Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

#introduction
Hello everybody!
This is a rock, not a slice of cheesecake.
Red agate and White Opal with Botryoidal Chalcedony
This specimen from Central Nevada
Credit: Chelsea Thompson
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature

My daughter’s 11 grade lit class is reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale right now. We were discussing how it is a dystopian book that has parallels to current events. She said her classmates were comparing the things happening today compared to the book as well. Thank goodness WA state education authorities are still allowing them to read and openly discuss this important topic. #Bookbans #Books

From WhatsApp to Signal, the #OnlineSafetyBill is being called out for the threat it poses to our privacy.

Tucked inside the Bill is a spy clause. It places a bug on your apps to snoop on your messages.

Please donate to take our message to the streets.

#surevillance #ukpolitics

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stop-state-mandated-surveillance-in-the-uk#/

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but you don't owe anyone on the internet your real name or a profile image that's a real photo of you.

@lps @killyourfm @zleap and just because @lps didn't clearly mention it, they have peertube in their list of applications.
yunohost.org/de/app_peertube

And here for RaspberryPi:
yunohost.org/en/install/hardwa…

Also make sure to install Peertube on its own subdomain or domain, one that you own.

"English students spend a fortune to go to university. Shouldn’t that buy them more teaching and less partying?"

- aka -

Tell me you didn't do a STEM course without telling me you didn't do a STEM course.

#University #academia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/english-students-spend-a-fortune-to-go-to-university-shouldnt-that-buy-them-more-teaching-and-less-partying?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

​​ International trans day of visibility is tomorrow. What will you do to be visible?

I'll be wearing a pink high-visibility vest to an event in going to (no joke). I have to be visible. ​​

The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

"An exhaustive anarchist overview and guide to various apps and tech that utilize peer-to-peer and encryption.

Shhhhh
This is a discussion about digital tools for communicating securely and privately. To begin, it must be stressed that a face-to-face meeting, out of sight of cameras and out of earshot from other people and devices, is the most secure way to communicate. Anarchists were going for walks to chat long before encrypted texting existed, and they should still do so now, whenever possible."

Download and Print PDF Version from @igd_news
For Reading online
https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/petguide_read.pdf
For Printing
https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/petguide_imposed.pdf

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/26/the-guide-to-peer-to-peer-encryption-and-tor-new-communication-infrastructure-for-anarchists/

#Surveillance #Metadata #Datasecurity #Datenschutz #activism #antireport #support

Left: the Nebra Sky Disc, a Bronze Age find that might be the oldest known depiction of the cosmos. It features the sun, moon, and perhaps the Pleiades.

Right: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

#Stars #Astronomy

(14 hr ago) ATel 15964: New short-time radio and X-ray flare from GRS1915+105... https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=15964

#ATel #Astronomy #research #academia

I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.

It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt

Love mastodon but do have a pet peeve. So many people post photos and info without including where in the world they are or where the photos were taken. This is truly a global community. It's helpful to know where in the world you are.

“Given the state of affairs, especially in #Texas, which is sort of at the right-wing vanguard, there’s never been a more urgent need for The Texas Observer,” @gabrielarana, our Editor in Chief, told the #nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/texas-observer-closing.html

Our emergency fundraiser, $277k and counting ... https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #journalism

This Instagram post is from the Congressman whose district includes the Nashville school where six people were killed this week in a mass shooting, @AndyOgles@twitter.com

I don’t want to hear thoughts and prayers. I don’t want to hear Republicans discussing their freedom and their fraudulent rejection of a well-regulated militia. At this point, anything other than banning assault rifles is condoning mass murder.