hesgen @hesgen@social.cleverlibre.org

Someone criticized me for doing self-promotion. I'm sorry, but if I don't promote my Patreon then who will? George Takei? I don't think so. George seems like a great guy, but he is very busy saving democracy and verbally destroying wannabe fascists. It pains me to say it but George might not have time to promote my silly little facts.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Austrian merchant, amateur astronomer and selenographer Rudolf König died #OTD in 1927.

Such was his interest in astronomy that in 1906 he built a private observatory on top of his house in Vienna, equipping it with a double Zeiss astrograph with which he carried out many observations of the Moon. In 1912 he published a volume of illustrations of the Moon made by his deceased friend, the draftsman and selenographer Johann Nepomuk Krieger. via Soc. History of Astronomy

#science #astronomy

The world is hostage to petulant 20th Century men with unsatisfactory sex lives.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/29/dup-mulls-ending-of-power-sharing-boycott-in-northern-ireland

#UKpol #UKpolitics #Nl #DUP #Stormont

Just a reminder that there's not a binary "we're doomed"/"we're not doomed." Every single thing you and I do to use less energy makes the future less shitty. Don't give up hope.

Don't write back to me with all the reasons to give up on the future. If you give up on making the future better, you are part of the problem.

Tell me something you're doing right now to make the future better, even if it's something small!

The Nitter project, a privacy-oriented X/Twitter front-end, has been discontinued by its owner. The decision is linked to X/Twitter's move to disable the creation of guest accounts, on which Nitter was heavily relying.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/1/privacy-oriented-x-front-end-nitter-is-shutting-down-following-changes-to-guest-accounts/

Ruth Buzzi ❤️

In what can only be seen as Alphabet's blatant refusal to obey EU law, it was announced over the weekend that they would introduce Bard to Android Messages App and intercept all messages (past and future) for the purpose of training it - in breach of EU's rules on interception of communications under Article 5(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC.

To make it worse Alphabet know this is illegal after they were caught intercepting WiFi communications in 2010 with their Streetview cars.

#privacy

As an OU alumnus who signed the original petition for it to disassociate from the Gender Critics club, I’m disappointed by the complete capitulation of the university in the Jo Phoenix empioyment tribunal case. The tribunal appears to have expected the OU to reprimand me and other signatories for contributing to her harassment.

Yesterday, taking advantage of dry and mild conditions, I replenished the feeders in my back garden, raked up the leaves that had fallen in November and trimmed down the dried stalks of died-back plants. As I was doing this I heard the bird calls go up and realised I was being observed. I swear they were passing the news. I made sure to leave leaves and dried grasses/stalks behind so that, as soon as I went inside, the local feathered population descended for food and nest repairs.