Thanks to Sharmila Kuthunur for her @spacedotcom story today on the new U.S. federal administration's efforts to erase the contributions of people like Vera #Rubin from the #history of #astronomy.

https://www.space.com/the-universe/earth/scientists-alarmed-as-rubin-observatory-changes-biography-of-astronomer-vera-rubin-amid-trumps-push-to-end-dei-efforts

Is your child a far-left extremist?

Look for warning signs:

A damning indictment of droplet theory (that pathogens spread by flying droplets out 'cha mouth) from as long ago as 1936.

Written by Dr. Wells & Mr. Wells, a wife and husband team.

Thread.

[originally posted August 28, 2020]

#COVIDIsAirborne #RespiratoryVirusesAreAirborne #EntericVirusesAreAirborne

#art #history: whenever i question what a government is capable of perpetrating in the service of self-preservation, i remind myself of what the FBI did to jean seberg (born #otd in 1938). for the things he did to her, to fred hampton & to the black panther party: fuck j edgar hoover forever.
[more about jean below these sketches in her memory]

🎃 #Halloween Week 01 - Creepy #AbandonedHospital

💉Kill or cure; these decaying medical facilities lay redundant and surplus to requirement. Asylums, their evocative long corridors with peeling paint and smashed windows. Almost pristine hospitals, with the power still on and beds still made. Silent operating theatres and empty wards.

📷 Explore these #abandoned hospitals - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/unsanitary-clinical/

Happy Bell Riots Day to all who celebrate 🖖🏼

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win gold.

Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.

On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world.

First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before...

"We came in peace, for all mankind"

#Apollo11 #Apollo #science #OTD #1969

To celebrate the X Window System's 40th birthday, I did a deep dive on something about it: the iconography of its boot-up stipple (that gray pattern you first see as the X Server starts up):

https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html

Did you know the stipple has a name, age, and cultural significance to the ecosystem? I'll share my personal history with it. What's yours?

#XWindowSystem #UNIX