lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

The pie theft crime wave has finally come to an end. A suspect is in custardy.

I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think.

There are the rushing waves
mountains of molecules
each stupidly minding its own business
trillions apart
yet forming white surf in unison.

Ages on ages
before any eyes could see
year after year
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?
On a dead planet
with no life to entertain.

Never at rest
tortured by energy
wasted prodigiously by the sun
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.

Deep in the sea
all molecules repeat
the patterns of one another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves
and a new dance starts.

Growing in size and complexity
living things
masses of atoms
DNA, protein
dancing a pattern ever more intricate.

Out of the cradle
onto dry land
here it is
standing:
atoms with consciousness;
matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea,
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe.

---
Originally from “The Value of Science,” public address at the National Academy of Sciences (Autumn 1955)

#Feynman, #Poetry, #Science, #Wonder

Been thinking about "professionalism" in teacher prep/education and K-12 schools.

If the definition of professionalism is dehumanizing, then we have a wrong definition of professionalism being used.
#edutooter #education

Clown computing: the most divided thing.

There are those who use the term without blinking.

Then there are those who misspell it "Cloud computing".

Increasingly I understand learning as a network process. We add nodes, create new connections, and strengthen or weaken others.

@saramg I for one welcome our new overlord.

My random laws:
- Cars can't honk their horn when locked.
- Construction closes car traffic lanes first, sidewalks & bike lanes last.
- New sales tax introduced on cars of common colours.
- Junk mail must be easily recyclable. No plastic, lamination, or other junk.
- Canada & USA must match every new mile of road with a mile of passenger rail.
- Tourist destination souvenir shops must stock locally made items.

Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX was outed as a Ponzi scheme.

Jeff Bezos is touting his philanthropy as Amazon lays off thousands.

The billionaires will not save us.

They're tearing society down — and we're all the collateral.

A knotted human hair under a microscope.

Marvelous day at Rushmore Primary #e5 my thanks to brilliant staff and students 🥰thanks also to #pagesOfHackney for making it happen... And I also got a lantern-shaped box of chocolate biscuits as a thank you.

Biscuit photo follows

. #storyteller

A composition from rust under water.

#Photography #Fotografie #Art

in search of light
picture of a window with rain from inside a castle on an autumn day

#england #bamburgh #photography #canon #eosr5 #captureone #window #history #castle #autumn #rain #mood #cold #transition #zen #direction #emotions #hope

Wait, I guess this is what Glitch is for?

https://glitch.com/~tracery-mastodon-bot

Unfortunately I have to stop actively working on #Metatext for a while due to health issues. I really wish I could implement Mastodon 4 features and squash every bug, but it's not possible for me to do so right now.

I know the app has become important to a lot people, so I'm open to a new maintainer who can carry on its values of privacy and accessibility taking it over if there's interest and a fit. Email info@metabolist.org if you (or your organization) are interested

A wee Aurora snap from my back door last night ✨ managed to capture a wee 💫 also! #scotland #aurora #shootingstar #photography #nightphotography #highlands

💙Artist: #MatthewDawn - in City: #Ostende Belgium 🇧🇪 2018 - (📷 by oooooiiiooooo) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork #Thchrstlshp

Really considering making an anon account so I can practice my iffy #German skills but uh 😅😅😅

(I feel fine speaking because I can tell people can understand me/I can understand them - am somewhere above B1 I think for speaking - but I am already a perfectionist in English and don’t particularly want to show all my terrible grammar mistakes 😅.)

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

@conradhackett You need to pray a lot when the shop down the road sells machine guns to teens

@conradhackett if I recall correctly, prayer correlates very strongly with whether the country has some form of national healthcare.