Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

What if people looked up to nice humans not assholes? What if we valued being a good person?🤔

#indigenous

Forgot to share this here, but 6 August is the anniversary of the discover of #Pulsars by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

She was looking through the roll of data from the telescope she helped build and noticed a little bit of ‘scruff’.

Her discovery changed our understanding of the Universe but sadly her male supervisor took credit and got the Nobel prize for it!

Read more: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-years-pulsar-science

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #SpaceAustralia

Christianity does not have the right to decide for everyone else what is acceptable clothing, social or sexual relationships, culture, beliefs, or lifestyle.

Christianity only has the right to tell their own cult members what to do or not do.

Legislating religious beliefs is unconstitutional, period.

Legislating christian religious beliefs about abortion, lgbtq, women's rights, or anything else is a violation of *my* 1st amendment right to freedom of religious practice.

It is also a violation of the UN Charter of Human Rights - especially prohibitions against forced pregnancy.

No theocracy in America.

#Abortion #FreedomOfReligion #WomensRights #NoTheocracy #TheNewInquisition

I love how my timeline is starting to get filled with people I follow and follow me, replying to each other.

The sense of community is strong with this one.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Trump announced in advance of the 2020 election that it would be rigged—because he was afraid he’d lose. Now he’s saying he can’t get a fair trial in D.C.—again because he’s afraid he’d lose. See the pattern?

Republican billionaires who had business before SCOTUS gave millions of dollars' worth of gifts directly to SCOTUS justices.

A nonprofit foundation in Mississippi invited Justice Sotomayor to speak to children in Mississippi, and bought some of her books to give to the kids. Justice Sotomayor wouldn't even allow the foundation to pay for her lunch.

Contrary to the Associated Press' both-sidesing, these things are not the same.

#USPol #SCOTUS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/07/sotomayor-book-festival-mississippi-ethics/

"The billionaires who push Trump and his lies through their publications, think-tanks, and media outlets do so because they believe if he’s re-elected, they’ll get even more tax breaks and that Trump will continue his efforts to gut the IRS and EPA, which they hate.

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #Republicans #crime #BigLie #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxBreaks #media

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-to-de-program-fox-watchers-on-2dd

So, looks like Zoom is going to use your calls to train its AI. (In other words, steal your data and transcripts of your calls, which may or may not include proprietary or sensitive information.) I like Whereby instead. https://whereby.com

@makkhorn As a contrast, do you remember, when Trump's name & signature was put (by Mnuchin) on taxpayer-funded Coronavirus stimulus checks, fraudulently insinuating he were in some unfathomable way the generous sponsor of low- & medium income American households?

You know, the kinda cult of personality for unsuspecting kindergartners.

https://time.com/5821097/donald-trump-signature-coronavirus-relief-checks/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters

If your argument against, is “it doesn’t solve all the problems (everywhere, all at once)” you are unserious and an obstruction to any meaningful change.

Floods in #Slovenia have been recognized as the most terrible natural disaster in the country's history

Material damage from the disaster is preliminary estimated at €500 million. Two-thirds of Slovenia suffered from floods and landslides, the country's government said. At…

https://canada.unofficialbird.com/nexta_tv/status/1688545914569302016#m

Until I moved from the dead bird site to Mastodon I never realized that I had so much pent up civility.

#Neolithic textile production: a charred skein of linen thread, dating around 3200 BC, from the pile dwelling settlement of Nußdorf-Maurach, Überlingen, Lake Constance. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition.

#archaeology

A reminder that the Detroit police department is still running hopelessly flawed facial recognition software against a mugshots built up over generations of racially biased policing.

They keep arresting the wrong people — and the victims are always Black.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

💙💛 The AFU took apart a downed Russian Tornado-S 300-mm guided missile and found that it was manufactured in February of 2023 with Chinese fabricated printed circuits.

#ukraine #ukrainewar #warinukraine