ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Backstage at the Muppets 1981

@superswift@twitter.com Reminder: the company is named Weylan-Yutani (without D) in Alien (1979), and it was a winged logo (designed by Ron Cobb). Winged logo we saw again in Covenant (2017).

James Cameron added the "D" for Aliens (1986) and the well-know logo.

Weyland Corp logo is from Prometheus.

"how can you be trans without dysphoria?"

look kid, i want to be cool and just say "its like how you can be happy that you're about to have the shard of glass thats stuck in your foot pulled out", but instead im going to give you the infodump of your life about the history of the last century, and what the medical community versus what the trans community use that term to mean and how thats changing at a rapid pace.

“you can’t go viral on the fediverse”, says person who hasn’t posted a picture of a cat

In my work Slack someone just posted an article about The Katz Tapes, a huge collection of unedited musician interviews by Boston-based journalist Larry Katz recorded between 1980 and 2007, now housed at Northeastern University. Over 1,000 tapes! At a glance I see James Brown, David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Irma Thomas, Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Hal Blaine ... WOW!

The article: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/01/10/rock-star-interview-tapes/

The collection: https://thekatztapes.library.northeastern.edu/browse/

#musodon #MusicJournalism #interviews

Just thinking about how we had dozens of ideas for Twitterrific over the years that we didn't even try because we were worried they'd probably violate the Twitter TOS somehow and they'd ban us.

Instead, Twitter arbitrarily changed or redefined some rule that has yet to be identified (and might not even be published) and banned us anyway out of the blue.

They've still not said a word and I don't expect they ever will.

Here's a fantastic workshop opportunity for early career #Geoscience faculty members (I'd highly recommend it; feel free to DM me for questions): https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer2023/index.html

#EarlyCareer #EarthScience #Geosciences #Faculty #AskAcademia

Chance, choice, and the avocado – the strange evolutionary and creative history of Earth's most nutritious fruit https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/13/avocado/

I'm only a few followers away from my first 1000 followers on #Mastodon! 😯

Should I do something fun to celebrate once I do? Anyone got a wish?

#caturday #CatsOfMastododon

When the art breaks containment

Rare sunny day in #Vancouver. Gotta get out and smell the mosses.
#mosstodon

So to try to pull myself out of a sad moment this evening, I'm going to share what is probably my favorite tree photo that I've taken! 🌳

I'm even gonna tag #SilentSunday early because I can't always follow rules! I live on the edge (of the intersection of Boring and HoHum😆).

(Also, humblebrag, Henry Winkler told me this pic was beautiful on the birdsite last year, which was just so wonderful💘.)

#nature #trees #reflections #photography #amateurphotography

#PrinceValiant by #HalFoster #comicstrips #HistoricalFiction #comics 374

Periodic reminder that "queer is a slur" is TERF discourse, and the project of reclaiming the word "queer" was active back in the 1980s and 1990s, when I was a baby queer.

I submit as exhibit A this 1993 WIRED article mentioning Digital Queers:

https://www.wired.com/1993/04/digital-queers/

#queerhistory

There's an interesting new paper in the journal Ecological Economics. The title is:

"Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%"

This is from the abstract --

Unsustainable environmental degradation and extreme economic inequality are two of humanity's most pressing challenges. They are intimately linked. Climate-altering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are disproportionately driven by consumption among wealthy and socially privileged groups, yet poorer and socially marginalized peoples face disproportionate climate harms.
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What really grabbed me, however, was the chart below, created by Andrew Fanning using data contained in the paper. It clearly illustrates the massive scale of carbon inequality in our modern society.

#Inequality #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Went wandering in Monivea Woods today and came across an old ice house

#woods #walking #Galway #IceHouse

Meanwhile in Edinburgh

@ben @rysiek

Not good at self-promotion.

But if anybody cares, we make https://gofoss.net, a guide to adopting free and open source software, and using privacy-friendly services.