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pear thistle and smooth hawk s beard are sometimes branded as weeds but they are all native species that are benefiting native wildlife in different ways ecologist ellie corsie who has been managing the project since it began in 2021 said due to intensive arable farming with decades of plowing herbicide and pesticide use biodiversity was incredibly low when we started wildlife had largely been sanitized from the fields rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit similar increases have been recorded in the populations of butterflies with a tripling in the number of these insects seen on average during a ramble through the field the numbers of both insects are now so high that rewilding denmarkfield offers bee and butterfly safaris to visitors local residents told the scotsman that on spring and summer days the field is awash with color and hums with the sounds of bees and birds even as multiple housing developments expand around the denmarkfield area the field is a haven for wildlife via good news network december 2 2024 6 129 6 529 theaceofwords reblogged dragonsonthemap liberalsarecool follow stay engaged 51 8 982 11 861 theaceofwords reblogged sumiblue silvermoon424 follow bro absolutely cooked with this ohnoitstbskyen if you ever hear the phrase fascism is aesthetics as politics that s what this post is talking about it s not about being tough on crime because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against crime as a social problem is to alleviate poverty and increase access to education healthcare and social mobility it s about performing tough on crime as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop i e minorities and the impoverished who are fetishized and objectified to represent crime they are brutalized as punishment for crime but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime this is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime they don t want crime to be reduced they want an eternal war against crime because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies 241 40 428 49 020 theaceofwords reblogged basilhearsanoise trangoldin follow trump s hhs abandons threat to withhold medicare and medicaid funding over trans care npr has learned that the department of health and human services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender affirming npr some ok news for once seems hhs is backing off their most recent attempt at a national care ban for trans kids due to the massive legal hurdles it would have faced this does not mean other ongoing efforts to target care providers and orgs like wpath aren t still ongoing and still a major concern but it is good to see that we won t have to fight this specific battle a proposed and now discarded rule that would have attempted to deny medicaid and medicare funding and coverage at any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth 435 535 theaceofwords reblogged nimbleresonancetrace fivepoint 12 follow short and medium term inflation expectations increase gas price growth expectations fall federal reserve bank of new york short and medium term inflation expectations increase gas price growth expectations fall federal reserve bank of new york newyorkfed org 25 34 theaceofwords reblogged rincewitch schistcity follow currently maybe possibly single handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883 schistcity queenlua happily this is going to be long so here s some set dressing first eton college for anyone unfamiliar is a prestigious boys school in england that has famously educated many many politicians royals nobility and other assorted famous people all you really need to know about it is that s it s incredibly posh and expensive and exclusive the eton society called pop internally is a self selecting body of senior students at eton that have historically held a decent amount of power at the school if you ve ever attended a school with a prefect system house system etc you probably know a little bit about how obnoxious this kind of group can get now imagine they re all called lord godfrey pickerington or something are you getting it is the set being dressed good now that the scene is set here s our tale i stumbled into eton s archives while doing research for a fanfiction and we ll just leave that admission where it is it was in reading old issues of their student run paper the chronicle from 1883 that myself and carebewear started becoming fixated on one guy in particular cecil b gedge from this point on known as gedge was a member of the eton society in 1883 84 he won a few science awards during his time there biology and seemed to like rowing during school sports events he went on to become a barrister which will make sense once you know more about him the best part of gedge though is his appearances in the minutes for the eton society meetings at least at gedge s time the eton society seemed really fond of staging debates more like loosely organised discussions on a wide variety of topics here are some of the riveting questions they discussed and my personal favourite are ghosts real they were very divided gedge first came to our attention in debate about the annexation of new guinea in which he apparently started an abusive attack on the british army and missionaries wow based gedge he continues to spit period typical truths about things like how we shouldn t tax bicycles actually because it would disproportionately affect poor people yimby gedge he would ve loved light rail the final nail in our gedge obsession was a debate on women s suffrage in which gedge vehemently advocates for women s right to vote and then gets no supporters at the end of the meeting but i appreciate that he said it anyway and kept saying it he is more persecuted that christ to me here are some more from anti conscription sentiment to indirectly calling his classmates stupid to weirding everyone out by saying he wants to donate his body to science his friend dissecting him for fun we started getting the feeling people might not have liked gedge that much mainly since one of the society members wrote a poem about all his friends and gedge isn t in it in 1884 there was some extended drama in the chronicle where someone whom i groundlessly suspect was gedge under a pseudonym a socialist wrote to the editor complaining that the debates published by the eton society were bad genuine quote and that they should make a real debate society at the school that all boys not just the self selected seniors could participate in to make a long story short most of the vocal members of the eton society threw up their hands at this and refused to do anything basically boiling down to just because we re the prefects of the school doesn t mean we should have to actually do anything unfair and also this quote which reads exactly like at least a thousand real tweets i ve seen in my life liberal gedge of course was there giving practical suggestions but the discussion was ultimately cut short because their principal died and they had to push a memorial issue of the paper we have a working theory that the staff might ve used that interruption as an opportunity to get the boys to cut it the fuck out anyway it s a little unclear what happens to gedge after that he isn t credited as being in the 1884 eton society in the larger school register but it s unclear if that s because he wasn t re elected or if he just graduated either way he went on to become a barrister in london which makes a lot of sense sadly though he passed away in ww1 which we were really normal about thank you lt gedge for truly embodying the eternal spirit of an outspoken debate kid a friend to the lefties a proto yimby a terminal back talker and the kid in a biology class that s a little too excited for the dissections i hope your life however short was a rich and bright one thanks for the incredibly entertaining afternoon brother 77 17 984 22 640 theaceofwords reblogged tauforged zoesupreme follow absolute funniest thing that can happen now is mitch shows up to work just fine on monday 1 98 189 theaceofwords research shows experts and contributors leaving online communities amidst silent knowledge reset ai may have killed stack overflow while training on the same platform as it pushed expert contributors away from the platform techradar theaceofwords reblogged thaisha lloys future wife materialist scumbag og follow lego s q3 2025 earnings announcement october 2025 so lego just posted another monster quarter and everyone s doing the usual timeless appeal of analog play in the digital age garbage and like no the actual story is that lego is a privately held danish family company that spent the 2000s nearly going bankrupt and came out of it having figured something out that almost nobody in consumer products has figured out which is that your core ip is the manufacturing tolerance here s what i mean a lego brick made in 1958 still clicks perfectly onto a lego brick made last week that is not a marketing claim it s a manufacturing fact and it s enforced by tolerances measured in like two thousandths of a millimeter the stud diameter variance on a standard 2x4 brick is famously smaller than most medical device manufacturers hit on parts going inside human bodies which sounds like trivia until you realize it s the entire business model every brick ever made is compatible with every brick that will ever be made which means the installed base isn t a depreciating asset it s an appreciating one because every new set expands what you can do with the bricks already in your kid s bin and your bin and your dad s bin in the attic now compare this to basically every other toy category hot wheels from 1972 don t interface with hot wheels from 2024 in any meaningful way they re both little cars sure but the track systems have changed the scales have drifted the accessories are incompatible barbie has gone through probably a dozen body molds american girl dolls from the 90s have different proportions than the current ones the entire video game industry is structured around planned incompatibility your switch games don t work on switch 2 your xbox 360 discs mostly don t work on series x incompatibility is the business model it s how you get people to rebuy lego said no lego said the brick from 1958 will fit the brick from 2058 and this is insane if you think about it because it means they have voluntarily foreclosed on the single most powerful lever in consumer products which is forcing obsolescence every company that sells a durable good spends enormous amounts of r d figuring out how to make this year s product not work with last year s product without pissing the customer off too much apple is a master at this microsoft is slightly worse at it car companies have built entire industries on it proprietary charging connectors obd ii access right to repair fights lego just doesn t do it what they get in return and this is the thing the timeless analog charm people miss is that the brick becomes infrastructure a lego brick is not really a toy it s a piece of durable manufacturing infrastructure that gets distributed into hundreds of millions of homes worldwide and every new set is basically an expansion pack for an operating system that already has universal install which means the network effects are doing most of the work when a grandparent buys a lego set for a kid they re not buying a toy in the sense that a mattel product is a toy they re depositing compatible substrate into an accumulating household stockpile and every deposit raises the marginal utility of the next deposit this is also why the ip licensing deals star wars harry potter the recent nintendo stuff work for them in a way they work for basically nobody else when hasbro does a star wars license they re making star wars figures that sit on a shelf when lego does a star wars license they re making bricks in star wars configurations which means even if the kid loses interest in star wars in six months the bricks get absorbed into the general pool and keep producing value the license is temporary the substrate is permanent and the substrate was already the valuable part the near death experience in the early 2000s is the instructive piece here because lego almost lost this they went on a diversification binge theme parks video games clothing galidor look it up it s hilarious and they started loosening the tolerances on the actual bricks because the bricks were seen as a commodity and the brand was seen as the valuable part which is exactly backwards jørgen vig knudstorp comes in in 2004 basically says the bricks are the company tightens tolerances back up narrows the product line and the company starts printing money again the takeaway the business press drew was focus on your core competency which is such a domesticated reading of what actually happened the actual lesson is the boring manufacturing discipline is the moat and when you think the brand is the moat you are about to destroy the company which is interesting because right now there s a huge knockoff market mega bloks chinese brands like lepin which got sued into oblivion various others and they make bricks that are almost compatible with lego almost and it turns out almost compatible is actually worse than incompatible because when a kid tries to fit a knockoff into a real lego build and the stud is 0 03mm off the whole structure gets wobbly and the kid learns not to mix them the tolerance is a credential you can counterfeit the shape but you can t counterfeit sub thousandth precision at scale without becoming essentially lego anyway the q3 number is like 13 up year over year in a consumer products environment where basically nothing is growing and the analyst takes are all about emotional connection and intergenerational brand equity which sure fine those are downstream effects the upstream cause is that a danish family spent fifty years obsessing over whether their plastic rectangles were within two thousandths of a millimeter of spec and it turned out that was the whole game 31 2 997 3 922 theaceofwords reblogged weathernerdmando dykepuffs follow there is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad clumsy harmful regressive metaphors for real world events or people rather than exploring completely speculative ideas like what if a small group of religious extremists persecuted in their own country moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there but the americas and australia weren t inhospitable and were full of native nations why are you perpetuating the idea of terra nullius and manifest destiny yes that s because ...