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historian, yogi, knitter, runner, composter (still, although allergic to mold). Devoted to my nearest creatures and dearest people. she / her
Blog infrequently at https://siriusreflections.org/
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Throwing up a bat signal and asking for guidance regarding the best Mastodon apps for persons with limited vision after cataract surgery and glaucoma.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as it's the one barrier holding a friend back from using Mastodon instead of Twitter.

#Blind #LowVision
#VisuallyImpaired #Accessibility

"The chain is Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA), Dept of Transportation, DOT @petebuttigieg and ultimately @joebiden. He can enforce the safety rule and ensure that the coating is sufficiently ductile to resist cracking or he can ignore all the warnings like the captain of the Titan did…and then someday maybe send his thoughts and prayers." #NoMVP

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mountain-valley-pipeline-titan-disaster

Biden’s Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Titan Submarine Disaster

We have seen what happens when things are built from substandard materials with faulty design.

Common Dreams

#WashingtonDC #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis

Biden, #StopMVP Now!
Start: Thursday, June 08, 2023• 2:00 PM
End: Thursday, June 08, 2023• 4:00 PM
White House• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

https://actionnetwork.org/events/biden-stopmvp-now/

Biden, #StopMVP Now!

A rally to demand Biden #StopMVP!

Farewell 2022. A year of transition, grief and promise. #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear #sunset

Planning to integrate my WordPress blog directly into Mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/@arossp/109609571722191850

Yes to this. A renewed blogosphere, knitted together through RSS and ActivityPub and integrated seamlessly into the Fediverse, would be the ideal foundation for a renewed and healthier internet community. https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

Bring back personal blogging

As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.

The Verge
Yes to this. A renewed blogosphere, knitted together through RSS and ActivityPub and integrated seamlessly into the Fediverse, would be the ideal foundation for a renewed and healthier internet community. https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging
Bring back personal blogging

As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.

The Verge

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#AGU22 is the huge Earth science meeting, with 25,000 scientists. Talks and posters detail the breaking down of our Earth in real time. They are terrifying. So @[email protected] and I stepped outside extremely strong norms and urged scientists to take a stand.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1603603621001805825

Peter Kalmus on Twitter

“#AGU22 is the huge Earth science meeting, with 25,000 scientists. Talks and posters detail the breaking down of our Earth in real time. They are terrifying. So @ultracricket and I stepped outside extremely strong norms and urged scientists to take a stand. https://t.co/qkjQVq8SGh”

Twitter
If we can only imagine a zero carbon society as the current society running on a different energy source we (a) will miss out on so many opportunities for health, beauty, wellbeing, and justice, and (b) not be able to accomplish it.

#WomenInScience #BlackInPhysics

On the 15th, early for #BlackFriday Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein released a Zotero library to help researchers #CiteBlackWomen 's work. "This bibliography is a roughly complete list of all the professional publications of US-based Black women+ with PhDs in physics."

Read more about how to use the bibliography here:

https://chanda.substack.com/p/celebrate-50-years-of-phds-cite-black

Celebrate 50 Years of PhDs: Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography

A new resource that is now available

The Disordered Cosmos