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@The_KamikaZEN @ivory How does it compare to the other Mastodon apps that are already available? Also, compared to the browser version (what I primarily use)
#IAmMastodon
#JohnMastodon #Mastodon #JohnOfMastodon #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #Fediverse #Newhere #IAmMastodon #Ivory -
@The_KamikaZEN @ivory How does it compare to the other Mastodon apps that are already available? Also, compared to the browser version (what I primarily use)
#IAmMastodon
#JohnMastodon #Mastodon #JohnOfMastodon #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #Fediverse #Newhere #IAmMastodon #Ivory -
Trying out ProWritingAid Everywhere for Mac and ProWritingAid for Safari. Works great in Apple Notes and Scrivener (yay!) but I can't get it to work in Mastodon on Safari or in the Ivory app on Mac. Works on other websites and apps. Anyone know why this might be? Is there a setting to enable plugins on the server? https://prowritingaid.com
#ProWritingAid #Scrivener #Safari #SafariExtensions #Mastodon #Ivory
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Ivor van Dartel: "Ik kwam tot de conclusie dat dit potentieel tot uiting komt als het toestel binnen specifieke grenzen blijft qua grootte en prestaties en als er bovengemiddelde optimalisatie plaatsvindt voor aerodynamica en gewichtsvermindering. Dit inzicht heeft me sindsdien niet meer losgelaten."
Natuurkunde houdt niet van (te) grote toestellen.
Onder Nederlandse leiding: het optimale elektrische vliegtuig | Interview - #UpInTheSky
https://www.upinthesky.nl/2023/07/22/onder-nederlandse-leiding-het-optimale-elektrische-vliegtuig-interview/
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And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."
[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]
"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.
"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).
"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.
"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.
“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.
"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.
"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."
Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #PlasticRain -
And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."
[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]
"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.
"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).
"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.
"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.
“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.
"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.
"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."
Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #PlasticRain -
And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."
[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]
"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.
"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).
"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.
"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.
“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.
"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.
"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."
Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #PlasticRain -
Who is this #IvoryHecker anyway?🤨
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#Ivory updated to add support for #ReadwiseReader for read-it-later services. 😄
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Ok I'm at the point where I'm testing too many Mastodon clients at once, my desktop notifications sound like Pachinko 🤖
#Ivory #Mona #Mastonaut #Mastodon #Elk
I love you all but I need some type of elimination tournament in the near future
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Valley of Song was every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. It's the first time, though, that I ever saw a Novello play without any of his own songs. Christopher Hassall did such a good job finishing it that I couldn't tell where one man's work ended and the other's began. What really touched my heart, though, is that this took place in Wales, where Ivor was born. More so, was that some of the songs I know as a fact were sung by the Royal Welsh Ladies Choir, and probably by the Novello Davis Choir, both of which were conducted by his mother. It is the closest I will ever come to hearing them, other than one recording I have under another conductor. I almost cried when they sang Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night), which I know they sung and even recorded in 1915 (I don't have it). And of course, there was a beautiful love story, too, as always.
#ChristopherHassall #ClaraNovelloDavis #IvorNovello #ValleyofSong
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Ivor Novello in “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog”
#TCMParty #TheLodger1927 #IvorNovello #SilentFilm #AlfredHitchcock #horror -
Toll fände ich ja, wenn man die Sroll-Richtung im #Ivory auf Wunsch umstellen könnte, also Neues erscheint unten. Ich bin mehr so ein nach-unten-scroll-Typ.
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A lovely cover of an Ivor Cutler song: John E. Flamingeaux — https://flamingeaux.bandcamp.com/track/im-going-in-a-field
(free download). The original was meant to be in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, but was cut before broadcast.This cover is by a bunch of Hamburg bluegrass musicians, and is clearly influenced by Nic Jones' wonderful live cover.
Ivor would have been 101 today ...
#IvorCutler #bluegrass #hamburg #beatles #MagicalMysteryTour #NicJones
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House of Pianos 2: Ivory Duo piano Ensemble talks with @benh_h Hugh Benham youtu.be/CPRT3ZrSlkM via @YouTube @ConviviumUK @UnitedMusicPubl #BritishComposers #Premiere 9PM
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𝗜𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗘𝘅 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗸𝗼𝗺𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿
Maart roert zijn staart en wel zeker thuis bij Ivory (echte naam Mitch Blase) uit 'Ex on the Beach'. De realityster is vader geworden van een dochter, zo laat hij weten op Instagram.
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5573961/ivory-uit-ex-beach-verwelkomt-dochter
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Cool (new?) tags feature in #ivory: a note of how often it’s been used in the last 7 days. This is quite helpful. #Apple #iPhoneApps #iPadApps #Mastodon
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After a week of use, I gotta say that #IvoryApp has the best experience, hands down. Intuitive and easy - just damn pleasant to use. Totally worth $2/mo.
I like #TuskerApp and wanted to like it more but it acts weird regularly on my phone and doesn’t get the latest toots or only shows 20-ish new toots then nothing more.
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#IvoryApp is promising - and mostly because it has #GIFs, something my #GenX butt values (i say GenX because I hear the kids aren’t into gifs).
But I’m not seeing an app that’s much better than #TuskerApp, except for the gifs.
And the #IceCubesApp is just buggy.
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Installed #IvoryApp to see if it was as good as folks have been gushing about. Immediately turned off that I can’t post without being on a free trial. Their pricing is ok ($2/mo or $25/y, and devs deserve to get paid) but why irritate people right off the bat?
Also trying #IceCubesApp, and posting this in #TuskerApp. We’ll see which one ends up working the best for me & how my brain works.
