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  • This doesn’t realllllyyyy answer your main question, but you got me curious how WriteFreely blog posts look from other platforms, and which ones can see them. So, I tried a few with this post of mine. Obviously some of these wouldn’t make any sense, and also for some of them I may have just never figured out how to properly format the URL/search the way it wanted. But, here’s what I got on every platform where I have an account:

    • Mastodon (“https://todon.eu/@[email protected]/113624027917705904”): If you’re logged in, it shows the title, any pictures, and a link to the full text. If you’re logged out, it shows you a redirect option to the originating blog. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
    • Friendica: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with a “read more” accordion.
    • WAFRN: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with all the pictures at the bottom.
    • BookWyrm: Logged in, it can see the blog but can’t retrieve the post. Logged out, it automatically redirects to the blog.
    • NeoDB (“https://neodb.social/users/@[email protected]/”): Logged in, it can see the blog but not the post. Logged out, it asks you to log in. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
    • Lemmy: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • PieFed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Pixelfed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Mobilizon: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Ibis: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
    • Peertube: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.














  • Ok, take this with a grain of salt because I read about it ages ago in a dubious pop-sci book and my memory is shaky. One time, they tried to gene edit yeast to be able to survive much higher alcohol concentrations. There’s lots of good reasons to want to do this… Beer/wine is just about the strongest beverage you can make without distillation of some kind because the yeast dies. Making way higher ethanol yields just from fermentation makes biofuel way more viable. Stuff like that.

    EXCEPT… It nearly escaped, and was able to survive on it’s own. Yeast is very ubiquitous in nature, so a wild yeast that can tolerate massive ethanol concentrations could conceivably have altered life on earth as we know it.

    A cursory internet search isn’t turning up anything about this, but I’m pretty sure I read it in the book Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody, if anyone wants to look harder than I did.