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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.

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?

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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Every time I re-watch and see the episode where Rory gets a blue G3 , I feel so much envy but also joy.

Imagine getting a computer as a gift? And that one to boot? I would have screamed haha yaaaasssssss. That's amazing!

But one day about 7 years after cool coloured iBooks had come and gone, I found a nice tangerine iBook on eBay, and have loved every second of its use since for writing, some graphics, and listening to CDs. Such a cool gorgeous !

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Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

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Remembering and one of the many memories. 😭🕯

We're all an emergence of stars in the cosmos. Attacking us is a ridiculous useless stupidity. It's like kicking the side of a mountain while the planet's plates and volcanoes keep producing more, or spooning the pacific ocean into a coffee mug only to have it evaporate and rain back down.

Diversity is a property of all Life. human beings are born every day. We are not...going...anywhere!!!

Want to find your follows that have accounts in a instance so you can re-follow them?

Use Debirdify:
debirdify.pruvisto.org/

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I did some more work on #DOStodon, the #Mastodon client for #MSDOS.

I added a splash screen, a busy indicator for network access, you can scroll the entries now, there is a profile viewer and you can like and boost.
Image attachments are now displayed, too.

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