Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm pretty pissed that I have to leave my home, my state, my community, my family, my land- because fucked up politicians want to punch down at #transkids. I hope we like New Mexico. *sigh*

Moving with 5 months notice, out of state, when I've lived in the Austin area for the last 25 years? Yeah, I'm pissed.

This brings up the issue of screen readers, as long lists of repetitive hashtags make life difficult for blind people who rely on screen readers to read posts out loud.

This issue can be reduced by putting all the hashtags in a list at the end of the post, with a "Hashtag list" warning before the list.

However, this still isn't perfect, and the current system of tagging has many other issues too.

I've tried to suggest a possible solution here:

➡️ https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24445

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Previously unknown isotope of uranium discovered
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-previously-unknown-isotope-uranium.html?utm_source=DamnInteresting

How far we've come in the last 50 years!

Back in 1972, a team at JPL spent days pasting together photographs taken by Mariner 9 by hand to create a 4-foot globe of Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/technology-then-and-now

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#NASAhistory

Let’s talk about Uranus … the planet 😉

In this new #JWST image of the ice giant, we see Uranus shining in reflected near-infrared sunlight.

We can see 11 of the known 13 rings (although some are so bright they blend together in the image). We also see at least 6 of the planet’s 27 known moons.

Learn more: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-117

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#Astrodon #astronomy #space

Happy Ramadan to my Muslim friends 🌙

Happy Passover to my Jewish friends ✡️

Happy Easter to my Christian friends 🐣

Happy Vaisakhi to my Sikh friends ❤️

Happy Hanuman Jayanti to my Hindu friends 🌝

Happy Mahavir Jayanti to my Jain friends ☮️

Happy Days to my secular friends 😊

Much love to my friends of all of all faiths and no faith. Pass it on!

The number of new registrations on Mastodon.world has been a bit higher the last few days, above 200 per day.

We have now passed the 160.000 registered accounts.

Also, for the first time since the November user-inflow, the number of Monthly Active Users has gone up, now around 35.500

Welcome everyone! 👋

Excellent video on "What is the Frame Rate of the Human Eye?"

(Spoiler: Whatever number you're thinking right now, you're wrong. The answer is none.)

Also has some receipts to back up that claim. I feel like this is important watching for anyone interested in film or displays.

https://youtu.be/quWecp4vU2g

I'm not sure you heard of this:

Barroso is a region in northern Portugal, classified as world heritage for agriculture by the FAO - United Nations, one of the few lef in Europe where sustainable farming practices are still the rule.

A canadian/english mining company now wants to destroy it, by opening the largest open air lithium mine in Europe. This will feed German and French electric car production, with a so called value chain crossing all Europe, up to the swedish regions where another war is ongoing, against ore mining and car batter factories.

They have been called lithium wars, and resistance is heating up.

We currently are waiting for the 31 of May, when the Environmental Agency from the government will make a final decision on the Mine, and unfortunately, a YES-GO is expected. There will be resistance!

I've covered it for the BBC Radio 4's The Scramble for Rare Earths “The Hidden Paradox”

(altough the BBC is not exactly on our side)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cdt6

There is also this awesome doc by my friend, done after the Zapatistas were in Barroso:

https://videos.coletivos.org/w/j3RNVPrC8NfKQSpq32A7RP

If you like documentaries, and understand Portguese, go listen to my audio documentary:

https://archive.org/details/enterro-da-mineracao-pt

This video is about a resistance climate kamp "In defense of Barroso", against the biggest lithium open pit mine of Europe planned to the north of portugal. Yes to LIFE. No to MINES.

you can follow @barrososemminas or @rcinfo for regular updates on the lithium wars in Barroso.

Altough we know that historically Europe has been guilty in the exploitation of the worlds resources, it now is turning inside, selling it's own peasants and native peoples to the trans-nacional buisnesses. This in no way can be confused with historical reparations, as we do not wish to impose the brunt of the so-called green transition on any people's or ecossistems. The only option is Degrowth and the end of consumerism and extractivism, not Green Capitalism and electric cars. This just helps the fossil and gas economies to trhive, by on the one hand, not offering a real solution, and on the other, trying to create a mentality which says that opposition to green capitalism is reactionary.

If Apple won't abide by EU market rules, they should be banned. It is that simple.
https://www.t3.com/news/apple-is-trolling-the-eu-over-usb-c-on-the-iphone-15-again

I have always been fascinated by the Apollo 8 mission. Sure, humanity on the moon is cool, but imaging going there and around… that far… for the first time. What a story!

“We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.”

— William A. Anders, Apollo 8

Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth.[1][2][3] These three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

#nasa #artemis #apollo #space #photography #history #science #astronomy

Tonight is the first full moon of spring in the northern hemisphere! Pink flowers coming into bloom lend their name to this full moon.

Full moons occur when the Moon is opposite the Sun in its orbit around Earth and its nearside is fully illuminated.
https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/moon-phases/
#NASAMoon

Debian Presentation updated https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/debian-presentation-updated

@zleap It's not an either or situation, you can do both. Just like with #JustStopOil or #BLM actions can be taken on many fronts: through political activism, education efforts and destroying monuments.

The situation is further complicated in Poland due to the role Church played during the communist era and current political considerations (like the abortion ban and the upcoming elections in the fall).

This news story gives more context: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/poland-marches-defend-john-paul-ii-abuse-cover-98300209

Even if you're a hardened scientist, I found this magazine absolutely brilliant and informative. Typically available free of charge via your (UK) local library periodicals app; contact them for details.

https://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog

#science #libraries #magazine

22 years after publication of the human genome, we're still counting the genes. Nice overview by Amaral et al:
The status of the human gene catalogue https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13996v1 #Genomics #bioinformatics

@Mrfunkedude Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. -Winston Churchill

For many people, reproductive rights feel like a non-issue because they would never think about having an abortion. But even if you are actively trying to expand your family, abortion bans passed by Republican-dominated legislatures across the country could affect you and your family.

That is because the reach of these invasive, oppressive laws goes far beyond abortion. We explore why that is today in The Big Picture: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/strict-abortion-laws-affect-miscarriage