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grb090423

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Interests: cosmology, astronomy, the sciences in general, wildlife.
Rusty polyglot. Slowly learning Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).
I informally tweet ESA news when I can.
GRB090423 was the furthest Gamma Ray Burst known to us back when I started on social media.
Both avatar and header images were taken by me.
I rarely boost images that don't have Alt Text.
I boost The Vagina Museum posts; please don't be offended... it's good to learn.
I always check your TL - If no posts, I don't follow back.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Human who works a job, caregives for children, parents, pets, or relatives, cooks, cleans, shops, is on committees, volunteers, helps with family's extracurriculars, tries to make it to family and friend social events, exercise, eat right, and maybe even do a hobby they are interested in: Doc, I don't know why I'm so tired, and stressed all the time.

Billionaires and Politicians: The problem is people are lazy, and just don't want to work.

grb090423,
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@RickiTarr

The problem is billionaires and politicians who say stupidities like that.

rbreich, to random
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Harlan Crow and a few other GOP megadonors have provided Clarence Thomas with:

-38 destination vacations

-26 private jet flights

-6 helicopter flights

-Yacht voyages

Still wondering why SCOTUS approval ratings have hit record lows?

grb090423,
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@rbreich

Still wondering why people are being gifted planet killing flights.

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

grb090423,
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@pvonhellermannn

I'm not either but I think you may have a point. Thinking about Roddenberry's original Star Trek for example - a world without money and where each being is (supposedly) equal. He may have been thinking along those same anti-capitalist lines when he first came up with the idea. In the very first two episodes, the position of ship's Number One was a woman played by Majel Barratt. (If I've got the episode order wrong, I'm sure someone will let me know 👍)

#SciFi
#StarTrek

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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My friend took this photo today. Aren't they beautiful! 💕💚

They're called Rosy Bonnet.

sundogplanets, to random
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Wow, I missed this... apparently a couple weeks ago a piece of (probably) the ISS crashed through someone's house in Florida?! And then they asked @planet4589 for help via twitter because they couldn't get NASA to respond to them?!! WOW.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/02/space-trash-florida-home

Space law is going to be very "interesting" in the next couple years as exponentially increasing re-entries cause more damage/casualties on the ground...

grb090423,
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@sundogplanets @planet4589

Space law (that applies worldwide) needs to get its act into gear.

I hope I'm wrong but I have a funny feeling it will err on the side of the space agencies/companies 😑

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) CXLV
Minimus, Minima et Silvius diēs Bellorum Stellarum celebrant (Minimus, Minima and Silvius celebrate Star Wars day).
vis tecum sit! (May the Force be with you!)
#fabulamurina
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
#StarWarsDay

grb090423,
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@Minimus

This is brilliant!

Possibly the best May The Fourth post I've seen yet 👏😄👍

(don't ask me to put that in Latin!)

vicgrinberg, to random
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For a bit of Sunday happiness & silliness: tell me about some a book you've recently excitedly told someone about and why!

I've talked about Erin Meyer's "Culture Map" because it opened my eye to a lot of intercultural interactions I have in both, my everyday and my work life.

And about Marcin Wicha's "Things I Didn't Throw Out" because it made me laugh and cry at the same time + made me fall in love with Daunt books because I would not have found out about the book without them.

grb090423,
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@vicgrinberg

I recently told my family and friends about The Warrior Queen by Joanna Arman.
It's about one of the queens (I'm not pro royalist by any means) of this land, pre-England, and how she had the guts to take over after her husband died, even in the face of "women can't rule!". Little is known about her and she was almost written out of history.

#Aethelflead

grb090423, to climate
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It's worth considering that Earth is an anagram of Heart.

And it's vital that we look after our heart.

#ClimateChange
#ClimateDiary

globalmuseum, to Cats
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Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds.

The devices—developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX—have a warming feature to prevent snow buildup from disrupting the signal.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/outdoor-cats-are-using-500-starlink-satellite-dishes-as-self-heating-beds-180979401/ #cats #ElonMusk #Starlink

grb090423,
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@globalmuseum

This is a cute read but the final paragraph should concern us all:

"Starlink satellites are responsible for 1,600 near-crashes in orbit every week, reports Futurism’s Dan Robitzski, a number that he reports is likely to increase as Starlink plans to launch more satellites."

@sundogplanets

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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I currently use Mastodon via a browser however I am considering using an app.

Any recommendations?

Boosts much appreciated.

(Edit: I neglected to mention it's for Android but thank you for your comments, Apple people 👍)

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Lovely moss.

I like to imagine all the tardigrades wandering around in there, having a ball.

:owi:

#Mosstodon #mosstodonmonday #Mosstodonians

grb090423, to random
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This is exciting!

Saturn's moon Enceladus top target for ESA.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Saturn_s_moon_Enceladus_top_target_for_ESA

grb090423, (edited ) to wildlife
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Update:

THEY DID IT! They raised the funds!

Thank you so, so much to everyone who donated/boosted this. 🤗👏💚

Plant One wants to plant a public woodland in Cornwall - a county long depleted of native trees - and so help in making it a county for nature, for wildlife and for people.

They only have 2 days left now.

Please donate or if not, be a supporter for a one-off payment of £1.

Boosts much appreciated. 💕

#PlantOneCornwall #Wildlife #Nature #Trees #Cornwall

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/growing-a-community-woodland

grb090423, to random
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On the 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became
the first human to go to outer space. He went in Vostok 1 and completed one orbit of Earth lasting 108 minutes.

#OTD
#Gagarin
#Space

grb090423, to Portugal
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This opened my eyes to much of what happened during the revolution in Portugal back in 1974 (my older relatives could not bring themselves to speak about it), and to what's going on there now.

Silva and Ventura are two brave people 💕

A very good read.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/4/no-turning-back-50-years-carnation-revolution

#Portugal

grb090423, to random
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So many folk on here, like me, seeing aurora for the first time in their lives. I FEEL YOU!

It's just so stunning!

🤗

#Aurora

AuldFoggerty, to random
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"Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

grb090423,
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@AuldFoggerty

People here read things like "mass migration" and only picture people from Africa, the Middle East and further afield, coming to Europe.

What people here aren't yet considering is how soon they themselves could be forced to collect as much as they can carry, and leave their homes to find higher ground.


Chrislintott, to random
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A short piece on the aurora by me on the LRB blog, featuring a snowy trip to Finland. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/tractor-beams

grb090423, (edited )
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@Chrislintott

As I'm unable to Quote Post this, I'll just say here that this article is worth reading.

If you're a little put out that you missed the aurora display on Saturday, it's worth noting that "Exact timing and strength of [aurora] is hard to predict, but their frequency follows the eleven-year cycle of solar activity... As we head into the period of solar maximum predicted for the next year or so, such events should be common."

If you haven't already, DL an aurora app now.

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Happy St Gertrude's Day to all who love cats 🐱 😻

St Gertrude is the patron saint of cats :blobcat:

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #CatLovers

grb090423, (edited ) to random
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Happy birthday to Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut. She was born on the 30th May 1963.

✨🚀✨🛰️✨

(📷 Lincolnshire Post)

grb090423, to random
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Seeing election results in other European countries, I can't help but have misgivings about the UK's general election on 4th July.

Do people really believe the right wing bs?

Snoweider, to HikingPics
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Anna Wells fans, she's due to finish her winter round later today on Cairngorm. Chapeau. This has been epic. What an incredible achievement.







https://www.facebook.com/share/p/YjKrJGXaj4ejYBKC/

grb090423,
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@Snoweider

Excellent!

Good going Anna Wells! 👏 💪

For those of us not using fb:
https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/watch-inverness-climber-challenges-herself-to-be-the-first-343906/

grb090423, (edited ) to Bloomscrolling
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Magnolia blooms on a dreary day.
#bloomscrolling #blossom #Magnolia #FleurisTonFil

grb090423, to random
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Ariane 6 launches: Robusta-3A for weather reports and radiation robustness.
#ESA #EO #Ariane6 #Robusta3A

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Robusta-3A_for_weather_reports_and_radiation_robustness

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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On the 76th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, it is all happening again. Except this time it’s much worse; Israel is much more brutal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/15/israels-war-on-gaza-live-new-nakba-as-hundreds-of-thousands-flee-attacks

grb090423,
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@pvonhellermannn

How can a people live like this?!

How can the UK and US enable this?!

(Sorry. Rhetorical questions.
I do struggle to understand though.)

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