Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 😄

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 😊
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 😉)

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography

“The thing about being wrong is that before you know you’re wrong, it feels •exactly• like being right.”

— Roman Mars

It's the season again for traditional #Finnish Christmas songs:

- Baby Jesus drowns in snow
- A gnome suffers from insomnia
- If there's no snow, Christmas is cancelled
- Nobody visits grandma
- A pig is killed and eaten by humans who become pigs themselves
- Some day grief will overwhelm you, so be happy
- A bird has been captured to a foreign land and misses home
- Kids, get up, it's 5 am, we'll be late to church
- Life only lasts a moment, and even that is dreary and dark

On the first day of August, our co-op will be hosting anarchist computer security engineer @micahflee to explain the technical skills needed by activists and independent researchers interested in data analysis!

In the current age of hacking and whistleblowing, the internet contains massive troves of leaked information—goldmines of newsworthy revelations in the public interest, if you know how to unravel them. In his new book, "Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations," Micah shows how—with or without prior programming knowledge—you can transform unintelligible data into groundbreaking reports.

Learn more about this event and purchase your copy of "Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3245-data-analysis-for-activists-and-amateur-researchers.html.

#DataScience #IndependentResearch #Antifascist #FeministBookstore #HacksLeaksAndRevelations #MicahLee #FirestormCoop (- L)

I am just going to say it because it must be said.
Before you listen to someone who says "Jasper will be rebuilt".

Remember Lytton. Still not rebuilt. And you also can't rebuild history.

The world could have prevented this. Now we watch towns burn and still there are governments, including our own, making excuses for fossil fuels. Some Judges are putting climate protesters behind bars

End Fossil Fuels Now!!

#EndFossilFuels #canPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency

Chipotle raised prices six times since 2021 and kept them high — even as costs have flattened.

The result?

Profits jumped 110%. It authorized $400M in stock buybacks. Its CEO was paid $22.4M in 2023...1,354 times the median Chipotle employee.

What's really driving inflation?