Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

The Washington Post now flags journalists' profiles as verified on Mastodon.

I made a scale visualization of the shapes and relative sizes of WASP-12 b (a very hot Jupiter) and Saturn.

Saturn is spinning pretty quickly, which draws it out into a squished ball shape (oblate spheroid), whereas WASP-12 b is pulled into a long football shape by the tidal forces from its parent star.

#astronomy #space

Join us in a week for the next Virtual Astronomy Software Talk seminar: https://vast-seminars.github.io

and hear from Alex Gurvich on Firefly and Peter Teuben on NEMO

@therobburgessshow The media are to blame, for encouraging people to think that politicians have to have larger than life personalities, instead of solid policies to benefit their people.
Those clowns don't have a people. They've forgotten they're supposed to be there to serve, not to rule.

Dammit Mastodon we need a quote-post function SO badly. Didn’t realise how important it is, but as a way to add context it’s unbeatable.

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

The latest episode of the Abandoned America podcast dropped today, and it's a wild one. In it I talk about the brief life and protracted death of the Six Flags New Orleans theme park with Jake Williams, director of the recent documentary about it, "Closed For Storm". If you want to know how a whole 220-acre theme park could be left in ruins for nearly a decade, here's your episode!
https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica/episodes/Abandoned-Amusement-Parks-Six-Flags-New-Orleans-e1uigr2

I’m very clear that the ONLY way to the supremacy, coercion, discrimination, and exploitation FREE future I seek is through an honest reckoning with current systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to privilege the few at the expense of the many…that the ONLY way out, is through

New Discoveries Puts Jupiter at 92 Known Moons - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/159991/new-discoveries-puts-jupiter-at-92-known-moons/
#jupiter #space #solarsystem #science #technology

Sunset at the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans

Check out the huge gallery update: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/six-flags-new-orleans

On 23 February we will host an online seminar dedicated to the persecution of Roma & Sinti, the history of the so-called Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and the contemporary contexts of functioning of Roma communities.

Details & registration: https://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/roma-experience-of-extermination-educational-session-online-23-february-2023,1602.html

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Zigeunerlager #history #histodons @histodons #Roma #Sinti #Gypsies #genocide #education #seminar #online #Nazis #ww2

Joe Biden showed last night that he is more than capable of taking on the extremist GOP and even getting them to support bedrock earned entitlements like Social Security. What a masterful stroke that was! I'm proud to stand with him.

This seems to be a thing to do over here - hashtag stuff you’re interested in and pin the toot to your profile…

#ScottishIndependence
#SocialDemocracy
#Music
#Writing
#ClimateChange
#GreenHydrogen

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