Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

🤔The Elizabeth Holmes sentence has uncovered a bunch of secret abolitionists and decarcerators? Am I getting that right?

Or is this another case of "We only notice that things that happen to (innocent!) Black folk every day are horrific when they happen to (guilty!) white folk"

There are 500K people in jail today, locked up in pre-trial detention for up to 4 years! They're disproportionately Black, locked up because they can't afford bail.

That's Dr Moore right there in front. Masks for thee, but not for me. There is no public health in Ontario. And no one gives a shit about infants who can't breathe.

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

Top notch science #cartoon by the late Martin Perscheid.

I suppose it’s time for an #introduction. Not much going on here. I’m a native #NewYorker who found his way to an undergrad #Physics degree, thus the handle. I was in Marketing, then had a second career for 18 years as a #HighSchool #PhysicsTeacher, but have found my way back to my first career.

In my free time, I like to point my camera mostly at the sky, dabbling in #Astrophotography but also enjoy a good rocket launch. Occasionally I get a lucky shot, which I’ll post here.

Nothing special.

Since it's #InternationalMensDay, here's a thread of every part of the gynaecological anatomy that is named after a man, with a bit of trivia about each man. Some of the bits are very specific. Before you ask, there are no parts of the gynaecological anatomy named after women...

Meanwhile at #cop27 …

Our #Introduction: We are an international collaboration of scientists working to detect and study #GravitationalWaves

We made our first observation in 2015, and working with our colleagues in Virgo and KAGRA, have now produced a catalog of gravitational waves from the coalescence of black hole and neutron star binaries

We're currently undergoing commissioning ahead our fourth observing run, when we hope that detections will become an everyday occurrence

We're happy to join #Astrodon

I waited and waited until the unknown woman was in the right spot; I needed her as scale for you to see the size of the chevron folds.
Carboniferous rocks folded during the Variscan orogeny, in Millook Haven, #Cornwall
Been there three times, always in awe.
#FridayFold #Geology #photography #nature

We had some super cool demonstrations of optical rotation (the rotation of the plane of polarisation of linearly polarised light as it passes through a #chiral molecule). Here’s light twisting through sucrose and fructose! 🌀🌈 I’ll paste the tweet to avoid overloading #ScienceMastodon’s servers https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/1593358274052644871

Terminal interface for Tetris (#Haskell)

https://github.com/samtay/tetris

A forest of tiny fungi sprouting from a fallen larch cone, in the woodland at #WWT #CastleEspie.

#nature #naturephotograpy #wildlife #rot #rotting #larch #larchcone #seed #seedhead #fungus #fungusphotography #fungusamongus #fungi #fungiverse #FungiFanatic #woodland #forest #ForestFloor #mushroom #shotoniphone

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

Twitter's trending box right now is perfection

It’s very dreich outside so here’s some bonnie carboniferous limestone to brighten your day 🖤 The rock is predominantly composed of the fossilised remains of crinoids. Crinoids are marine animals (echinoderms) related to starfish and urchins and they show gorgeous five fold radial symmetry ⭐️ #geology #palaeontology #scottishgeology

I will give big points to the first news organization, big or small, that:
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.

Holy sundogs, Batman!

Over 150 #teaching tips from U. Waterloo: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-tips/by-category/ #EdDev #FacDev #HigherEd

Eye doctor appt. this morning, so if anyone needs me I'm just gonna be sitting in my office like this.