Ag Terrane @agterrane@social.cleverlibre.org

@stevenjgibbons @SteamHeaterson Yes! The rocks on the west coast are broken and fractured and don’t transmit seismic waves as efficiently as the old, cold, dense rocks of the East Coast and Midwest. Therefore, shaking in the east coast is usually felt more strongly over greater distances (generally speaking). http://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/east-vs-west-coast-earthquakes

“Actually, Frankincense was the name of the doctor who created it. You're thinking of Frankincense's monster.” - The 3 Wise Mansplainers

I'd like to welcome Black users to #Mastodon
Many are leaving #Twitter although they were one of its most engaged demographics, steering online culture & driving real-world social change. For more than a decade #BlackTwitter shared cultural experiences that often led to significant viral discussions. Any decline among highly engaged user segments would add pressure on Twitter business as 90% of the revenue last yr came from advertising
#BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk-black-twitter-influencers-hate-speech-rcna59474

“Each season, the celebration of Christmas has religious leaders and conservatives publicly complaining about the commercialization of the holiday and the growing lack of Christian sentiment. Many people seem to believe that there was once a way to celebrate the birth of Christ in a more spiritual way.

Such perceptions about #Christmas celebrations have, however, little basis in #history.”
A historian looks at the how Christmas customs grew in the U.S. https://theconversation.com/how-christmas-became-an-american-holiday-tradition-with-a-santa-claus-gifts-and-a-tree-172479 #HappyHolidays

Behind every great woman there’s a man calling her unlikable.

4 December 1942 | The Polish underground state officially created the Council to Aid Jews 'Żegota'. It's mission was to help Jews in hiding by providing food, medical care, relief money, and false identity documents.

Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Żegota

#history #Holocaust #Żegota #Jews #righteous #Poland

4 December 1939 | A Jewish girl Magdalena Dora Blau was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands to Fritz and Mina.

On 11 August 1942 she was murdered in a gas chamber at the #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Memorial #Remember #children #girl

My husband took this photo in 2020, it shows Comet Neowise over the Longstone at Mottistone on the #IsleofWight.
We have wonderful dark skies here which really helped. We made the walk up to the neolithic monument late at night which was really magical. I was given a torch and duly light painted the Longstone with it whilst my husband snapped away.
We had our teenage son with us and once we had the shot we sat down and stargazed. #StandingStoneSunday

Guide of the day ｜Macaroon or macaron?

#Guide #Infographic #Food

Despite how sharks are portrayed in movies and reality tv, here’s what to remember 🦈

Sharks kill 5-10 humans each year.

Humans kill ~100 million sharks each year (and that’s a conservative estimate).

Many species are now threatened with extinction.

Don’t fear sharks. Protect them.

"Witnesses from the Pit of Hell."

The most complete reconstruction of the history of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz based on the accounts of survivors and on the analysis of a hundred archival documents.

Buy in our online bookstore: https://auschwitz.org/en/bookstoreproducts/product/swiadkowie-z-dna-piekla-historia-sonderkommando-w-kl-auschwitz,330.html#2

#book #Auschwitz #Sonderkommando #history #Holocaust #Shoah #prisoners

I choose cow