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grb090423, 7 months ago to random

New images of rare thunder.
#ESA #HuginnMission #TLE
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/New_images_of_rare_thunder

Gargron, 9 months ago to random

Figured this was worth getting on LP 🙂

#vinyl #nowplaying

The back of a vinyl record. Everything is spelled using runes.
A vinyl record placed within a record player.

Deglassco, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to blackmastodon

Because of his willingness to play for segregated audiences, throughout much of his life, Louis Armstrong was called a sellout and an Uncle Tom by many Black Americans, But, in 1957, Satchmo blew up-—blasting Eisenhower to bits for not condemning treatment of Black American students in the South. His passionate words made world headlines, alienated many white fans, and divided Black America.

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
#Music

docpop, 10 months ago to random

Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers?

"Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking.

Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)?

Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...

Traffic at a busy intersection in San Francisco (Cesar Chavez and Guerrero). Most of the cars in the video are traditional cars with drivers, but three driverless Cruise cars pass by the camera. None of these driverless cars have passengers. At the stoplight, they all drive in different directions. It is not clear if they are driving to pick someone up, or just driving to avoid parking.

troutgirl, 11 months ago to random

Women were hunters in most societies studied, NOT just gatherers.

"Dr. Wall-Scheffler and her students found evidence of women hunting in 50 of the 63 societies they studied; moreover, 87 percent of that behavior was deliberate. In cultures where hunting was the most important means of finding food, women took an active role 100 percent of the time."

"Often, the oldest women participated the most. (In one bow-and-arrow culture, for example, a grandmother was prized for having the best aim.)"

tishkova, 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and it's soooo gooood! i usually listen to audiobooks before bed and i get sleepy after 15-30 mins. not with this book, i do not 😁 it's so packed with action and drama and dragons and danger and daggers pew pew pew (why does everything start on a D? 🤔)

i appreciate especially how cool the protagonist is with her sexuality and body, and she has flaws, how refreshing 😁

anyway, check it out, it's fun!

#books #audiobooks #libby #bookstodon @bookstodon

EU_Commission, 11 months ago to random

🚄 What if you could travel through the EU for a month for free?

This year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Single Market, which allows us to enjoy free movement of goods, capital, services and people across the #EU.

That’s why we are giving away 10 prizes of two rail passes to explore Europe’s rich cultural heritage for a month.

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#SingleMarket30 #Europe

trao, 11 months ago to histodons

So much truth telling is rejecting the narrative that black and Indigenous people's historical cultures were not technologically advanced.

It turns out the iron production methods that turned the UK into a superpower were appropriated from enslaved Jamaican people.

Reminds me of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu that describes engineering in Aboriginal societies that was erased by white settlers.

#decolonise #decolonisation #truthtelling #indigenous #blackhistory @histodons https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other