Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Hey look what came in! First rev of my little project.

#retrotech

REMINDER: Steve Scalise’s life was saved by a Black lesbian Capitol cop who covered his body with her own while she was shot in the process.   Then Scalise voted against the #EqualityAct. TWICE. That is all you need to know about him. #SteveScaliseIsTrash #NeverSteveScalise

We did it. *wipes tear from eye*

@parkermolloy “we have to debate peoples right to exist in society” no we don’t Farquad Weaselthorpe III writing for the NYT op ed page go away

Jonathan Chait has a new piece out where he's whining about being called a "reactionary centrist" because he's part of a cadre of ostensibly liberal media dudes who obsess over "wokeness" and have a bizarre obsession with trans people and "the trans debate."

But there's never any discussion of substance. These pieces will always be like "here's a weird piece of news about some random trans person somewhere in the country" and then just turn into

The longest serving Republican House Speaker ended up as a convicted child molester and they have the nerve to talk about ‘grooming.’

Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.

Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :

Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.

This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.

Matt Gaetz is demanding that McCarthy give him the chairmanship of the armed services subcommittee. Gaetz would use that seat to undermine America’s support for Ukraine, and help Vladimir Putin.

Once crystal-clear streams in Alaska are now turning orange.

One hypothesis to explain this is that climate-driven permafrost melting is releasing iron-rich compounds into the soil; so when sediment gets flushed into streams, it makes the water rusty-orange and more acidic through oxidation.

https://www.wired.com/story/alaskas-arctic-waterways-are-turning-a-foreboding-orange/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Elon Musk's Twitter thinks rockets are "intimate media". By Tim Fernholz https://qz.com/elon-musks-twitter-thinks-rockets-are-intimate-content-1849948941?rev=1672861757163

«Spaceflight Now, a respected 23-year-old news site focused on the space program, was suspended from Twitter and contact with its nearly 500,000 followers unless it agreed to delete the offending tweet. […] If Twitter’s software can’t tell the difference between a 70 meter tall vehicle flying through the air and intimate content, how will it recognize abusive behavior or hateful content?».

Do you engage less with #mastodon accounts when they use #twitter links?

Please Reboot - as I wish to gauge if my narrow observations, thus far are right.

In particular, I was baffled by the failure of Democrats to use the lame duck to raise the debt ceiling. Maybe the idea was that Rs could be shamed into avoiding a crisis later this year 2/

Sunset over Lake Superior. It's a vertical shot, so smash it to see the whole image, then boost it and then follow. 😀

#photography #LandscapePhotography #seascape #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

Generational Poll. Please boost for more responses.
The system only allows me 4 options (sorry!).
Just let me say, all generations are great! 😀
This is just for fun and curiosity.

#SilentGeneration
#Boomer
#BabyBoomer
#GenX
#Millenial
#GenZ
#GenAlpha

Reagan was extremely destructive to declare “Government is not the solution to our problem, Government is the problem.”

Has the "Party of Lincoln" forgotten that Lincoln proudly said, "Our Government is of, by, & for the people."

To declare Government as the problem is to declare the American people as the problem. And when you declare people as the problem, you become exclusive, cruel, & unjust. That's not pro-America—it's literally anti-America. That's what the GOP has become. Vote Them Out.