Master Ninja Theme Song @MasterNinjaTS@qoto.org

Boy bye!

"This most recent setback for Manchin's dirty energy giveaway is a monumental victory for the environmental movement, whose strong opposition once again stopped this scheme in its tracks," said Ariel Moger, government and political affairs director at Friends of the Earth.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/monumental-victory-manchins-industry-backed-permitting-reform-defeated-again

This is Pico (as in picometer and *not* pico de gallo lol) using his feet as a pillow. He looooves Iceland and is sleepy from too many neighborhood cat visits #catsofmastodon

If folks are interested in a forward-looking framework to strengthen bedrock environmental laws in service of a clean energy transition and better deliver on environmental justice, some thoughts here. https://medium.com/@erikschlenkergoodrich/everyone-should-have-a-say-ea488dcbe698

The lowly sunflower continues to stand her ground❣️
#Tacoma #weather

"Housing is Healthcare"
Pasteup in NYC

Omg the FCC *actually* responded to our astronomer concerns about Starlink??? I’m in shock. We stopped the full megaconstellation disaster from destroying the sky. They’ve approved *less than one third* of their plan.

@sundogplanets we did it!! - sorta? Astronomical thank you to Dr. Lawrence!! https://mastodon.social/@jfoust/109440614175364963

Alien landing on my street 💚🛸✨🌀

The aurora is now competing with Christmas lights here but still much brighter in the city than I thought it’d be! I almost wonder if something about urban regions helps sustain and activate it bc so far it is always seems way brighter over the city than it is in the middle of nowhere lol.

A little walk in the woods today looking for fungi friends. Not many fruiting right now but my heart jumped every time I saw the orange ones.
Still no hedgehogs or chanterelles. I’m going to remain optimistic!

@Fanua @TheAgentNDN It is a Native/Indigenous hosted server. we've been working hard but there was an issue that is taking time to resolve. Its surprisingly a lot of work. we have a small team of All Indigenous people, and we still manage to run into brick walls meant to limit communities like ours. anyway Native mastadon should be up later this week.

I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. So next time you hear about famous men in #science share her remarkable story.

It's interesting how many of the large #satellite constellations are named after famous astronomers or #astronomy objects: Beidou, Galaxy, Galileo, Kepler, Kosmos, Kuiper. Yet they will have a huge impact on amateur and professional #astronomy. And I don't think, that is beautiful. Rather a slap in your face... 😟