Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

Hyde park morning

#tw

@Murgledom Lovely. Is this the sculpture you can see from the M57 (maybe M62?) Motorway?

"A head full of stars"

*Click for the full image*

75 minutes of star trails behind Jaume Plensa's 'Dream' sculpture, a 20 metre high, 373 tonne monument to the mining industry on the site of Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens in Northwest England

#sculpture #art #publicart #photography #longexposure #landscapephotography #stars #astro #astronomy #astrophotography #startrails

Should you buy an #eBike to replace your regular #bike? - Android Authority

Can an #electric bike replace my need for a regular bike? Is riding an e-bike #safe, #practical, and, most of all, #fun? There was only one way to find out, so I abandoned my regular #bikes and went all-in on an e-bike for two weeks.

https://www.androidauthority.com/buy-e-bike-opinion-3222874/

I don't yet know what the etiquette is here about announcing stuff you're doing. So I'll take a chance. If you like jazz you might like the JR Sextet. we're doing a bunch of shows in London in the New Year. All of them are listed here.

https://www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows

A good day for climate Mastodon: Katharine Hayhoe has arrived! Follow her here: @kathhayhoe

#climatescience #climate #climatejustice #ClimateChange #optimism #climateaction

#helloworld! I like it when the #internet is for everyone and am trying out the #fediverse. Please bear with me; I was told I should use lots of #hashtags and am trying out the features.

I'm using #fedilab on Android. I already have a #noobquestion: can I add hashtags in Fedilab to my home feed? Right now I have some hashtags in the top bar but I have to view them all separately. #thx!

How many characters are too many? Can I just go on forever? I heard there was a limit but I still haven't reached it. Maybe it's 600 characters? 1000? I guess at some point the numbers will just go red and I will know what's up. Ok it wasn't 600. I'll just search online then because this is getting way out of hand. ...GREAT SCOTT I'm glad I did: it's 65,535 characters on my instance. #qoto 😂

@BrentToderian I like this idea, without having any evidence that it is true. Vibrant creative cities are brilliant places to just be.

I’ve worked in and for hundreds of cities all over the world. The cities that are doing amazing and innovative things aren’t cities with ideal weather, or topography, or size, or demographics, or wealth, or regulatory systems/powers, or even politics.

They’re the cities that have stopped making excuses.

#cities #urbanism

Deactivate my account on the bird app today.
Appreciate the community on here @freemo and the @QOTO instance.

I'll be honest here, as a humble instance admin receiving all kinds of DMs and emails...

The abuse, excessive reports... folks our instance grew from 60 users to 22000 in the span of two weeks. I didn't expect to suddenly commit 6-8 hours of my day to this. Knowing I have other commitments like a day job and other things.

I'm burning the candle on both ends here. Look at this toot timestamp. Please save space for some patience.

Y'all clearly don't remember this image:

#mastoadmin #mstdnca

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR TWITTER

You just pin your last tweet, Pete,
Request your archive, Clive,
You don’t need a blue tick, Vic,
Just get yourself free.

Hop on the tusk, Gus,
You don’t need to delete much,
Except your DMs, Jen,
And get yourself free.

Use Debirdify, Di,
Provide some alt tags, Mags,
Add a content warning, Tim,
To post sensitively.

Remember to boost, Ruth
You don't need to deny truth,
Just drop off the perch, Dirk,
And get yourself free.
#VerseThurday #TwitterMigration #FediTips

What’s the thinking on Fanny Mendelssohn v Fanny Hensel? I’m seeing more posts referring to her as Hensel now - is that thought to be more authentically how she thought of herself?
Planning a couple of talks about her in the new year and want to get it right!

@sarahfritzwritr @womencomposers

Funny how @Gargron was so concerned about popular opinion and "optics" when he delisted us... Now the thread on reddit discussing this is already more popular than any other thread this month and will likely hit an all time high.

Shame about the bad optics...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z3dr87/jeffrey_phillips_freeman_eugen_rochko_ceo_of/?sort=top

#reddit #mastoadmin #fediblock #gargron #joinmastodon #twitter #lgbtq #a11y

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

Scientists at Cornell University suggest that onshore algae farms grown in regions that get a lot of sun (such as deserts) could produce all the protein needed to feed a population of 10 billion. Would you eat plant-based meats made with algae? As long as it's tasty, I'd happily give it a try!

#food #sustainability #FoodSecurity #foodsustainability

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/10/onshore-algae-farms-could-feed-world-sustainably

I posted the article to reddit for some attention. Feel free to vote or comment there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z3dr87/jeffrey_phillips_freeman_eugen_rochko_ceo_of/

#mastoadmin #fediblock #mastodon

I don’t care about how Mastodon works anymore than I care about how a car engine works. I’m having way too much fun driving and tooting the horn.

Exciting that the ability to take advantage of the UK's strong tides to generate reliable green energy is becoming ever closer!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/23/tidal-stream-energy-costs-ebb-reliability-flows

Lea river, in #London #photography