Erik Przekop @IAmErik@qoto.org

#meme #humor #shitpost #legos #LotR

Residents of #Detroit sue the City to void a #Shotspotter contract due to non-compliance with the City's #surveillance #transparency ordinance. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/11/30/detroit-justice-center-files-lawsuit-against-shotspotter-expansion/69689968007/

New buildings in #AnnArbor will not be allowed to install #naturalgas connections. That’s if a proposal from the city’s planning commission is approved.

By requiring new buildings to only have electric items, like appliances and #heating systems, the planning commission believes it will help the City of Ann Arbor reach its goal of #a2zero #carbonneutrality by 2030.

https://www.wemu.org/wemu-news/2022-11-30/natural-gas-could-be-banned-in-future-buildings-in-ann-arbor

#news #michigan #Environment

The #MilkyWayGalaxy has a “galactic underworld” of black holes and neutron stars that—and this is the remarkable part—are distributed differently than the rest of the Galaxy. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-map-the-milky-ways-underworld/

Day 2 of my #ArtAdventCalendar, in which I will be sharing 50 of my favorite sunset photos that I took this year. Four more Honorable Mentions before the Top 25 countdown. Photos are all sunsets over Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

Clockwise from upper left:

1. Feb. 4, 2022
2. July 2, 2022
3. March 13 2022
4. Sept. 15, 2022

#sunset #sunsets #naturephotography #photography #michigan #puremichigan

I am now compiling a list of all servers who may have an interest in joining the United Federation of Instances.

Quite a few instances have already signed up.

Please reach out to me, all servers of any size are welcome!

This is non binding, its just to get a preliminary list. You can withdrawl at any time and dont have to go through the application process. I just want to know what servers to reach out to once we begin kicking things off.

If you are a server admin please let me know **in DM** if you have an interest and I will add you to the (for now) private list. I want to only release the list once we have enough momentum so please respond in DM only.

for those who are new to this you can read the proposal here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

You can read the early draft of the full bylaws here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf

Both of these will still undergo a lot of modification. For information on how to join the conversation see this post:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109433298021890915

You can see the progress and conversation specifically at the official repo here:

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi #mastoadmin

Friends, hear me now.

If at any point in your online discourse, you find yourself about to write "according to science," or "statistically speaking," or Archimedes help me, "scientists now believe" ...

Stop.

Choose another phrase. Language is versatile. You can do the thing. I believe in you. Super great.

Please. I'm begging here.

"There is some evidence suggesting that our physical reality could be a simulated virtual reality rather than an objective world that exists independently of the observer."

For instance, there are fundamental smallest units of matter and energy (like pixels).

Now a physicist has proposed testable hypotheses.

(From our sister site, @TheConversationUK)

https://theconversation.com/how-to-test-if-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation-194929 #News #Science #Physics

A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.

Credit: NASA/SDO
#sun #nasa #space #astronomy

Jupiter's swirling Great Red Spot

Full size: https://flic.kr/p/2mFnGv7

Suggested to click on this image if you see it in 16:9

Raw Data processed from: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/

Orbit (Perijove)31
#NASA #Juno
PJ46 Northern Circumpolar Cyclones
Altitude: 33.331 km
Time: 2020-12-30

#Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Astronomy #Solarocks #Jupiter
©NASA/JHUAPL/CIW/AndreaLuck

#UMPlus - NGC 6326
https://www.universomagico.net/2022/11/ngc-6326.html
NGC 6326 is a beautiful planetary nebula captured in this image by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is located in the direction of the Constellation of Ara and is located at a distance of about 11,000 light years from Earth. The gas wisps are illuminated by a central star nearing the end of its life. As a star ages and the red giant phase comes to an end, it begins to eject layers of gas from its.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

Saturn's moon Titan as seen by the JWST. Wow.
My best image of it as a comparison 😉

#Science #Astronomy #Astrophotography
(Source: https://www.universetoday.com/158722/with-jwst-fully-operational-again-we-get-images-like-this-saturns-moon-titan/)

Everyone's posting pics of their #cats so I'm posting a #photo of my cormorant. Well it's not mine but I took the pic. By the way did I tell you I like #birdphotography. 🙂

When it comes to Mastodon, I’ve had higher than usual unpleasant experiences of men trying to explain things to me or men asking me leading questions so they can explain things to me (usually that thing involves why Mastodon is better than all the others). Has anyone else has that experience?

The Far Side of the Moon - Shot by Artemis 1

The light effects of sunrise and sunset in this mountain-rimmed valley definitely deserve a more skilled photographer than I will ever be. Even when I can manage to get something representative of one section, the pics do nothing to capture the ethereal effect of the light all the way around the horizon. To see the western mountains--and everything in between--glow in the red-gold of sunrise...it's something I never even knew existed before this year.

#Sunrise #Arizona #Homestead #Landscape

In July QOTO will officially be 5 years old! Oh how time flys.