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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:
@lindsayellis it’s why I don’t feel guilty about eating chickens, once upon a time their ancestors were eating my ancestors! #flexitarian
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
@biggestjoel what specifically did you find “nasty” about it?
@adamwagner1 you should post more on here, I saw you complain about twitter on twitter, yet you have no content here so Twitter rolls on!

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…

OUPblog
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
@georgina666 I’m going to say yes, but for context I still listen to Lady Sovereign.

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

Newsie
@MovieBob are you there Bob?