Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia

Pluto backlit by the distant sun, captured by the departing New Horizons spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
https://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

#science #astronomy #nasa #pluto

This photo of a Thoreau quote taken at Walden Pond popped into my memories feeed today.
How do we live deliberately in these times? #reflection #thoreau #waldenpond #philosohy #mindfulness

For years, the FBI targeted ecological activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

Seventeen years ago today, on December 7, 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This became known as the Green Scare.

You can read about it here:

https://crimethinc.com/greenscared

In a text published today, one of the defendants, Daniel McGowan, recalls his arrest and first night in jail:

https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499

#BanOctopusFarming 🌊🐙

#BanOctopusFarming 🌊🐙

I'm constantly surprised at the number of people who are looking for lists of people to follow. There's no shortage of fascinating breadcrumb trails here.
Pick a toot that resonates with you and open it up. See who commented, or retooted it. Look at those people's profiles. Follow them.
Look at their older toots and follow the people whose comments on those toots pique your interest.
I've been here a month & have a global circle, not one of whom I knew before coming here. #IFollowTheCrumbs

Beautiful #Autumn

#Nature

Didn't we train for this our entire childhood?

This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
@histodons @geography

Every one of us should be angry that one of Ontario’s largest children’s hospitals has had to call in the Red Cross to help with staffing.

Every one of us should be demanding that our government immediately invest more resources into our healthcare system.

Every one of us.

How the Northern Lights are created:

As an ant biologist, I think the discovery of “ant milk” might be the single biggest research finding during my lifetime.

Across ants, maturing pupae make a nutritional exudate for their nestmates:

#science #ants #biology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04186-2

Today Toronto told #DougFord: Hands off the Greenbelt! Sign our petition to tell Ford to get his hands off the #Greenbelt at https://www.kristynwongtam.ca/greenbelt #Ontario #Torcen #TorontoCentre #Toronto #OnPoli #ToPoli #NDP #OntarioNDP