Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@qoto.org

Wise words from a wise woman....

Portrait of Ursula K Le Guin with text:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

Is everyone aware of the sea-level rise we are causing now? 1 meter will be catastrophic for many coastal cities and regions.
At 2 °C warming we comit the world to a long-term rise by 8-13 meters until the ice sheets come to a new equilibrium. Source: http://www.ipcc.ch

People don't fake depression, they fake being okay. Remember that and be kind.

I was gifted an ink pen over the holiday, sketched this with it today. Yes, I tapped the paper trying to undo because I’ve been drawing digitally too much lol

🎉Infosec.exchange just passed 1,000,000 posts!

Forgive me if I've shared this one before

#aiart #midjourney

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

One generation of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world.

There's something kind of comforting about knowing that if I were alive in literally any other era of human history I would have been burnt at the stake or lobotomized or murdered but because its 2023 I can post utterly insane things online and no one can do anything about it

@kimlockhartga
What’s happening in Turkey is more of a like a swarm of earthquakes. Swarms are more often associated with volcanic systems though, as magma moves. In a strike/slip fault system, you essentially have a deck of cards sliding past each other.

When a section locks up for a long time & then moves, stresses are transferred to other places in the fault system, and then some of them move.

The amount of energy being released over ther is incredible

The lowest ever recorded temperature in the US was hit today in Mount Washington, New Hampshire wind of -78°C (-108°F)! It even *looks* cold!

Video via: https://www.mountwashington.org/

#weather #cold

Don’t wait until you are desperately sneaking through your house in the dark trying to avoid a crazed murder to realize you should have oiled those door hinges.

Anytime you go to book a meeting involving other people think ‘can I talk to my therapist instead’.

Another Willow tree #Pixelart study.

They're my favorite. :)

Concerning the balloon from China...

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

I wonder how the talking animals from Narnia taste?

And before you get all bent out of shape PETA, I meant that sexually

This is a reminder to use https://www.movetodon.org one more time before the watertight doors on the Titanic close

It's February, why not replace romantic love with a ham.