Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Hey all, blame this mundane post on @Mrfunkedude . 😉 #Today
I have ADHD and am using a free plugin to Visual Studio Code called @dendronhq to create a personal knowledge store that will allow me to remember things my brain does not.

I need your help...

Every day I put out a post to encourage people to Toot about their lives. Mundane or interesting.

I do this is to keep the social aspect of Mastodon alive. It's easy to forget, in a world of niche content, all of the things that make us who we are.

When we share our lives, we can see ourselves in others. We can see what makes us different, and yet the same.

That's beautiful.

So PLEASE, if you see any of my boosts with #today in it, BOOST it.

Let's keep Mastodon social.

So why did 1.5°C became the acceptable limit to rising temperatures? That story reveals an essential truth about #ClimateChange itself.
(From @TheConversationUK)

https://theconversation.com/1-5-c-where-the-target-came-from-and-why-were-losing-sight-of-its-importance-195745

#Climate #ClimateCrisis

What's interesting is that the Toronto Star article revised the title of the article from:

"75 per cent of COVID ‘long haulers’ free of symptoms in 12 months: McMaster study"

to the current and far more accurate:

"25 per cent of COVID patients become ‘long haulers’ after 12 months: Mac study"

Good for them.

You can read it here: https://www.thestar.com/ths/news/hamilton-region/2023/01/04/mcmaster-long-covid-study.html /2

A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.

We know which ones we need to hold accountable for the climate crisis.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

“I’ve started calling these kinds of calls for positive thinking ‘hopewashing.’ Like greenwashing and pinkwashing, hopewashing offers a way for corporations and people with power to make it seem like they’re making the world a better, more hopeful place, while in reality they’re doing the opposite.”

#hope #hopewashing #greenwashing

https://www.wired.com/story/prediction-futures-politics-hope/

"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."
—Kirkpatrick Sale

Hi folks! If you're new to Mastodon, you may have seen the hashtag #Alt4You and wondered about it -- well, wonder no more!

Mastodonians who are #blind or have low sight use screen readers to access the #Fediverse. They need descriptions of visual content, and sometimes people forget to provide that description when they post an image. Sighted Mastodonians can help by adding a comment to the original post, providing that description and including the #Alt4You tag.

Come help out!

@Kashalot #Alt4you description: the top image is a sepia toned photo, taken from sea, of a wall of ice, with just the very tops of two mountains visible in the background. The bottom photo, which is in color, is just a picture of the mountains; ice has all melted.

Hey friends - I am in Antarctica with extremely slow and limited internet and I have a book coming out this year that I'd normally be posting more about because pre-orders are *critical* to a book's success.

Help me get the word out?

OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV

From black holes to space elevators and extraterrestrial civilizations, this is a rich and beautifully illustrated book for your coffee table. And astronaut Mae Jemison wrote the Foreword!

https://amzn.to/3GA2HUz

This epic "colossus" sculpture was erected in the late 1500s by renowned Italian sculptor Giambologna as a symbol of Italy’s rugged Appenine mountains. This mountain god, named Appennino, stands 35 feet tall within the Villa Demidoff in Tuscany. Wow!

The best philosophy books I have read in 2022? Let me mention 3.
First, The Knowledge Machine (Strevens). An original thesis on what makes science what it is - an almost pathological activity.