Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

These irritating white males….
We don’t want these black women to look too powerful, do we?

https://therecount.com/watch/chris-christie-calls-fani-willis/2645891704

Greetings upon all who see this message! eva here, admin of BlackQueerLife.

A little over a month ago, when I started this server, a number of people were asking me if they could donate to help pay for server costs. To those who were curious: you now can! We have an account with Open Collective where you can make tax-deductible donations on a recurring or one-time basis. This would allow us to cover server costs, pay to have mods so it's not just me running the place, have a translate button, upgrade the server, etc.

The link is: https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife

I wish we had been able to come out with this right away rather than waiting several weeks, but I chose Open Collective because I have seen multiple orgs online and off blow up due to lack of transparency where funds are involved. Open Collective allows transparency and openness about how and why funds are spent. I think taking the extra time is worth what we've gotten.

I have always said that I want to run BlackQueerLife the right way, and I think Open Collective is the best way forward for us. Any boosts and/or donations would be thoroughly appreciated!

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe

@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ

She makes a great few points, no? So I have to ask: What the hell is wrong with half the voters?

Michigan State students discover traces of school's first observatory built in 1881
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193711244/michigan-state-students-discover-traces-of-schools-first-observatory-built-in-18?utm_source=DamnInteresting

New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ @jeremybmerrill

One small bit of good news from the tragic wildfires on Maui: A center housing critically endangered native Hawaiian birds was spared thanks to the swift action of a staff member. #ornithology https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/climate/birds-fire-hawaii.html

@GreenFire

FWIW, my Threads feed is doing this -- but sadly to the point that it's boring?

Kenneth Gatland (later president of the British Interplanetary Society) on the BBC's Panorama program in January 1959. He's showing off a model of Project MIGRANT (Moon Instrumented Guided Rocket and Notifying Transmitter), an automated soft lander mooted for a Moon mission.

#space #1950s #moon

Alfred Hitchcock’s Strict Rules for Watching Psycho in Theaters (1960)

https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/alfred-hitchcocks-strict-rules-for-watching-psycho-in-theaters-1960.html

Underappreciated #Oppenheimer trivia: One of the few elements of Los Alamos culture that got mentioned was a "ranch school." Among the kids who went there for summer camp before the bomb was built was William Burroughs, future author of "Naked Lunch" and other dystopian novels.

Above all it’s sad that people are still supporting a platform like this in the name of ‘community’. Let’s call it like it is - you need the validation. For those who say they stay to fight, you are fighting nothing. Deleting your account is the biggest impact you can make towards not tolerating hate.

W @BBCRadioUlster:

"This didn't just take place in #Georgia. It took place in other states like Wisconsin, and it took place at the federal level.

This isn't a question of being pro- or anti-#Trump. What we saw by Jan. 6, 2021 was an attempt to throw out the Constitution"

Today in 1969, 54 years ago: in the town of Bethel (United States) begins the Woodstock festival, which with an influx of between 400-500 thousand spectators became a milestone for contemporary culture.

#OnThisDay

A lot of the #ClimateCrisis news I see is quite depressing, but this seems like some good news worth sharing:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003698

"Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on croplands is a promising negative emissions concept that accelerates natural weathering by amending soils with crushed rock. Our simulations of ERW with a fixed rate of 10 tons of basalt dust per hectare on all global croplands suggest ERW can sequester >200 gigatons of CO2 over a 75-year period. "