Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Someone is sticking googly eyes on sculptures in Bend, Oregon, and while residents love them, the city isn't happy. Here's more from @Smithsonianmag.

https://flip.it/pTyxnT

#Art #PublicArt #Sculptures #Oregon

#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science

There's a post going around right now that is a long, thorough analysis of the failures of technology in the last decade, and its is very good.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

It's full of zingers like "The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years."

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"Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time." — Steven Wright

I have proven this myself many times over many years.