paanvaannd @paanvaannd@scholar.social

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Hospital security: unsupervised & unlocked computers sitting in an open hallway. Screens showed names + medical data of patients... yuck 😷 https://t.co/zjsNYwSJmE

A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!

A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap

https://en.osm.town

So is there some good federated blogging software yet?

I'm starting a new blog, content for the next few months is lined up

I was gonna do a standard self-hosted Wordpress install, but I'm feeling frisky and want to try something different

Boosts appreciated!

Economist: "Humans act rationally in general"

Human (looking up from their lottery ticket): "Damn straight we do"

Hello. I like it when people greet you at the beginning of their posts. It's like they're walking up to the Internet Podium and getting ready to give a speech.

Uhhhh

Holy SHIT

https://i.imgur.com/NbzslmI.gifv

ProtonMail - "The attack is said to have been 500 Gbps, which would be among the largest DDoS's on record." https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/8u6k0k/protonmail_hard_down_right_now/e1ddek7/

This is the Hubble extreme deep field. With the exception of (from what I can find) 3 foreground stars, every object you see in this picture is a galaxy. Can you find the foreground stars? Know the trick?

Scary.
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The arcs around the two galaxies in the centre of this Hubble image are caused by the light from galaxies behind the galaxy cluster in the centre being bent by the gravity of the cluster. This is gravitational lensing.

M17- the Omega or Swan Nebula is a star formation region about 5000ly from us. It glows red because the young stars excite the gas of the nebula.

I'm sad that Mastodon seems to be getting more and more passive-aggressive and mean-spiritedly cliquish as time goes on. It's starting to feel like the worst of Tumblr culture in a lot of ways. Over the last few days I've pre-emptively muted notifications for several posts because I can predict the replies I'm going to get and I'd rather not see them.

I don't think it has to be that way. I think we can all do better. Exercise compassion for others, and maybe think twice about our next subtoots.

M42- The Great Nebula in Orion, is a massive star formation region. It's also relatively close being in the 1400-1500 ly range of distance.

Planetary nebulae are generally round/elliptical or bipolar-butterfly shaped.
We don't know exactly what the collimation mechanism is for the bipolar PNe. (Left my image of M97, right Hubble image of M2-9)

Once you switch search engine you start to realize that the search engine choice really is irrelevant.

The few search engines I have used til now all offer the same or equally good results. Ordering on the first page may differ but usually you find what you what to find no matter what engine.

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This shot of M101 is from the @RAOastronomy Baker-Nunn telescope. M101 is visible below centre. The arrows point to other galaxies that I was able to identify in the image.

@paanvaannd By that theory, there will be a line outside your door the day after the due date, begging for an extension.