Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

What were previously thought to be pristine archaeological deposits, ripe for investigation, could be contaminated with plastics.

Tiny particles of microplastics were discovered seven metres underground in samples dating from the first or early second century. They were first excavated in the 1980s. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/27/scientists-find-evidence-of-microplastic-contamination-in-pristine-archaeological-remains

Waves crash against a lighthouse during Storm Nelson in Les Sables d'Olonne, France. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

@photography
#lighthouse
#waves
#storm
#France

Late stage capitalism is a trip. Now investment bros are coming after the income of retirees. smh

SOLUTION: Take 5 seconds to email you Senator to pass HR 2799 —a rare bipartisan bill to ban investment bros from exploiting incomes of retires.

Need 61 more signatures. Please do sign & Boost. ❤️✊🏽

https://bit.ly/3PFUp1t

How Pentesting-as-a-Service can Reduce Overall Security Costs - Penetration testing plays a critical role in finding application vulnerabilities before t... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-pentesting-as-a-service-can-reduce-overall-security-costs/ #security

"Uncle I've read the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy.. and say... where is Betelgeuse?"

"It doesn't exist anymore"

https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/betelgeuse-will-explode-someday/

Kind of amazing that we have recent popular literature which mentions a star and assumes it is a permanent fixture in the sky, when that star might explode within our lifetime. 🤯

Of course we also have star charts from the middle ages that show stars that can't be found in the sky today. 🤷🤔

#randomthoughts #astronomy #betelgeuse #h2g2

#SciComm is a female-dominated field often undervalued as "care work", especially in academia. Our latest preprint examines sentiments around sci-comm in the life sciences and asks, if it's so poorly rewarded, why do people do it? 🧵⬇️ 1/n https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.28.582614

Are you part of a company, school, club, temple, or some other group in the US?

FEMA can, for free, ship you some printed stuff that can help individuals and communities prepare for emergencies and disasters.

https://www.ready.gov/publications has an overview, and
https://orders.gpo.gov/icpd/ICPD.aspx has a bunch of links to PDFs as well.

Includes games and curricula to help kids learn how to react in an emergency or disaster.

Outside the US? Check out the PDFs in case they suit your needs!

#preparedness #prep

Update. "#Oregon’s legislature just passed a #RightToRepair bill over the objection of #Apple lobbyists, and which would require Apple to change an anti-repair design in the iPhone and other devices. If signed by the governor, it will become by far the strongest repair law in the nation."
https://www.404media.co/oregon-passes-right-to-repair-bill-that-would-make-apple-redesign-the-iphone/

Mark Zuckerberg could shoot a puppy on live stream and some of you would still want to federate with Threads BECAUSE AUDIENCE!

Unfuckingbelievable.

Modern Slavery is alive and thriving throughout the world.

Human trafficking-fuelled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to US$3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol has said in comments that reveal the huge profits being earned by cartels.

I know someone who lived in Vietnam that was tricked into one of these 'jobs' in Cambodia. She ended up working there for nearly 2 years before she could get away.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/gangs-netting-up-to-us-3-trillion-a-year-as-southeast-asia-human-trafficking-becomes-a-global-crisis-interpol-says-1.6825768

High School Artists! There’s only one week left to submit your work to #OH11’s Congressional Art Competition 
https://shontelbrown.house.gov/services/art-competition