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I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. So next time you hear about famous men in #science share her remarkable story.

@chhopsky Oh no!!! 😭 I hope you can find another copy!

I have a new friend coming over on Saturday for a pop-culturalization because he has never seen:

Any Star Trek.
Any Star Wars.
Any Lord of the Rings movies nor books.
No Knight Rider.
No Princess Bride.
No Monty Python Holy Grail

Nor...

...

Firefly! GASP! *screeeeeaaaaammmmmm*

I don't know how he's alive, nor how he can even think because my mind is naught but pop-culture quotes, but his blank-slate torture is coming to an end. I will save him.

What should I have him watch first?

@chhopsky do you know if innovations/changes to the main code branch happens a lot on instances?

@chhopsky when I get that on other people's posts, I only have to provide my @name@server and it works if my login session is active. I don't have to relog.

Maybe Librem.one added some quality of life there.

@chhopsky is there a privacy setting turned on? If I open my posts in a browser, without login session, it displays. Hmmm.

Test: social.librem.one/@ellabellafu

Do different instances have different policies that would prevent URLs from working?

@chhopsky Might be a step more to search for what server to join people in other services, but it's the same login sign up web and mobile experience.

Just heard about Hive Social. Why would people go to yet another proprietary closed source platform? Have they learned nothing?

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Oh yeah Twitter… that place I go to find people’s mastodon addresses.

The craft on the left IS Earth (mined and manufactured materials from Earth, by Earth as homo sapiens, and its creativity like a base 2 numbering system on which computers are based.)

The planet is looking at itself. We are some of its eyes and mind. Its reach outward is extended in this moment, like all moments when satelites and rovers visit other parts of the Sol system.

Remember this humbly the next time you feel without purpose. See, extend, Be Earth. You are much more than a body.

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@gnemmi So glad you agree! The previous owners were so nice too. They included a gratitude card in the box saying how glad they were that it would go to a good home. ❤️

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