Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

She's so cute. Except she's laying on my writing journal and New Yorker.
Happy #Caturday #Cats #CatsofMastodon

Props to newsie.social for deciding not to host NEWSMAX, which was a torrent of homophobia & anti-trans bigotry. If NEWSMAX wants to compete for attention, they are entirely free to set up their own instance.

To the media: Wow is it a bad look that one old white guy comes out belatedly saying "AI is bad!" and you fawn all over him, while failing to connect with the scholars (mostly not white men) who have been documenting the actual problems with "AI".

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“I get that people want to move on from the pandemic, but the virus is still out there, people are getting infected, and there’s the possibility of developing long Covid. I’m still wearing masks and following preventive practices as much as possible.”

- Akiko Iwasaki, immunology professor at Yale School of Medicine

#COVID19

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close?CMP=share_btn_tw

A Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, is perched on a branch in a dead tree at Fort Macon State Park, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.. These bright red birds are non-migratory, spending the entire year in the same area. Easily recognized by serious... cont'd at https://bob-decker.pixels.com/featured/northern-cardinal-at-fort-macon-state-park-bob-decker.html

#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #Cardinal #wildbird #birdwatching #fineart #wallart #fineartphotography #nature #naturephotography #mastoart #fediart #creativetoots #photography

Looking for volunteers interested in helping translate https://jointhefediverse.net to more languages.

Currently available:

- Arabic
- French
- Russian
- Slovak

In progress:

- Bosnian
- German
- Spanish

Learn more about the process here: https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net#translation

Boosts appreciated!

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #SpreadTheFediverse #language #translation #internationalization #i18n #HelpWanted #volunteer #opensource

Happy Kyiv Day #Ukraine #Kyiv #Київ
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17558

Pictures are my own, so apologies for the quality.

damn, I guess I failed to post this yesterday... totally my bad

also, kiss my ass

STOP THE GOP'S RETURNING AMERICA BACK TO THE "GOOD OL" DAYS!

@StillIRise1963
I'm going to keep reposting this opinion piece as often as I can.

The "but both sides" neutrality of the mainstream media helps oppressors and normalizes fascism.

#polarization #media

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/polarization-and-strife

I can not be held responsible for the effects of cuteness overload...

#pupdate #puppies #dogs #DogsOfMastodon

Andrew McCarthy captured the ISS in front of the moon and this resulted in a very inspiring photograph!

The moon is around 1000 times farther away from earth than the ISS, but still the ISS looks tiny despite being over 100m long. In this shot the ratios may be different, because the telescope does not look straight up, but at an angle. So the distance from the telescope to the ISS is probably far more than just 400km. But putting the moon a few hundred km further back, would not affect its size so much. (Think of the dolly zoom effect.)

As the sizes of the moon, the ISS and the orbits are known, it should be possible to calculate the distance between telescope and ISS. Maybe you could calculate the location of the telescope as well.

https://cosmicbackground.io/pages/new-frontiers

Did you know that we have a Discord server? We do! Don't know what @discord is? @Patrickstewart has you covered!

https://flip.it/3fmnG4

Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings. “The US carpet bombing of #Cambodia between 1969 & 1973 has been well documented, but its architect… Henry #Kissinger…bears responsibility for more violence than has been previously reported. …The Intercept provides evidence of previously unreported attacks that killed or wounded hundreds of Cambodian civilians during Kissinger’s tenure in the White House.” | Nick Turse, Intercept https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/

Rows of copper pennies are displayed to illustrate their changing appearance as they age: from shiny new copper, through progressively duller and darker colors, to the sporting patches of of blue that develop over time.

The patina forming naturally on copper and bronze - sometimes called verdigris - usually consists of varying mixtures of copper chlorides, sulfides, sulfates and carbonates.

#science #words

photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/yyZeQ

GOP's boycott of Target is part of their campaign to ERASE all things LGBTQ from society. And the GOP knows that their non-stop demonization of the LGBTQ community will lead to hate crimes. They either don't care or want the violence. My new MSNBC article https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/targets-pride-month-boycott-shows-disturbing-gop-plans-rcna86496

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

lol, someone complained - all these vids now have a CW!

something tells me it was an uptight American

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjApp6Lljo-OgQ5Epfvdg3UYaekO5B1JM