Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

If you're wondering why there are so few news stories about the rise of #Mastodon, it's because nobody is getting paid to game the media about it.

There's no publicists, no cozy ad deals, no suits, no coercion: Nobody is getting rich off of Mastodon

... that's also why it's so enlightening and fun to participate here

if your web app doesn't work in firefox your web app doesn't work. it's literally broken. fix it.

@SiobhanVohn Well, I think I need to shift my focus more to sharing experience of building community and community solutions at local scale.

We need to house and feed people, which means we need far-reaching #LandReform.

The car industry will die when we stop buying cars, which means we need to build transport solutions; the hydrocarbon industry will die when we stop buying fuels and plastics, so we need to build power and packaging solutions.

All this can be done.

So here's the deal: We currently have 2,522 (and counting) followers on Twitter, and we want to exceed that on Mastodon before our Editor-in-Chief @alexip718 heads to Colorado for ScienceWriters23 conference in one month. Can you help us get there?

#nonprofit #science #environment #health #climate #news

New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

I guess it's time to put "Moms for Liberty" on the terrorist organization list.

Seriously, how hateful do you have to be to issue bomb threats to a library?

https://www.advocate.com/crime/davis-library-bomb-threats

#Libraries #books #bookstodon #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

@split when I was in high school, several math websites were blocked for "prohibited educational content" and if that doesn't perfectly describe the US education system ​

My cousin was a 29 year veteran of Houston Independent School District, the last 15 as a beloved principal. She resigned from her job after the announcement of the unreal standards by which unqualified state observers will be judging HISD teachers during daily classroom incursions.

She loves her school, staff and students but refuses to be complicit in Greg Abbott’s efforts to destroy public education in America’s 4th largest city.

Human skin's sensory neurons produce a protein called RGMB that stimulates the cells responsible for skin colour. This could lead to new treatments for pigmentation disorders. A novel sequencing technique was also used to study gene expression and function in taste cells. #skin #sensoryneurons #pigmentation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220920115545.htm

"Governments must respond to growing concerns expressed by children about the effects of the climate crisis and other environmental emergencies on their lives and futures, a UN body has said."

#UN #UnitedNations #Children #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/childrens-voices-must-be-heard-on-climate-crisis-says-un-rights-body

Worst band ever!

Upcycling old computer towers into tomato planters branded as Farmer in the Dell.

Alabama State Rep Arrested On Voter Fraud Charges https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/alabama-state-rep-arrested-voter-fraud?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mastodon migration needs a bit of work to be sure. But even in its incomplete form, it's something that doesn't exist outside the Fediverse.

I think list import is in v4.2, getting there slow but sure...

@zleap @knittingknots2 My understanding is that many Russians have already defected to Ukraine. We don't have exact numbers at the moment, and I'm not sure we'd want them right now.

After the initial 2015-16 UK competition the challenge was continued by the European Space Agency in collaboration with @Raspberry_Pi and participation was expanded to all member states of ESA. A new edition of the Astro Pi challenge has opened every September since and you can see the current Astro Pi website here https://astro-pi.org/ (be sure to check back in mid September if you want to participate)

@actuallyautistic

This whole thing about nuclear trains reminds me of something I got caught up in a while ago. I'm a Trekkie, and I ran across a diagram of a starbase, with dimensions (based on size in relationship to ship, etc.). I started a spreadsheet, it got more and more complex.
Those things are HUGE. 2,000 acres of parkland. Hundreds of millions of square feet in deck space. Nominal population of over 2,000,000 people, and that's with low population density. I still have it, somewhere.

Here’s the hidden truth of education:

You don’t know what you’re preparing for.

Your teaching doesn’t know. Your future employer doesn’t know. Nobody knows. Not really. What you’re preparing for might not even exist yet. We •hope• it doesn’t exist yet: don’t we educate students in the hope that they will make the world better by changing it? By creating realities that don’t even exist yet?
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Orphir #Orkney