Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.
18 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).
#astrophotography #comet #c2025a6 #c2025a6lemmon #astrodon #space
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I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your environment and to do a good thing!
Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Fdroid: f-droid.org/packages/de.westno…
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No.
I can see no links to download their network data under an open license. In skimming their terms I think they seem very keen that no one but them ever benefits from it and they repeat "Copyright © 2025 Bike Streets, LLC. All rights reserved." on every page I've checked.
I will not be contributing to what appears to be a closed #OpenStreetMap derived database.
I would much rather improve an actual community project like OSM with data that can be used by others.
Do you have fun zines about how to switch away from big tech? Maybe a little intro to Mastodon, or something about the thrills of libre office?
I'm going to do a little peer workshop in a bit to help activists with a non-tech background start shifting away from big tech.
It would be cool to have some zines/printouts to share.
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@cyberlyra @trib I've also followed this project, it's really awesome! I really like the focus on "real people's problems" instead of tech problems (which can be resolved with elbow grease or throwing money at an independent company)
Some friends of mine had critics about the VPN part, like "We should stop presenting VPNs as a panacea for security, it's not.
Sure, it can prevent your Internet provider or the state to read your traffic, which is great, but most you're still at the mercy of wherever your VPN tunnel ends (ie: which country), and VPN companies could potentially read your stuff, if asked for by law enforcement
VPN is tool in the tool chain, not a stopgap solution for security"
Yah there is no purpose in this society other than trading. Ancient practice that has transformed us all into merchants and consumers. Until that is recognized there is no path towards a solution.
Source - theguardian.com/environment/20…
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There's only one thing worse than having too many people in critical positions of power, that don't understand Root Cause Analysis; and that's too many that do, and STILL choose abuse of power.
It's one thing in burning fossil fuels, following a major revolution like the Industrial Revolution. It's another to have a clear path to graduating the burning application, and continuing to burn it, put future generations at risk, for the sake of more profit.
And the longer this continues; the more expendable our species is.
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Je découvre que Moby a mis plein de musiques en libre accès sur mobygratis.com/
Très cool.
#moby #mobygratys #musique #free #foss #floss
mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.mobygratis.com
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Tu as vu les conditions d'utilisation ?
>Il n'y a que deux choses que vous ne pouvez pas faire avec la musique ici : l'utiliser pour faire la promotion de causes ou de politiques de droite, ou l'utiliser pour promouvoir la viande, les produits laitiers ou d'autres produits d'origine animale.
Excellent 👌👌
@bohwaz Je sais 🙂 Mais Creative Commons ont déjà la clause NC et ND en non-libre. Donc une autre de plus, si ça pourrait refléter des usages plus modernes comme ici....
En tout cas, tant que Moby contrôle sa propre page, il peut aussi l'éditer, restreindre plus, changer ses règles: donc terrain glissant pour les dérivations.
C'est pour ça qu'avoir un acteur tier comme CC avec leurs versions fixes serait sans doute plus solide pour faire du partage sous conditions.
@tibolalu C'est certain que montré comme ça 😆 Ça deviendrait vite fait un sacré foutoir la CC.
Je me pose la question si finalement la clause no alt-right et la close vegan qu'explore Moby ne pourrait simplement pas faire parti du droit morale, pour peu que l'auteur⋅ice l'exprime clairement. 🤔
Je vais faire mes recherches la dessus. C'est peut-être tout simplement pas du ressort de la CC ce genre de close.
The sun will swallow the Earth.
The galaxies will fade.
Protons will decay.
Your LinkedIn bio will not survive this process.
This is a Good Thing™️
joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-i…
You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.
A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally SmallJA Westenberg (Westenberg.)
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
-- Charles Darwin, in _The Descent of Man_
⏰ Wakeful times for the Wakeful Wolf as a holographic sticker! 🐺 🌈 🌟 shop.sylvia-ritter.com/collect…
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@experimentmapass huh. I don’t have any problems in Edinburgh with Royal mail, not even with international packages (I just owed a tariff once which was annoying).
After living in the US for many years I can say their mail service was 10x worse 😂
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Hey, spoilers, man. We're not allowed to figure the year's big surprise twist when it comes to the Russia/Ukraine escalation for a couple of months yet.
Coming this Christmas: A high atmosphere EMP pulse.
I'm really excited to eventually see this film, "Shifting Baselines", that I'm in! It looks SO COOL from the trailer, and there's a big picture of me on IMDB for it, haha weird. (But honestly, it's pretty hard to tell it's me because it was -25C or so when they were filming me here in Feb 2024)
Trailer here! viff.org/whats-on/viff25-shift… Right now I think you can only see it in film festivals, but if there's one near you, you should definitely watch it!
Shifting Baselines | VIFF 2025
Towering rockets rise as wetlands vanish in this sly black-and-white documentary about SpaceX's conquest of Boca Chica, Texas. With sci-fi aesthetics and observational calm, the film exposes how cosmic dreams begin with the quiet erasure of Earth.Vancouver International Film Festival
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Will have to watch this!
I love that, on imdb, they say it "stars: Samantha Lawler, Jonathan McDowell and Daniel Pauly"
You're a star! (In many ways 😃 )
A worker transports sacks of discarded plastic bags near the Buriganga River, #Dhaka, #Bangladesh
Photograph: Joy Saha/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
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The climate crisis is turning into a climate catastrophe, we have a mental health epidemic, a plastic epidemic, an inequality crisis, a pollution crisis, an energy crisis, a misinformation crisis, a migration crisis, a corporate crisis, an AI slop crisis, an art decline crisis, an economic crisis – and one positive thing – a sex retreat party 🤣. We're doing pretty well, aren’t we 😀
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Not playing 4D chess nor checkers, just a megalomaniac narcissistic bullying dictator enriching himself and betraying and conning his ignorant disciples…
Wake up Americans.
Every online argument:
Person A: 'X is good'
Person B: 'So you're saying we should do X to an insane degree with no nuance?'
Person A: 'I didn't - '
Person B: 'DESTROYED by FACTS'
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Much of the perimeter of the #Arctic Ocean is getting wetter during the month of October. This is largest over the Barents-Kara Seas region, along with the eastern coast of Greenland.
+ Data: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data…
+ More info: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/re…
Precipitation - NOAA Arctic
DOI: 10.25923/xf7c-p592 M. C. Serreze1, S. Bigalke2, R. Lader3, A. Crawford4, and T. J. Ballinger3 1National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2Dep…Tracey Nakamura (NOAA Arctic)
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September 2025 was the 3rd warmest September on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). The last 12-months have been about 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-… via @CopernicusECMWF data
Surface air temperature for September 2025
September 2025 was the third-warmest September globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.11°C, 0.66°C above the 1991-2020 average for September.climate.copernicus.eu
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I'm a little bit angry that AMD is in it... But as a BTC gold rush how they say:
its in a game
Science In Action: A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
A mystery satellite has been jamming GPS in Europe
Scientists detect for the first time an unknown source of GPS interference from space.BBC
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in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •This made processing very complicated and time intensive, but I'm still quite pleased with the final result.
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I added a motor to mine. Hand operation is ok for wide-angle lenses, but telephoto lenses deserve a motor.
Barn Door Tracker » Noctilove astrophotography barn door tracker
Noctilove astrophotography barn door trackerDerick Rethans
in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •Gorgeous. I always get jealous about these, as all I can manage is something like this.
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in reply to Derick Rethans • • •@derickr Thanks! I'm glad I could pull out this much detail, but my gear was probably not even a whole lot better than yours! Just a 135mm lens and a mirrorless camera without a tracking mount.
See below for a single exposure.
The real difference came from stacking over 400 images which honestly was a ton of work!
Simeon Schmauß
in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •(I'm using Pixinsight for historical reasons, but Siril is catching up quickly!)
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in reply to Simeon Schmauß • • •Simeon Schmauß
in reply to Derick Rethans • • •@derickr Yes, it's extremely powerful!
This is probably a bit of an extreme example though, because I'm using over 440x2.5" exposures.
Ideally you'd want to use a star tracker so you can use longer (e.g. 30") exposures which means you need to process way fewer images.
Comet stacking is also pretty involved because of the relative motion of the comet against the stars.
But with maybe just three minutes exposure you probably don't have to worry about that and it's a lot easier.
Clear skies!
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