Sid Greenfield @LordOfTheGeeks@mastodon.social

Because I feel it is needed today a book recommendation:
Factfulness by Hans, Ola and Anna Risking

A book that in short says "The world is bad but getting better" in a brilliant way that I personally have found very helpful for mental health

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness

I love that we get bats at dusk.
Although any idea how you can photograph them!? It seems impossible

Fact I found out today that filled my heart with joy: Cubesats (tiny cheap satellites roughly 10cm cubes) as a form factor were defined by a uni professor who challenged his class to fit a satellite design into a beanie baby (those little bear things) box.
And a worldwide multimillion pound industry now uses that size as a standard, the same beanie baby box size

Trying these bad boys today on @sophia recommendation. Wish me luck

Beat crisps in the world?

Lidl own brand cheese and chive potato snacks.

#fightme

Anxiety is a dick. That is all

WAIT is this why woman are banned from having pockets and only men's clothes have them?

Petition to ban people with nice arses from putting stuff in their rear trousers pockets

Today I am impatient for the future I was promised.

But I'm trying to find positivity.
About to hit 11 days in a row without (when on 2012 coal was providing about a third of our electricity!)

Electric cars actual picking up and 2020 looks to be the year they hit mainstream

A big story in EU elections across Europe was the GreenWave of environmental parties gaining seats.

I remain hopeful

I feel we have reached that point in the naming of scandals "<insert name here> gate" so far removed from it's origin I swear someone would name a scandal at the Watergate hotel "watergate-gate"

If a child is born to lactose intolerant parents, is that a child born out of chedlock?