Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

@cain_rob

use moaparty, its better and doesnt block.

@frayoshi @trinsec

Saturn, when viewed in the near-infrared methane absorption band, appears blue. You're able to peer through the upper hazes into the clouds below and the bands and belts start to take shape. It's still false color, but almost looks like a whole new planet.

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

#Space #Science #Cassini #NASA #Astrodon

Woke up to find the twitter exodus **Still** accelerating. The last 24 hours has been the biggest influx yet, up over 20% from yesterday. We are seeing 1000 new users a day now!

France may block energy exports to UK as Macron’s ‘ancient’ nuclear plants rust up
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1692524/France-UK-EDF-electricity-exports-power-energy-bills-striking-workers-nuclear-reactors

@albinokid

Tip 1: Use hashtags. There's no algorithm to suggest followers or shove posts into your feed in the hopes you follow someone.

Tip 2: Boost (re-post) toots liberally. *You* are the algorithm.

Tip 3: Use CW (content warnings / content wrappers) to discuss politics, the meta.

Tip 4: To create "threads", make the first post public and each reply "unlisted" to prevent clogging up your instance's feed.

Tip 5: Provide text descriptions, even just basic ones, when attaching photos or media.

Tip 6: Use the "report" features for moderating trolls so your admins can take action.

Great article about the terrible state of the night sky: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/satellite-constellations-are-an-existential-threat-for-astronomy/

With commentary from a couple #astrodon members (that I know of): @planet4589 and @megschwamb

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.