Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The NRA is losing members and money fast. Its future looks weak and uncertain, with its weak finances and competition from newer pro-gun groups.

https://theconversation.com/nras-path-to-recovery-from-financial-woes-leaves-the-gun-group-vulnerable-to-new-problems-201144

#NRA #Business #Nonprofits #Gunrights #Guncontrol

This map of Venus shows every volcano we know about on its surface
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367101-this-map-of-venus-shows-every-volcano-we-know-about-on-its-surface/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-dna-parasite-may-have-fragmented-our-genes-20230330/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

📬 Offline version (only) of The Linux Games Book is delivered (in Tellico file format) here:
http://www.lebottindesjeuxlinux.tuxfamily.org/en/offline/download/
📖️ Offline (Tellico is needed, GPL tool):
https://tellico-project.org/

🦺️ This is a first draft of the next revision, without updating the online boards. The idea is to maintain a regular publication, saving the preparation of a long online publication with changelog when its interest is limited.

🐧 https://watch.thekitty.zone/h7RcqRmBlIQ
🔖 #TheLinuxGamesBook #Linux #LinuxGaming #LinuxTool #Libre

How Disney just beat Ron DeSantis (Nicole Narea/Vox)

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/30/23663345/disney-desantis-florida-board-reedy-creek
http://www.memeorandum.com/230330/p94#a230330p94

Sometimes I have a hard time keeping it together.

I want to scream and rage and punch someone when I think of the way greed and corruption and lust for power are destroying the ecosystem, sending thousands upon thousands of plant and animal species into extinction, and condemning poor people in less "developed" countries to suffer and die as the climate spirals out of control. All for the sake of money and vanity.

I just don't know how to respond sometimes — especially when I read things like this...
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Record Heat Waves Push India Closer To Limit Of Human Survival

India, on course to becoming the world's most-populous country, risks approaching the limit of human survival as it experiences more intense and frequent heat waves.

The national weather office has forecast rising temperatures in the coming weeks after India experienced its hottest February since 1901. That's stoked concerns that there will be a repeat of last year's record heat wave, which caused widespread crop damage and triggered hours-long blackouts.

While temperatures as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) are unbearable in any condition, the damage is made worse for those of India's 1.4 billion population who are stuck in tightly packed cities and don't have access to well-ventilated housing or air-conditioning.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-pushed-closer-to-the-limit-of-human-survival-amid-record-heat-waves-3896899

All this was preventable. It did NOT have to happen.

It is the result of policy choices, of industries and governments cooperating to extract and burn fossil fuels, and of societies choosing not to value equality among their citizens and not to protect the commons.

So much suffering. So many deaths. And for what?

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #GlobalWarming #Anticapitalism

Both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times have confirmed they will not be paying for Twitter blue because "verification no longer establishes authority or credibility"

Mossy steps in Sampford Spiney’s churchyard today, western #Dartmoor. #Devon #photography #mosstadon

@bookstodon Today, my librarian told me about a good place to buy books online: Better World Books. Many of the books are library discards in very good condition. The shipping is free, and the proceeds go toward libraries, literacy programs (worldwide) and education. #books #bookstodon #library

https://BetterWorldBooks.com

A new #BlackHole? = 💚
A whole new family of black holes? = 🤩 😍 💯

And #ESA's #Gaia has done it!

We cannot see black holes directly (except with EHT) - we can usually only see their influence on their environment. For stellar mass black holes, it's mainly material that falls onto black holes from companion star and emits X-ray radiation.

But how to spot black holes that aren't super close to their companion star and thus are not accreting? 1/2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSEpd7sDqE

#Astrodon #astronomy

Just 4 more days until we meet the #Artemis II astronauts who will fly around the Moon! They'll be the first humans to see the Moon's cratered landscape up close in over 50 years.

Mark your calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mua1Lysc_JQ
#NASAMoon