Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

Transition lenses that keep getting darker the longer someone is talking to you.

A helpful hint if you’re trying to invite your bird site friends over here:

Looking through old images I came across this one I took in 2010 in the Grand Canyon, back when I lived in the US. Before I visited I thought "ok, it can't be as spectacular as people say, they must be exaggerating". Boy was I wrong! It's impossible to convey with words or images the sheer size of this landmark. #LandscapePhotography

I don’t know which potential new mastodon host admin needs to hear this but as far as I can tell, too.tz is available for a domain name.

(I’m only posting this to purge myself from buying it. Please, someone buy it. Please. I son’t want to buy another domain name. I have too many.)

A company bought a WHOLE BANK for 1.7 billion today. It makes me laugh that Elon bought all of our opinions on Twitter for 44 billion

me: *tries to open it with my teeth*

him: just double click the file

This is a big problem for Mastodon.

Canadian journalist Erica Ifill just had her mastodon.online account suspended without explanation. She's been sharing stuff critical of Mastodon re: intersectional issues.

I get the decentralized structure and idea that each server has its own rules. But this Reddit-style moderation, where moderators with god-complexes make mysterious and arbitrary decisions, is going to cause people migrating to Mastodon to flee in droves.

https://www.presscheck.org/journalists/erica-ifill

Sorry forgot the alt text on that image!
#Astrodon

Not only is the far side of the Moon not "dark," it is actually brighter than the side that faces Earth. The far side has far fewer maria (dark basaltic plains), so it reflects more light than the familiar lunar face we see.

New image from #ArtemisI:

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.

#Artemis I is at the Moon!

Just a few hours ago, it completed a flyby of the #Moon, coming within 130 km of the surface.

During the flyby, it completed an outbound powered flyby burn to enter a distant retrograde orbit that will carry it to 431,000 km away from Earth.

It will be making a second distant retrograde orbit insertion burn later today to place it in its new trajectory.

#NASA has a press conference later today to tell us how it all went.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/21/orion-successfully-completes-lunar-flyby-re-acquires-signal-with-earth/

Random photo of the day.

#photography #random #photooftheday #POTD #OttawaPhotographer #Ottawa #sunset #bridge #AlexandraBridge #closeup #sky #orange #yellow #shadow

Hard for a male Cardinal to hide in the snow. This young male Cardinal is having his first taste of snow after our first snowfall this week. #Ottawa #birdwatching #naturecommunity #birdphotography #birds

"Billionaires are not our saviors. They are our mistake."... https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2022/11/billionaires-are-not-our-saviors-they-are-our-mistake.html

@CanadianPaintings
Algonquin Sunset
Monica Morrill

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

Google Doodle is about Marie Tharp who mapped the Mid Atlantic Rift even though she wasn’t allowed on ships, no-one believed in rifts and her boss told her she was wrong. But she was right!