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sundogplanets, 25 days ago to random

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

fionag11, 29 days ago to random

Spatial Thoughts (Ujaval Ghandi) is launching #30DaysofQGIS - Level up in #QGIS in 30 minutes a day https://spatialthoughts.com/2024/05/13/30daysofqgis

fionag11, 2 months ago to random

International Day of #Forests. These are the forests we have now, according to a new #opendata forest cover layer built with TanDEMx (so I would expect it to be very accurate). Let's try and keep as much of this as we can. https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/maps/tdm:forest

fionag11, 4 months ago to random

Which wetland are you? #Wetlands

josephcox, 7 months ago to random

New on 404 Media: verified Twitter 'OSINT' accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem. What used to be a network of reliable experts has been taken over by profit and click driven verified accounts. Everyone loses out. "Unprecedented" levels.

I spoke to multiple respected OSINT experts who have been tracking conflict on Twitter for years. Now after Musk's changes on verification, profit:

• "all hell broke loose"
• “this entire space is 90% grifters”
• “It just creates more noise and less signal

https://www.404media.co/twitter-verified-osint-accounts-are-destroying-the-israel-palestine-information-ecosystem/

fionag11, 8 months ago to random

This is mindboggling. Lancet study attributes 4.5 million deaths globally to outdoor air pollution in just one year! It's a risk factor for several of the leading causes of death - heart disease, lung cancer, respiratory illness....https://ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution Eliminating fossil fuels could save 3.5 million lives annually. #CleanAir #pollution #death_rate

schizanon, 9 months ago to fediverse

Normie in the 90s: "email is too complicated! I have to pick a hosting provider, but there are so many to choose from; yahoo, lycos, hotmail. Why can't it just be simple like the post office!?"

#fediverse #mastodon #activityPub

fionag11, 9 months ago to fediverse

I need #fediverse advise. I'd like somewhere to share photos and send links to family members who don't have accounts and aren't techy. What would be best?

Free_Press, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Ukraine

THE ANGER I FEEL....

Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.

One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.

Deepest condolences to their families.

Russia must pay.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #AureFreePress

MeanwhileinCanada, 10 months ago to random

Pretty much

fionag11, 10 months ago to random

Researchers have shown satellite data can be used to monitor whether mine tailings dams followed sound construction practices https://www.planet.com/pulse/publications/satellite-data-revealing-why-dam-tailing-failures-occur

mapsmania, 11 months ago to random

NASA's map visualization of a year of wildfires reveals annual wildfire seasons around the globe.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-year-of-wildfires.html

video/mp4

markmccaughrean, 1 year ago to random

We are a lethally stupid species 🙄

To avoid being castigated for visibly burning off methane from fossil fuel production, Turkmenistan is simply invisibly venting it, creating far more damage: CH4 has 80 x the greenhouse impact of CO2 🤦

They thought no-one would notice. They were wrong 🛰️

#ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed

RL_Dane, 1 year ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

I just turned sixteen!!

(Just FYI, R.I.P.: 2007-03-11 - 2023-10-11. 😥 Picture taken 2023-03-11)