Gee, now there's an idea.

Via the wonderful Sherrilyn Ifill:

Can we now begin the investigation into threats received by members of the caucus to change their votes? It’s not enough that he lost. Something ugly & corrosive of the democratic process was undertaken on his behalf. The perpetrators should face legal accountability. #JimJordan

I just found out that an engraving on a 27000 years old mammoth tusk, from the Gravettian culture, was considered by some as a map - making it the oldest known to date.

A map.

On a mammoth tusk.

Did I just hear #Mapstodon in the back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cartography#/media/File:Engraving_on_a_mammoth_tusk,_map,_Gravettian,_076872x.jpg

Leaves are falling off trees in astonishing abundance. I managed to forever stop time and gravity for a few of them.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ CineStill 400Dynamic

#35mm #Photography #CineStill #FilmPhotography #Fall #Autumn #Leaves #Trees #BelieveInFilm #AnalogPhotography #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada

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#FediTips #MastoTips #Mastodon

"Even as climate change is remaking the American map, prompting insurance companies to shed the risk posed by rising heat and water, those same companies have not stopped underwriting the oil-and-gas projects that are stoking that risk."

And investing in fossil fuels.

#ClimateChange
#DoubleDealing

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/climate-change-home-insurance-companies/675681/

I recently got quite some flak for discussing what #Starlink satellites burning up in the atmosphere after their planned lifetime of 6 years could do to the stratosphere. Adding tons of aluminium and other elements as fine aerosol particles. Well. New research has just been published:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120