Notices by Kit Redgrave 🕯 (kitredgrave@glitch.social), page 2

an immediate and debilitating, but survivable pox on those who put up huge annoying whole-screen modal popups asking me to sign up for their shitty newsletters

i keep overestimating how many spoons future me will have

Anarchist News: **Curing the Disease of Control with Taoism and Crypto-Anarchy**

"From Bitcoin.com Many people lust for control. They need to control objects, animals, and people. This need for domination leads some to use violence to sate their urges. Their blind obedience to control unlocks a pathology that destroys their thinking faculties.…"

https://anarchistnews.org/content/curing-disease-control-taoism-and-crypto-anarchy

#anarchism #bot

Just learned about a really cool thing - Przybylski's Star. It's a "chemically peculiar" (Serious Astronomical Term) that's VERY weird indeed - weird elements like holmium, scandium, neodymium, and uranium present at 1,000x to 10,000x their abundance in our own Sun.

In fact, some even weirder elements - plutonium, einsteinium, californium - have been detected as well. Which is REALLY weird - those have short enough half-lives at a cosmic scale that we don't really observe those ANYWHERE in nature, because they disappear so quickly that they would have to have been produced very recently in cosmic time.

It's actually been proposed that the star may contain the theorized but as-yet-undiscovered "island of stability" isotopes of exotic superheavy elements like flerovium, or Element 120, or Element 126 - and that the reason we're seeing those strange radioactive elements is actually as decay products from these exotic isotopes.

This just seems like the sort of thing that is OBVIOUSLY the hook for a science-fiction novel.

"Values at work", G. Cheney

#ReadingGroup

https://social.coop/media/lsuBajJ9n3Cb9DYKiks

Bex Taylor-Klaus makes me so happy. <3

"You are enough. Your clothing choices do not define you, or your gender. It’s easy to fall into the trap of “am I [queer/trans/fill-in-the-blank] enough.” You are. Simply by being you and living your truth. Remind yourself today that YOU. ARE. ENOUGH. Even if you’re feeling lost and out of place. Go to a mirror. Remind yourself you’re worth it. Say it enough times that you start to believe it. Be kind to yourself 🖤"

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmeFhT8hxNZ/

"These students are making science easier to understand on Wikipedia, one article at a time"

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/08/15/these-students-are-making-science-easier-to-understand-on-wikipedia-one-article-at-a-time/

One student makes the point, "It is much more difficult to find information about underrepresented people because often the information about them isn’t even recorded in the first place."

Oh nice, Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Rebecca Sugar about Steven Universe about its LGBTQIA stuff.

I can't get over how glad I am that what this show's doing is getting the mainstream attention it's getting now.

https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/13/steven-universe-rebecca-sugar-lgbtq-cartoons/