#traditions — Public Fediverse posts

The Rabbit Paradox: How Fixing Australian History Handed Power to the Emus

If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?

If humanity had a single, golden lever to undo one moment in time, the gut instinct is always the catastrophic: wars, plagues, assassinations, or the burning of ancient libraries. Yet, history has a cruel way of teaching us that removing a monster often leaves a vacuum for a worse one, and curing a plague early might shift the balance of populations into brutal famines.

If I could erase one single, deceptively small event from the tapestry of time, it would be the 1859 introduction of twenty-four wild European rabbits into Victoria, Australia, by a well-meaning English settler named Thomas Austin.

Austin famously remarked that the introduction of a few rabbits could do little harm and might provide a touch of home, in addition to a spot of hunting. That single afternoon of nostalgic homesickness unleashed what became the fastest mammal invasion in biological history. Within decades, billions of rabbits had swept across the entire continent, stripping away root systems, turning fertile valleys into desolate red dust bowls, starving native marsupials to extinction, and warping an entire nation’s ecology forever. Erasing Austin’s little wooden crate of bunnies would save tens of millions of native lives, protect the fragile topsoil, and spare generations of farmers endless grief.

Yet, tampering with time never goes cleanly.

When the temporal distortion device hummed to life in our subterranean laboratory, the logic felt airtight. We targeted the Victorian docks in October 1859. The mission was surgically simple: intercept the shipping manifest, quietly drop the crate of twenty-four rabbits overboard into the English Channel before departure, and allow the timeline to settle into an era of green, unbroken Australian flora.

The machine whined, a sound like tearing silk, and reality collapsed inward.

The immediate side effect was not silence, but an aggressive, screeching shift across the digital fabric of the universe. In an instant, the timeline tried to stitch its threads back together. Whole economies that had been built around rabbit-proof fencing, Australian agriculture, and outback ecology collapsed and rearranged themselves into new digital systems.

Across modern offices, computer terminals flickered violently. Systems crashed as the cascade of historical variables forced every piece of modern infrastructure to rewrite itself on the fly.

Deep inside a nondescript government office in Melbourne, an overworked web developer named Liam sat frozen in front of his monitor. His screen was screaming in crimson errors. The sudden temporal divergence had corrupted every major public service network. The national infrastructure portal was offline, throwing chaotic status codes across every browser window.

Liam’s heart slammed against his ribs. The server room in the hallway began to wail with warning sirens. The internal logs read that if the central administrative interface was not rebuilt and validated against web accessibility standards within ninety seconds, the entire national emergency communication grid would lock out every operator in the country.

His breath caught in his throat. His fingers hovered over the keyboard, slick with cold sweat.

He had to remember the core principles of building an accessible, unbreakable system before the failure cascade went critical.

Every single page needed an informative, unique title that placed the most important details first. He slammed into the code, hammering out structural markup to convey pure meaning, ensuring screen readers and automated engines would never get lost in a flat wall of visual chaos.

Thirty seconds left.

The screen blinked with an ominous warning: Input Validation Failure.

He had to ensure the forms were forgiving of human error, clearly showing where problems occurred and suggesting corrections instead of locking panicked users behind technical jargon. He added meaningful text alternatives to every operational graphic, ensuring that critical interactive buttons possessed distinct visible states for mouse hover, touch, and keyboard focus.

Ten seconds. The room went pitch black, illuminated only by the frantic white glow of his monitor.

Liam hit the tab key, verifying that every single control could be reached and executed by a keyboard alone, bypassing every broken mouse driver and failing touch panel across the continent. He mapped the high-contrast palettes, ensuring foreground text stood boldly apart from the background.

Three seconds.

He held his breath. The entire room went dead silent. He pressed the final compile key.

The sirens stopped. The screen settled into a crisp, clean, perfectly accessible white interface. The red warnings vanished. The emergency broadcast system was alive and stable.

Liam collapsed backward into his chair, letting out the breath he felt he had held for an eternity. The world was intact. The ecosystem was saved.

Then, the first digital notification of the new, altered reality pinged on his dashboard:

Notice: Due to the total historical absence of European rabbits across the continent since 1859, the wild emu population has grown unchecked and now legally commands seventy percent of the Australian Senate.

"#SuzyUltman has been delighting us for years, ever since the algorithm gods placed her adorable felt “#Shalom” pennant on our feeds. Since then, the #awardwinning #author, #illustrator and #productdesigner has brought so much #Jewishjoy into our lives through her #art and the many #Jewish #children’s #books she’s #written and #illustrated.

Suzy’s newest #book might be the most exciting yet: “The Art of Jewish Joy” comes out this week and includes 50 #crafts to celebrate Jewish #holidays and #traditions. (Plus, we’re partnering with Suzy and her co-author #AmandaKingloff on a #RoshHashanah card-making class — learn more here!)

We asked Suzy to share the things that bring her Jewish joy, and not surprisingly, her answers are as delightful as her art."

https://www.kveller.com/what-brings-suzy-ultman-jewish-joy/

1/ J'ai hésité à répondre à cette polémique pour ne pas l'alimenter: au regard du paysage médiatique actuel, #Ménard est quasi seul à raconter ses absurdités sans contestation (pour éviter de parler de la situation cata de la ville de Béziers)
#Laicite #Féminisme #Traditions🧵👇

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control."

"Critical to historical and ongoing carbon lock-in has been the pervasive failure in industrial, modern societies to imagine desirable ways of living that are neither wedded to the carbon economy nor dependent on narratives of progress reliant on perpetual economic growth."
"With technocratic forms of modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and forecasting at the core of most governmental and industrial imaginaries, the future continues to be framed as open to exploitation."
"Typically, they transfer energy consumption from fossil fuels to other energy sources, are subject to political tropes (such as interpreting energy as a national security concern), and frame the future as a focus for cost-benefit analysis and rational decision-making."

Isak Stoddard, Kevin Anderson, Stuart Capstick, Wim Carton, Joanna Depledge, et al. (2021). "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

#imaginaries #beliefs #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation

A life full of passion and tradition

I am starting to unroll a yarn on imaginaries: growth versus care 🧶

#imaginaries #beliefs #progress #polycrisis #commoditization #commodification #faith #hope #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #emissions #ecologicalTransition #transition #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation #ecofeminism #technoCriticism #technique #development #sustainableDevelopment #hegemony #mindsets #ideologies #collectiveSafety #desire #narratives #growth #modeling #modelling #forecasting #exploitation #extraction #civilization #tech #technology #domination #philosophy #criticalThinking #resources #commodities #acceleration #criticalTheory #digitalization #engineers #separation #exploration #discovery #degrowth #growth

“This paper argues that both — (1) the #neurosciences, which study the brain from the outside, and (2) the contemplative #traditions, which investigate #awareness from the inside — have independently identified the same core mechanism as the obstacle to deeper #consciousness — what #neuroscience calls the Default Mode Network (DMN) in its narrative mode, and what contemplative traditions call the mind. Drawing on McGilchrist’s #hemisphericlateralization framework, Schore’s #developmentalneuroscience, and Porges’ #polyvagaltheory, the author proposes a model in which the right hemisphere constitutes primary consciousness while the left hemisphere constructs the narrative self. The #DMN is reframed not as a disruptor but as a bilateral conduit whose function depends on which hemisphere holds the lead.”

https://zenodo.org/records/20085599

“Gardens of Silence”: Japanese Art and Tradition Take Center Stage in Kecskemét https://www.allforgardening.com/1921527/gardens-of-silence-japanese-art-and-tradition-take-center-stage-in-kecskemet/ #art #ceramics #garden #gardening #InternationalCeramicsStudio #japan #JapaneseCulture #Kecskemét #tea #Traditions

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #traditions #religion #tromarticles #tromsite

#Language
#Traditions
#Heritage
#Food are #Culture
...since the beginning of time.
#beestrot #cooksky #bluesky
Credit: Taste Atlas ❤️

Ideas revolving around religion, family, sexual orientation, and so forth, have been changing and mutating a lot over the years. What was once prohibited in one culture has become the norm in the same culture, and vice versa. From women being allowed to vote, to gay marriage, or the separation of religion from state. In our book “Morality and Ethics” we showcase how the norms, traditions and what it was accepted as “normal” in the past, changed over millennia, from culture to culture.

Therefore any discussion about “our culture, language, traditions” should always be put under the powerful light of history in order to understand that these “things” are remixes at best, and will always be. This, I think, is crucial in order for us, humans, to be able to have relevant discussions about them, without being too emotionally entangled with them. To put everything into a historical, and realistic, perspective.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #traditions

Père Noël: Une Visite Magique au Canada! 🎅🎁

Au Canada, le Père Noël est une figure centrale des célébrations. Les enfants laissent des biscuits et du lait, espérant sa visite magique la nuit de Noël. Les défilés du Père Noël dans les grandes villes, comme celui de Toronto, sont des événements majeurs qui enchantent petits et grands. #Canada #Noël #PèreNoël #Traditions 🇨🇦

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_No%C3%ABl

Bouddhisme et physique quantique

Depuis les débuts de la mécanique quantique, physiciens et penseurs bouddhistes ont remarqué des résonances frappantes entre les deux disciplines. Niels Bohr avait fait peindre le symbole du yin-yang sur ses armoiries, Erwin Schrödinger s’était plongé dans les Upanishads, le Dalaï-Lama, lui-même dialogue depuis des décennies avec des physiciens dans le cadre de l’institut Mind and Life. Ces convergences méritent d’être examinées avec rigueur, sans tomber dans l’amalgame facile.

Le bouddhisme place au centre de sa doctrine l’impermanence, rien n’existe de façon fixe et stable, tout est flux, devenir, changement constant. La physique quantique décrit un monde similaire au niveau subatomique. Une particule n’a pas de position ou de vitesse définies avant mesure, elle existe sous forme de probabilités, une fonction d’onde qui ne se fixe qu’au moment de l’observation. Cette absence d’état stable et prédéterminé fait écho à l’idée bouddhiste selon laquelle chercher une essence fixe dans les phénomènes est une illusion.

Le concept bouddhiste de production conditionnée illustre qu’aucun phénomène n’existe indépendamment des autres, tout surgit en relation, par un réseau de causes et de conditions. La physique quantique offre une analogie frappant avec l’intrication. Deux particules intriquées restent corrélées, quelle que soit la distance qui les sépare, de sorte que la mesure de l’une affecte instantanément l’état de l’autre. Certains y voient une illustration physique de l’idée qu’aucune entité n’est véritablement séparée du reste de l’univers.

Le terme sanskrit śūnyatā, souvent traduit par « vacuité », ne désigne pas le néant, mais l’absence d’existence propre et indépendante des phénomènes. Les choses n’ont de réalité que relationnelle. En physique quantique, le vide n’est pas non plus un néant absolu. Le vide quantique bouillonne de particules virtuelles qui apparaissent et disparaissent constamment, et le champ quantique reste la structure fondamentale d’où émerge toute matière. Les deux notions rejettent l’idée d’un fond stable et substantiel sous les apparences, sans pour autant être identiques.

Le principe de complémentarité de Bohr, selon lequel une même entité peut se comporter comme onde ou comme particule sans que ces descriptions soient contradictoires, mais complémentaires, rappelle la logique du tétralemme bouddhiste et la philosophie madhyamaka de Nagarjuna, qui refuse les catégories binaires du « est » et du « n’est pas ». Les deux traditions invitent à dépasser une logique strictement binaire pour appréhender une réalité plus fluide et contextuelle, de façon non duelle.

Ces résonances sont intellectuellement stimulantes, mais il importe de distinguer deux niveaux de discours. Le bouddhisme est une tradition philosophique et contemplative, fondée sur l’expérience méditative directe et une visée de cessation de la souffrance. La physique quantique est une théorie mathématique prédictive, validée par l’expérimentation. Les résonances relèvent souvent de l’analogie conceptuelle plutôt que d’une équivalence de fond, et le risque d’instrumentaliser l’un pour légitimer l’autre est réel, dans les deux sens.

Cela dit, la rencontre reste stimulante pour qui cherche à explorer des voies de passage. Elle a nourri des travaux comme ceux du physicien Anton Zeilinger ou du philosophe des sciences B. Alan Wallace, et elle continue d’alimenter une réflexion sur les limites de nos catégories habituelles, substance, séparation, permanence, que ces deux traditions, chacune à sa manière, remettent en question.

Une chanson de Claude Dubois – Au Bout Des Doigts

Les paroles sur https://lyriz.progysm.com/chanson.php?idlien=6519

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ovpy6o0W-Q

Par Daniel Jean dans Voies (x) de passage

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Having people that lives in different part of the world, Can I respectfully hear out from y'all since we have different cultures or traditions if theres any, What are your cultures or traditions when it comes to funerals?

#askmastodon #voiceofthepeople #askfedi #mastodon #community #fediverse #culture #traditions #funeral #Philippines #Filipino

=> Ainu people hunting a bear / 19th century Japan / Source = Brooklyn Museum

#bear #hunting #japan #art #indigenous #ethnic #history #traditions #japanese #culture

Why the Italian Grandma Is Becoming the World’s New Lifestyle Icon

I am removing stains with all “the love in the world” f…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancuisine #ContemporaryItaly #family #foodculture #grandmothers #homecooking #Italia #Italian #italiancuisine #italianculture #italianlifestyle #italiano #italy #LifestyleTrends #nonna #Nonnamaxxing #slowliving #traditions #wellness
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737313/why-the-italian-grandma-is-becoming-the-worlds-new-lifestyle-icon/

Why the Italian Grandma Is Becoming the World’s New Lifestyle Icon https://www.diningandcooking.com/2737313/why-the-italian-grandma-is-becoming-the-worlds-new-lifestyle-icon/ #ContemporaryItaly #family #FoodCulture #grandmothers #HomeCooking #Italia #Italian #ItalianCuisine #ItalianCulture #ItalianLifestyle #italiano #italy #LifestyleTrends #nonna #Nonnamaxxing #SlowLiving #traditions #wellness

Me siento ofendido. Basta de wokismo
#woke #traditions #yerba #gauchos

Cyndi, dressed as the Cowardly Lion for our "Disco Wizard of Oz" Halloween Party in 1977. #wizardofoz #franklbaum #frankbaum #oz #discooz #mecosdiscooz #mecosdiscowizardofoz #costume #costumes #halloween #allhallowseve #fall #autumn #fallequinox #equinox #autumnequinox #tradition #traditions #jackolantern #jackolanterns #cabin #cabinparty #cabinparties #olddays #goodolddays #1970s #twentiethcentury #memories #memory #youth #lion #cowardlylion #homemade #homemadecostume #homemadecostumes #disco

In the same sense that there are many tribes who speak the same language but have vastly different cultures, there are tribes with totally different languages, but their cultures are very similar. I was born in Romania and my friend Roma was born in Russia. Romania and Russia look so alike culturally that it is quite eerie. The buildings, food, attitudes, even the babushkas. But the languages are vastly different.

For example we call this “traditional Romanian food” as “sarmale”:

My mother always makes it for all of the important Romanian holidays. If you search online for “Romanian national holiday” plus the word “food”, you’ll see this dish as the main one. So this is a Romanian dish!

Well that’s what I thought. Turns out that Roma knows this food very well and he calls it “Голубцы”. He says it might be Russian. But Wikipedia tells me that is a traditional food from the “Ottoman cuisine”.

But the fact is that this “sarmale” food is not a “thing”, but a “flavor of things”. Some “sarmale” are made with meat and rice, some just rice, some with cabbage leafs and some with grape leafs. Different condiments. Cooked differently. They differ today from tribe to tribe, and even within the same tribe.

So is this “sarmale” food Romanian? Russian? No. Nothing is.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#food #culture #romania #russia #trom #tromsite #traditions

The Cozy Southern Kitchen Celebrates Timeless Southern Recipes and Family Traditions

The Cozy Southern Kitchen by Mr. Tracy Lee Wedgeworth Jr. Tracy L. Wedgeworth Jr. shares a cookbook that brings classic Southern flavors, comforting meals, a…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #And #celebrates #cozy #family #kitchen #Recipes #Southern #the #timeless #traditions
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2727543/the-cozy-southern-kitchen-celebrates-timeless-southern-recipes-and-family-traditions/

The Cozy Southern Kitchen Celebrates Timeless Southern Recipes and Family Traditions https://www.diningandcooking.com/2727543/the-cozy-southern-kitchen-celebrates-timeless-southern-recipes-and-family-traditions/ #And #celebrates #cozy #family #kitchen #RecipeTopics #Recipes #Southern #the #timeless #traditions

#visualart #Photo #photography #fotografie #fotografia #photographie #ficciones #fictions #poesía #poetics #color #colors #colours #couleurs #interior #intérieur #interieur #museovasco #euskalmuseoa #arquitectura #architecture #museo #bilbao #euskalherria #Euskadi #euskera #euskara #cultura #culture #kultur #tradiciones #traditions #NoToWar
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/07/el-renovado-museo-vasco-de-bilbao.html

Halloween and Lifelong Friends--Two of my favorite things in the world. At Juntre Lodge in 1977. #halloween #allhallows #allhallowseve #holiday #samhain #pumpkins #pumpkin #jackolantern #jackolanterns #wizardofoz #discooz #mecosdiscooz #meco #disco #decor #decoration #decorations #halloweendecorations #diodelosmuertos #diwali #LoyKrathong #Chuseok #BonOmTouk #superstition #custom #customs #tradition #traditions #costume #costumes #dressingup #masquerade #masquerades #masquerading #masquerading

Le Carnaval de Québec : courses, bains de neige et Bonhomme!

Le Carnaval de Québec est une fête hivernale magique! ❄️⛷️ Courses de canot sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent, bains de neige en maillot, sculptures sur glace et danses avec Bonhomme : un mélange unique de traditions et de joie pure! 🇨🇦 #Canada #Carnaval #Québec #Traditions

https://carnaval.qc.ca/fr

Civil Disobedience in Stenness

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/06/24/civil-disobedience-in-stenness-2/