Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Mars - Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express

Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2op8YaG (suggested to zoom in here as the image is very big)

Image created processing data from: https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa

Mission: ESA Mars Express
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 21692
Time: 2021-03-01
Product IDs:
HL692_0000_RE3.IMG
HL692_0000_GR3.IMG
HL692_0000_BL3.IMG

#Mars #Space #Olympusmons #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck

I miss my late 20s.

From the #RetroCaturday archives, here's Luce to wish you a happy #caturday

Luce lives in Marrakesh and is a gracious hostess, who believes that sleeping humans make the most comfortable beds. Luce does NOT approve of your insistence on getting up and doing stuff when you could be performing a much more important role as a cat-bed.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #photos #photography

True story.

Today's queer indie spec fic release: Xine Fury's Bloodhunters V1: Bad Blood (trans MTF)

Fourteen thousand lives, gone in an instant. A ruthless terrorist on the loose. The largest bounty ever posted. IGP Earthstation 1 was the largest police station in the galaxy...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-bloodhunters-v1-bad-blood-xine-fury/

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #BountyHunter #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQBookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #book #books #Trans #Transgender #MTF

⚠️🇷🇺Russia’s death toll in Ukraine up to 169,890
(Statistics) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3687213-russias-death-toll-in-ukraine-up-to-169890.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

🇵🇱🇺🇦Polish 💙national💛 killed in action, fighting for Ukraine (PHOTO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3687212-polish-national-killed-in-action-fighting-for-ukraine.html #Ukraine #Poland #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

Does anyone else's cat lust after cheese, especially cooked cheese?

@graphxgrrl caught this great photo of Ellie begging for pizza, a few days ago.

(We've never given her any!)

#cat #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catsodon

I don't want to hear any Republican ever again complain about cancel culture or being shouted down when someone doesn't like their opinion. They're only against it when it happens to them.

See the Stanford takes if you don’t believe me.

The Republican motto: I got mine, the rest of you can f*k right off.

Parkland dad detained in DC after being removed from hearing on gun regulation-
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-parkland-father-detained-20230323-kba4gxcq25hhzd7frpttjvnkqm-story.html

Historical Vintage Map Reproductions. https://buff.ly/3FPlEBH
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#antiquemaps #maps #vintage #art #historical #reproductions #wallart #homedecorideas #travel #tourism #worldtravel #buyintoart #MastoArt

The only thing that will stop a bad guy in a dress is a good guy in a dress.

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

#Insurance #Health #HealthCare #Cigna #Medical #Hospitals #Doctors

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

@Rasta
Maya is gorgeous, my 18 year old was limping, it turned out to be over long, ingrowing claws. We have to get them clipped every couple of months. Now she feels comfy, she is out with the boys keeping an eye on their behaviour. Like Maya she is the boss!

Dear academic journal editors and department editors: If your standard turnaround allowance for assigning referees to a journal is 3 days, and you assign it on a Friday morning, you're implicitly requiring your volunteer senior and associate editors to work over the weekend on it. Is that fair? Or, instead, should you program your manuscript management system to only count business days in your deadlines? I'll give you a hint: It's the latter one.
#academia
p.s., and here's a kitten

A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge. The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.” https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/

For almost certainly not the last time:

"Gaslighting" doesn't just mean lying. That's just lying. It doesn't even mean a huge cover-up with intent to deceive. That's just a cover-up.

Gaslighting means lying with the specific intent to make the person you are lying to doubt their mental health and their ability to percieve reality.

My new book "Crypto for Dummies" is only three words long. "Dont buy Crypto". I'm putting it into the public domain. You're welcome.

@jeanettepizzurro I've been designing in my head again.. My neighbour was complaining about my fence, I said, don't like it, you do it. And he did. Wall and fence. Thousands and thousands, but all over *aesthetics* that pleased him. In my yard. He *gifted me* this expensive wall. The old fence that I put in, was all plastic lattice. I've made mini-kennels for the cats to stay out in, and plans to add shelves like the cattery in the country home

"Had voters known about Trump’s indiscretions with Daniels and McDougal, Trump may never have become president in 2016." And the hush-money scheme was orchestrated because they knew it. https://www.thebulwark.com/why-trumps-hush-money-matters/