Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Quite striking that the UK Tory government less than five years ago published this paragraph, which sets out an unimpeachable case for gender recognition reform along the lines that the Scottish Parliament just passed, yet today stands apparently implacably opposed to it.

@CivicDutyPeg @Jaden2
Interesting historical note that ties in to Jaden's question about historical racism.

Back as recently as the 1970s, gun control was widely approved on the political left and right. The left approved because guns kill. The right approved because they associated crime with Black people, and regarded civilian guns as tools for crime (as well as hunting and target sports).

There was legislation that banned the least expensive handguns, nicknamed "Saturday night specials". I didn't understand it at the time, but it was meant to deny poor Black people guns.

Facing declining sales after the Vietnam War ended, the gun industry pushed a change of philosophy, however: people should respond to fear of crime by buying guns, not by keeping criminals from buying guns.

The right bought into their pitch, and their crowning success was the _Heller_ abomination.

(And yes, Russia helped the NRA.)

#UMPlus - Vela SNR
https://www.universomagico.net/2023/01/vela-snr.html
This image shows a spectacular view of the orange and pink clouds that make up the remains of a massive star after its explosive death, in the case of the Vela Supernova Remnant. It is located in the southern constellation of Vela and is located at a distance of about 800 light years from Earth. The explosion took place between 11,000 and 12,300 years ago and witnessed a pulsar called.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

“We had central heating and hot water. They didn’t always work that well but it was way more than what most people had — Americans were told that because of the advantageous English climate you didn’t need heating or refrigeration!”—Joan Steitz, RNA pioneer, discovered the spliceosome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_A._Steitz and here commenting on UK housing in the late 1960’s.

From “Ahead of the Curve” by Kathleen Weston, telling the history of the #MRCLMB
#science #academia #history #UK

Petition: Do not remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631529

The Galactic Milky way arches over the Aurora Australis and Akaroa lighthouse. The winding path and the light central, the arch in the sea, the slopes and curves and the light from tens of thousands of years ago in the sky. Every picture tells a story, this one is all about the night sky and the absolute joy it can bring

#Aotearoa #nz #Photography #Nature #naturephotography #LandscapePhotography #NewZealand #LongExposure #astro #astrophotography

Postdoctoral fellow in structural biology at Stanford – Gao Lab

Come join us at #Stanford as a structural biology postdoc! Position available in the Gao Lab using #cryoEM for novel microbial proteins

https://jobrxiv.org/job/stanford-university-biochemistry-department-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-structural-biology-at-stanford-gao-lab/?feed_id=34970

#ScienceJobs #job #St...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/stanford-university-biochemistry-department-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-structural-biology-at-stanford-gao-lab/?feed_id=34970

Do you love #selfhosting? What about providing service to the public via #Codeberg?

We are looking for maintainers that take on adding code search features to our #Forgejo instance to reduce the load on the existing infrastructure team and bring this project forward.

Please see https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904 if you are interested.

We are looking forward to your contributions. Thank you a lot!

"𝙴𝚕 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚘 𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚓𝚊𝚛 𝚕𝚊 𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚒ú𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚢ó 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚗 𝚎𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚓𝚘 𝚍𝚎 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎𝚌á𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘. 𝙳𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚕 𝚟𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚋𝚊 𝚕𝚊 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚒ó𝚗 𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚘𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚌í𝚊 𝚍ó𝚗𝚍𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚎𝚛í𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚒 𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚋𝚛𝚊 𝚍𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚊. ¡𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚘!"
@astro_duque (Pedro Duque)

[𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙾] (Eng)

"El Globus INK (1967) es una pieza notable del equipo de la nave espacial soviética. Su globo giratorio mostraba a los cosmonautas la posición de su nave espacial #Soyuz. Una computadora analógica electromecánica, usaba engranajes, levas y diferenciales para calcular la posición. 🧵👇 "

► https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1616849024656572416.html

"Globus utilizaba complejos trenes de engranajes accionados por solenoides para mover el globo.

El globo utiliza un ingenioso mecanismo para girar en dos dimensiones. La rotación a lo largo del eje de puntos traza la órbita de 51,8°."
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Más en:
'𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦'
► https://web.mit.edu/slava/space/essays/essay-tiapchenko4.htm

#Tecnología #Technology #PedroDuque #ESA #NASA #Ciencia #Science

I've started working on Mastodon when I was 23, and now I'm 30

The European Gregorian New Year is too close to Christmas so I propose we embrace East Asia's New Year instead

Happy Lunar New Year Everyone 😀

Kitty Loaf anyone? #cats

@vaweisman @Jaden2 Here's another memory: House hunting with my parents in Orange County circa 1970 (years after federal and state civil rights laws were enacted), I remember a real estate agent matter-of-factly describing all the various tricks and lies he used to keep Black people from moving into white neighborhoods.

Mrs Ying Hsi Yuan #Chinese #CivilEngineer trained #Peiping 1930s, worked in bridge design in #China before UK postgrad degree @livuni engineering in 1940s. Attended @womensengsoc 1944 conference & joined organisation. Later worked in #architecture in #HongKong #LunarNewYear
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth⁠ #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

Data liberation is the act of reconquering data held hostage by big tech. By copying them, reprocessing them, and making them accessible through the #fediverse. This is aimed at breaking their monopoly, and is an example of adversarial #interoperability.

https://libr.events/concept/

I'm looking for help: we don't have a development team yet, but you can test a working prototype.

If anyone feel to contribute, in any capacity and skills, please reach out or spread the word!

It's official .... First-class Honours baby! 👩🏼‍🎓 #OpenUniversity #university #diploma #graduate #MatureStudent #science #STEM #WomenInScience

@angusm @pluralistic so in the physical world, fungi prevent the literal enshittification of everything. Where are the fungi of techno-finance?

"I’m tired of my identity being used as a political football. While the bill will have no effect on most of the population, it will make the lives of trans people like me that little bit easier."

Me in today's Sunday Times.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/965b7f60-9914-11ed-ae85-8165ffa85053?shareToken=f4592c00706c7f1d398f77d17ccdbcd6

You ever walk around for hours with your earbuds in, not listening to anything. You just forgot they were there and went on with your life?

Is that just me?