Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

#science

When someone tells you they work “in privacy”, ask them who pays them and then you’ll know whether they work for or against protecting yours.

#privacy #followTheMoney

This is what Ron DeSantis wants for America: 🖕🏽
“I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concepts of sex and gender transitions at any age. I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.”

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of "intermediate-sized" black hole that may be lurking in the heart of the closest globular star cluster to Earth, located 6,000 light-years away.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasas-hubble-hunts-for-intermediate-sized-black-hole-close-to-home

#NASA #Hubble #astronomy #Astrodon #universe #space #sciencemastodon #science #blackholes

What's next? Will Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and members of other religions be required to wear armbands denoting their "differing" religions to make it easier to murder them later? You can read this article for free.
#Texas #ReligiousBigotry

https://wapo.st/3MvHsVD

Please boost?

Calling @histodons and #museum professionals, esp.

I received a nifty grant to travel with 12 Colgate Univ #museumstudies students in January 2024. 5 days in DC and 3 days in NYC.

I've got a rough itinerary planned: combo of art, history, and natural history/science.

I'm very eager to make contact with curators, educators, and others working in museum spaces to give these students a great experience and hopefully some behind the scenes access.

Seeking contacts and tips!

For those who would like to learn more about the history of @neuromatch Academy and how we built it, I wrote this some time ago:
https://gunnarblohm.medium.com/neuromatch-academy-the-story-cdaec59c430e

Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle https://grist.org/accountability/plastic-bottles-harm-human-health-at-every-stage-of-their-life-cycle/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RT @EU_ENV: We are only 2️⃣ weeks ahead of the #EUGreenWeek 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐭-𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝

📆 Save the date to follow the 🟢 LIVE conference on 6-7 June 2023!

And don’t forget to take a look at our partner events all across Europe: https://green-week.event.europa.eu/index_en https://t.co/Rucqo08vLZ

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1660967158635954178

My wife's cousin just died, and the non-religious daughter is having it out with the religious son about whether to honor their mother's verbal wishes expressed to the daughter—cremation + no funeral—vs. a religious funeral.
PSA: Parents, WRITE DOWN YOUR FUNERAL WISHES and make sure your kids know where that document is.
Also, you need a will, a healthcare proxy, and advance directives.
Don't leave behind a mess for your kids to deal with at a terrible time.
#death #dying #grief #parenting

REMINDER: Trump and MAGA wants to cause a debt ceiling default because they believe crashing the great economy that Biden has built helps Trump win in 2024. My new article: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/pres-biden-is-right-maga-wants-to

PeerTube Remote Transcoding demo https://peertube2.cpy.re/videos/watch/b8193868-a45d-41e2-a4a9-bfc52996a3c0

We're are underway with the #OceanIceEO workshop on Earth Observation data in Copenhagen.

#ocean #Antarctica #Ice #IceSheets #SeaLevelRise

Why are so many climate scientists so scared and so angry?

Maybe it's because they know better than most of us how bad our situation today truly is, and how horribly we've been betrayed by our so-called leaders.

Here's an excerpt from an excellent piece on this subject by Alan Urban...
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Even if the planet stopped getting warmer right now, we would still be in big trouble. The ice caps would keep melting and sea levels would keep rising.

Look at what’s happening at a mere 1.2°C of warming. We’re already seeing some of the worst heat waves in human history, not to mention record-breaking floods, droughts, wildfires, and water shortages.

But of course, warming isn’t going to stop at 1.2°C. Because of the heat we’ve already trapped in the atmosphere, and because we continue to emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases every year, the climate is warming exponentially.

All of these climate-related crises are stretching farms to the limit, yet this is just the beginning. As crop yields decline and the population grows, we will see food insecurity get worse and worse until we’re in a global famine.

And that right there is why climate scientists are scared. They understand that human civilization was born during the Holocene, when global temperatures were very stable and stayed within a range of about 1°C.

As we push the planet out of that range and raise the temperature about 50 times faster than would occur naturally, it will become harder and harder to produce enough food to feed everyone, and this will lead to social instability, political upheaval, the worst migration crisis ever, and wars over resources.

Disasters that weren’t supposed to happen until we reached 1.5°C are happening now, so we can only imagine what will happen when we hit 2° or 3°C.

This is why top scientists from around the world are warning us that we face a ghastly future filled with untold suffering. They’ve been telling us over and over, year after year, summit after summit, that we have to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But as you can see [below], the world keeps ignoring them.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40CollapseSurvival%2Ffaster-than-expected-why-climate-scientists-are-so-scared-985db6579f2e

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

Let's tell the world about #LibreOffice and free software! Our Spanish-speaking community was at the recent esLibre Conference, and helped to spread the word: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/05/22/spanish-libreoffice-community-at-eslibre-conference-2023/ #opensource #community #office

I’m writing a book on hurricanes and tornados. At the minute it’s just a draft..

@zleap At the Q rally or the gun range?