Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

As of yesterday, the Klamath River is flowing freely for the first time in a century (via press release in my inbox).

More info:

https://ictnews.org/news/after-100-years-salmon-will-swim-the-klamath

Always RT Don’t Horn
https://hachyderm.io/@EndlessMason/113044793524285482

Back to school season means I have to pay some ridiculous fees to my grad program and money's tight so a gentle reminder I sell beautiful plotter drawings and they make nice gifts https://wares.lifewinning.com

actually this is the median consumer

Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!

The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:

https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

A bad thing about social media is this pattern where a person with expertise starts rebutting bad ideas, and it’s great, but over time it primes them to see everyone who doesn’t hold exactly their opinions as part of a horde of goons with terrible ideas, because that’s who they end up interacting with.

Eventually their online persona is, like, Truth Gladiator. And that’s so much less interesting and important to me than Thoughtful Person With Useful Perspectives.

As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 1,1964

Today, we salute Thomé de Gamond, early Channel Tunnel proponent, who had to figure out the geology of the seabed first. https://m.gutenberg.org/files/66685/66685-h/66685-h.htm

etymologically, the opposite of “analemma” is “cathedral”

The #ParkFire event is, once again, re-writing the record books and "filling in the gaps" between recent extremely large wildfire footprints. This is California in the Pyrocene, and a couple of mild fire years (2022/3) don't alter that long-term trajectory. #CAwx #CAfire [2/2]

I feel like the one of the lowest level human internet problems we haven’t solved is how to be around millions of people, many of whom vocally disapprove of at least some of our thoughts and actions, without letting our hyper-social status-sensitive primate brains either melt or devote themselves to arguing that all our positions are the right positions for everyone.

Like yes, some algos are bad, but we also just built structures we can’t quite handle and are perma-mad at each other about it.

When I scheduled this live session yesterday to discuss Western North American wildfire situation, neither catastrophic fire in Canadian Rockies town of #Jasper nor dangerous #ParkFire in California had yet occurred. I will discuss both today @ 3pm PT. https://www.youtube.com/live/B5wskkRpadg

I am hilariously bad at going on vacation, but I was on the west coast and so I went to Cabo Pulmo, in Baja California Sur, to go scuba diving in the marine reserve. It’s kind of an incredible place — in 1995, the village (pop. 100 then, 150 now) worked together to get it declared a protected area. It’s now a UNESCO site and an absolutely thriving ecosystem, with careful ongoing oversight.

https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/solutions-success-stories/cabo-pulmo-protected-area

#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover ran over a rock and found crystals inside! They're pure sulfur. Elemental sulfur is something we’ve never seen before on Mars. We don't know much about these yellow crystals yet, but the team is already at work to figure it out! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#mars #space #science #scicomm