Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The US election's today's global concern
It's that which will decide what we will learn
Will it be for freedom, or for despot to burn
Will Trump's second term lead to democracy's spurn?
At stake is the world's peace and trust
A Putin, Xi or Trump, who will we entrust?
The future of democracy is what we must adjust

#election2020 #uspolitics #democracy #globalconcern #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/opinions/2024-election-risks-trump-world-ghitis/index.html

...and that's why I don't use any #wireless keyboards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkmGG0biXc

Scientists find new method which can destroy 99% of cancer cells, eliminate need for invasive surgeries https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wionews.com%2Fscience%2Fscientists-find-new-method-which-can-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-eliminate-need-for-invasive-surgeries-674342&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3ccsHcZ03SVLdZ04rpt1Oz&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Science #Technology

This is your reminder not to censor yourself because you're afraid you'll lose followers.

Only the people who stay are worth knowing who you are. Be you. Be as much as yourself as you want to put out there, but be yourself.

We need more sincere people who aren't trying to put on a show to get followers. People just being themselves. Sometimes goofy, sometimes angry, sometimes brilliant, but always true selves.

To me, that's what makes a great social media platform. People being who they are.

"Why don't people want to pay for streaming anymore?" cry the companies who split streaming into 40 different services that keep increasing in cost while randomly removing content without warning, and shoving ads into our paid services.

Yup, sure is a mystery. A real head scratcher.

#streaming #streamingIsDead

Gardening for earthworms talk on tonight (7pm GMT). To register:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/gardening-for-earthworms-mutual-benefits-of-earthworm-friendly-gardening-tickets-291253175087?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reminder_attendees_event_starting_email&utm_term=eventname&ref=eemaileventremind

The Biological Recording Company have an excellent you tube channel also.

https://youtube.com/@biologicalrecordingcompany?si=U46kPav11T99f_RF

#Biodiversity #SoilBiology #Ecology #Nature #Earthworms #Gardening

Molecular Tweezers Made from Carbaporphyrin Linked to Nanographenes

Hybrid systems act as receptors for relatively large substrates

https://www.chemistryviews.org/molecular-tweezers-made-from-carbaporphyrin-linked-to-nanographenes/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #research #Nanographenes

https://www.europesays.com/972331/ France to ban plastic packaging for fresh produce in new year • FRANCE 24 English #agriculture #CarbonEmissions #Climate #Environment #france #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FranceNews #france24 #FRANCE24English #FrenchNews #FruitsAndVegetables #NewsFrance #PlasticPackaging #produce #SingleUsePlastic

The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last - AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the compet... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/science/secret-asteroid-mission-astroforge.html #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #minesandmining #solarsystem #astroforge #asteroids #start-ups

"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure Skybound was the mind, Earthbound the body rests."

Happy 452ⁿᵈ Birthday to Johannes Kepler!

He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, & his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, & Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, influencing among others Isaac Newton, providing one of the foundations for his theory of universal gravitation. @wikipedia

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43585

#books #science

@heydon The Bandcamp alternatives I’ve found so far are Jam.CoOp and mirlo.space

Most of your online activity can be linked through your email address. Which makes your email your online identity.

Even if you use a secure email service, protecting your real email address with aliases can help you avoid tracking and surveillance online.

Get yours with @simplelogin here: https://fosstodon.org/@simplelogin/111335107486780814

So I got a Raspberry Pi 4 for Christmas and I think I’m going to use it to go #SelfHosted with certain services and educate myself on #DigitalSovereignty. Do any mastonauts have resource recommendations for me? Complete linux/networking noob here.
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He recibido un #RaspberryPi 4 por navidad y estoy pensando en usarlo para aprender sobre #AutoHospedaje y #SoberaníaDigital. ¿Algún mastonauta con recomendaciones de recursos con los que aprender? Novato absoluto en linux y redes informáticas.

Do you ever see toots whiz by and you read them and think, "WTF are they talking about? I can't make sense of any of it."

I do that a lot.

As others have pointed out, Palestine is a testing ground for terrible new weapons. Weapons that can just as easily be used against us if we're 'in the way'

https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-drone-that-can-fire-a-sniper-rifle-while-flying-developed-2022-1?op=1&r=US&IR=T

With #Israel blocking foreign journalists from having any access to #Gaza, and murdering more #Palestinian journalists in just 80 days than ever before recorded in a single nation across any 12 month period, and with reports of Israeli bulldozers flattening sites that potentially retain evidence of yet more #WarCrimes (bulldozing confirmed by satellite imagery), and with claim after claim from Israel officials concerning specific incidents being revealed by subsequent investigations as being yet more baseless propaganda, the only epistemic assumption that is morally justifiable at this point is to act on the assumption that every testimony of atrocity coming out of Gaza is true.

And to assume that there are more going unreported, whose witnesses are all killed or silenced.

No other position is morally defensible under such conditions.

There is overwhelming evidence that the side with overwhelmingly more power is committing ongoing atrocities against civilians on a massive scale, while attempting to hide the true extent of their crimes.

"We didn't know. We couldn't tell. The fog of war. Both sides tell lies. Wait for independent investigations." These deflections and deferrals can no longer be used with intellectual or moral credibility by citizens in the western nations backing #Israel.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but when you’re putting that potato masher away make sure it’s not going to get the drawer stuck.

Unless the #PeerTube server I use gets significant donations, it is going to go away. Please donate if you can! https://liberapay.com/DavidNelson/donate