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Comet Hale-Bopp Star and Constellation Map; 1997.

Tomruen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"This need for radical friendships and primal strangeness is the keystone of our technological life. Yet we must not subsist on this world on the tools we are given, rather we must be the co-creators of tools of worlding. We must find new ways to reclaim the power of trial and error, we must feel empowered by failure because to come undone is to come one step closer to learning how to live with chaos, and mastering the modes of surviving in a state of generative chaos."

-- "Radical Friends", page 114

The words that end the chapter The Reappropriation of Life and the Living – A Cosmic Battleground by co-editor Penny Rafferty. This wonderful chapter is a highlight in this book, and any section could easily have been quoted here.



You have nothing to hide until the government suddenly declares your behaviour illegal. #abortion #usa #meta #facebook #google #e2ee #encryption

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Fedora Linux Finally Kills Off Delta RPM #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/iOhS6_28Gok


Artist Cassie Thornton: "In these days of compulsive overwork in the so-called creative economy, we’re all sick artists. Using ancient technologies of peer-to-peer care, a grassroots health monitoring and diagnostic system is emerging, practiced from beds and couches all over the world. Participants co-produce a multi-dimensional image of each other’s physical, psychological, and social health. We call this image The Hologram."

furtherfield.org/the-hologram-…



Trailing tentacles of stars make out the “jellyfish galaxy” captured here by @NASAHubble. As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away, forming trails that resemble tendrils. Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3ZCVr0Q
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Our first close-up of Ganymede!

On this day in 1979, the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped a series of images of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, as it made its closest approach to Jupiter

More about Ganymede: go.nasa.gov/41HpXII

📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Björn Jónsson
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Comet Hale-Bopp, negative. (1997)

Hans Bernhard (Schnobby), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Piece of the Oldenburg Meteorite that fell on September 10, 1930 in Germany.

Ernst Unkraut-Brüning, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.

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For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet's surface. npr.org/2023/03/05/1161187590/… #nature
Image: Jeremiah Del Mar
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Agreements and committments are all fine and dandy, but only ACTION works.


"Be rigorous, be persistent, and don't give up." Rasha Karakchi speaks of the skills #HPC has taught her in approaching problems with different perspectives into today's #SC23 #WHM2023 profile: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…


"New Einsiedlerhof and Old Square at the Schifflände with the Comet seen on March 9, 1742, in the morning at 3 AM."

Anonym/e Künstler/in Herrliberger, David, Hans Conrad Nözli, Friedrich Steinfels (früherer Eigentümer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color and cropping edits.

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Not a caterpillar - On a frosty May morning, a group of European Bee-eaters perched on a branch gave the impression of a caterpillar at first glance. The vibrant colours of their feathers, with shades of green, blue, and yellow, seemed to blend together and create a fluffy, caterpillar-like appearance. It's also a winning image in Adult Category of European Wild Wonders photo competition, November 2011. José Luis Rodríguez


I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game: twitch.tv/averymd #magic


Learning by doing, thinking about our current mess and the value of #DIY grassroots actavism
media.blubrry.com/novarafm_rad…
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Excellent commentary urging coupling of field and laboratory research on viruses in just bats but also other animals. Bridging the gaps between ecology, veterinary/wildlife pathology, human health, and lab-based molecular studies are imperative. #OneHealth #veterinarymed #wildlifepathology #virology #ecology

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Jupiter and Venus over Italy apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230305.ht… #APOD
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Mal wieder einen Porzellanladen zerdeppert? Grund genug, ein Versteck zu suchen! Ich hätte da ein paar gute Ideen. Und ein paar schlechte.


My kids just sent me this pic of my grandkitten at home. She is adorable. #caturday
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"The view from a fragment of the Shoemaker / Levy 9 comet which fell into Jupiter piece by piece over several days in Late July 1994, around the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11. Acrylic on board for NASA Ames."

Don Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jupiter and Venus over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Tumino

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The Stannern Meteorite exhibit at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. It fell on May, 22, 1808 in the Czech Republic.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Apollo and the Muses" by Giovan Battista Naldini (~1580-1585) at the Museo Borgogna (Vercelli).

Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Pallas Athene Visiting Apollo on the Parnassus" by Arnold Houbraken (1703).

Arnold Houbraken, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Allegory of Apollo and Minerva bestowing optical instruments to benefit the Arts" by Ludovicus Rijsbrack (1717).

Ludovicus Rijsbrack, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp on March 14, 1997.

ESO/E. Slawik, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus" by Francesco Bartolozzi after Ludwig Guttenbrunn. (1800)

Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropping and color edits.

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A carpentum or carruca carrying the Image of the Goddess Astarte within a zodiacal circle. (~219-220 CE)

Coin - Phoenicia, Sidon. Julia Paula. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.



Mainmass of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 3009 Meteorite.

Norbert Gesser, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Apollo und Urania" by Johann Heinrich d. Ä. Tischbein.

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Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Jul 14 2020 by SimgDe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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some random thoughts on decay of historical twitter data:

* all those old threadreader "unrolls" are gone
* all the storify collections too
* lots of those shortlinks are now broken or point to sites that are scammy, spammy or untrustworthy (c.f. shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/never… )

i don't know if i agree with the above post that there's a high risk of this being used for evil, but it's pretty easy to search your twitter data and delete, say, all gu dot com links en masse

in reply to Kat

btw, if you downloaded your twitter data, all links are shortened with t dot co, meaning they can't be expanded without visiting twitter. i used this tool to go through and fix them all so i know what was originally linked: github.com/timhutton/twitter-a…


If you want to journal, but don't know what to write about, here are 5 ideas to get you started. psychcentral.com/blog/5-ways-t…


The Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne Meteorite that fell on September 29, 1799 in France.

Musée Vert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"The Vichten mosaic depicting the mythological and literary theme of the nine Muses with Calliope, the Muse of epic and elegiac poetry together with Homer in the large central medallion, around 240 AD, National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg."

Carole Raddato / Following Hadrian, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/MtZPhV and flic.kr/p/Lwz3AY



A slice of the New Concord Meteorite; from Ohio, USA. At the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"The Great Comet of 1882, on Oct. 9 at 4h AM (Flammarion.)" from "The Story of the Comets," by George Frederick Chambers (1909).

George Frederick Chambers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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