Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

This guy publishes videos of himself playing piano for old elephants.

I love the internet. And I love people. In spite of everything, I truly do.

https://peertube.tv/w/pqDiZXbkE5Ca68ocXhvZYN

Eliminating billionaires would be the single best thing we could do for the continued survival of life on earth. This would impact less than 3000 people and would LITERALLY save the lives of BILLIONS of people. This could be accomplished by taxation alone. Guillotines nor wood chippers need not be involved. It will never be considered.

Journalists always approach their crisis asking: 'What can we do to get more people to come to the news we always gave them?' Ask instead: 'Why have they left? What are we doing wrong? How must we change?' But no.

The trans community is as diverse as any other community. Everybody’s transition is different, everybody’s relationship with their identity is different and our opinions are often different. Something that unites us is a desire to be treated fairly and equally.

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#Diversity #TransRights #TransHealth #TransFamilies #TransMan #TransWoman #NonBinary #Transition #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI

IMPORTANT: NEW NHS CONSULTATION GUIDE – REFERRAL PATHWAY FOR TRANS KIDS.
https://whatthetrans.com/nhs-consultation-guide-trans-kids/

Dear readers, we are here with yet another NHS consultation related to trans kids. You may remember our previous consultation guide about the new proposals for the banning of puberty blockers. This is a new consultation, which is broader, and is defining the referral pathway for the new child and adolescent gender service.

A new radio telescope just opened its eyes to the sky, and this is what it saw: a sky aglow with pulsars, forming stars, and black holes.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure, but the radio image even *looks* like the first glimpse through half-opened eyelids...

https://www.skao.int/en/news/512/ska-mid-prototype-dish-creates-first-light-image #science #radio #astronomy #space

📢📢 Get ready for @SciPy2024! This year it will take place at the Tacoma Convention Center, July 8-14!

🗓️ Save the date and join us for a week of Scientific Computing!! ✨

📝 Submit your proposals before February 27 at https://hubs.la/Q02ghG6p0.

@writeon1 Hamas will not be destroyed. Maybe the fighting units. But Hamas is rather a system, an idea, and if you just give it another name it will still not disappear. When this is over, there will be still more Palestinians following the way Hamas showed them - fuelled by much more rage.
If they want to destroy "Hamas" - they would have to kill the last Palestinian, including those living in diaspora. And I think, N. knows that only too well.
@vdmeer @EU_Commission @Bundesregierung

This is how Germans see it: poor Israel army must shoot Palestinians in #Gaza because bad Hamas uses them as shields.

No snipers murdering women and children, no planes dropping 1,000 kg bombs on tents, no destruction of infrastructure by IDF, no nothing on genocide.

Look at the photo and you understand @Bundesregierung and @APoD , this is their world, 100,000 dead and insured or international law or human rights don't happen there. Only Israeli propaganda.

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/karneval-bildergalerien-100.amp

Australian MPs pass motion urging US and UK to allow Julian Assange to return to Australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/14/australian-mps-pass-motion-urging-us-and-uk-to-allow-julian-assange-to-return-to-australia?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon - via @guardian

It's worth saying that the genocide underway in Eastern Congo is also the result of the West arming and backing full tilt the survivors of a genocide and giving them carte blanche to do whatever they want, rather than insisting that a more just social order emerge from the ashes. It's not specifically about Israel, it's a larger dynamic

How NASA uses simple technology to track lunar missions https://phys.org/news/2024-02-nasa-simple-technology-track-lunar.html #science

The BBC extends its Mastodon experiment for another six months: "We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub." #Technology https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

What @Flipboard is doing here -- federating magazines -- is incredibly important. Read @mike's Medium post to understand better how they're approaching it and why it matters.

https://medium.com/@mmccue/federating-flipboard-magazines-575a18297bd6

WEEK 19: Manchester, tonight. For the second night running, activists take to the streets to protest the bombing of Rafah and the siege of Gaza.

#FreePalestine

Measuring distances in the universe with fast radio bursts https://phys.org/news/2024-02-distances-universe-fast-radio.html #science

Hello Fediverse!

Today we're taking another important step in our journey to fully federate Flipboard.

This morning we federated 1,000 Flipboard Magazines curated by the publishers we have been testing federation with in addition to 20 new publishers we are federating today. These include magazines like Adventure Travel by Outside, Eater DC by Eater, Explore NYC by Thrillist, Throwbacks by SPIN, and Climate Tech by Bloomberg.

Flipboard Magazines are a simple way to curate articles, images, videos and podcasts into a thematic feed. This powerful curation tool has been at the heart of Flipboard since 2012 with millions of magazines curated since about recipes, road trips, architecture, books, tech trends and so much more.

Federated magazines become native #ActivityPub feeds and can be followed by anyone on Mastodon. For example, check out my Following the Fediverse magazine @following-the-fediverse-mike

I believe that thoughtfully curated feeds have the power to make social media a lot more effective and inspiring so I'm excited to bring millions of these magazines to the #Fediverse as we federate all public curators in the next few weeks.

Check out my Medium post for more details along with a list of some of the great magazines we federated today.

https://medium.com/@mmccue/federating-flipboard-magazines-575a18297bd6