Bastian Blankenburg 🀝 πŸ›‘

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Co-founder and CTO at https://utu.io
Working on human-centered trust infrastructure mostly for web3.
Interested in trust, mechanism design, decentralisation, AI, democracy, social and climate justice; especially in Kenya and Africa.
Trekkie. Husband and father. Christian. Based near Nairobi.

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Spoken like a true German!

#ETHSafari2023 in Kilifi kicked off by #KamusiDAO

Double the number of attendees as last year (~500)! πŸ‘πŸ‘

Live stream: https://app.streameth.org/eth_safari/eth_safari_2023/stage/main_stage

ETH Safari 2023 - main_stage

Attend ETH Safari 2023 virtually powered by streameth here

Cryptowinter is hot in Nairobi #ETHSafari #MetaMask #borderlessaf #MetisDAO #UTUtrust

I've recently got a tracking mount (Vixen GPD2 + SynScan) for my Skywatcher Heritage 150p (150mm f/5). Here's the first light with my camera (Oly Pen E-PL5 m4/3) on it (with a 2x Barlow), Omega Centauri.
I'm still practicing getting it aligned (no use of polar scope at -1.3Β° lat!), and there was a reflection in my Barlow which took some post-processing acrobatics. Will make another try when the clouds clear...

#Astrodon #astrophoto

Look what I catched on camera tonight β€” a Cylon base star!

#Astrodon #joke

A shot of β€œthe green comet” C/2022 E3 (ZTF) through my telescope (6” travel Dobson) from last week with Mars in the picture. About 100 0.77 second exposures over a time period of about 8 minutes (manually tracking every few images), stacked with alignment on the comet, therefore Mars and stars show trails (and some of my manual realignments visible as gaps in the trails).

Processed mostly in @Siril_Official with a little bit of final touch-up in @GIMP

#Astrodon

This happened mastodon.social? Seriously?

Kenyan gov: β€œHey it’s so easy to die here, so let’s make it even easier🀑(instead of, you know, improving something or whatever)”

Opinions on GMOs aside, what kind of statement is this??