ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

@RickiTarr I finished an oil painting this week!

I’m so pleased that this amazing collection of essays about teaching with digital archival materials is now online and open access. It was stewarded by two brilliant editors and even has an essay by me :)

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12752519

@dh

During the super blue moon, the were-Smurfs become exceptionally strong and ferocious.

I'm a geologist and this isn't cute or funny. Rocks only climb trees like this when they're very stressed.

@aral @TheDudish @RickiTarr

Can Mastodon help 2 young creatives find work? We just finished a great project and are now looking for new projects to work on. I'm a musician, jewellery designer and executive film producer/director and my partner Zach is a video editor, VFX artist and illustrator, we run a film collective called VFP with an amazing cinematographer. We're both queer, neurodivergent and super creative and passionate individuals, always creating.
Our work:
https://linktr.ee/visionfulfilled
#film #art #artists #news

My avatar is having coffee and a treat at L'Hermitage near the Blake Sea:

https://flic.kr/p/2oZ2XQ7

#SecondLife #avatar #garidin

837g tomato.

Mama mia!

Does Mitch McConnell have a family? Does anyone love him enough to talk with him about... the finite nature of life. The preciousness of hours, minutes seconds?

How from dust we all have come and to dust we shall all return?

He could be petting some kittens. Listening to the sound of a child's laugh-- Dude really wants to die in front of us holding a pen mid-way through signing a bill that forces orphans to work in coal mines or something.

When writing science fiction, always Google your made-up planet name; 9 times out of 10, it's an existing yeast infection medication.

Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.

Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.

Anyone see a problem here?

This fcking corrupt racist Joe Arpaio is running for Mayor in Fountain Hills Arizona, These fascist must always be defeated.

Former sheriff Joe Arpaio announces run for Fountain Hills Mayor | 12news.com https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/former-maricopa-county-sheriff-joe-arpaio-run-mayor-fountain-hills-2023/75-eeb0a480-a647-42b1-9045-53d53b737a8b

Good reporting on reaction to #ClarenceThomas releasing a legal defense of past failures to disclose required ethics information and of the conduct that he grudgingly disclosed today. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw/bloomberglawnews/exp/eyJpZCI6IjAwMDAwMThhLTRjNWItZGFlZC1hOThmLTZkZGI5NjliMDAwMSIsImN0eHQiOiJMV05XIiwidXVpZCI6InJ2Zmw1Rm5taUhOTHVtM1E1eXJEOEE9PUZLOFFyM0FBa3ZZYUk3a1NGVnNJWUE9PSIsInRpbWUiOiIxNjkzNTA1MTUzMzI4Iiwic2lnIjoiZGtEK05lSWRJb29IdDV4VTlibjJvbTFUUVY4PSIsInYiOiIxIn0

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer, took 10 years to capture 48 colours of the moon.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colors-of-the-moon-marcella-giulia-pace.html

#Moon #Photography #Astronomy

"Only 1,280 Reproductive Human Ancestors Once Roamed Earth, Gene Study Suggests
An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research."

https://gizmodo.com/genetic-population-bottleneck-1850792411

I never used Winamp, but you post about it a lot.

so I tried a web version of it: https://webamp.org/

Let's take a moment to appreciate the fantastic art from "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot", which was 1st published by John Muir Productions in 1969.

Idk man instead of constantly changing the rules in hospitals about whether or not masking is required and confusing the shit out of people why not just do the easy thing that protects patients and require them forever. Then nobody ever has to wonder or get confused. They can just be like "oh, going to the hospital, better bring a mask"