Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.

The whole of our six-part adapation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.

#NeilGaiman #TerryPratchett #fantasy #drama #funny #GoodOmens
https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7

NEWS: Ron DeSantis *again* overturns the vote of the people, suspending an elected prosecutor. This time it's Monique Worrell, a Democrat who is the State Attorney for Orange & Osceola counties, which includes Orlando. https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EO-8.9.23.pdf

Fun fact: Ron Desantis crowd size last night in Iowa was 44.
Yes, 44 people. ☠️

@avhuffelen More Dutch government institutes have joined Mastodon today:

⛅The National Meteoreological Institute @knmi
🌊The National agency for Infrastructure and Watermanagement @rijkswaterstaat
🚗Traffic updates for the highways, also via Rijkswaterstaat @RWSverkeersinfo

Welcome to the fediverse to the Dutch national weather service and our collaborators in the #ACCORD and #UWC (+ multiple other projects) consortia @knmi

Now to have a word with my employers @dmidk ....

https://social.overheid.nl/@knmi/110859929608831047

So, 2 ways to create fascism:
1. Corrupt the voting system
-or if that fails-x
2. Just throw the elected out of office.

August 9 2023 -- very toasty in parts of #Europe, and in some regions, a lot of daily records look like they're falling

20C = 68F
25C = 77F
30C = 86F
35C = 95F
40C = 104F

#Climate #ClimateChange #wx

Just published in @Nature with @unaipasku et al: paper based on @ipbes #ValuesAssessment where we underline the need to shift social & institutional values away from emphasis on GDP growth & material accumulation to community-based, sustainability aligned values. Plus check out the fab new IPBES values typology!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06406-9

#Sustainability
#SustainabilityScience
#Biodiversity
#NatureEmergency
#GlobalBiodiversityFramework
#EcosystemServices
#ecologicalcrises
#ecologicaleconomics

ABC is exiting Twitter/X; meanwhile the BBC is firing up a Fediverse presence for several of its divisions …

It's almost like national-level broadcasters with a public service ethos and a reputation to lose don't want to pay for a dwindling number of eyeballs marinated in a toxic soup of disinformation and hatred?

Meta: Do not come here for news. We're proud of blocking news sharing on our site, because we care about our personal politics, and pushing the ideologies of our favored political parties.

X: Do not come here for news. We're proud of debasing, discrediting, and belittling legitimate news organizations at the beck and call of our favored International political parties, for not aligning with our owner's political ideologies.

News organizations: Won't leave corporate-owned social medai #cdnpoli

Senior Research Investigator -- Computational Biology

Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Come join us at the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory within the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn as a #bioinf...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/center-for-cytokine-storm-treatment-and-laboratory-perelman-school-of-medicine-university-of-pennsylvania-27778-senior-research-investigator-computational-biology/?feed_id=54401

Explore ~14 billion years of time in this fascinating graphical summary of events from the Big Bang to the present day by talented artist Pablo Carlos Budassi.

Beginning at center of the spiral, every billion years is represented by a 90-degree stretch, with the exception of the last 500 million years represented as the last 90-degree stretch for greater detail. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/nature-timespiral-the-evolution-of-earth-from-the-big-bang/ #art #science

@zleap people might actually start following politics if they did that :)

Privacy is a human right.

1963 Thunderbird.

The Little Mermaid made no sense to me, why would anybody ever want to go where the people are?

Taking a break from Alaska and Africa and moving to south Texas with this painted bunting! Finally getting around to looking at photos I took back in May. See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/painted-bunting-south-texas-joan-carroll.html?newartwork=true #paintedbunting #texas #bird #birdphotography #perched #colorful #foliage #plumage #feathers #songbird #travelphotography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #artDistrict #giftideas #animalphotography #naturephotography @joancarroll

We only get one starship. We have to look after it.

Space travel takes a long time...

#Space #Cooperation #climatechange #ClimateChange #

Ohio Blows Up the Republican Plan to Block Abortion Rights

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/ohio-blows-up-the-republican-plan-to-block-abortion-rights.html