ElectricBurgers @electricburgers@computerfairi.es

Editor: How's that story coming?

Me:

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

George Newell, the co-creator of "Schoolhouse Rock" has died. :(

Like so many people my age, I loved those cartoons. They were part of my childhood, and they were in my mind when I started Grammar Girl —language education, but FUN language education.

Making modern songs like this has been on my back-burner projects to-do list since the beginning.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/07/schoolhouse-rock-co-creator-george-newall-dead-at-88/

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

To edit is to remove the obstacles that will make the reader stumble.

#Editing #AmEditing #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingTips @edibuddies

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

@lexfri 🎶 You gotta keep 'em punctuated 🎶

Dried mango is S-tier dried fruit.

Google Reader was the better social network anyway.