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Leonid Meteors Through Orion

Image Credit & Copyright: Luo Hongyang

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This Chinese music group produce songs that are either beautiful, or beautiful and funny! This is just amazingly beautiful!

youtu.be/E5WQD1GX-RQ



If you haven't seen this video of Greta Thunberg with Russell Howard, give it a watch! Delightful and informative.
youtu.be/62ECkYYbPlA


On the 12th day of the #Artemis I mission, @NASA_Orion continued its distant retrograde orbit of the Moon and engineers conducted more planned tests on the star trackers - navigational equipment that helps the spacecraft determine its orientation: go.nasa.gov/3XPMgu3
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
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Wow!!! 🤩 These images are incredible. I love seeing this perspective ❤️ 🌎 🖖
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Suggested Alt Text: One end of the Orion spacecraft dominates the left foreground & continues out of the frame at left. At right, a tiny blue-&-white disk recognizable as Earth floats far, far away. Behind both objects is an empty black expanse of blackly empty space.


Friendly highland cow by James Hollis!


Friendly sheep by James Hollis.



Pipe organs are officially the most badass instrument human kind has ever made.

If aliens came to earth and we were to show them how we make nice "beeps and boops" we should show them a guitar as the "simple folk instrument".

And then show them a fucking HUGE pipe organ the size of a room, the kind that makes you feel your ribs vibrating with the sound.

That'll make them impressed.

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wandering.shop/@feliciafm How do I follow Felicia, here?
in reply to William Gibson

Paste that into the search field and press enter, the account will come up
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @GreatDismal@mastodono.social

At least on my Mastodon instance[1] that does not work; copying the text and pasting it into the search box doesn't find anything.

Instead, I need to right click the linked text, then choose "Copy Link" and paste the link into the search box -- that is, without the "https://" part it doesn't work.

Is that a bug I should file? Not sure, I'm a n00b too...

[1] mstdn.axhxrx.com running v4.0.2

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron having the same issue with @UnlikelyWorlds , keep getting the ‘follow’ button flip to ‘pending’. Paul says he doesn’t have it set to approve follows, would it even show up if a server is blocked?



I Am A God #shorts #Twewy #YouTube youtube.com/shorts/pzHoT7vpyAQ


AMDs Raytracing Analyzer Finally Goes Open Source #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/MzvB39BwdAQ


I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Welcome to Elk: twitch.tv/averymd #magic


#DestinationLinux is live right now so come join us to keep those #Linux 🐧🐧🐧 marching!

Everyone is welcome! Go to DLNLive.com, and Patrons can join the "recording studio" for the Patron Postshow! 😂

Not a patron yet? Go to
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The first detailed map of another planet 🗺️

#50YearsAgo today, the US Geological Survey @USGS's global map of Mars was published. It was created using over 7,000 photos taken by @nasa's Mariner 9 spacecraft.

Read more:go.nasa.gov/3i3S6as
#NASAhistory

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Those features on the center-left stick out. With the lines around the peaks, it almost looks like a happy puppy dog!



Check out the latest episode of the Sudo Show #57!😀🐧

Brandon, Bill & Neal get together to expand on why corporate contributions to open source matter and the unintended benefits or consequences.

@dbrandonjohnson@twitter.com
#Linux #podcasts #OpenSource

Subscribe:
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Me when my former students ask about grad school

To be clear I don't think scholarship or learning are scams, but academia as it is now - depending on abusive labor practices in the name of what?
That's a scam

in reply to cyborgneticz

they provide an institutional affiliation for when that is useful, a community to do scholarly things with others (talks and writing time), and grant management (with a lower overhead than a traditional institution). The way they're organised also interests me with a minimal hierarchy and some structures to encourage self organisation.
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@danwchan
Thanks so much for sharing!

I took a look at the webpage and it definitely seems like one of these things that goes into my bottomless pit of "it would be so cool to be involved in this, but".

The good part is, from time to time one can actually dive into one's pit and do one of the things.

in reply to Alejandro Gaita-Ariño

@agaitaarino happy to share! At it's baseline ronin just requires an application, orientation, and a yearly renewal. After that initial barrier, participation in their systems is whatever you make of it. I'm still feeling out how I want to participate with the organisation but let me know if you have any questions. More ronin scholars may begin showing up here someday, i just connected with @emonosson here a couple days ago


Delighted to announce that our phase 1 safety trial of a natural product cocktail for topical antimicrobial applications is in print. Fab to work with Julie Bruce, Blessing Oyedemi and Nick Parsons via Warwick's Clinical Trials Unit nature.com/articles/s41598-022… #ancientbiotics
in reply to Freya Harrison

omg so cool to hear that this work has progressed. I remember talking about it with @Defectivebrayne on #microtwjc so many years ago. Those discussions were one of the moments that really brought me closer with the wider academic community and showed me the value of the birbsite and online conversation. Plus i'm just tickled with the idea of resurrecting old medicine.

Tagging our reboot of the journal club @MicrobioJC

in reply to Danny (he/they)

@danwchan @Defectivebrayne @MicrobioJC Thank you! We just submitted an application for the next big grant on this project, so fingers crossed we can keep up momentum.


The @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port at 7:39am ET today delivering new solar arrays, science experiments, and cargo replenishing the Exp 68 crew. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS

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quick question are you guys able to track the tic tac UAP? How’s that UAP investigation going?

in reply to Kevin Bonham 🚽🦠👨🏼‍🔬

I've seen folks try in the past. Eager to know if the network is large enough now. Plus pinning and following hashtags hopefully makes it easier for the haves to find the have-nots. I unfortunately am a have-not in this case. Unless :scihub: :BlobCatKnife:


The @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft is less than 400 meters away from the station nearing a docking on the station's Harmony module scheduled for 7:30am ET today. nasa.gov/live
#ISS


The Expedition 68 crew can see the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft as it approaches the station from just over 1 kilometer away. nasa.gov/live
#ISS


.@Astro_Josh and @AstroDuke are on duty this morning monitoring the arrival of the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft as it gets ready to dock to the station at 7:30am ET today. nasa.gov/live
#ISS
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I like this post doubly because you have a NASA astronaut named Mann, and in the sci-fi hit Interstellar, Matt Damon played NASA astronaut Mann.


Packed inside the @SpaceX #Dragon space freighter is over 7,700 pounds of cargo including new solar arrays, science experiments, station hardware, and crew supplies. nasa.gov/live
#ISS


The @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft is on track to dock to the station today at 7:30am ET delivering over 7,700 pounds of cargo to the Exp 68 crew. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
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the only way I can almost relate to a pound is 4 McDonald’s burger patties. 7,700 x 4 patties is a lot of meat. When will you lot give it up and switch to metric?


URGENT: #fediblock mastodonBOT @ mastodon.cloud

aggressive followbot that has either been affected by or is actively spreading the #phishing attack detailed below.
photog.social/users/ambassador…



If you don’t know what I mean when I say “surveillance capitalism” or “people farming”, here’s a quick overview I did for the BBC a little while ago:

bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveil…

(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy



LIVE: @SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is delivering @ISS_Research experiments and a new set of unfurling solar arrays to the @Space_Station.

Docking is scheduled for 7:30am ET (1230 UTC). #CRS26 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnGn…
#NASA



Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221127.ht… #APOD
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Some have violated the winter beauty code, and become a disgrace to those who admire it💔
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I’ve always loved rainbows and marvel every time I see them. My honeymoon in Hawai’i was filled with multiple rainbows daily, including double- and even triple-rainbows. But now I have a new goal - seeing a supernumary rainbow in person!


Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey

Image Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle

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"16. Safety is a characteristic of systems and not of their components

Safety is an emergent property of systems; it does not reside in a person, device or department of an organization or system. Safety cannot be purchased or manufactured; it is not a feature that is separate from the other components of the system. This means that safety cannot be manipulated like a feedstock or raw material."

- How Complex Systems Fail, by Richard I. Cook

how.complexsystems.fail/#16



We went for a drive and brunch in the Yarra Valley region of Victoria. This is where all the wineries grow their grapes. It's also where many people have their weddings. I found a place that had outdoor dining, which had not been open for some time because of the flooding. It was a lovely day, but most people were inside having wedding meals. We didn't have to book for the outdoor area. We sat next to a frog pond where the froggies were all singing away, and we had all these stunning views. The food was excellent!
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The couple at the table remind me of French impressionist art.



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