David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon@qoto.org

Literally no Democrat cares if Hunter Biden is prosecuted if he committed crimes. He's not elected—we're not a cult.

We just call it *absurd* that MAGAs—who let Kushner & Ivanka make $640M while "government employees" and get $2B after leaving the White House, under wildly suspicious means from a murderous dictator—now pretend to care about alleged Biden nepotism.

We see your shameless, dangerous hypocrisy.

So wait... the standard-bearer of the Republican Party has called for the "termination" of the Constitution, but it's progressives who don't believe in the rule of law?

Budgie Smuggler was living her best life while sunbathing earlier this afternoon.
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Mastcam colorized remote ChemCam observation from Mars Curiosity Rover Sols 3669 and 3671, respectively.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Mars #MarsCuriosity #Space #Science #Astrodon

The best of times and the worst of times.
The war and climate disruptions are producing what may be “the largest global food crisis in modern history.”
From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/01/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/the-un-seeks-51-5-billion-in-aid-driven-in-part-by-the-war-in-ukraine?smid=url-share
And yet look how wonderfully encouraging are the long term trends, as seen in the figures below (from Max Roser’s site Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/)

#MaunaLoa Telescope update!

The ATLAS units have been shut down finally and people have left. The picture below was taken by one of those folks.

The power is out, it's possible the power lines were taken out by lava. It will be a while before people can go back and check on material.

Until then ATLAS still has 3 units across the globe to detect any potentially dangerous asteroids that could hit earth!

So we stay safe from the sky whilst we admire the power of mother Earth 🙏 🌋

Certain belief in the nonexistence of free will (because our current physics “proves” this) is similar to certain belief in the existence of an omnipotent god. Both remove human agency and responsibility, for reasons of preference of a worldview.

Over on Twitter it’s like the Penguin is in charge of Gotham.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

Hey journalists! Mastodon is not a “platform”. Platforms were invented in the wake of the last financial crisis to consolidate power among specific companies by mining people of of their personal data for profit online. Mastodon does not consolidate, only connects. It does not amplify algorithmically, or mine people. Any “learning curve” should include reflection on why you ever accepted “services” aimed at data extraction as “natural” or even “social” to begin with. #twittermigration

A few days ago on Sol 621 (November 18th), the Mars Perseverance Rover observed a solar eclipse by the moon Phobos.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

#Space #Science #Mars2020 #Astrodon

Sure many of us have complicated feelings about Artemis, as partially documented here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/nasa-moon-artemis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
But damn these photos of Earth, Moon & nouveau-Apollo looking artifacts are striking, moving, beautiful, just so cool…

The #JWST Transiting Exoplanet Early Release Science Team is excited to share the latest science results from observations of the exoplanet WASP-39 b, described in 5 papers released this morning. 🧵
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-060
Image: Melissa Weiss/CfA