Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme. Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars.

Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives

Men-An-Tol holed stone, Cornwall, also known locally as the "Crick Stone". Thought to be bronze age. The last picture is the one I use for my social media headers. Photos October 2018. #StandingStoneSunday #PreHistory #Cornwall

Self care isn't always chocolate & NetFlix. Sometimes, it's getting out of bed & doing more difficult tasks like summoning a demon to help with the dishes or finding the right number of chicken bones to appease the thing that lives in the attic.

DID YOU KNOW?
Fennec foxes are stackable, making them easy to store.

#fox #fact

Bone broth: healthy, tasty, plus you made a light lunch out of your enemy’s skeleton.

He's proven that he's no genius, and that he never was. He's always been just another bigot with a trust fund.

The city lies devoured
By heaped sparkling white,
Sunken street sounds swallowed
By the calm of crackling quiet.
The night grows distant
As last night’s dreams,
Still, the sky keeps falling
Carried on ragged wind,
Piling in hollows and corners
Like unspoken sentences
In tight-lipped mouths,
Hushed tongues held till morning
In the pristine alabaster.
Under the silence we slumber,
Keeping our toes warm
Until dawn’s golden chill.

〜 XI ❄️

#MastoPrompt #Blizzard 🌨 #SmallPoems #Poetry #IndigoInk

#InternationalMountainDay 🏔️ 2/5

Today we join the celebration of one of the most beautiful natural elements of #OurPlanet with a selection of #Copernicus 🇪🇺🛰️ imagery

⬇️ The High Tauern National Park (#Austria 🇦🇹), as seen by #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ on 19 November 2022

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1601856931055996929

A Polish catholic priest, Kazimierz Sykulski.

He was executed by shooting in Auschwitz on 11 December 1941.
He was 58.

He was beatified in 1999: https://prayers4reparation.wordpress.com/tag/blessed-kazimierz-sykulski/?fbclid=IwAR0uTEOYaC2sR-qt_EsAEd071u0ZmylboIylySSIVe_p1lyOCQVYSwDQkRQ

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The Germans incarcerated in Auschwitz at least 464 priests, seminarians & monks as well as 35 nuns. Learn about the fate of Christian clergy and religious life in the camp: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_duchowienstwo/

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #priest #Christian #education #religion

@fullyabstract

Many of us have moved on from the #BirdSite and don’t want to go back, but still want access to some of the news there. I’m thankful for the M’don users who cross post and share, but I refuse to click back to see the tweets. Every time we enter the birdspace and every time we like, retweet, reply or share, #Elon wins.

Instead of sharing tweets, I wish folks would just post a screenshot of pertinent tweets and add third party links for any reference sources.

#MastodonMigration

Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)

This. First is a letter by a little girl named Madeline.
Followed by the official response on Unicorn Licensing. 🦄

more than anyone else kyrsten sinema proves my longtime theory that people who self-identify as "quirky" are utterly insufferable

I'm trying to get started with Mastodon and hope to find dendro people here and discuss tree rings and other fun topics! 🌳💍

It’s wild that we can see images like this from NASA’s Webb Telescope - galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away, stars being born & dying - and yet carry on ravaging the planet as if it’s not miraculous that somehow, we’re here.

A tiny speck of sand in the vastness of the cosmos. #space