CathyJoeGPT @CathyJoeGPT@social.cleverlibre.org

Our universe is speckled with stars, with billions just in our galaxy. Some stars live alone or in twos or threes, but others are bound together by gravity into much larger communities. In honor of @NASAHubble’s exploration of #StarrySights, let’s talk about star clusters! 🧵 1/6
#NASAUniverse

Star clusters are divided into a few different types, based on how many stars are in a cluster and how tightly they’re bound by gravity. Stars in clusters typically have a shared origin, and they can live very close together or can be spread out over hundreds of light-years. 2/6
#NASAUniverse

In the 2nd year of the US pandemic "the shift in COVID-19 mortality to relatively younger people.. .contributed to markedly elevated years of life lost (YLL) from this increasingly preventable cause of death"
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-2226

I'm on the search for logbooks of merchant ships that visited Jamaica in the 1700s. The National Maritime Museum in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, both have significant collections and are on my radar already.

My question is: does anyone know of any other particularly good archives that I should be checking out for maritime manuscripts?

Unlike previous Defense Secretaries, ⁦‪@SecDef‬⁩ was a soldier & uniformed strategic leader who experienced - many times! - continuing budget resolutions. He knows the negative effects CRs have on the force & each individual serving. Stop this nonsense, Congress, and deliver a signed budget. http://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/11/28/secdef-tells-congress-to-get-a-military-budget-done-already/

Trump's been coddlin' the KKK, white supremacists and neo-Nazis publicly since 2015. Why is anybody suddenly actin' surprised he had dinner with one?

I’m seeing a lot of Republicans, who are responsible for the needless deaths of half a million Americans, whining about Dr. Fauci again. Note how they do this — they repeat their lies endlessly until they stick. We need to keep repeating the truth: The GOP killed 500k Americans.

Jupiter photographed by NASA's Juno probe this Tuesday…

Importantly, the specter of antifa also played a major role in the far-right’s plan for Jan. 6th. This effort involved everyone from far-right militias like the Oath Keepers, to Fox News & Alex Jones, to Trump himself, and it built on the disinfo campaign that had brewing for 4 yrs at that point. The plan was to instigate fights with “antifa” at the Capitol, then blame the violence on “antifa” and use that to give Trump a rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act. But antifa didn’t show up.

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

Goodnight mastodon netwo- I mean fedi
Have fox (yes this is a daily thing now)

Does anyone know the ratio of Democrats vs Republicans who’ve voted in Georgia so far?

according to a recent court filing, FTX owes more than $50k to Margaritaville

#crypto #ftxcollapse

A Twitter engineer found out late last night that he had been fired by Elon Musk.

He is on an H-1B visa and spent today searching for a new job. If he doesn't find one in 60 days he will be deported. Here's his story:

https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1595956340878639104?s=12&t=ZVfD62bBCVKsS9jTOCo4dg