Notices by aprilfollies (aprilfollies@mastodon.online)

1 crow: crow
2 crows: attempted murder
3-143 crows: murder
144 crows: grossbeak

@nikitonsky Paging @scalzi …

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115910915340904865

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115911129198827240

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115911622720100646

This seems an excellent starter post for another thread of reposts on #USpol and #AbolishICE. Feel free to mute thread if you’ve had enough US doom & gloom in your feed.

https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115911388765815794

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115883632853236001

Coming soon to cities near you and me. (If not already there.)

Just finished @annaleen ‘s book “Automatic Noodle” 🍜

My reactions:
a) fantastic characters, world building, and writing. 5/5
b) made me order lo mein 🥡 for lunch
c) gave me a hopeful vision of the future, not the far future like Star Trek but a future being built day-by-day amidst the catastrophes of climate change, viciously anti-social groups, and all that plagues us now. This is the kind of future we can start building right now (plus or minus actual robot sentience 🤖 ).

NASA shutdown, day 1.

What are we in danger of losing? I’m going to start with one of my favorite missions, the Chandra X-ray telescope. This mission was already threatened in the previous administration, but it’s still in space! And working!* And taking data that enables amazing science! We don’t have a NASA mission to replace it with, much less next-gen satellites.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/chandra-x-ray-observatory/

*For most, not all, of its original science purposes and some newer ones.

#NASA #USpol #shutdown

@Remittancegirl Sandra Bland, RIP.

https://union.place/@BlogWood/114893744371201877

https://mastodon.energy/@waltbaldwin/114887410256276000

https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114846356994180528

https://www.threads.com/@dr.andrealove/post/DMjM7-wsF0Q

https://toot.community/@fak/114913984879590512

@bruce @bmacDonald94 I indulge the habit with the occasional #Monsterdon. 😁

@bmacDonald94 I adore Terry Pratchett, but I’m also the kind of person who has to be told repeatedly to shut up while watching sci-fi movies.

@bmacDonald94 * expanded

</astronomer pedantry>

@futurebird I was lucky to hear, “gender is a social construct” from my parents - even though that may have been, uh, more theory than practice. Mostly it meant that “yes, girls can wear jeans, do math, take shop instead of home ec.,” and so on. But since every book I read had a male protagonist, I would go around playing at being Robin Hood or King Arthur. I wish I had had the concept of “gender fluid”, though I still identify as female. I wasn’t being “wrong”, just… flexible.

https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/114463121688497544