John Young @jsy1001@social.cleverlibre.org

Has anyone else ever discovered the #TimeMachine at #GenevaCornavin station? You step off a Swiss train in the 2020s, pass through an unassuming corridor, and then step onto a French train in the 1980s.
But seriously, the French Lyon to Geneva #TER service is awful. It's slow, infrequent, overcrowded and on ancient rolling stock. I imagine the air filtration is also non-existent given my partner and I both caught COVID in one 3 days ago. Another European #CrossBorderRail service left to rot...

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

And that anomaly is relative to the period 1981-2010, already affected by global warming! 🤯
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx/status/1608676351585980417

Looks like Gemini North will continue to be down until late March/early April 2023 https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106 The Gemini South mirror recoating is being pushed back until the North is back on-sky #astrodon https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106

When you're a civil engineer but you always wanted to be a network engineer.

@epixoip Absolutely. In my latest blog post I take apart their public statement and show how many issues have been known and ignored for a long time. And #LastPass continues to ignore and downplay them even now, when they’ve put people at risk. It isn’t only the breach, it’s also the long standing and continuing negligence.

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

A tale of two presidents.

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣

I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.

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- Pet-friendly
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If I hear one more person wittering on about "efficiency savings" in the #NHS I'm going to scream. The NHS has been pared to the bone in the name of efficiency savings and it does not work because you can't predict exactly when or how people are going to need the service.

I don't want the NHS to be efficient. I want it to have the capacity to deal with whatever gets thrown at it. I WANT there to be empty beds, because that means there's nobody waiting for a bed. I WANT Doctors to spend a certain amount of their day twiddling their thumbs, because that means people aren't stuck waiting in pain and desperation.

Am i weird?

Beautiful timelapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. ©JAXA/NHK

#moon #earth #japan #timelapse

If you are interested by those #photometeor, here is an amazing #picture of the #Sun with so many of them, as annotated on the second picture.

They are the result of #Sun's reflections and refractions into tiny ice crystals (in clouds or fog) of various shapes, which act as mirrors or prisms.

source: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/12/michael-schneider-ice-halo-photograph/

credits: Michael Schneider

#photography #Halo

I suppose it’s the nature of the beast, but mathstodon.xyz seems to be dominated by people on the Pure end of mathematics. If you’re working in #AppliedMathematics or #Physics — give me a shout so that I can follow you!

Boosts for reach would be very much appreciated.

Over the years I've been lucky - have barely used the #NHS. But I was always grateful it was there, should I need it.

I had a hospital appt this afternoon. The nurses and doctors were wonderful; the process was efficient; the care was first rate.

I'm fine, and all is good.

But it seems our govt wants to destroy this incredible service. As I left the hospital I counted 11 ambulances waiting in a road, unable to discharge patients. There were more ambulances waiting in another road. Shameful.

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

We are not doing enough efforts...

We just hit #record high in 2022 in terms of #CO2 emissions from #fossil fuels.

This curve should go to #zero 0️⃣ if we want the #Earth 🌍 to stay an #habitable #planet !

source: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-hit-record-high-in-2022

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Climate #sustainable #carbonfootprint

From how many stars formed in the Milky Way in the past, we can estimate that today's Milky Way contains about 100 million black holes [1,2 ⬇️]. Most of them we cannot detect.

Black holes in close binaries with normal stars - called X-ray binaries - are exciting, as we can observe their effects [3⬇️]. The #BlackHole draws matter from the companion. The stripped material spirals into the black hole, forming a hot accretion disc that emits observable X-rays.

#astrodon #astronomy #scicomm #sciart