Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Here’s a picture of completely empty bookshelves in a Florida classroom after DeSantis ordered teachers to remove all books or else face felony charges

Imagine being a chuklefuck Republican and thinking this is a win.

Male Blackbird out at the floodplains this morning

#nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #naturecommunity #birdphotography

Too many people still don't know Cop City— an attempt to cut down an Atlanta greenspace and neighbourhood food forest to build a COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY urban warfare training facility— is happening, let alone that APD has tear-gassed and even killed people protesting against them.

They claim that the protestor they killed shot at them first, but somehow, miraculously, only have video of the after-action, not the incident itself.

Y'know, back in 2014 many of us believed the proliferation of body cameras for cops would mean real oversight and accountability. Within months it became clear that the cameras would mean nothing, and not JUST because the cops themselves would oversee the footage rather than a 3rd party.

No, we realised then, and have had it proven time and time again, that bodycams don't mean shit for accountability, because no matter how much police negligence and malfeasance the videos show, LARGE SWATHES of the public and the media will go out of their way to excuse COPS' behaviour, and blame the victims for their own deaths. Especially if those victims aren't white.

Anyway. Check the tag #StopCopCity on some other platforms.

January 28 is Data Privacy Day. It is celebrated across several countries across the world to raise awareness about and promote the importance of protecting your data online.

Data privacy is our top priority at ownCloud. More details here: https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-data-security-measures/

#dataprivacy

Libraries are just amazing.

I’m on the other side of the world in a lovely public library in Australia & spotted a book I co-wrote 14 years ago. And no matter where you are, librarians are always the kindest, most helpful people you’ll find. Still, somehow, this magical system of exchanging #books & sharing ideas is entirely free.

A beautiful blue sunset on Lake Hancock in Winter Garden, Florida

SEE IT HERE: https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/blue-sunset-2-pamela-williams.html

#sunset #florida #blue #evening #peaceful #tranquil #serene #quiet #silence #AYearForArt #GiveArtNotCandy #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtMatters #SharePamsArt #Art #Smile #mentalhealthmatters

The amazing village of Pennan, set on a shelf below north-facing cliffs on the north Aberdeenshire coast and still famous for its role in the 1983 film Local Hero. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/index.html

#Scotland #Pennan #Aberdeenshire #LocalHero #Sea #UndiscoveredScotland

"Using a novel multi-cell type, human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived lung organoid (LO) system, validated against primary lung cells, we found that inflammatory cytokine/chemokine production and #interferon (IFN) responses are dynamically regulated autonomously within the lung following #SARSCoV2 infection, an intrinsic defense mechanism mediated by surfactant proteins"

#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.26.525578v1

The lost history of Tynemouth's Holocaust safe house for girls
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-64289299?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Learn to believe victims when there is no video

Decades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...

Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2356643-we-can-reduce-homelessness-if-we-follow-the-science-on-what-works/

Kids nowadays are instructed to build eco friendly and sustainable birdhouses, while we had to build ashtrays for our parents.

On this day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Today, the world marks International #HolocaustRemembranceDay.

We can say “never again” all we want, but only constant effort to defend universal human rights has a chance of making that ambition a reality.

One of my favourite US national parks is Death Valley. To my knowledge, it holds the record for the hottest place in North America, and I chose to go there one July - probably the hottest month of the year. Here's a panoramic shot of Dante's View.

#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #DeathValley #California #Nature #NaturePhotography #NationalPark

https://john-twynam.pixels.com/featured/dantes-view-panoramic-in-death-valley-california-john-twynam.html

Science is hard and there's a lot of bullshit and nonsense to fight through, but nothing beats those moments when you write another researcher and ask them "Heard of this thing? I want to know about it, actually HAVE to know about it, have you studied it?" And they're like "dude I KNOW, how weird is that, let's study it" and suddenly you got a collab goin

During the #Holocaust, a team of Jewish researchers in the Warsaw Ghetto documented the grim effects of starvation on the human body even as they themselves starved.

"They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something similar from ever happening again."

Hear more from the researcher who found the book in the library, in our #podcast: https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/107c5a4291d53c4969264fb901f0215ff947c7b8/view #history

I'm about an hour away from posting my first article on Mastodon, which I think that folks here will like. Stay tuned. I'll put a link up as soon as it's live.

Okay @bookstodon I'm re-starting this #poll to correct a big mistake I made with the original... I'd forgotten that you can make a poll multiple choice. This should make for more interesting and accurate stats.

Please #boost this poll so we can get more participants and more accurate responses.

So, the question is: which format(s) do you prefer.

Also - please don't argue that one is superior to the others. This isn't a poll for snobbery. #books #reading #writing