Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Frontispiece to Fridtjof Nansen's In Northern Mists (1911).

One of more than fifty depictions of #AuroraBorealis we've collected in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”. Explore here: https://t.co/7KxBeu8B0K #NorthernLights #art #illustration

Never forget, multimodal streets (aka “complete streets”) are simply more efficient, because they move, hold & serve more PEOPLE within the same space. Whether you think streets are just for moving people, or are for a LOT more, they’re just better. Via @NACTO.
#CityMakingMath #CompleteStreets #Streets #cities #urbanism #urbandesign #city #cars

This is the biggest news on the planet right now, although I understand how most folks don't think so yet. But it has the potential to be literally world changing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/

The origin of carrot soup.

Water Quality, Great Lakes, and Invasive species. This is the best book I've read in awhile. If you are interested in the invasive species issue and opening of the St Lawerence Seaway, this book is for you. A sad tale indeed.
#invasivespecies #GreatLakes #RoundGoby

Drive to work/work to drive. #CarDependency

Why is it so important to protect nature and biodiversity?
-- by Jeannette Cwienk, for DW News

"up to 70% of the world's harvests are directly or indirectly dependent on intact polders and mangrove swamps, in part because they protect land used to grow food crops from flooding."

https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-it-so-important-to-protect-nature-and-biodiversity/a-63989839?maca=en-Twitter-sharing
#biodiversity #sustainability #AgEcon #economics

COVID treatments and prevention are still improving – so the longer you can avoid it the better http://theconversation.com/covid-treatments-and-prevention-are-still-improving-so-the-longer-you-can-avoid-it-the-better-192140

I'm not an immunologist, so don't ask me if COVID-induced immune dysregulation is what is causing the current crisis. But a strict reading of the available evidence compels me to assign a Bayesian probability of 50% to its likelihood. That's more than enough for me to try to avoid getting infected (and getting my child infected) at almost all costs.

“Local stores next to the protected bike lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(plus they everyone safe.)

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. Bike-lanes mean business. #CityMakingMath Via #FastCompany.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90182112/want-to-make-money-build-a-business-on-a-bike-lane
#cities #urbanism #BikeLanes #bikes #transportation #mobility #business #city

I just wanted to say how happy I am here at Mastodon. People here are decidedly human. Kind humans. Ones that are able to have a conversation without spewing propaganda. Ones that respect one another. Being here gives me hope that all isn't lost, and that there are enough of us to make the world brighter.

Please, everyone, keep this alive. We need discourse. We need kindness. We need each other.

#ilovemastodon
#MastodonIsNotTwitter
#mastodonishome

Today is the 50th anniversary of the last time humans went to the Moon.

Apollo 17, the final mission of the Apollo program and the last time we ventured beyond low Earth orbit, launched from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1972.

Images: NASA https://flic.kr/s/aHskm64ger
#Apollo50

If you live on $30+ a day, you are part of the richest 15% of the world.

The poorest 50% - 4 billion people - live on less than $6.70 a day

https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality-introduction
All measures are adjusted for differences in purchasing power.

It's not about whether you personally want to or need to drive. It’s about understanding the simple truth that in cities, if everyone tries to move by car, no one moves much at all. So the more of us that are enticed to walk, bike & take transit, the better it is for EVERYONE.
#cities #urbanism #transportation #cars