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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at Earth from the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA Johnson
#space #iss #nasa #astronaut #earth

Taken 50 years ago today with a film camera, and developed when the Apollo 17 crew got back home, the "blue marble" photo of Earth is believed to be the most reproduced image in human history.
https://theconversation.com/the-first-photograph-of-the-entire-globe-50-years-on-blue-marble-still-inspires-175051

#News #OnThisDay #OTD #TodayInHistory #Space #Earth

in Norway, "up and not crying" is a not uncommon response to "how's it going" type questions, and I feel like that's a very reasonable standard to hold oneself to especially nowadays

It’s in the Post app mission statement that you can’t cyberbully the rich
#tech #technology #journalism #postnews #twitter #twittermigration #politics

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration

Dried mango is S-tier dried fruit.

Google Reader was the better social network anyway.

Some perspective for the newcomers :-)

15 days ago we had 140 users. Now we have 40188

😃

Shoutout to all the Mastodon servers bouta get slammed. Don’t forget to tip your admins, Mastodon doesn’t have ads

Awards season is creeping up on us again, and while I’ll probably do an actual eligibility post at some point, it’s worth noting that both my latest novel, THE NOVA INCIDENT, and my newest short story, HOMECOMING, came out in 2022 and are thus eligible for most relevant awards. So if you enjoyed them and happen to feel like nominating, I’d be most obliged.