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Topslakr<p>New House Projects – Weather Watching V0.5</p><p>I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation, would peer out a window and then mark down if it was sunny, or cloudy, or possibly raining...</p><p><a href="https://topslakr.com/2025/04/new-house-projects-weather-watching-v0-5/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">topslakr.com/2025/04/new-house</span><span class="invisible">-projects-weather-watching-v0-5/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Topslakr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Topslakr</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MariaDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariaDB</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WeeWx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeeWx</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
MFennVT<p><a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Tufts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tufts</span></a> PhD student was transported to <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> after arrest in <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> by immigration officials, court records show. <a href="https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/02/tufts-phd-student-was-transported-to-vermont-after-arrest-in-massachusetts-by-immigration-officials-court-records-show/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vtdigger.org/2025/04/02/tufts-</span><span class="invisible">phd-student-was-transported-to-vermont-after-arrest-in-massachusetts-by-immigration-officials-court-records-show/</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>State <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOTs</span></a> Aren’t Stacking Up On <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equity</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> is the best state <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOT</span></a> — but advocates say it, and every other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a>, needs to do better.</p><p><a href="https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/02/state-dots-arent-stacking-up-on-sustainability-and-equity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/02</span><span class="invisible">/state-dots-arent-stacking-up-on-sustainability-and-equity</span></a></p>
john lehet<p>Ice on Log by Stream</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/johnlehetphoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnlehetphoto</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermont</span></a></p>
Bodling<p>A new article about everyone's favorite library literally ON the border: Haskell Free Library and Opera House</p><p><a href="https://wapo.st/4cja4hp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/4cja4hp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://deacon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> <a href="https://deacon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
RealJournalism<p>State DOTs Aren’t Stacking Up On Sustainability and Equity <a href="https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/02/state-dots-arent-stacking-up-on-sustainability-and-equity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">usa.streetsblog.org/2025/04/02</span><span class="invisible">/state-dots-arent-stacking-up-on-sustainability-and-equity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
john lehet<p>Tree by Connecticut River, Mist</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/johnlehetphoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnlehetphoto</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/blackandwhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackandwhite</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermont</span></a></p>
Brendan Kinney<p>New from Vermont Public! </p><p>Sweet Ones: The show with sweet questions and even sweeter maple syrup 😜 </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vvWVLKZ8y7U?si=J5FjlrZ-lEPBV_4f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/vvWVLKZ8y7U?si=J5Fjlr</span><span class="invisible">Z-lEPBV_4f</span></a> <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
M Sandersfortress—Lake Morey, VT (2009)<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/landscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/architecture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/castle?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castle</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/camp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#camp</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vermont?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vermont</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/summercamp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#summercamp</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/offseason?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#offseason</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/edifice?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edifice</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/facade?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facade</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fall?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fall</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/clearing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clearing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/alone?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alone</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/canon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canon</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/canonx40?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canonx40</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/stilllife?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stilllife</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fineartphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fineartphotography</a> <br> <br> 87/365
MFennVT<p>And then we have this horror story. Why does <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> depend on an out-of-state (and apparently, out-of-touch) company (owned by Equifax, for fuck's sake) to inform crime victims that criminals who injured them are getting out of jail? We're a small state. This could be easily handled in-house.</p><p><a href="https://vtdigger.org/2025/03/28/alerts-to-crime-victims-in-vermont-are-full-of-flaws/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vtdigger.org/2025/03/28/alerts</span><span class="invisible">-to-crime-victims-in-vermont-are-full-of-flaws/</span></a></p>
MFennVT<p>It seems like every time I read <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/VTDigger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VTDigger</span></a>, I learn something new about my home state of <a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a>. <a href="https://vtdigger.org/2025/03/30/proposed-fish-wildlife-rules-could-shake-up-vermonts-little-known-panfish-market/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vtdigger.org/2025/03/30/propos</span><span class="invisible">ed-fish-wildlife-rules-could-shake-up-vermonts-little-known-panfish-market/</span></a></p>
John Predom<p>Mud season conditions are here. Avoid saturated trails and follow all posted signage regarding trail closures. If you encounter muddy trails, consider turning back or go directly through the mud to avoid widening the trail. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MudSeason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MudSeason</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenMountainClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenMountainClub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hiking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VermontForestParksAndRec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VermontForestParksAndRec</span></a></p>
Robert Sanscartier<p>Vermont Might Change How It Accounts for Climate-Damaging Emissions. Here’s What’s at Stake</p><p>This proposal to switch from gross to net emissions accounting has raised serious questions because it could decelerate Vermont’s transition off fossil fuels and introduce uncertainty into the state’s calculated emissions</p><p><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31032025/vermont-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-laws/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insideclimatenews.org/news/310</span><span class="invisible">32025/vermont-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-laws/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IrreversibleOverheating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrreversibleOverheating</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalBurning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDestruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>
not ch1c<p>I’ll never understand why <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> keeps electing a republican governor but here he is ending the shelter in otherwise vacant motel rooms program for our houseless neighbors and at the tail end of still-winter no less. Details here if you’d like to help</p><p><a href="https://www.endhomelessnessvt.org/take-action.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">endhomelessnessvt.org/take-act</span><span class="invisible">ion.html</span></a></p><p>And fuck Phil Scott forever, Dems can you please stop splitting your votes for that fash-adjacent asshole, what the literal actual fuck</p>
Bongolian<p>Trump's war on information, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p><p>Amanda Swinhart &amp; Patrick Whittle: A beloved library that united the US and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> faces new border restrictions</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a><br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-5c1797d10bcb1a1064895fdf91dc5a35" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/canada-amer</span><span class="invisible">ica-library-vermont-quebec-5c1797d10bcb1a1064895fdf91dc5a35</span></a></p>
Jeff Munroe<p>Traveled a bit this month, but still got a few pictures of McCardell Bicentennial Hall at Middlebury College. Winter is hanging tough in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermont</span></a>. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snow</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/landscapephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscapephotography</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drone</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/mbh2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mbh2025</span></a></p>
RealJournalism<p>Young Writers Project: ‘Home is more than just a place’ <a href="https://vtdigger.org/2025/03/30/young-writers-project-home-is-more-than-just-a-place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vtdigger.org/2025/03/30/young-</span><span class="invisible">writers-project-home-is-more-than-just-a-place/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
Chris Rowan<p>For <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Strataday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strataday</span></a>: dolomite deposited on the balmy shores of the Iapetus ocean about 500 million years ago. See if you can spot the fault, which only formed after this unit went through an ocean closure, and orogeny and another rifting event that eventually formed the Atlantic Ocean. </p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
Adrian Segar<p>Scenes from a peer conference: The Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, November 6-7, 2014</p><p><a href="https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/peer-conference-2/2014/11/scenes-from-a-peer-conference" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">conferencesthatwork.com/index.</span><span class="invisible">php/peer-conference-2/2014/11/scenes-from-a-peer-conference</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EventDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeerConference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerConference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unconference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MulticulturalFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MulticulturalFuture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eventprofs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eventprofs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assnchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assnchat</span></a></p>
Thomas Hunt<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Ice?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ice</a> storm downed a bunch of branches and gave us a droopy, drippy, unspringlike day - but some photogenic landscapes - here at <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WhitingVT?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhitingVT</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Vermont?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vermont</a>. <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/VtWx?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VtWx</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Trees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trees</a>