Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I am especially grateful for the Fediverse today--for a means of finding and communicating with others without corporations profiting from misinformation and rage.

It's likely that over the next couple of months, a lot of trans Americans will leave their country. They may arrive on tourist visas and without means, and we of the trans community in places like Europe must step up to the plate.

We must organise ourselves to be ready for them, and be prepared to have an American trans escapee sleeping on our sofa or in our spare room by January.

Many of us feel as though there's nothing we can do, and here's a way in which we can help.

#trans #USA

If only what happened in the US would have the decency to stay within the US. But no…the far right here already feel empowered enough to get up to shout from the rooftops. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/nov/06/australia-politics-live-wednesday-labor-albanese-coalition-dutton-question-time-us-election

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.

And now I'm going to make a list of datasets and scientific sources that rely on US govt funding and which may be shut down or at least become more precarious to see if we need to make some backups....

Thank goodness for @CopernicusEU and @esa

Elon is fulfilling requests from China for communications blackouts over Taiwan. This request came via Putin.

All of his government contracts and his security clearance must be revoked.

I'm looking for a new job doing security assessments / research.

I spent the last 6 years building advanced security assessment capabilities around hardware/IoT, industrial, marine OT, and x86 platforms. Before that I spent 5 years as a pentester. I excel at weird and novel stuff with no template.

I'm in the UK and I'm looking for a remote full-time role.

CV: https://poly.nomial.co.uk/graham_sutherland.pdf

Please get in touch if you know of any available roles! :)

#getfedihired #fedihire #fedihired #infosec

Well, we saw what speed in favour of correct/robust procedures did around the Covid procurement process (fraud enabled & colluded with), and now while the Tories were still in power we find that the same sort of thing happened with the cladding funds.... a £500,000 fraud seems to have been perpetrated on the public funds.

There is a reason that processes need to be followed & whatever the Tories might think its not all jobs for bureaucrats!

#Grenfell #cladding

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/04/fraudsters-may-have-stolen-500000-from-cladding-removal-building-safety-fund-watchdog-reveals

I think I’ve asked about this before, but I am seeking recommended Mastodon accounts to follow for fun content related to consumer tech, science, or maybe world or US politics. Please let me know what y’all like!

Oort cloud: where the Solar System ends.

[Illustration]

#space #science

10yrs ago give or take a month, I was broken.

Then I went on a trip around Scotland.
Then I bought a camera I didn't know how to use.
Then I went out in the landscape every single day for just over a year.
Then I had an exhibition.
Then I had a new career.
Then I was a little less broken.

Still working on it. But no regrets.
One of my first shots, 15 Nov '14.

Nature can heal. 🙏
#AilsaCraig

The #FediJam, a game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse, will soon enter its second round! During December, team up with others or go in alone, and... CREATE – A – GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with. The jam's page just went live, so what are you waiting for?!? ➡️ JOIN NOW: https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam-2 🙂

Boosts VERY appreciated! ❤️ Spread the word!!!

#GameDev #GameDesign #IndieGames #BoardGames #GameJam #Fediverse #Mastodon #Introduction

to geologists the earth is just a bunch of play-dough. squishing and wrinkling, being wiped away and cut into by water...

I wonder if there are any simulators for this kind of thing?

I'd like to mess with the parameters and see what happens.

If you're looking for a good place to put out USABLE RESULTS rather than just adding to publication noise, please consider @joss (https://joss.theoj.org/) "Committed to publishing quality research software with zero article processing charges or subscription fees." They could use reviewers and volunteers for editors, also. Top notch venue and a high signal to noise ratio, too, IMHO.

#Palestine / UN expert committee: Israel’s detention of Palestinian journalists unlawful

“The U.N. Working Group’s determination that three Palestinian journalists were unlawfully held by Israel illustrates how imprisonment is wielded to take them out of commission,” said CPJ Director of Advocacy and Communications Gypsy Guillén Kaiser. “These journalists, and dozens of others put behind bars since the start of the war, are in a black hole of potentially endless detention, where they face brutal treatment. Israel must comply with its international commitments and end these arbitrary detentions.” 

https://cpj.org/2024/10/un-expert-committee-israels-detention-of-palestinian-journalists-unlawful/

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#IsraelOccupation
#OutlawIsrael

"The world is striving to reach net-zero emissions as we try to ward off dangerous global warming. But will getting to net-zero actually avert climate instability, as many assume?

Our new study examined that question. Alarmingly, we found reaching net-zero in the next few decades will not bring an immediate end to the global heating problem. Earth’s climate will change for many centuries to come.

And this continuing climate change will not be evenly spread. Australia would keep warming more than almost any other land area. For example if net-zero emissions are reached by 2060, the Australian city of Melbourne is still predicted to warm by 1°C after that point.

But that’s not to say the world shouldn’t push to reach net-zero emissions as quickly as possible. The sooner we get there, the less damaging change the planet will experience in the long run."

https://theconversation.com/earths-climate-will-keep-changing-long-after-humanity-hits-net-zero-emissions-our-research-shows-why-241692

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ZeroEmissions #GasEmissions

There's also "Lord of the Flies", which came out in 1954, and cemented the idea that young boys -- when removed from the moral guardrails of proper British society -- would become absolute terrors to one another

But when this happened in reality -- when six boys were marooned on a remote island for 15 months -- they all cheerfully banded together and co-operated, including carefully tending for one boy who broke his leg, while it healed: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

3/x

Earth is racing toward #climate conditions that collapsed key Atlantic currents before the last ice age, study finds https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/earth-is-racing-toward-climate-conditions-that-collapsed-key-atlantic-currents-before-the-last-ice-age-study-finds

#GlobalWarming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age.

#WarmingClimate #FossilFuels #ClimateAction

I have more respect for Liz Cheney after refusing to be silent in the face of death threats like this from the #GOP candidate.
Vote for #KamalaHarris
Go #Kamala!

#harris
#harriswalz
#VoteBlue
#VoteBlue2024
#TrumpIsAFascist
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice