Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

On this #WorldPressFreedomDay I'd like to give a shoutout to all the news outlets and journalists who made the sensible decision to help further the fediverse and help make the internet more open and free.

- https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard/110274791113796301
- https://www.presscheck.org/outlets

#news #journalism #FreePress #PressFreedom #fediverse #OpenWeb

NASA Goddard put out an animation showing the size of the largest black holes we know of. And it's gigantic. It's pretty much incomprehensible to the human mind. You can't actually imagine it. You /think/ you might, but you can't.

YouTube: NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU1DsipURcM

#science #astronomy #blackhole #huge #video

Pixelfed v0.11.6 is now available! 🎉

Highlights:
- New landing page
- Redesigned mod dashboard
- Several postgres fixes
- Improved mastoApi support
- Better spam detection

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.11.6 #pixelfed

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Czo_8-aB7oc&feature=share
#FreeUkrainianGrain
#StopKillingUkrainianFarmers
⚡️🇬🇧This Ukrainian farmer is removing Russian landmines left on his property in Kharkiv, with a tractor (Times Radio News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

Microsoft gets Lifetime Achievement Award from #BigBrotherAwards
https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023/microsoft

> The Big Brother Award 2023 in the category "Lifetime Achievement" goes to Microsoft, because with their market dominance, the company forces people, companies and government agencies to continually transmit data, and therefore to allow themselves to be spied upon, as a regular part of their digital activities. With this award, Microsoft has been honoured in the Lifetime category twice

#InfoSec #Privacy

#OtD 2 May 1933, German Nazis abolished all labour unions: police units occupied all trades union offices, union officials and leaders were arrested, and union assets were seized and given to the state-sanctioned German Labour Front https://libcom.org/library/nazism-and-working-class-sergio-bologna

Meet Amber Soja, a @NASA_Langley scientist! 👋

She uses NASA satellite data, ground sensors, and field campaigns to create a comprehensive global picture of fires. This helps scientists understand how smoke affects air quality and human health. https://go.nasa.gov/42cckRT 🔥 #AQAW
#NASAEarth

I'm sure my mastodon reach is nearly non-existent, buuut.

I'm strapping on my job helmet. Looking for someone with infrastructure/sre chops? I’ve done a lot of different things including networking, systems automation (terraform, shell, others), refining development environments with Nix. Autoscaling CI builders (didn't even use containers!), automating manual processes to free up QA time, those are the kinds of things I dig.

On this day in Broncos history: Denver trades for QB John Elway in 1983

https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2023/05/02/denver-broncos-trade-from-colts-trade-details-and-history/

Broncos Wire

#BroncosBuzz #quarterback #JohnElway #OnthisDay #History #Timely #Trade

It’s great to see Mastodon adding so many new people every day. There’ve been a few speed wobbles, but the infrastructure has expanded to cater to an influx of over 10.5 million people in six months. And, there’s no ambiguity about who owns your content, you do.
With so many #accessible options and an increasing number of individuals here, plus the strong commitment by many moderators to Alt text, it really has become the best social network for blind and sighted people to interact fully and equally.

As the effects of ecological degradation become more pronounced (harder to ignore), more people will lose faith in their leaders.

Basically, it will become more obvious that (many of) their leaders are charlatans that have been exploiting them and didn't see the climate catastrophe coming (cos they're delusional ignorant & biased "leaders")

I wonder what will happen then?

#ClimateChange #psychology

It's #BlackHoleWeek! Have you been sucked in yet? Maybe you need more pieces of flair? We can help! Brush up on black hole science: https://go.nasa.gov/3LLbh5u
Find your flair: https://go.nasa.gov/3LoSFGT
#NASAExoplanets

People all like ‘ I have a right to live like a human being’ are clearly new to America.
US corps care more about a single bottle of glue than all of you put together.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the way we finally get gun control is because these random shootings cause a delivery person shortage and corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, Dominos, etc. start lobbying the government.

The upland highways of Quảng Bình Province are not to be missed. #Vietnam #travel

If you feel your Mastodon feed is a tad quiet, here is a tip: For a month I have been following every account which has retooted one of my toots — and it works amazingly well.

Here is a screen shot from when I got up in the morning. Of course, I do not start my day by reading 3,000 toots, but the point is, I have brought my feed up to multiple toots per minute, so whenever I do have the time to check in on Mastodon, the feed is constantly buzzing with interesting, new content.

I love it! ♥️🐘

"The real bottom line for Nextcloud Hub is: it returns control of the online office to you and your staff from the big cloud powers!"

With Nextcloud Hub, you don't have to compromise. Enjoy both powerful control over your data and seamless ease of use.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nextcloud-hub-takes-on-google-docs-and-office-365/

Environmental groups sue the FAA over SpaceX launch from Texas

The launch on April 20 kicked up a lot of dust and concrete.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/environmental-groups-sue-the-faa-over-spacex-launch-from-texas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Iowa high school student Clementine Springsteen got up on stage to be recognized for academic honors

Calmly shouting “trans rights are human rights!” right next to republican Governor Kim Reynolds

The same governor who signed bills banning gender-affirming care for people under 18 and restricting bathroom access for all trans folks

Get busy on restricting voting access republicans. Because kids hate you.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights