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I just read Jon Worths piece on how Mastodon is better than Bluesky for him… still seems to quite here for me though… anyway here’s a picture of my cat:
I let myself have a post nightshift whiskey for managing to get home safely on the tricky snowy sludge roads this morning! #wellearned #whiskey #OldPultney

The latest episode of The Oxford Comment explores the detailed images produced by the JWST this year and how they help our understanding of the universe. 🔭

Special guests include Prof. Jonathan Tennyson, Editor-in-Chief of our open access journal RAS Techniques & Instruments, and Claudia Maraston, RAS Fellow and editorial board member of our journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Learn more and listen to the episode here: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/looking-into-space-how-astronomy-and-astrophysics-are-teaching-us-more-than-ever-before/

Looking into space: how astronomy and astrophysics are teaching us more than ever before [podcast] | OUPblog

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we’re looking at what these recent discoveries mean to our understanding of the universe. Why should we all know about distant galaxies? How will this learning impact us? And what role will artificial intelligence and machine-learning play in the wider astronomy field in the coming years…

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Via @thenation: “While the online exercise of democracy may come to unseat Musk himself, it’s decidedly not the case that the apps that monitor our identities as we trade jokes and pet videos have produced a surge in social democracy” — Good stuff from @chrislehmann https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter/
Citizen Musk

The rise and fall of a would-be media tycoon.

The Nation

Updated list at:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109535917701223440

News orgs on Mastodon/in the Fediverse.

News orgs host that their own instance:
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel
@restofworld

News orgs that have created official Mastodon/Fediverse accounts:
@ProPublica
@texastribune
@damemagazine
@COTimesRecorder
@rferl
@msfreepress
@Chron
@themarkup
@TheConversationUS
@sfstandard
@sfgate
@sfchronicle
@RollingStone
@gbhnews
@theintercept
@thevallejosun
@thenarwhal
@thenation

Expand to see whole list/thread.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@[email protected])

News orgs on Mastodon/in the Fediverse (NOT bots). Several posts long. Expand to see whole thread. (Suggestions appreciated.) INTERNATIONAL NEWS (English) @ArcticToday @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] (Palestine & world) @[email protected] @openDemocracy @[email protected] (Radio Free Europe) @[email protected] (African continent) @TheConversationAfrica (Africa) @thenation (US & world) @[email protected] (Voice of America) Continued in next post... #MastodonHelp #MastodonTips #FediHelp #FediTips

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Seeing the new #BlindBoyPodCast & it’s about Baileys, well great I can tell my Mum about this one she loves Baileys… then the screen scrolled the full title… hum maybe not then.
Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)
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@ruud Hello I’m new here, I was just wondering who runs mastodon.world? I just picked this one as it sounded generic but I didn’t really know what I was doing, is that the right way to pick a server or am I now bound by different rules than other servers might have?

A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.

We know which ones we need to hold accountable for the climate crisis.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people - Oxfam Policy & Practice

The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the […]

Oxfam Policy & Practice
Slowly collecting some twitter celebs that I follow over there on here, brings back memories of finding a new Pokémon everytime I find a new celeb! #TwitterExodus #PokemonGOApp