Les géologues établissent un lien entre le changement climatique rapide survenu il y a 50 millions d'années et l'augmentation des niveaux de CO2.
À la fin du paléocène et au début de l'éocène, il y a 59 à 51 millions d'années, la Terre a connu des périodes de réchauffement spectaculaires, à la fois des périodes graduelles s'étendant sur des millions d'années et des événements de réchauffement soudains connus sous le nom d'hyperthermies.
Les émissions massives de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) et d'autres gaz à effet de serre ont été à l'origine de ce réchauffement planétaire, mais d'autres facteurs, tels que l'activité tectonique, pourraient également avoir joué un rôle.
De nouvelles recherches menées par des géoscientifiques de l'université de l'Utah associent les températures de surface de la mer aux niveaux de CO2 atmosphérique au cours de cette période, montrant que les deux étaient étroitement liés. Les résultats fournissent également des études de cas pour tester les mécanismes de rétroaction du cycle du carbone et les sensibilités essentielles pour prédire le changement climatique anthropique, alors que nous continuons à déverser des gaz à effet de serre dans l'atmosphère à une échelle sans précédent dans l'histoire de la planète.
«La principale raison pour laquelle nous nous intéressons à ces événements mondiaux de libération de carbone est qu'ils peuvent fournir des analogues pour les changements futurs», a déclaré l'auteur principal, Dustin Harper, chercheur postdoctoral au département de géologie et de géophysique. «Nous n'avons pas vraiment d'événement analogue parfait avec les mêmes conditions de base et le même taux de libération de carbone.»
Mais l'étude publiée lundi dans les Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggère que les émissions au cours de deux anciens «maxima thermiques» sont suffisamment similaires au changement climatique anthropique actuel pour aider les scientifiques à en prévoir les conséquences.
L'équipe de recherche a analysé des fossiles microscopiques - récupérés dans des carottes de forage prélevées sur un plateau sous-marin du Pacifique - afin de caractériser la chimie des océans de surface à l'époque où ces créatures à coquille étaient en vie. À l'aide d'un modèle statistique sophistiqué, ils ont reconstitué les températures de surface des océans et les niveaux de CO2 atmosphérique sur une période de 6 millions d'années couvrant deux hyperthermies, le maximum thermique du Paléocène-Éocène (PETM), il y a 56 millions d'années, et le maximum thermique de l'Éocène 2 (ETM-2), il y a 54 millions d'années.
Les résultats indiquent que l'augmentation des niveaux de CO2 dans l'atmosphère s'est accompagnée d'une hausse des températures mondiales.
«Notre planète et notre atmosphère sont influencées de multiples façons par les ajouts de CO2, mais dans chaque cas, quelle que soit la source de CO2, nous constatons des effets similaires sur le système climatique», a déclaré Gabriel Bowen, professeur de géologie et de géophysique à l'université de New York et coauteur de l'étude.
«Nous nous sommes intéressés à la sensibilité du système climatique à ces changements de CO2. Ce que nous voyons dans cette étude, c'est qu'il y a une certaine variation, peut-être une sensibilité un peu plus faible, un réchauffement plus faible associé à une quantité donnée de changement de CO2 lorsque nous examinons ces changements à très long terme. Mais dans l'ensemble, nous observons une gamme commune de sensibilités climatiques».
Aujourd'hui, les activités humaines associées aux combustibles fossiles libèrent du carbone 4 à 10 fois plus rapidement que lors de ces anciens événements hyperthermiques. Toutefois, la quantité totale de carbone libérée au cours de ces événements anciens est similaire à la fourchette prévue pour les émissions humaines, ce qui pourrait donner aux chercheurs un aperçu de ce qui nous attend, nous et les générations futures.
Les scientifiques doivent d'abord déterminer ce qui est arrivé au climat et aux océans pendant ces épisodes de réchauffement planétaire, il y a plus de 50 millions d'années. «Ces événements pourraient représenter une étude de cas de type scénario moyen ou pire», a déclaré M. Harper. «Nous pouvons les étudier pour répondre à la question suivante: quel est le changement environnemental qui se produit en raison de cette libération de carbone?»
La Terre était très chaude pendant le PETM. Aucune calotte glaciaire ne recouvrait les pôles et la température des océans atteignait les 32°C.
Pour déterminer les niveaux de CO2 dans les océans, les chercheurs se sont tournés vers les restes fossilisés de foraminifères, un organisme unicellulaire à coquille qui s'apparente au plancton. L'équipe de recherche a basé son étude sur des carottes extraites précédemment par le Programme international de découverte des océans à deux endroits dans le Pacifique.
Les coquilles de foram accumulent de petites quantités de bore, dont les isotopes sont un indicateur des concentrations de CO2 dans l'océan à l'époque où les coquilles se sont formées, selon M. Harper.
«Nous avons mesuré la chimie du bore dans les coquilles et nous sommes en mesure de traduire ces valeurs en utilisant des observations modernes sur les conditions passées de l'eau de mer. Nous pouvons obtenir le CO2 de l'eau de mer et le traduire en CO2 atmosphérique», a déclaré M. Harper. «L'objectif de l'intervalle d'étude ciblé était d'établir de nouveaux relevés de CO2 et de température pour le PETM et l'ETM-2, qui représentent deux des meilleurs analogues en termes de changement moderne, et de fournir une évaluation de fond à plus long terme du système climatique afin de mieux contextualiser ces événements.»
Les carottes étudiées par Harper ont été extraites de Shatsky Rise dans le Pacifique Nord subtropical, un endroit idéal pour récupérer des sédiments du fond de l'océan qui reflètent les conditions d'un passé ancien.
Les coquilles de carbonate se dissolvent lorsqu'elles se déposent dans les profondeurs de l'océan. Les scientifiques doivent donc se tourner vers des plateaux sous-marins comme celui de Shatsky Rise, où la profondeur de l'eau est relativement faible. Pendant que leurs habitants vivaient il y a des millions d'années, les coquilles de foraminifères enregistraient les conditions à la surface de la mer.
«Ils meurent ensuite et tombent au fond de la mer, où ils se déposent à environ deux kilomètres de profondeur », explique M. Harper. «Nous sommes en mesure de récupérer la séquence complète des fossiles morts. À ces endroits, au milieu de l'océan, il n'y a pas vraiment d'apport de sédiments en provenance des continents, et ce sont donc principalement ces fossiles qui sont déposés, et c'est tout. C'est une très bonne archive pour ce que nous voulons faire.»
Référence du journal: Dustin T. Harper, Bärbel Hönisch, Gabriel J. Bowen, Richard E. Zeebe, Laura L. Haynes, Donald E. Penman, James C. Zachos. Long- and short-term coupling of sea surface temperature and atmospheric CO 2 during the late Paleocene and early Eocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (36) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2318779121
Note : L'article ci-dessus a été reproduit à partir de documents fournis par l'Université de l'Utah. L'article original a été rédigé par Brian Maffly.
Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Ne donnez pas du riz ou du pain aux pigeons, ce n'est pas bon pour eux. Le riz gonfle dans leur estomac lors de la digestion ce qui leur provoque de vives douleurs. C'est pire avec le pain: les oiseaux ne digèrent pas la levure ou le sel, le gluten est mauvais pour leur foie et ils peuvent même développer une maladie nommée «le syndrome de l'aile d'ange» qui frappe les canards ou les oies que nous nourrissons avec du pain au bord des étangs.
Extrait de "Éloge de la sincérité" de Montesquieu (1717):
Le vice serait réduit à cette triste et déplorable condition où gémit la vertu, et il faudrait avoir autant de force et de courage pour être méchant, qu'il en faut, dans ce siècle corrompu, pour être homme de bien. Quand la sincérité ne nous guérirait que de l'orgueil, ce serait une grande vertu qui nous guérirait du plus grand de tous les vices. Il n'y a que trop de Narcisses dans le monde, de ces gens amoureux d'eux-mêmes. Ils sont perdus s'ils trouvent dans leurs amis de la complaisance. Prévenus de leur mérite, remplis d'une idée qui leur est chère, ils passent leur vie à s'admirer. Que faudrait-il pour les guérir d'une folie qui semble incurable? Il ne faudrait que les faire apercevoir du petit nombre de leurs rivaux; que leur faire sentir leurs faibles; que mettre leurs vices dans le point de vue qu'il faut pour les faire voir; que se joindre à eux contre eux-mêmes, et leur parler dans la simplicité de la vérité.
|Il faut avoir de la force et du courage, dans ce siècle corrompu, pour être un homme de bien.|
Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Citation déformée venant d'un tract clandestin du Parti Communiste Français intitulé "Révolution et contre-révolution au 20e siècle" en réponse à "Or et Sang", conférence donnée par Alfred Rosenberg le 28 novembre 1940 à la Chambre des députés de Paris en règlement de comptes des idées de 1789 qui «récupère» la révolte populaire de la fin du XVIIIe siècle pour présenter le national-socialisme comme une authentique révolution nationale. L'auteur de ce tract de 1940 est Georges Politzer.
Cette citation n'est pas extraite de "La Philosophie et les mythes", texte publié dans le n°1 de "La Pensée" en 1939, contrairement à ce qu'affirme le Café Littéraire.
Extrait du tract "Révolution et contre-révolution au 20e siècle" écrit par Georges Politzer (1940):
La Révolution française est l'honneur historique du peuple de France. Le culte du passé glorieux qu'elle représente acquiert un contenu et un sens nouveau à l'heure où le capitalisme français livre la nation à l'oppression d'un impérialisme étranger. Le discours de M. Rosenberg appelait donc une réponse. Les marxistes français, c'est-à-dire les communistes, la lui apportent. Ce fait est à la fois naturel et significatif. La lutte active contre toute cette colonisation spirituelle, dont le voyage de M. Rosenberg est le symbole, est inséparable de la lutte pour la liberté et l'indépendance de la France. Le Parti Communiste Français a la fierté d'être à l'avant-garde de cette lutte. Le fait que ce sont les communistes français, et eux seuls, qui répondent à M. Rosenberg, montre, en même temps, combien il est vrai que la défaite a marqué aussi l'effondrement idéologique de tous les autres partis. M. Rosenberg est venu à Paris pour un «règlement de comptes» avec les idées de 1789.
|La Révolution française est l'honneur historique du peuple français. Le culte glorieux qu'elle représente acquiert un contenu et un sens nouveaux à l'heure où le capitalisme livre la nation à l'oppression.|
Citation un peu déformée extraite de "Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra" de Friedrich Nietzsche (1883) , Première partie "La vieille et la jeune femme".
Ce philosophe n'avait pas la lumière intérieure (et il a déprimé plus d'un de ses lecteurs).
Cette citation n'apporte rien de nouveau dans la connaissance de l'être humain (et il a fait des généralités inacceptables!).
Extrait de "Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra" de Friedrich Nietzsche (1883) , Première partie "La vieille et la jeune femme":
«Maintes fois déjà Zarathoustra a parlé, même à nous autres femmes, mais jamais il ne nous a parlé de la femme.» Je lui ai répondu: «Il ne faut parler de la femme qu'aux hommes.» «À moi aussi tu peux parler de la femme, dit-elle; je suis assez vieille pour oublier aussitôt tout ce que tu m'auras dit.» Et je condescendis aux désirs de la vieille femme et je lui dis: Chez la femme tout est une énigme: mais il y a un mot à cet énigme: ce mot est grossesse. L'homme est pour la femme un moyen: le but est toujours l'enfant. Mais qu'est la femme pour l'homme? L'homme véritable veut deux choses: le danger et le jeu. C'est pourquoi il veut la femme, le jouet le plus dangereux. L'homme doit être élevé pour la guerre, et la femme pour le délassement du guerrier: tout le reste est folie. Le guerrier n'aime les fruits trop doux. C'est pourquoi il aime la femme; une saveur amère reste même à la femme la plus douce. Mieux que l'homme, la femme comprend les enfants, mais l'homme est plus enfant que la femme. Dans tout homme véritable se cache un enfant: un enfant qui veut jouer. Allons, femmes, découvrez-moi l'enfant dans l'homme! Que la femme soit un jouet, pur et menu, pareil au diamant, rayonnant des vertus d'un monde qui n'est pas encore!
La Piéride du chou (Pieris brassicae) est une espèce paléarctique de lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Pieridae. Elle est notamment très répandue en Europe.
Sous un ciel d'automne, ambiance pastel pour la Piéride du chou sur un capitule de zinnia.
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The hand is not there. ǝɯᴉʇ sᴉɥʇ ʎʅuo ,ɯsɐɥɔ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ oʇ punoɹɐ ʞɔɐq spuᴉʍ sʇI .xǝʅdɯoɔ ǝɥʇ ɟo uɹnʇ ǝʅqᴉssodɯᴉ uɐ ʇɐ sɹnɔɔo ɹǝuɹoɔ ǝʅqɐǝɔᴉʇou ɐ ʇǝdɹɐɔ ᵷuᴉɥsnɯ ǝɥʇ ssoɹɔɐ ᵷuᴉʞʅɐM
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Tried logging on to here via Subway Tooter, which I use for Mastodon. It's supposed to work with Friendica too. I tried the Friendiqa app but it doesn't even recognise this site exists. Anyway it appeared I'd logged on successfully but when I went to look at my feed I got a very long error message. The folks on Subway Tooter's help forum said it was a server issue and to contact the server owner.
@Vanessa That would be me for future reference (in the menu under information it has a lot of the server details and in there is a link to my profile as well as my email address)
If you look further down on that error message where it says HTTP 502 Bad Gateway it tells me the server might have been having issues at that point in time. In all honestly it's kinda unavoidable at the time due to resource constraints, sites currently on a rented dedicated server until I fix my housing situation (current ETA is late october when I can work on putting it back on my own, more stable, hardware again), so it probably was just having issues loading that page at that time.
There's not a lot I can do with troubleshooting clients, but let me know if it keeps having trouble and maybe I can work with you to find some answers?
I've got it partially working. The feed doesn't work but the notifications do and I can boost/repost posts from my Mastodon accounts onto my Foggy Minds account
As I move into my 40s, and contend with the dynamic tension of both more time, money, and capability; against higher demands on those very resources. I've been looking for a new place to do my social networking. I don't need the massive social networks of the past, since most of my community is well established at this point. It's nice to have federation, so my more distant friends can still see my posts without having to maintain or check a specific network just on my behalf. It's a little disappointing to find the landscape of self-hosted or federated social networks so barren, but Friendica seems like a solid option. The federated landscape makes it easier to try a platform, knowing that my work will not be forever vendor-locked into that platform.
Introduction The following text is a story I wrote yesterday. There are some deep layers of meaning (such as the character's main name, "Baykus", from the turkish word for "owl"). There are some "Lovecraftian" aspects as well (although I'm not really a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, but let's say me and him were inspired by the same... realm).
There is also a defense of Mother Nature (Gaia, Pachamama, Goddess Isis, Demetre, the list goes on), Her relationship with ancient knowledge (hereby represented by the archetype of the owl and the oak tree), and a critique of the way people fear the unknown, especially the darker aspects of the nature (Darkness is not evil; if it weren't by Her dark aspects, there'd be no light).
The story is human-written (i.e. not an AI output), I guess it'll be evident as there are some English grammar errors of mine (I'm Brazilian and my native language is Portuguese, so I'm aware I commit a lot of mistakes when I write English texts, even though I'm capable of writing rhyming poetry).
The shadows of Baykus oak tree The quietness of the boy made her restless. She noticed that Baykus hasn't eaten since yesterday, preferring to sit below that old oak tree. Every time she tried to approach him, he'd run away somewhere else inside the big yard.
The sky was overcast, it'll rain any time soon. But these dense clouds didn't suffice to scare Baykus, as he continued to sit and gaze at the nothing like a thousand yard stare. As the day became darker and darker, his mother could finally understand what he was looking at. Mesmerized, she went outside and sat by the stair steps.
Days passed and the neighbors started to worry about the absence of both Baykus and his mother. They tried to call, but no one answered. They tried to spy by the window, the kitchen door was open but there was no signal of them. Another day passed and the neighbors called the police. When the policemen broke into the house, they readily started to notice a dark smoke coming out. Initially thinking that it could be some pot that was forgotten by the stove, they found the kitchen abandoned, but there was no lit fire nor pot over the stove, and the smoke was coming from everywhere across the house, letting the agents curious and confused about what was going on.
One of the policemen noticed the opened door that led to the yard and decided to go there. There was no one there, except for the shoes of Baykus' mother at the stairs, and the black smoke permeated the entire yard. Next to the oak, they found another pair of shoes, these from Baykus. They also found the source of the strange smoke inside the oak's trunk, but the oak wasn't on fire.
There was a little hole and they decided to look inside. The policeman put his eye near the hole and then he fell to his knees, paralyzed. Fearing that the smoke could be some toxic chemical, the other policemen readily ran to the car and fetched some masks. Another policeman, masked, tried to look, and the same situation happened as soon as his eye approached the hole: he fell to his knees, with his eyes wide open.
The third and last policeman decided to cut through the tree trunk, so he fetched an ax. When he was going to wave the ax against the tree, the voice of Baykus was heard coming from inside: "Don't!". The policeman tried to talk to him, but this was the only word they heard from him. The policeman, desperate, continued with his idea of cutting through the trunk (if Baykus is stuck inside, cutting the trunk of the tree would help, he thought). As he approached the ax against the tree, the blade got extremely hot, glowing red, starting to burn his hand as he dropped it.
Confused, he tried to put his hand inside that hole, only to be grabbed by a couple hands inside. These hands were cold, like icy cold. As he tried to pull back, the hands started to pull him inside. He tried to fetch his gun, but it was as hot as that axe he was using. He started to panic when the hands let him free.
He ran away thinking of calling reinforcement, but as he tried to enter the kitchen, he noticed something even more weird: there was no street but a black veil all the way from the sky. He looked back, trying to find another exit, but as he turned, he came across the boy and his mother, standing together both staring at him. He looked to his side and saw the two policemen, also standing and staring at him. Scared by the way they were staring at him, he slowly paced backwards, only to find the wall behind him.
Baykus approached him and gently grabbed his hand, taking him to the oak tree, the others followed. As they approached the tree, the man was paralyzed by what he saw: the eyes of Baykus got bigger and darkened.
The smoke surrounded the policeman and he started to hear voices, billions of voices: they were the thoughts of every human alive and dead. They were memories, both good and bad, but mostly dark and shadowy. The grieving from those who lost their loved ones, the woe from those who were alone, the suffering from those who were in pain.
He started to know everything, from the known knowledge to the unknown, and this made he feel the burden. The burden She has had since the beginning of times, the burden faced by Darkness, an unknown entity that he was starting to know. "She is our mother. The mother of all living beings, and She is your mother, too. She was looking for you and now She is looking after you.", Baykus said. Although paralyzed, the policeman smiled.
The smile couldn't be seen by the neighbors: all they could see was three paralyzed policemen, one of which was paralyzed as soon he walked inside the kitchen. The neighbors couldn't understand what was going on and, scared by the unknown, they ran from it... As everybody does... 🦉🌲🌒
So I'm relatively new to fediverse, although I have already interacted with federated protocols (such as Matrix, but Matrix is way different from Mastodon/Friendica/Bluesky/Pleroma/etc).
I have been sailing through two Mastodon instances, but Mastodon's character limit is low for my needs. I'm a developer (JS, PHP, Python, etc) that also like to write poetry and chronicles, as well as interacting with AI to create artistic representations of the gothic and the dark supernatural. While it seems that Friendica supports more characters, I'll know it the moment I send this first post. It has 1342 characters in total.
I have a syncretic view over the reality, trying to converge scientific inquiry with the philosophical questioning and the metaphysical spirituality from all religions and belief systems (even when they seem to "contradict" one another; actually, they have more in common than people think, starting from the beginning of the existence from primordial waters from the amniotic liquid to the electromagnetic fields permeating the cosmos, but it's a subject for another future post).
One important thing for me to ask: does the instance allow AI Art (e.g. from artistic representations of daemons such as Astaroth and Lilith to mathematical concepts such as fractals; obviously these AI imagery would be marked as so)?
@Daemon Silverstein This instance? I allow properly marked AI content, I would also suggest content warnings (in Friendica it's done with [abstract]content warning message[/abstract]), but I count that more as a courtesy effort than something I'm going to really demand.
Friendica has no character limit set.
As Friendica isn't the friendliest user interface, if you do find you'd prefer Mastodon or Mastodon-like, there are many that have higher character limits.
Housing situation has been a pain, still on the temporary server environment and been hitting major resources bottlenecks.
I'm hoping to get a place sooner, but I've hit some roadblocks that very likely will push it drastically further out... in which case I'll need to spend more money on this environment to return things to stable.
Reminder that I'm covering this entirely out of my own pocket and these constraints are because I'm between homes and can't use my own much cheaper hardware. If you appreciate this instance I would very much appreciate a donation.
I tried Friendica previously, but never figured out what I wanted to do with it, and deleted it after a while. But after I'd read the excellent post @Elena Rossini wrote on her blog I realised I really should give it another chance, and decided to put a little more effort into it this time. So I created this account yesterday, and now I'm trying to decide how I want to use it. Some part of that uncertainty is because I haven't figured out all the bells and whistles of the platform, and I don't always quite understand what the help pages are trying to tell me. This is definitely mostly on me, having some preconceived notions and expectations, and getting a little confused here and there. This is not Facebook or Goggle+, it is its own thing. For the most part though, just trying things out with one eye on those help pages have solved any questions I've had.
After I had signed up, I initially imported all the accounts I am following on Mastodon, but am starting to regret this. The two networks are obviously very different beasts, and I will act accordingly from now on. My current idea is to use Friendica, at least partly, as a sort of news aggregator, following accounts both on the fediverse and via RSS feeds, so a lot of those Mastodon accounts will be unfollowed here for a quieter experience and left on Mastodon. Just because you can follow everything everywhere on ActivityPub, it doesn't always make the best sense. But that, of course, is also the beauty of this, what doesn't make the best sense for me, might do for someone else. Different folks...
Occasionally I may even post something here, things that require more than 500 words, things like this.
That's what I'm planning to do right now, anyway. Who knows what I'll think tomorrow?
@Jarulf @Elena Rossini welcome aboard! I'm definitely saving that article, might link it or one of the guides it mentions in the getting started welcome panel (... I should review that as well, I haven't looked at it in ages)
Also remember there's a helper group as you're figuring things out, just tag helpers@forum.friendi.ca (not tagged here because otherwise it'll share this comment to the group). I'm also happy to help out my users!
@Shiri Bailem Thank you, happy to be here. And also thank you for providing the instance. I'm figuring things out as I go along, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it here. I'll be sure to ask for help when I'm getting too confused
I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you) And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design. I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook. More info for who is interested are available here: https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbinding-projects-M4M511EWAN (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free) It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated. These are couple of pictures of my latest works:
Hey there, I'm Kees (they/them/their, ne/nem/nir), a 30-something bug living in California. I'm hoping to make this my public facing account to share my art and generally interact with the rest of the fediverse.
I'm an amateur naturalist (I like BIRDS and BUGS, especially parasitic wasps) and I do art in various media (digital, watercolor, acrylic), usually of birds or original characters from an ARPG I help run. #tokipona li pona. Aaand I don't know what else to put in here so I'll stop ha.
Hello there. Glasgow calling. I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art. I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica. Best wishes all.
@Moshe Oh dear. Not good. I had 2 and a half years of long covid from the first variant. Have managed to avoid this variant so far (famous last words) . Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Vanessa • •@Vanessa That would be me for future reference (in the menu under information it has a lot of the server details and in there is a link to my profile as well as my email address)
If you look further down on that error message where it says HTTP 502 Bad Gateway it tells me the server might have been having issues at that point in time. In all honestly it's kinda unavoidable at the time due to resource constraints, sites currently on a rented dedicated server until I fix my housing situation (current ETA is late october when I can work on putting it back on my own, more stable, hardware again), so it probably was just having issues loading that page at that time.
There's not a lot I can do with troubleshooting clients, but let me know if it keeps having trouble and maybe I can work with you to find some answers?
Vanessa
in reply to Shiri Bailem • •It's working fine now. Thanks
Vanessa
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