Kat Atomic

Get em, sis!!! 😆

Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

Don't forget to include disabled people in your resistance. The more revolutionary you become, the more likely you'll join the disability community. To fight back and get out alive is almost always to become disabled in some way. Disabled people know how to adapt and fight continuously. You need us.

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong A methodological autopsy of flawed research that contradicts decades of rigorous evidence

“Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong”

Brilliant and much-needed takedown of the latest anti-vax misinformation and propaganda from the pseudo-scientists, ahead of the RFK hearings.

Support newsrooms that aren't backing down in the face of fascist threats and that publish the kind of news and analysis that fuels movements. Support @truthout.org:

YES! Magazine | Solutions Journalism YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism for building a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.

By the way, I now run YES! Media, an indie movement publication focused on radical solutions and—surprise, surprise—it, too, is often struggling to survive.

If you can support legacy publications that spew transphobia, then please consider donating to indie publications.

Love winter sowing. I’m getting my jugs ready to plant (zone 7). It’s my third year with the method. 💕

Brave yourselves for more of the like.

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.

👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the centre of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light. The star displays the characteristic diffraction spikes of Webb’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam), caused by the physical structure of the telescope itself. NIRCam effectively balances the brightness of the star with the fainter gas and dust surrounding it, while Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nebula’s structure. Background stars and galaxies populate the field of view and peek through the nebula of gas and dust that has been ejected from the ageing massive star. A history of the star’s past episodes of mass loss can be read in the nebula’s structure. Rather than smooth shells, the nebula is formed from random, asymmetric ejections. Bright clumps of gas and dust appear like tadpoles swimming toward the star, their tails streaming out behind them, blown back by the stellar wind.

High resolution image of a heavy star.
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A tweet by Veronica Sixsmith reads: "The Carter Center posted some beautiful photos from President Carter's state funeral. I would like to commend the photographer of this shot for finding the perfect angle here. The right-hand column is doing the Lord's work." Below the tweet is a photo of previous and current presidents and their spouses in attendance at the funeral. There is a column blocking Donald Trump.

Give this photographer a bonus.