Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

World’s #militaries avoiding scrutiny over #emissions | #GreenhouseGasEmissions | The Guardian

The elephant in the room.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions

#Environment #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Cop26

The very nice thing about this image is that you can actually see Jupiter’s four largest satellites too, so you could say that the photograph actually shows five #moons in total. Jupiter is forming a triangle here with #DenebAlgedi (bottom left) and #Nashira (bottom right)

#DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #BackyardAstronomy

Marcus Rashford throws weight behind parents in Dyffryn Nantlle school meal row https://nation.cymru/news/marcus-rashford-throws-weight-behind-parents-in-dyffryn-nantlle-school-meal-row/

"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." -- Carl Jung

This was in reference to "Owning one's shadow". The shadow being the parts of our unconscious we are unaware of. Largely negative in nature but includes positive aspects as well.

#Jung #CarlJung #Quote #Quotes #Psychiatry #Philosophy

A #cloudy night but the #Moon is still shining through although highly diffused by atmospheric moisture. So, although in a clear sky, the exposure time would be a small fraction of a second to get the surface features clearly, here it was 1 s. I like the haziness of this #photograph, which is what I was deliberately looking for.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #BackyardAstronomy

#Cop26: #world on track for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report | Cop26 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/09/cop26-sets-course-for-disastrous-heating-of-more-than-24c-says-key-report

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

#fediverse #qoto #mastodon

Today I realized, many years ago I deleted other social networks like #facebook and #twitter they made me feel stressed out and bad.

The fediverse has not, it brings me happiness on my own terms.

Half of Britons do not know 6m Jews were murdered in #Holocaust | Holocaust | The Guardian

Appalling ignorance.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/10/half-of-britons-do-not-know-6m-jews-were-murdered-in-holocaust

#UK #History #Antisemitism

How #GDPR stops #discrimination and protects #equalities | #OpenRightsGroup

The#UK #Government is looking to scrap GDPR now that we’ve left the #EU.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/how-gdpr-stops-discrimination-and-protects-equalities/

#Brexit

If you need a crisis hotline but talking on the phone is a barrier for you for any reason the trevor project is a great alternative. It is a hotline you can do via text message.

If you need help please reach out to them. My DM is always open to and anyone having a hard time needing someone to talk to is always welcome to reach out to me.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

'Welsh history must never be forgotten' says Education Minister in response to Estyn criticism https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-history-must-never-be-forgotten-says-education-minister-in-response-to-estyn-criticism/

COP architects furious at lack of climate justice at pivotal summit

Scientists who worked on the original UN climate convention doubt that COP26 will deliver for low income countries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03088-z #ClimateEmergency #pollution #environment #ecology #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CllimateChange #COP26

#poland #cold #winter #refugees #réfugiés #immigrants #inhumanity

OKO.press

Maciek Piasecki
14 października 2021

„People are already dying, and freezing temperatures are coming”, warns an activist on the Polish border

“What is happening at the border is some sort of hunger games, it’s one big concentration camp” says a volunteer on the situation on the Polish-Belarus border. He hasn’t slept for the last several days so that he could bring something warm for the migrants and offer them legal help..."

https://oko.press/people-are-already-dying-and-freezing-temperatures-are-coming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1634213391

Me: I have so much to do, i need to write a todo list

::Blank todo list::

Me writing: Todo #1, write todo list

Me: good start! I deserve a reward for all this hard work, let me go take a nap.

Watch: Tory MS defends 'billionaires' in climate crisis debate https://nation.cymru/news/watch-tory-ms-defends-billionaires-in-climate-crisis-debate/

#Cymru #Wales

*Noon Time*

When I stop to think of "noon"
Either midwinter or in June.
The sun is overhead
Not an hour off instead.

That's why I like "standard time"
It's like a well done rhyme
When noon is in it's proper place.
With the sun straight up in space.

#SmallPoems
1/2

Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.

Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.

The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.

Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science #QOTOJournal

Discovery of #Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real #Roman life | #Italy | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/06/discovery-of-pompeii-slaves-room-sheds-rare-light-on-real-roman-life

#Archaeology #History