ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Teich im Wald gefunden
#MastoArt
#kleineKunstklasse

Just over 3 years ago, I moved to a farm where I can see the Milky Way from my back door. Despite being an astronomer, I've never had that kind of personal access to a dark sky before, and it totally changed my relationship with the sky.

I have always loved looking at the stars, but now I also feel a shared ownership of this natural resource with all of humanity, past, present, and future. This is my sky! Our sky! Our human history!

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As Twitter suspends city services running on its infrastructure, maybe the question we should ask is "Why did we trust our services to privately owned platforms in the first place?" Excellent piece by @sarasholder@twitter.com of Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/despite-chaos-cities-are-sticking-with-twitter?sref=ndQeXqOs

#introduction
I'm Bradley.

I'm the Lead Hardware Engineer at Conservify, where we design and build open source scientific instruments. Before that I had a diverse career including graphic design and twelve years building and restoring pipe organs.

Outside of work, writing, music, scale modeling, software, PEVs, and renovating our old Victorian house take up a lot of my attention lately.

I'm generally skeptical of cynicism and nostalgia.

I'm teenage dial-up BBS SYSOP years old.

Seeing Eye to Eye

These are two female White Storks that live together at Tulsa Zoo, sharing a bowl of food

#storks #WhiteStorks #ZooPhotography

Oracle, how can I live forever?
Be difficult to forget.
How?
Should I create art?
Should I be famous?
Or powerful?
You should be kind.
Written by James Miller of @asmallfiction
Illustrated by @oatmeal

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

#SilentSunday

Something I did that I liked.

Elk is a new third party web interface for #Mastodon. It's still in alpha testing, which means it's not yet ready for prime time, but it seems to be making good progress.

If you want to have a look or find out more, the official Elk website is at:

➡️ https://elk.zone

You can follow them for news about the project at:

➡️ @elk

It's free and open source, the source code is at https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

Testing out packaging for sending little frog friends!

(If you are interested in having a frog of your own please send me a message!)

@knitting #knitting #KnittedFrog #knit #IMadeThisFrog #SmallBusiness #DotPebblesFrog #froggy #fibrearts #crafting #crafts

💥Here. It. Is. The unsealed deposition of Donald J. Trump in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit(s)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.16.2.pdf

Hi all. Joined today. Hoping for some pleasant conversations on almost anything. I’m retired (but not THAT old) and have three grown kids. Grew up in AB, but have lived in T.O. For Ever, so @flames and @leafs fan (sorry @mike ). Love cooking, writing, reading, golf, outdoor life, good quotes and bad jokes. Trying to be fit too. Got a lot going on. Hoping to have some fun here. #introduction

Part of my #writing process is sometimes…. not writing at all. To explore where compelled, no critique, just movement. To give my mind a break. Movement as a meditation of sorts. To feel first and let thoughts melt into something more timeless.

#books #nonfiction #WritingCommunity #nature #journalism #wildlife #bookstodon #outdoors #author

The biggest lie the US public ever bought into about public transportation - busses, subways, trains, is that should be a profitable service. They're not a profitable service, they're public infrastructure.

Aside from toll roads (which are a regressive tax on the poor and should be eliminated), we don't expect our roads or sidewalks to earn a profit. They're simply a utility that is granted to the public because you live there.

The roads don't close at 2AM just because not enough people drive on them for them to turn a profit, they're there 24x7x365 for people to be able to get from point A to point B no matter when they need to go there. When I buy a house on a road, I don't have to worry that some future administration will decide to tear up that road in front of my house and leave me with no way to get to work. It's simply part of our social contract that you can get to every location in town via a road and a car.

Why can we not offer the public the same for mass transit? Define an area of the city that is a Guaranteed Free Public Transportation zone. Every home and place of business within that zone is guaranteed to have public transportation service 24x7x365 to every other place within that zone. where you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, and you won't have to transfer more than 2 times.

Sure, maybe you say "After midnight, the busses don't run, but the city will pay for your taxis, because it's more efficient to run a fleet of taxis than to operate busses", but you've maintained that public infrastructure commitment.

#publictransit #masstransit

NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You

A New York Times op-ed demonizes freedom from corporate and government surveillance as a dangerous plot by unnamed “technologists.”

https://fair.org/home/nyt-worries-big-brother-is-not-watching-you/

#NewYorkTimes #Surveillance

I can happily scramble up & down cliffs & walk along rim rock all day long in places like Utah's canyon country, but when it comes to human made objects such as bridges, tall buildings, & dams I get vertigo. The only way I could hangover the edge of Boulder Dam for this photo was by keeping my eye glued to the viewfinder. Somehow, looking at the tiny OLED in the viewfinder separates me from the reality.

#Nevada #Dam #HooverDam #ColoradoRiver #LakeMead #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable

Rainy morning.
🇺🇲 Famous Bourbon street.
New Orleans.
Louisiana.
USA

Antoinette's mind always drifted as she worked in the attic. Sitting before the bits of scrap metal left behind by her late father, her hands would start to explore. Before long her mind was off on an elaborate daydream. Often she felt she was in a different world, another body, only vaguely aware what her hands were doing. She knew, or she thought, those hands were wielding a sort of transmutation. A sort of Magic.
When she regained herself a new part had been added to the device.
It was fun!