayeyarwady pit viper, puzzled researchers because it looks like a mix between two known species—sometimes resembling one, sometimes the other, and occasionally something in between. Initially suspected to be a hybrid, genetic analysis revealed it is actually its own distinct species.

Have you ever been happy with a contractors work? What did they do for you?

Easter Rising (1916)

Mon Apr 24, 1916

Image: Crowds in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) can be seen next to the General Post Office showing damage from shelling following the Easter Uprising [bbc.com]

On this day in 1916, revolutionary Irish Republicans initiated the Easter Rising, proclaiming an Irish Republic independent of British rule and battling with the British Army for six days. Sixteen Rising leaders were executed.

The rebellion was a collaboration of multiple militant Irish organizations, including the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and Cumann na mBan, and an Irish women's paramilitary force. Notable leaders include schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse and socialist James Connolly, who served as head of the ICA.

Together, this coalition seized strategically important buildings in Dublin. Britain responded militarily, sending thousands of troops and artillery to clash with the Irish revolutionaries.

The resistance lasted six days before surrendering to the better equipped British Army, and artillery shelling and street fighting left many parts of Dublin in ruin. 3,500 people were captured, 1,800 of them sent to internment camps. 485 people were killed, and more than 2,600 were wounded. Pearse and Connolly, along with 14 others, were executed for their role in the rebellion.

The Rising was the first armed conflict of a revolutionary period of unrest that began in the early 20th century. In the "Proclamation of the Irish Republic", the revolutionaries linked their cause to centuries of struggle:

"We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people.

In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and of its exaltation among the nations."

• Date: 1916-04-24
• Learn More: www.easter1916.net, www.theirishstory.com, en.wikipedia.org, www.bbc.com.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

bokeh through the window (my photo)

#Ecosia #treeplanting #reforestation #climateaction #techforgood #planttrees #collectiveactionThis Earth Day, we’re celebrating a big milestone: 250 million ...

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Having said that, I do like the tale of the stone, it's had a good story. And these fragments have given a life again to it all. Happy Friday folka

Colombia has sent a strong signal about corporate influence over its climate policies as it gears up to host the first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Can the world follow?

Colombia is to withdraw from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), an opaque mechanism allowing foreign investors to sue governments for decisions that affect their profits, including those aimed at protecting human rights, worker rights, health and the environment.

Cases are heard by international arbitration tribunals rather than national courts. There are no independent judges, nor a right to appeal. The tribunals are closed to citizens, companies, NGOs and the media.

The grounds for the case are not published, nor are decisions. Compensation paid by governments to corporations comes from public budgets.

More than 10,000 fossil fuel assets worldwide are covered by ISDS provisions, a UN report by human rights rapporteur David Boyd found.