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Let's see how a panoramic photo does. It's either going to display thin and narrow or cropped off the sides. You probably will need to click it to see it fully.

This shows the Milky Way from the southern sky (right) to the northern sky (left). There are slight northern lights in the north.

#photography #night #MilkyWay #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

I spent a little time updating my Northern Lights Viewing FAQ. I hope you find it helpful.

https://www.bryanhansel.com/2015/northern-lights-viewing-faq/

Join the clowns and their fediverse friends in the cozy little oasis from the gravity of reality that we call the #CircusInPlace video chat.

https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym

We'll be in the chat practicing our circus skills and enjoying the company of kind people from all around the world starting at noon (CDT/UTC-5) and going well into the evening.

If you need some company, I highly recommend a visit.

#PleaseBoost
#JoinIn

The Olive tree of Vouves is believed to be the oldest olive tree in the world. Its exact age is impossible to measure, but it's at least 2000 years old, and could be as much as 4000 years old. This means it was likely originally planted by the Ancient Minoan civilisation, who prospered by trading in olive oil on the ancient Mediterranean Sea 🫒
#ThickTrunkTuesday

What do you call a flying nun?

A bird?

A plane?

Nope. Nun of the above.

me, reviewing trending: oh wow I see people once again don't understand why "you give us a licence to things you post" is in ToS statements

*loud sighing*

get yourself a girl who deletes tracking parameters from URLs she shares you

I'd think this should be obvious... But one thing you should never do when you're using a blind person's computer is mute the sound, then give it back to them while it's muted. Seriously people? That's not a hard concept to grasp. It's incredibly rude because if it's muted, they won't know what the fuck is happening. It's something that I'd think would be quite obvious, but apparently it's not.

Folks, do any of you remember a blog post that used "gears" as a simple metaphor for how much capacity/energy a person has at a given day or point in life?

Gist was that the lowest gear is "just do what's needed to survive" and the highest gear is when you might be able to work towards complex goals/projects/etc?

Pretty sure it was in the context of Spoons Theory, maybe also neurodiversity. I think I saw it on here, but don't seem to have bookmarked it.

(More context: I've found the metaphor useful, and I want to share the post with a neurodiverse friend who is dealing with some very difficult events but also beating themselves up for not progressing their other work/life goals at the moment. I just can't find the post!)

Tagging #Spoonie #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic folks for reach. Thanks!

it’s night one and time to go to bed

I can’t leave her running around the living room unsupervised yet, but I don’t want to have to physically remove her from the lovesac 😭😂

“Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines”

"On average, a mere 51.5% of generated sentences are fully supported by citations
and only 74.5% of citations support their associated sentence."

The difference between the AI crowd and the rest of us is that they’re going to think this is an excellent result. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848

A lot of #solarpunk ans social #scifi books are exploring non-nuclear #family models, whether through #polyamory , different kinds of found families, co-living etc.

What's your favorite vision of family in speculative fiction?

I really like the bash-es from Ada Palmer's #terraIgnota , which are strongly implied as start of the great social transformation in that world.

Ruthanna Emrys' #halfBuiltGarden puts a very global focus on family models, differences between humans other civilizations.

I have an indoor cat. She greets me at the front door, like a good indoor cat.
Except this morning, when I returned home in an unfamiliar car, from the wrong direction. As I got out of the car I saw my good indoor cat barrel down a treetrunk, scoot across the lawn, and leap up a wall and through a window I didn't know she could access.
Then she demurely greeted me at the front door like any good indoor cat.
How long has this been going on?

i know several people who would happily patronize this "absolute silence bar" in Ghostwire Tokyo called HUSH which stays open no later than 9pm

Planned Parenthood in the St. Louis region is doing pop-up clinics TODAY Monday 4/17 for new patients looking to start gender-affirming care before Missouri's pending emergency rule goes into effect, more info on their website here- there are options for walk-in appointments and online and phone scheduling, please pass along to anyone you know who might need this https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-st-louis-region-southwest-missouri/patients/our-services/transgender-care

A mechanism for #LongCovid

I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.

At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.

Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full