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Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240825.ht… #APOD
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Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team

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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO theverge.com/2024/8/24/2422767…


"Pillars of Creation AKA Eagle nebula/M16."

PJ Singh, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2qbWfia

#astrophotography



"Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula region."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pXMaSu

#astrophotography



A judge has forced Elon Musk to disclose who helped him buy Twitter.

And to no one's surprise: Two rich Russians from Putin's inner circle were part of the deal. Their names are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, and allegedly they are related to companies on the list.

And clearly, EU parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt is not having it.

fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-mu…

Obviously, indirect Russian relations in itself is not proof of Russian influence.

I will do some more digging.

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Do you know MediaDive, the world’s largest collection of cultivation media for microorganisms 🧫? It contains detailed introductions how to prepare the medium you need for your strain. In addition to the provision of all media used at the DSMZ, you can also create your own media or search for a medium suitable for your strain. Give it a try 😉
mediadive.dsmz.de/

#database #microbiology #research #DSMZDigitalDiversity #bacteria #fungi



The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #Astrobiology #Europa #Uncategorized


NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-dec… #NASA #CommercialCrew #InternationalSpaceStationISS


It is a beautiful morning with the sun shining after a hard rain. We all went outside to see how our flowers held up.
A few were down like one beautiful pink dahlia, but for the most part, the flowers survived.
Our world is very small now, but I do believe we get just as much enjoyment from the flowers we grow ourselves as we would seeing them anywhere else in the universe.
We all found comfort in the fact that most of our flowers weathered the storm.
Now, off to surprise my husband. Every day, he requests bacon and eggs for breakfast and gets something approved on his diet instead, but today, he gets the real deal.
He will be so excited.
#Dahlias #BloomScrolling


Canned pears and pear sauce from our tree. Not even all of them! #canning #growYourOwn
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in reply to Frank Aylward

Yes, we can! 💪 (I still have 6 glasses of apple sauce from last year's harvest and the next harvest is due soon. 🙈)


South Pacific Shadowset apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240824.ht… #APOD
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The diel disconnect between cell growth and division in Aureococcus is interrupted by giant virus infection

frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

#viruses #algae #microbiology



Daniel's summer "lion cut" is starting to grow back in. But his tail is still especially adorable. #Caturday #catsofmastodon


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
Bythotrephes longimanus (cederströemi), is called the Spiny Water Flea for obvious reasons. It is an invasive species introduced to #GreatLakes in the 1980s from Europe. They are a large (1.5 cm) and highly predaceous #cladoceran #zooplankton that eat 75% of their weight/d. They peak late in the year to huge densities at times. While they compete with planktivorous fishes, they are also a desired prey for fishes like Alewife and Yellow Perch.
nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/GreatL…


  • If a product requires a subscription to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs to connect to a server to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs an app to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.

-- pe1, in a comment on Ars Technica
(Emphasis added)



Valve made it even easier to see who played on Steam Deck in user reviews gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#SteamDeck #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

That's pretty useful. I hope they expand this to some more granular options eg "Played on system similar to mine" (Using hardware survey data) or "Played on Windows/Mac/Linux (Proton)/ Linux (Native)"


Deadlock from Valve no longer a secret - store page is up and we can finally talk about it gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve



Steam Deck gets a global resolution override in latest Beta, plus more desktop Steam fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wish they'd let you set a custom resolution, I have an older TV with a non-standard 1368x768 resolution which is frustrating to use to the deck because it just doesn't scale properly...



Wine 9.16 released with more Wayland work and an initial Driver Store implementation gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/wine…

#Wine #Linux



NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux



"This repository contains a collection of various lists of #academics on Mastodon. These lists are curated by many awesome folks across various disciplines, so make sure to give them kudos as well!"

nathanlesage.github.io/academi…



South Pacific Shadowset

Image Credit & Copyright: Jin Wang

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240824.ht… #APOD

#APOD


Journaling doesn't have to be about beautiful things. Sometimes it's about the stressful stuff too: socialwork.buffalo.edu/content…


"Meteor spotted across Middle TN."

youtube.com/watch?v=mlRnE0OkYs…

#meteor



"Emu In The Sky."

Barnaby Norris, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International via Wikimedia commons.



"Stunning fireball over south of Spain (Aug. 21) // Gran bola de fuego sobre Andalucía (21 agosto)"

youtube.com/watch?v=cMMBS5-m2P…

#meteor



Valve officially announces Deadlock, a game ‘in early development’ theverge.com/2024/8/23/2421905…


Yesterday's webinar on the new book Governable Spaces - Democratic Design for Online Life by @ntnsndr is now available to view on the Internet Archive.

It was a great conversation.

archive.org/details/governable…



How true, indeed. @Alice @Gargron

„No one’s ready for this“ iphoneblog.de/2024/08/23/no-on…






August 2024 Transformer of the Month: Selina Salgado nasa.gov/general/august-2024-t… #NASA #General


NASA Ames Stars of the Month: August 2024 nasa.gov/general/nasa-ames-sta… #NASA #General

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