Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

A few days back, the Sun unleashed an Earth directed flare. It took a few days to arrive, but it finally came in the early hours of this morning.

Aurora have lit up the world since!

Astrophotographers have captured them in Victoria, Tasmania. The below Gorgeous photo by AsV member Eddie Pang was captured using iPhone 14 Pro of this morning’s aurora captured at the Astro. Society of Victoria's Leon Mow dark sky site north of Heathcote (VIC)

In the north, they are reporting aurora as far south as Kansas!

#Aurora #SolarStorm #GeomagneticStorm #SolarMax #Astrodon

@rodhilton

The fact that MAGA *still* fail to realize how they are being exploited by rich Republicans is amusing.

Musk has imposed these celebrity blue checks on people who refuse to pay him.

And they *still* don't get why that's a problem.

Modern Republican & Tory policy is funded to impose the unwanted on anyone who isn't a billionaire.

And they still don't recognize that as fascism .

They finally cracked the Mayan calendar, and the reason they couldn't before is that the 819 days of the calendar have to be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand, and that is just 🤯

The Mayans were wild, man

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a43645858/how-the-mayan-calendar-works

#history

@tchambers @georgetakei It's George Takei's birthday??!!
Happy birthday, Mr. Takei!!!

@MeanwhileinCanada Who'd have thought the war on drugs could be won just by making it all available.

As a Coloradan, there are less people here buying MJ than ever.

“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”

My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://youtu.be/CXr9YcMU_WU

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Anti-trans laws come from right wing think tanks like the Claremont Institute. To take away the right to vote from young people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/dark-money-us-supreme-court-case-voting-law-moore-v-harper

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda

The Claremont Institute is funded by GOP billionaire donors to end democracy
http://conservativetransparency.org/org/the-claremont-institute/

https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wz9b/claremont-institute-desantis

They are deliberately creating a civil war for financial gain & keeping the proceeds of bigotry & economic looting
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/claremont-ryan-williams-trump/620252/

You cannot make this shit up!
"A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has learned.

About six hours after being confronted by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Rep. Scotty Campbell gave up his seat in the Tennessee General Assembly.

Campbell, who served as vice chair of the House Republican Caucus and who recently voted to expel three Democrats who engaged in a gun violence protest on the House floor, had suffered no previous consequences as a result of his actions."
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-gop-leader-who-voted-to-expel-tennessee-three-found-guilty-of-sexually-harassing-interns

Pope Francis lost his Blue Check status today because the Catholic Church wouldn’t pay $8/month to Twitter.

I guess the Pope sees Twitter Blue as a needless indulgence.

🤣

Statistically, 1 in every 3 people in a relationship cheat so I only need to figure out if it’s my boyfriend or my husband.

The Big Melt is now officially arriving...this weekend. Flows on many rivers draining the central/southern Sierra will double or triple (with locally greater increases) as temperatures rise. Some rivers will exceed flood stage,

Which is the best British insult?

Please boost for maximum exposure. This is of vital importance.

#poll

Total deaths per 1M/pop., 12/20:

1. MS 4,389 (+0)
2. AZ 4,387 (+0)
3. WV 4,275 (+0)
4. AL 4,223 (+0)
5. AR 4,197 (+1)
6. NM 4,185 (+3)
7. TN 4,160 (+0)
8. MI 4,071 (+15)
9. NJ 3,982 (+3)
10. KY 3,945 (+0)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Dominion was worth $80 million as a company before yesterday.

They're now about to get $787,500,000 -- some of which can pay for their other defamation lawsuits against:

- Newsmax
- OAN
- Rudy Giuliani
- Mike Lindell
- Patrick Byrne
- Sidney Powell

Hello Fediverse!

@Flipboard is currently a walled garden.

It's a beautiful, highly curated walled garden filled with content from the worlds best publishers and creators curated by Flipboard's editorial team as well as our community of magazine makers.

But it's still a walled garden. Today that begins to change.

We've moved four of our most popular #curation desks into the Fediverse for you to enjoy.

@NewsDesk
@TechDesk
@CultureDesk
@ScienceDesk

Details below:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-editorial-curation-comes-to-mastodon/

He's trying to ban drag shows because they "sexualize children."

And he's caught...sexualizing a child.

Any Republican calling anyone else a "groom" is actually a groomer. Full stop.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv8dq/texas-bryan-slaton-intern

Judge who denied girl abortion over grades shortlisted for Florida’s top court - The Guardian https://apple.news/AH2fEa164TlyVNf7hzFp8ug

Trump’s ‘greatest hits’ of Covid misinformation are read out at congressional hearing - The Independent https://apple.news/A3gCsRx0YTB2rjfeiIXRB_g