Marco Pacchiarini

@franoukwel
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Biodiversity stan account. Geography, language, information technology, cats. I am not a cat. I like to know what grows where and why. Caucasus nard. No flags. Dad joking hazard
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OMG, the bluebells at Dockey Wood 😯 I genuinely got teary-eyed seeing the spectacle! I took SO many photos 🪻 #Bluebells #Flowers #Woodland #NationalTrust #DockeyWood #Nature

🇬🇧 A new comet is visible with the naked eye !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet which will reach perihelion (the closest distance) on the 19th, before going away forever.

This morning, I loaded my backpack and set up to capture it. I wanted to see it rise next to the Bietschhorn (3 934). The comet is currently in the Pegasus constellation, just below 51 Pegasi, the first star known to host an exoplanet.

If you have clear skies, you should definitely try to see it : It is bright, and will pass only once! It already shows a very long tail, more than 10° long.
The image was taken with a 120-300 lens, set at 180mm. It is an ethical composite: I first captured the foreground with the tracking off (5 x 15s) and then turned the tracking on when the comet reached the desired position (120 x 15s).

🇨🇭 Une nouvelle comète est visible à l'œil nu !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) est une comète du nuage d'Oort qui atteindra son périhélie (la distance minimale au Soleil) le 19 avril, avant de s'éloigner pour toujours dans l'espace interstellaire.

Ce matin, j'ai chargé mon sac à dos et je suis allé la capturer. Je voulais la voir se lever à côté du Bietschhorn (3 934 m). La comète se trouve actuellement dans la constellation de Pégase, juste en dessous de 51 Pegasi, autour de laquelle on a découvert la première exoplanète.

Si vous avez un ciel dégagé, ne ratez pas ça : elle est brillante, elle ne passera qu'une seule fois, et sa queue s'étend déjà sur plus de 10° dans le ciel !

J’ai utilisé un objectif 120-300 mm à 180 mm. L’image est un composite éthique : le premier plan capturé sans suivi (5 x 15 s), puis suivi activé une fois la comète en position (120 x 15 s).

#Astrophotography #Comet #PanSTARRS

I hate when I'm walking and there's a bird ahead and it tries to get away but it just flies further in the direction I'm going so it has to keep flying and landing and flying and landing and now the bird thinks I'm a weird bird stalker and will probably tell all the other birds😔
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So someone made this post on Mastodon:
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534

And that led another person to make this site: https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

This feels like some real old school internet stuff. For the younger folks out there, this is the kind of stuff that would pop up all the time on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. No reason for it beyond it being cool and beautiful.

While the animated clock in the link sort of hurts my head, it still is beautiful.

Mastodon bekommt rund 614.000 Euro Förderung von der Sovereign Tech Agency. Ziel ist es, dezentrale Infrastruktur im Fediverse zu stärken und nachhaltiger zu machen. Ein Teil der Mittel wird auch an andere Projekte vergeben, die offene Standards übernehmen und so Interoperabilität verbessern.

Geplant sind u. a. bessere Moderationswerkzeuge, verlässlichere Infrastruktur, stärkere Unterstützung für Entwickler.innen und noch klarere technische Standards. Außerdem soll die Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Fediverse-Projekten intensiviert werden, um gemeinsame Lösungen schneller voranzubringen.

Die Förderung zeigt, dass öffentliche Institutionen freie, dezentrale Plattformen zunehmend als kritische digitale Infrastruktur erkennen und gezielt unterstützen. Das Fediverse wird damit robuster, anschlussfähiger und unabhängiger von großen Plattformkonzernen.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität #SovereignTech

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

Sovereign Tech Agency funding

Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.

Mastodon Blog

Sonnenschein im Wattenmeer
Sunshine over the Wadden Sea

#Wattenmeer #Nordsee #Northsea #Büsum #Natur #nature #Fotografie #photography

Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive biomass losses, far outweighing any gains from regrowth elsewhere. This change could seriously undermine global efforts to slow climate change. Scientists warn that protecting forests is now more urgent than ever.

ScienceDaily

The #Israeli bastards are destroying entire villages and towns turning everying to dust as if had never been there.

This is exactly what they did in Northern #Gaza where the names of places are all that remains

Indeed, under the cover of journalistic blackout thermobibaric devices extinguished concrete and all human and organic life

And now they are doing the same in #Lebanon

STOP THEM !

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

The Guardian