Eric Vautier @evautier@librem.one

Welcome to Sadr region nebula! Even though it's not one of the more iconic nebulae, it's one of my absolute favorites. There is so much happening here: the bright star Sadr (Gamma Cygni) in the bottom right, one of the main stars in the Cygnus constellation. A star cluster (NGC 6910) in the upper right, distinct halpha, OIII and SII regions and lots of dark clouds. The whole thing is about 4,900 light years away from earth. Total exposure about 16 hours. #space #astronomy #astrophotography

🦊 Artist: #MAUMAU / #MauMauArt - in City: #London #BrickLane UK 🇬🇧 2018 - Title: "Far Wrong" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork #FarRightFarWrong

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

No technology can save us from ourselves, but building a more interoperable social media environment could be our do-over on the current lock-in model. It could be awesome, if we don’t screw it up. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

Mastodon: Private & Secure? I take a deep dive here and explore the question.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look

Fun on Saturday 🙂
Crows are clever. So I am trying to teach them basic mathematics with the help of the dog biscuits they love.
1+2=3
Not so sure if it worked, but one of them took off with the result! 😀

#crows #dogbiscuits #photography #fun #birds #bonio #canon #math #krähe #notserious

Have been here about 3 weeks now, so am happy to share some information with new arrivals.

1. The T in Mastodon is silent to discourage the use of letters found in the word Twitter

2. That guy in the corner is Abe, he bites redheads and shouldn't be woken between 2pm and 9.15pm

3. The colour verdigris is not banned but is strongly discouraged

4. Question marks are now commas

5. Jokes must be exactly 173 characters long and/or in rhyming couplets

6. Fun is mandatory but rationed, for safety

Let me show you some of my wide field work! When I am not searching for dark skies here in Germany, I love the darkness of the canary islands. Especially Tenerife has some amazing places for milky way photography.

💫🔭 IC434, Horsehead nebula is an emission n. in the Orion const. Stack of 1081 subs. Is at about 1500LY distance. Processed with #Pixinsight. Work in progress. #MyStellina @Vaonis_fr #vaoniscommunity #stargazing #cosmos#astrophotogrraphy #Universe #astronomy #deepsky #night #nightscape #IC434 🔭💫

Je travaille le bois aussi et depuis que je me suis mis au laser, je m'amuse beaucoup.

Allez, on Re-pouet pour que les gens qui aiment ce genre de créations puissent m'ajouter sur leur accueil, merci d'avance les gens.

cœur avec les doigts.

👑Artist: #QWERT 👀 - in City: Central #Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸#Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Pasteup #Graffiti #Artwork

IC1848 Soul Nebula in narrowband (SHO) + true-color stars. Been a while since I've finished anything new since the run of good weather we'd been having has broken, and been busy with the big project. I did screw up acquisition on this one; a little short on SII (though the extra OIII didn't hurt).

20h total integration, deets as usual at Astrobin: https://astrobin.com/vp1ak3/

Good morning Tooters, happy to be on here with fellow #photography lovers.
I will try not to be boring with my #birds but my birds will surely be more attractive than ol’ Tweetybird😜
#TwitterRefuge

I've figured out what pisses me off so much about Facebook's Galactica demo.

It's not because people can use to to write bad essays for their homework. There are plenty of large language models that can do that. It's because Facebook is presenting it as something that it most definitely is not.

Facebook is selling it as a knowledge engine, a "new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe."

Actually it's just a random bullshit generator.

http://galactica.org

Hi, I’m Kaeli Swift, your friendly neighborhood corvid expert. I love talking about crows and fielding questions so feel free to shoot me your queries!

Ok, professional intro out of the way… WTF is this platform, how does it work, why can’t I find my scicomm peeps, IDK what’s going onnnnnn truly this feels like I came to class late and am joining and in-progress group assignment

I forgot to do an #introduction I make and sell #needlefelt animals and write and illustrate picture books about them published by Graffeg. I am non binary and bi live in #Wales and getting on a bit, have 4 cats and a lurcher. I also do stop motion animations just to make people smile. Kindness and mischief all the way. #LGBTQ #books #artist #illustration

A beginning is a very delicate time.

🎉 #Mastodon 4.0 is out now! This server software update includes a ton of improvements, like following hashtags, translating posts, editing, an improved filtering system, customizable user roles for administration, but also some important security fixes.

Check out the full changelog:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0