Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Toot Your Own Adventure?

How cool! :)

https://mastodon.ar.al/@toot_your_own_adventure@clar.ke

by @greg

#tootYourOwnAdventure #mastodon #game #bot #fediverse

Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠

Please keep sharing our fundraiser, which will either cover magazine expenses or go directly to severence for laid off TXO staff. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

A lot of people are asking about long term plans for the publication. ... (🧵 1/?)

#SaveTXO #journalism #nonprofit

Clay Mineral Crystal Structure Tied to Composition

This diagram illustrates how the dimensions of clay minerals' crystal structure are affected by which ions are present in the composition of the mineral. Different clay minerals were identified this way at two sites, 'Yellowknife Bay' and 'Murray Buttes'

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Instrument: Chemistry & Mineralogy (CheMin)
Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Tags: Mars
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21148
#astrodon

The @fsf stands as a beacon of hope in a world of technological tyranny. Let's forge a future where software serves humanity and freedom reigns supreme. Join the FSF in this glorious quest: https://www.fsf.org/

Denver Broncos 2023 list of opponents

https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2023/02/16/who-will-the-denver-broncos-play-against-in-2023-schedule/

Broncos Wire

#BroncosBuzz #no_mcc #no_yhv #no_pt #no_yh

Here’s the other thing. If someone vehemently disagrees with their server blocking journa.host, they can always migrate to another server—or start their own.

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

Hydrologist – Job Opportunity [USGS]
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https://www.usajobs.gov/job/715236800 <-- direct link to the USGS job posting, open to the public
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#job #jobdescription #jobalert #USGS #WSC #CWSC #watersciencecenter #federalgovernment #FederalService #USA #gischat #employment #employmentopportunity #employee #hydrology #water #fieldwork #jobposting #dataanalysis #travel #science #jobopportunity #vacancies #hydrologist
#USGS
[note that I can't supply any specific details beyond what is the listing]

The Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative is about to fire up a new "Quarterly Connections" webinar series beginning 5th April. Lots of interesting materials for those even outside the CP region.

Details and registration info are on: https://extension.usu.edu/iort/cp-darkskies/quarterly-connections

There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests
https://www.livescience.com/a-dark-big-bang-may-have-flooded-the-universe-with-invisible-matter-new-study-proposes?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Here's the thing. Do I understand why someone wants to transition? No.

Do I need to understand the need to transition to treat people who do want to do that as, you know, people? Also no.

Trans people are not a threat to my well-being and livelihood. Their methodology might differ from mine regarding how I achieve happiness and contentment, but I understand that need because they are *people.* Those of us that are not hateful, bitch ass bigots just want to be happy and care for our loved ones.

The rhetoric around trans people being a threat is a white supremacist lie that aims to make people conform to a particular ideology as violently as possible.

The threat is white supremacy itself, trying to take away people's agency for the sake of a myopic global view that wants to implement stratification as the 'natural order.'

The same rhetoric being deployed against trans people has been used against every group white people deem undesirable; Indigenous, Black folks, Jews, the Irish, etc.

The conversation is about something other than making sense, and it's about brutally dominating people, whether it makes sense or not.

So nah, I'm not going to engage with any piece of shit about how 'trans people are the problem.'

Because they are not. The hate against them is.

We don't talk enough about the absurdity of rich countries emitting lots of CO₂ and then asking poor countries to offset those emissions.

At the bench doing chemistry. Go back to the computer to check something and the computer is weirdly off and maybe in the process of restarting (the bench is next to my desk, no power flickers that I noticed). It's now sending a signal to my HDMI monitor and not to my VGA monitor (normally it defaults to the VGA for some mysterious reason). No idea why.
Don't you just love technology?

I am grading my students' exams and I'm trying my best hard to stay kind but OH MY GOSH some of these students have so clearly not heard a single word I've said all semester that it is really hard...