John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography

We are an insane species.

By diverting waste from our excessive consumption of meat into fuel to fractionally greenwash our addiction to flying, we end up clearing more tropical forests to source palm oil for pet food.

So much idiocy in a single paragraph.

The epitaphs written to this “civilisation” will not be kind.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65727664

Hello friends, today we’re launching https://cooperative.computer !

It’s like dGaaS (De-Googling as a Service). Nextcloud files storage, contacts and calendar syncing and a Matrix account all for £3 per month.

- No ads
- No data mining
- No BS

AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Don’t like it? Change it! Cooperative.computer will eventually be its own cooperative where the members decide how it’s run.

Come talk to us on Matrix today! Operators are standing-by. https://matrix.to/#/#general:cooperative.computer

@tanweerdar

I think I miss an imagined version
Of cricket, where there are no failures
Nor unkind words, where there is no
Permanent core of self-doubt
Writhing around my heart, and where
Team bonds are forever strong.

It doesn't exist, of course, this
Perfect model of the game I used
To love, where to pick up a ball in
January to start hardening my hands
Was as natural an act as breathing,
So I stand at the boundary and dream.

#MastoPrompt #Writhing #Poetry #Cricket

‘Light shining through a wall’ experiment ALPS starts searching for dark matter @DESYnews – World’s most sensitive instrument of its kind is to produce axions. Key contributions from @mpi_grav and Leibniz University Hannover researchers.

➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1031052/licht-durch-die-wand-experiment-alps-startet-suche-nach-dunkler-materie

#lightupdarkmatter #ALPSII

Blog post: Writing Python like it’s Rust

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/python/2023/05/20/writing-python-like-its-rust.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://kobzol.github.io/rust/python/2023/05/20/writing-python-like-its-rust.html

#programming #python #rustlang

Happiness is a good PYTHONSTARTUP script

https://bitecode.substack.com/p/happiness-is-a-good-pythonstartup

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://bitecode.substack.com/p/happiness-is-a-good-pythonstartup

#programming #python

@doot this you?

Always look up 🙂

This beautiful circumzenithal arc or "upside-down rainbow" graced the skies over our house for more than 90 minutes this fine spring evening 🙇‍♂️

#AtmosphericOptics #Photography #IceHalo

I don't know what the squirrels in my back yard are up to *exactly* but I feel like I'm the one who's going to wind up in jail for it.

Tooters. My google-fu is failing me & I need your help.

Is there a Mastodon client for iOS that has a built-in animated GIF browser, as the bird app does?

That is, a button which takes you to a repository of GIFs which you can search & then insert one into your toot, as opposed to the ability to upload a GIF from your own photo library.

I can’t see how to do this in the official iOS Mastodon app, or METATEXT or Ice Cubes, & I feel a bit stupid 😬

Me every time I find a tutorial for something I need help with, only to discover it's actually a video and not a text with images:

UK peeps: consider signing this government petition (to halt passage of the Online Safety Bill, which will gut end-to-end encryption including your online banking security, personal message privacy, and right to privacy in general): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

A brilliant cartoon from Anne Derenne https://annederenneillustration.com/project-type/ecologie-ecology/

For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.

#EnglishIsHard

Free at last!
The 16m long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna on the ESA Juice spacecraft, which had been stuck after unfolding 2 of its 6 segments, is finally free after some shaking and rotating of the spacecraft using its thrusters. 🛰️ 🎉

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_RIME_antenna_breaks_free
#ESAJuice #ESA #Jupiter
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Hey, I noticed that Mastodon didn’t make nice previews for links to my blog, so I read up on the necessary & fixed it, and then obviously had to write a blog on the blog about fixing the blog. Which (if my tests are valid) should decorate this post a bit. If you don’t see this post, that means it broke and I had to delete the post until I fixed things.

If your links suffer from bad-preview syndrome this might be helpful. Otherwise not really of general interest.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/05/08/Blog-Preview

@PlaneSailingGames @pluralistic

And there is this scandal from big 4 accounting firm, PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers): the Australian government hired a PwC partner to help them develop better laws to tax multinationals but unbeknownst to the government, the partner leaked the information internally allowing PwC to devise schemes to sell to clients which would bypass the new laws:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-09/pwc-australia-ceo-steps-down-after-tax-documents-leak-scandal/102323102

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife