Notices by janggolan (janggolan@mastodon.cloud)

@quattrocchi @FediTips @Sujiyan @TheAdmin
I understand that moderation is necessary to maintain a safe place for healthy accounts. I also realize that much of the appeal of Mastodon lies in its decentralization. Blocking instances versus accounts seems like using a broad brush instead of a finer touch. Don't unhealthy accounts come and go? Might blocking the instance harm the instance's healthier accounts? Harm accounts on other instances that want to come and see the unhealthy accounts?

Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-actually-is-the-president-of-the-united-states-right-now-b1fb8ac61d82c4ce
"These are not trial balloons that are being floated and then denied —in both of these cases, policy actually was implemented and went out for action in the field. Then to be reversed —in one case where Trump himself decreed something, it was undone by his own aide. In the other, the aide’s action was undone by Trump." #whitehouse

"Despite migration’s centrality to our politics and our world, nobody really understands it."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/opinion/trump-migration-world.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE8.xLI0.GVbfqbCV-vln&smid=bs-share

"Jefferson’s letter is a reminder that the Declaration was a choice not at first of the people but of the signers. They were elites who individually pledged not to the people but 'to each other' their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor…"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public-is-resisting-trump-the-elites-are-not-polling-deportations-big-beautiful-bill
"Is it too much to hope that we might find similar worthies willing to make such a choice today?" #uspol

@br00t4c
"CHP has not commented, while the LAPD told Canham’s employer, The Post, that the incident 'needs to be investigated'."
[Investigated by whom?]

Michael S. Harper, Poet, and Educator —African American Registry
https://aaregistry.org/story/michael-s-harper-poet-and-promoter-of-verse/
"…his experience of segregated housing at the Iowa Writer's Workshop formed the foundation of Harper’s assessment of America as a schizophrenic society."

American History
By Michael S. Harper

Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn't find them.
Can't find what you can't see
can you?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42831/american-history-56d2217856b08

@br00t4c

Just imagine if Gov. Abbott (or The Abbotts Family) said:

Good: "All of us at some point will be 'Hot Wheels'…"

Better: "Do all the sidewalks in Texas have curb cuts? Let's get that done."

Best: "Do folks in Texas jump out of their trucks to assist after you've fallen? C'mon, help us saddle up!"

[In my experience, for example, peeps in NH just back up and drive away…]

NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024…
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/jason-cs-sentinel-6/sentinel-6-michael-freilich/nasa-analysis-shows-unexpected-amount-of-sea-level-rise-in-2024/
“With 2024 as the warmest year on record, Earth’s expanding oceans are following suit, reaching their highest levels in three decades,” said Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, head of physical #oceanography programs and the Integrated Earth System Observatory at #NASA Headquarters in Washington.

@inthehands thank you!

NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL142024
700 PM EDT Wed Oct 09 2024
NORTHERN EYEWALL OF MILTON STARTING TO SPREAD ONSHORE ALONG THE FLORIDA GULF COAST
700 PM EDT POSITION UPDATE
The northern eyewall of Hurricane Milton is beginning to move onshore of the Florida gulf coast near Tampa and St. Petersburg where an Extreme Wind Warning is now in effect. Please shelter in
place as these extremely dangerous hurricane-force winds overspread
the region.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT4+shtml/092258.shtml

@anne as a former projectionist, "We salute you!"

'Everything we found shattered our expectations': Archaeologists discover first astronomical observatory from ancient Egypt…
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/everything-we-found-shattered-our-expectations-archaeologists-discover-1st-ancient-astronomical-observatory-from-ancient-egypt
East-facing entrance, marked by a traditional gateway known as a pylon, leads to a spot where sunlight would have illuminated where the sky observer —known as 'smn pe' and who was usually a priest —stood to track the sun and stars, Ghonim said; the structure still has a carving of smn pe facing the rising sun.

Why does GOP want to go backwards?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

“We’re reaching a point where that last week in August, we really should be making a call, if not sooner,” said #NASA Associate Administrator Ken Bowersox when asked when a decision has to be made…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/science/boeing-starliner-astronaut-return-update
Among the issues is a limited supply of consumables —such as food —on board the space station [#ISS].

Guess money can't cancel weird…

X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster…
https://www.space.com/x-ray-galaxy-cluster-gas-structure
#Euclid's first images of the universe, including one of Abell 2390, were released in May. The spacecraft, which launched back in July 2023, has now embarked on a six-year mission to map the dark universe by observing billions of galaxies and galaxy clusters spread across 10 billion years of cosmic history.

Day 15/20
#20books #20books20days

#China The nation's robotic Chang'e 6 mission returned material from the moon's mysterious far side to Earth on Tuesday (June 25) — something that had never been done before. The far side, which is very different from the near, is more difficult to explore. Because the far side faces away from Earth, a relay satellite is required to communicate with spacecraft that operate there. (China has launched two such relay satellites to date.)
https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-6-moon-far-side-samples-landing-earth

#NASA awards another $100 million for private space stations...
https://www.space.com/nasa-adds-private-space-station-funding