🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

The disk of the Sun with the big #sunspot group AR (1)3354 rotating away from the center: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMII.jpg images from 21:23 UTC yesterday and 19:53 UTC today.

extracting this incredibly useful set of conversation tips out of tiktok and into text form where i have some hope of being able to find it again:

“4 ways to instantly be [kinder] in group [conversations]”
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8e2sfpy/

1. Be the “you were saying?” person: when someone gets interrupted, and the interruption ends, turning back to the person who was talking and saying “you were saying?”

School sent us a message about a bear in the area this morning. It was labeled as a two part message but the second half took a while to arrive.

Since it was so delayed, was half expecting the second message to say: "this is the bear. I control the school now!!"

Please, I'm begging you, if you're a researcher, archive your data, back up your files, have a data succession plan.

Chat to your library, chat to your colleagues. The best time is as you collect the data, the second best time is now.

I'm dealing with multiple different data nightmares now. People leave academia, people retire, people pass away with a plan to make a plan.

No judgement here, just sadness for all that hard work thrown into uncertainty.

Hi friends... I need help.

#LinkedIn, who I heavily depend on to run my marketing agency, suspended me without a reason (“suspected unauthorized login” is what they've said) on Thursday last week.

I made a case immediately, crickets. Now a friend posted on my behalf on Twitter https://twitter.com/bellastone/status/1673406459701260298?s=20

And their support replied with this.

This is a huge impact to my business. So if any of you can bring more attention to that tweet or know anyone at LinkedIn... I'd appreciate your help.

John "More Than" Goodenough, who helped develop lithium ion batteries likely powering the device you're reading this with now, has died aged 100. He gave up almost all rights to his inventions and continued work on battery development until almost the end https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23774166/john-b-goodenough-lithium-ion-battery-nobel-prize-died

Cereal killer.

Inspired by a Piper Thibodeau concept.

#art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #3d #b3d #blender3d #breakfast #shark #MastoArt #FediArt

OK, gardeners -- I need your advice. Two cantaloupe seeds sprouted from my compost heap, so I planted them in the garden bed with low expectations. One died, but the other is now blooming beautifully. I read somewhere that you're supposed to have more than one plant to encourage pollination. Is that true? What can I do to make it more likely that it'll fruit? I see occasional bees here, but not necessarily enough to rely on -- could I maybe try to hand-pollinate it, or should I leave it alone?

This was amazing to see.

The barn swallow parent (above) had apparently had it with its lazy fledgling (below), and literally dragged it from the nest and dropped it into the sky over the water. Fortunately, the nestling could indeed fly, and just hadn't wanted to.

"..the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
Somebody says you have no language & you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. ... None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."
-- Toni Morrison

After doodling Xenia I itched to draw Kiki as well. Linux & Krita were a major turning point in my life 10 years ago where I decided that digital art can be sustainable and kept at it.

Kiki is Krita's mascot and here she is in battle gear to defend creative freedom for you :D

When I was a child, I wrote a series of love songs to my cat. I think this is the thing I have done in my life for which I feel the least regret. I only wish I had written more.

You all have seen this amazing image... Right?

Check out the #CurratedAccount @AstroMigration for more mind blowing #astronomy #space and #AstroPhysics everyday.

Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure... nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole.

NASA's #AstrophotoChallenge is under way! Time to start processing your astro images of the Phantom Galaxy (M74).

How can you enter the challenge? 👉 https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/astrophoto/index.html