Cosmo 🥥🌴 @nibble4bits@qoto.org

One of the dumbest things a smart person can do is to start thinking they’re smarter than everyone else.

Today is #LGBTQSTEMDay ! A day to celebrate all the LGBTQ+ people who work in or study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. I’m proud to be a part of a worldwide community of amazing people doing amazing things!

Because of all the new users today (again):

Don't forget to enable Two-Factor Authentication in Mastodon in your settings.

@racheltobac explains you why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5bW5MEOCM

Look. I’m here because I’m too ugly for Instagram, too interesting for LinkedIn and have too much disdain for my extended family to use Facebook.

I will give big points to the first news organization, big or small, that:
* Sets up an instance for its newsroom,
* Sets up an instance for the community it serves,
* Enables rel=me for staff,
* Creates a boost-on-Mastodon sharing function,
* Enhances that function so headlines/images (with alt-text) appear in the toot,
* Covers the Fediverse as more than a geeky curiosity or alt-Twitter,
* Listens to and joins in the conversation here.

Today seems like a good time to remind you that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars anyone from holding office who has “engaged in insurrection” against the United States of America.

#COLORADO voters abroad, IT'S NOT OVER!

Please, please, please check https://bit.ly/curemyballot
... you may discover that your ballot has NOT been counted, but you can fix it.

🚨TODAY/Wednesday is the deadline. Let's say #byebyeBoebert in #CO03!

A ONE-VOTE WIN‼️ Here's a cool thing to show the next person who tells you 'my vote doesn't make any difference.'

💙 Democrat Maxine Mosley finished 23 votes behind Republican incumbent Larry Gagne on Election Day, but after Monday’s recount, in which she picked up two votes and Gagne lost 22, she eked out a one-vote win.💙 #USPol

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-11-14/recount-flips-n-h-house-seat-to-democrats-trimming-gop-margin-in-state-house

Musk on advertising

Katie Hobbs just beat Kari Lake! 👏

Apparently, the conservatives are freaking out and claiming fraud and heaven knows what. 🙃

Meanwhile, everyone is turning against #Trump, which I would like to have made into pill form so I can take it daily as a supplement.

#KatieHobbs #KariLake #midterms

From AstroFalls in New South Wales, Australia:

The November 8 eclipse in the Earth’s shadow.

If you take pictures throughout the duration of a lunar eclipse, you can use them to reconstruct an image of the shadow of our own planet, projected out into space.

This dark region of shadow is called the umbra, and as the moon passes into the umbra it is cast in a red/orange light from the sunrises and sunsets on our planet.

transporter verification failure #startrek

Hahaha too true. #politics #uspol #puppy

If you were Twitter Verified before Nov. 5th but your account is *not* listed on https://fedified.com and you would like it to be listed, then please follow the very easy instructions on this very short form: https://forms.gle/Ynzdwz39nHtxD1Li6

I've thought a lot about it, and there's really no way to completely automate the process of verifying that the same person who controls a Twitter-verified account controls a Mastodon account— it needs to be a manual process to ensure integrity. (2/3)

I find that there's something mesmerising about star photos!! This is Procyon.
The name Procyon comes from ancient Greek and means 'before the dog'. Named so since it precedes the dog star, Sirius, as it moves across the night sky.
Procyon is a binary star system. This means it is gravitationally bound to another star, Procyon B, a white dwarf. They orbit each other every 40 years.
Procyon is one of the closest stars to our system.
#stars #space #universe #astrophotography