Amanda Whatley @mandaroza@qoto.org

Just before Liftoff. This #greatblueheron realizes nobody’s catching anything on this foggy morning in #FultonTexas last Wednesday.

There is a fascist coup underway in Brazil. As @mrdenmore says, "Can we please move past this absurd and ridiculous notion that this isn’t an international authoritarian movement following the same playbook, towards the same ends, and funded/organized by the same people?" It's important everywhere, but in Brazil, the fate of the Amazon hangs in the balance. Clawing back up the slope to climate stability becomes Hercuean.

Fun fact: One reason why people guilty of seditious conspiracy are supposed to be imprisoned for up to 20 years under Title 18 of US law, rather than being invited to CPAC parties and Tucker Carlson's nightly tribute to Putin, is so that precisely this doesn't keep happening. #USpol #politics

In the future AI technology will play video games for us. You'll say "Computer, play Doom" and a message will pop up saying "You have won Doom." This will free up valuable time for doing more work

Pleased :-) my paper on two stray hippo bones from the Waveney Valley (East Anglia, UK) has been accepted for publication @ Geological Society of Norfolk, with a review of local fossil vertebrate localities.
#Pleistocene #geology #palaeontology #Norfolk #Suffolk #hippopotamus

It's launch time! 🚀

Re: Toot is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Re: Toot turns Mastodon posts into images that are suitable for quote posts with attribution to the original author and an alt text.

Get the app here 👇

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/re-toot/id1661697436

Finally some good news out of the UK. The Tories have formally abandoned their plan to privatise (destroy) Channel Four. Hundreds of small production companies will be breathing a sigh of relief.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/05/channel-4-privatisation-plans-formally-abandoned

#Channel4