Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

#Astrodon #Exoplanet #TESS
"The newly discovered planet and its Earth-size sibling are both in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on their surfaces.
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star. The world is 95% Earth’s size & likely rocky."

Thrilling discovery! 😀 🚀

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tess-discovers-planetary-systems-second-earth-size-world

Around a year since the UK government promulgated their illusory view that we are 'living in a post-pandemic world' - the crisis in our hospitals says not - shouldn't we act with more care? Just a few basic public health actions could make such a difference. @brownecfm @GWalker9

It was stored on a cold wallet.
He lost everything: $3.5 million.
Let 2023 be the final death of this giant scam.

Luke Dash, one core developers of Bitcoin just got all his Bitcoins stolen.

But let's pretend anyone can safely store their life savings in crypto.

coast (not long after moonrise) - ice on the sand & a slurred tide turning (turnstone & curlew, oystercatcher yeeping constant)

And read this 3 page message h/t @EmergencyMedDr on birdsite“Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.

Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.

Despicable and shameful that a series of Tory Governments have allowed things to come to this.

For those who keep saying they don't understand why we are so focused on masks: Mask mandates are the policy that would instantly make a huge difference to the lives of higher risk people. It would mean they could go on public transport, access medical care, & other basic needs.

#COVID #COVID19

Ada Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, was born #OTD in 1815. A mathematician and the first published computer programmer, she offered a prescient vision of what computing would become.
Portrait: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1836)

Finish him!

Is the #nhs the #tories are throttling the same NHS they catapulted to glory with all those financial #brexit benefits?

Changing Prime Minister's without a General Election is NOT Democratic.

Please sign, if you agree.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/621931

#rttg
#GTTO
#fbppa
#ProgressiveAlliance
#ProportionalRepresentation
#TacticalVoting
#fbpe
#FBPPR
#ofoc
#ffs

Is £74bn enough to give nurses a pay rise?

It seems "larger war / WWIII" rhetoric is coming back.

I have a question for those who think that russia will start a larger war.

Exactly what army and weapons will they start this larger war with? With the soldiers from Bakhmut, the guns from North Korea, the drones from Iran?

Elon Musk is growing a social network. Just not the one he expected.

New sign-ups have spiked several times on Twitter alternative Mastodon since Musk bought Twitter in October.

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/twitter-owner-elon-musk-driving-user-growth-mastodon-rcna62832

Help yourself to a dose of festive cheer with my article about Shropshire's Christmas Folklore! There's some absolutely lovely stuff featured- I hope you enjoy it!

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-very-shropshire-christmas.html

#Folklore #Christmas #Folktales #Shropshire #christmasfolklore #FolkloreNerd #folkloreFriday