Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

“Given the state of affairs, especially in #Texas, which is sort of at the right-wing vanguard, there’s never been a more urgent need for The Texas Observer,” @gabrielarana, our Editor in Chief, told the #nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/texas-observer-closing.html

Our emergency fundraiser, $277k and counting ... https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #journalism

This Instagram post is from the Congressman whose district includes the Nashville school where six people were killed this week in a mass shooting, @AndyOgles@twitter.com

I don’t want to hear thoughts and prayers. I don’t want to hear Republicans discussing their freedom and their fraudulent rejection of a well-regulated militia. At this point, anything other than banning assault rifles is condoning mass murder.

GnuCash 5.0 Released With New Stock Transaction Assistant https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/gnucash-5-0-release/

A source of new Fediverse accounts is dev.brighteon.social.

46,862 were discovered during the past day.

Brighteon is known for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories all over Facebook and Twitter, and it looks like they’re trying their hand at the Fediverse now.

I’ve looked at the accounts on that server, and the overwhelming majority look like bots. The goal seems to be spamming misinformation.

Personally, I recommend putting brighteon.com on #Fediblock.

https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/110107223841240128

We've known there are volcanoes on Venus for a long time. What we haven't known is whether there are active volcanoes...until now.

Scientists may have discovered volcanic activity on Venus in archival images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwv5Ba13bPE

#space #science

This diagram illustrates how the BOAT gamma-ray burst cut through our galaxy. It literally gave us an x-ray image of how the Milky Way is put together. #GammaRayBurst #NASA

Astronomers are calling the October 9 gamma-ray burst the BOAT (brightest of all time) because...just look at how brilliant it was compared to the others. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14317 #NASA #BOAT

@zleap @killyourfm For anyone that is interested #yunohost is essentially that.

https://yunohost.org/#/

A headless Debian ISO that can be installed on an old PC, Raspberry Pi, or VPS which even dummies like me could figure out;) They even provide you with a free subdomain!

Once installed, if you're hosting at home, you just need to open a few ports, and you're good to go:)

It acts as a base platform for a whole host of one click apps, but the library is truly staggering in its size.

@killyourfm @zleap WHAT!!!! That was amazingly fast, ha ha!

@zleap because it’s a bill passed by the republican house. It’s not a law.

Whale eye? 😉
Ultramassive black hole discovered by UK astronomers
Durham University scientists say black hole about 30 billion times the mass of the Sun is first to be found with gravitational lensing
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/29/ultramassive-black-hole-astronomers-durham-university
#science #astronomy #BlackHole

@killyourfm What we really need to happen for #peertube is affordable hosted options, so they can be easier to set up and maintained by a community, much like #mastodon instances are becoming right now.

Or, if you prefer, treat a peertube instance like a personal space/website where users host their own content and simply federate with trusted instances to create hubs.

My 2 cents

Florida Republicans are about to strip the few meeting rights from trans citizens

HB 1421
• allows children to be kidnapped by the state
• suspends medical licenses and allows the arrest of medical professionals if they provide gender affirming care
• prevents insurance providers from covering gender clinical intervention
• passes liabilities to any physician, helping minors or adults get care

The GOP stands for nothing but cruelty

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1421

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the sub-par state of Arkansas plan to file 3 lawsuits against TikTok and Meta

The lawsuits fall under Arkansas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act which makes it illegal for companies to engage in false or deceptive business practices

So next up…Fox News right?

BREAKING NEWS! Exciting new genetic analysis of 356 hunter gatherers who lived between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago across Eurasia published today at 16.00 in the journal Nature by @MPI-EVA Leipzig @PKU1898 @Senckenberg @Harvatilab_tue https://bit.ly/3IISQeQ

Image by Michelle O'Reilly and Laurent Klaric, inspired by the original work by Benoit Clarys

We can likely expect an influx of #Twitter refugees over the next three weeks given the coming changes to the site.

Remember that this place can be disorienting for new users. If you see anyone asking for help, reach out and help or provide resources!

If you are a newcomers: come on in, grab and a blanket, and make yourself at home. Consider an #introduction post about yourself with hashtags that interest you! Looking for #help? Just ask! There are plenty of people here willing to assist.

There it is, folks.

Republicans already passed a NATIONAL bill to target transgender youth

Lauren Boebert added an amendment to forcibly out students to their parents

Your reminder the books the Nazis were burning in May 6, 1933? They were transgender studies materials from the Institute of Sexology

If we don’t stand for trans citizens now then who will stand for us when it’s our turn?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5/text

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Me and a few other climate folks on Twitter have noticed a very clear new prominence of climate deniers and delayers

So with some help, I gathered up some data and checked - it turns out that denial/delay, pro-fossil disinformation accounts have seen massive growth in their audience, while pro-climate-action accounts have either stagnated or shrunk.

Elon Musk is reshaping Twitter into a safe space for right-wingers, and in doing so, empowering climate change deniers, delayers and pro-fossil advocates more than ever before.

New post:

https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/

I still have an open position for a 3 year postdoc in Berlin. If you’ve got grazing incidence X-ray scattering or diffraction experience and in-depth Python knowledge, please do not hesitate to apply! Lots of freedom, all the toys!

https://www.bam.de/umantis/EN/1523.html