Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment
https://gizmodo.com/hackers-control-government-owned-satellite-test-esa-1850383452?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Are you ready for a spacewalk?

Astronauts Steve Bowen and @Astro_Alneyadi will step out of the @Space_Station around 9:15am ET (1315 UTC) on Friday, April 28 to prepare for upcoming power upgrades. Coverage starts here and on NASA TV at 7:45am (1145 UTC): https://go.nasa.gov/40Iopww
#NASA

Twitter is dying, but my advocacy work helping trans people raise money via fundraisers depends on my five years of work I've spent writing on Twitter, so I need help.

If you're a trans person who needs help raising money for any reason, reply to this toot with your fundraiser. I'll reach out.

If you're a cis person and you can, please boost this post so your trans followers can see it.

#trans #lgbt #signalboost #transgender

Lab-made lungs fast-track drug testing, can replace animal test subjects
https://newatlas.com/medical/lab-made-lungs-test-drugs-animal-testing/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

My #Robin friend Ribin this morning. His mate Rosy is on the nest and I helped him hunt for food to give to her this morning. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #UKBirding #UKBirds #Birdwatching #Bird #NatureCommunity #Spring

So much bad news, everyday, everywhere... does it lead you to despair? Or does it does it make you ANGRY? 🤬

I hope it's the latter, because anger might just be our best hope.

That's the message of this stirring opinion piece by Alec Connon...
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In the last twelve months, one-third of Pakistan has been submerged in flooding that killed thousands and displaced millions. Prolonged heat waves and drought have exacerbated a global food shortage that has raised the number of people living with food insecurity from 440 million to 1.6 billion. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a desperate warning of approaching climate cliffs, and fears have emerged of the impending collapse of oceanic currents critical to Earth’s climate system.

Given this context, the fact that *fewer* investors now support ending fossil fuel expansion should appall anyone paying attention. It’s a sign that our current economic system is fundamentally flawed, that it’s incapable of adapting to the demands of a heating planet, and that investors, the people and institutions at the very heart of our economic system, are incapable of thinking about anything other than the most short-term of profits.

I know this is the part of the article where I’m supposed to pivot to hope, to leave the reader feeling that there’s something they can do, an action they can take that will make a difference. But today, I’m finding solace not in hope, but in anger.

Anger is the rawest of emotions, an emotion uniquely capable of destruction ― destruction of both the self and broader society. But anger, properly channeled, is also one of the great motivating forces of social movements. In the face of injustice, we can and we must be angry. Not only is it okay to be angry at the institutions and people pushing us toward irreparable ecological breakdown, it’s essential.

Anger at the institutions hurtling us toward climate breakdown is not only okay and understandable. In the fight to rein in the climate crisis, it might just be our best hope.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

The former President of the United States, currently on trial for rape, is a helluva phrase.

Go, #GOPFamilyValues! #politics

Oh, one of the joys of Mastodon: seeing a post you’d written awhile ago, and more or less forgotten about, be discovered by a whole new cluster of people & subsequently undergo another wave of explosive amplification across their networks.

@georgetakei Thank you on behalf of my adult autistic friends. Thank you for boosting autistic voices.

Seems like a fair analysis to me from my side of the Atlantic

Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chemists-tackle-tough-recycling-plastics.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
#plastic #recycling #chemistry #science #technology

Some of us make too many excuses not to do something that is actually in your best interests.

Excuse 1: “Oh, the bill won’t pass anyway…”

Answer: THIS IS NOT THE POINT—YOU NEED TO LET THESE GOP’ERS KNOW YOU ARE VOTING THEM OUT! Use. Your. Power. VOTE.

#vote #voteblue #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #politics #usa #fascism