Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

@skrishna I love these comparisons and detailed explanations. Thank you!

Comet C/2020 F3 "NEOWISE" reflected in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (7/10/2020).

This is a single frame. There was moon light illuminating Fannette Island and the bay. I did a little dodging and burning and color grading in #darktable running on a Linux box.

Sony a7rIII, 55mm prime, f/1.8, 5sec, ISO640.

#astronomy #comet #astrophotography #astrophoto #photography #laketahoe #lake #emeraldbay #sierra #linuxphotography

You can really see areas of active star formation in this latest #JWST image (as opposed to the #Hubble image — I do a side by side comparison!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4PZ7fFJ-J8

#space #science #nasa #esa #womeninstem #astronomy

Here's an interesting question: Can you attend this weekend's #EmacsConf with GNU #Emacs itself? Be sure to attend these great presentations December 3 and 4: https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/ And if you connect via Emacs, let us know!

Rare cosmic event beamed light at Earth from 8.5 billion light-years away

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/world/black-hole-devours-star-scn/index.html

"An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds."

#science

If you're reading this, and you're struggling in any way...

If you're depressed, anxious, angry, bitter, heartbroken, confused...

Just close your eyes for a while and focus on anything that makes you smile. Listen to your favorite song. Think about someone who makes you laugh. Shut everything else out.

It gets better. Just believe that.

:( #FleetwoodMac #ChristineMcVie

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/30/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvie-dies-at-age-79?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Random chat on the library van with my neighbour who loves sprouts. She has lots of model sprouts but not a felt one. So I made her one. #Art #FibreArt #Silly #Fun

Before he was an astronaut, Neil Armstrong was a @nasa test pilot, testing research planes including the X-15. Milt Thompson called him "the most technically capable of the early X-15 pilots." On the last of his 7 X-15 flights in July 1962 he reached Mach 5.74.

📷 #OTD in 1959
#NASAhistory

An invoice catch-up day for recent book #indexing jobs on:
– early American literature in British print
– the British adult film industry
– orchestral conductors and
– information management from prehistory to present.
All great books to read and different challenges to #index. And that’s why I still love being an indexer. ❣️
#indexodon #FilmStudies #LitStudies #music

The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work’s interpretation remains disputed.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/

#ArtAdventCalendar
It’s already December on this side of the date line! Wishing everyone an ArtFul month!

Here’s one I took last year. In photography it’s all in the preparation, right? I’d set up my view camera, adjusted, metered, adjusted again, and waited for the decisive moment. And when I looked behind me I saw this… it’s my favourite phone photo 😁

@benjaminhollon

* early 2000s Redhat installer
* early 2000s Debian installer
* nmtui
* sncli
* tut
* toot
* htop!!!!! :D

#7TUIsToKnowMe

30 November 1892 | A Pole, Jan Guzik, was born in Boguchwała. A gardener.

In Auschwitz from 13 April 1942.
No. 29546
He perished in the camp on 30 June 1942.

Learn about the creation of Auschwitz, reasons of incarceration of Poles & the plans of development of Auschwitz into the main camp for prisoners in German-occupied Poland. Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

#Auschwitz #history #ww2 #WorldWar2 #Nazis #Germany #Poland #mugshot #histodons

Can confirm that @b_j_griffiths gives a great talk on oscillations and memory. He's done some lovely work with combined EEG/fMRI, MEG, and intracranial recordings providing clear insight into the roles of theta, alpha/beta, and gamma during encoding and retrieval.

Please only respond if you identify as trans, thank you (boosts welcome)

"I am trans and..."