Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

My daughter just sent me this fantastic photo she took today #photography #scotland #wildlife #scenery

I just thought to add my #Mastodon account to the @InternetArchive. But it was already there, along with my #Twitter account. Very nice surprise.

Does anyone know whether IA is doing this systematically? How much of Twitter and Mastodon is it capturing? Ditto for other platforms.

Issued this day in 1972: Scott #610: Cornelius Krieghoff. Design: William Rueter. Arguably one of most iconic paintings not painted by a member of the Group of Seven, The Blacksmith’s Shop (1871) was one of the last paintings Cornelius Krieghoff (1816-1872) would complete. It is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. #mystamps #canadastamps

#OttBike: There is a chance I may need to spring for an #EBike in the new year…please hit me with your recs for a basic bike that will be ok in summer/winter at <$2K CDN-ish.

And, yes, I know cars cost way more but I have a strict (self-imposed) budget…it’s this or nothing so 🤷‍♀️.

Thanks!!

Boudinage

Boudinage are one of the most spectacular geologic structures and some of my favorite rocks. The boudins are the eye-shaped lenses of rock wedged between the white quartz layers. Find out how they formed below.

Callan Bentley's great AGU blog post on boudinage explains it all: https://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2011/06/20/boudinage-favorite-geoword/

More beautiful boudinage here: https://goo.gl/XXSyEv

Image from: https://folk.uib.no/nglhe/PhotoAlbum/Boudinage%20Chapter%2014/index.html

#boudinage #metamorphism #rocks #geology

According to this @globeandmail@twitter.com article, a donor to the Ford government borrowed $100 million at a TWENTY-ONE PERCENT interest rate in order to buy up Greenbelt land that, in less than a year, was magically open to development. (1/x)

#Greenbelt #Bill23

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-sales-of-greenbelt-land-raise-questions-for-ford/

This is a great resource, if anyone asks about the science behind masks and their use - thanks for compiling it, @Billius27@twitter.com. It won’t sway people who are vehemently against the idea that we #BringBackMasks, but it will help people who want to learn more. https://billius27.substack.com/p/masks-evidence-and-use

When people tell me I'm overreacting to the threat posed by our lack of regulations on motor vehicle size

North Lake Tahoe looking south (2020).

#astrophotography #photography #laketahoe #lake #astrophoto #astronomy #milkyway

The Pacific Ocean
... is larger than all the land in the world combined!
... has about twice as much water as the Atlantic Ocean!
... has more than half of the Earth's open water supply!
... contains its own antipode (the Gulf of Tonkin and a spot off the coast of Chile, both in Pacific waters, are diametrically opposite on the Earth's surface)!

Some stellar detective work here.

So is twitter surviving its EM pulse?

Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: "They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them"

https://www.openculture.com/2019/09/meet-fanny-the-first-female-rock-band-to-top-the-charts.html

can be seen in real life for example in this video of someone synchronizing a hydro plant to the grid

https://youtu.be/xGQxSJmadm0

One of my biggest surprises when I delved a bit into how the #electricity grid works was how conventional power plants actually put #energy into the grid.
The true mechanism was *exactly the opposite* of how I naively thought it worked (and I had admittedly never thought very deeply about it). Maybe you have thought about it more deeply and this is trivial to you, but I'm still fascinated by it.

So, imagine you are a generator, and the grid is already there with say 3x 230V and 50 Hz ...

It's wild to me how you don't see the number of replies to a toot. It's like, "Well do you want to engage with it or not? Don't let other people influence that decision."

VERY good read about the path Twitter is now on. It's not "our" favorite bar anymore.

Highly recommended:

https://tracks.ranea.org/post/701656528790470656/twitter-failure-modes-and-your-favorite-bar

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools

#bannedbooks #censorship

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/the-brooklyn-public-library-gives-every-teenager-in-the-u-s-free-access-to-books-getting-censored-by-american-schools.html