Sorry to hear that the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has suffered a cyber-incident 1 that restricted access to email and certain platforms... measures put in place since the ALMA Cybersecurity incident 2 might have saved a much longer downtime!
A city on Mars?!
Well, close, but no. It's #ESO's Paranal little town of about 150 people in the Chilean Atacama Desert, next to the Very Large Telescope (#VLT).
Tuesday 06:37.
The work week at the #FoodBank continues. I am kept busy, but currently not hectic, which gives me time for side project catch-up.
But first, my #Coffee - a good start to the day.
After work I am looking forward to the Men's #Prayer Group I am part of. If you are local to the Lexington, KY area and want to join this group to pray together, please inform me.
The D-Group (#Discipleship) has stopped for the season. It ended with my birthday cake and fellowship last week.#DGroup
Talking of side projects, this cartoon fantasy gaming meme fits.
I originally sent it to Arianna as she often lives in Elder Scrolls Online. #ESO#ElderScrollsOnline
This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg. The nebula is a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937.
I'm giving not one but TWO talks at #ESO today - one at 12:00 on ASASSN-21qj and another at 16:00 on direct imaging of gas giant extrasolar planets. Gotta stack them up when you can! #astrodon
Well, while I wait for my favorite Fallout 76 mods to update after the newest patch, I'm re-downloading ESO to see if I can successfully "get back into it".
I have this stimulation issue called ADHD which makes it hard to do the long, drawn out quests with lots of dialogue. The issue is, that's the best parts of ESO....😩I wish I could shut off the quest voices and just read the text. It'd be faster for me.
I did find an addon that claimed to do that, but it muted all dialogue across the game, which is not what I want.
PS. I hate the fact that modders add so much functionality to games with missing features like text chat. How do you have a PC-based multiplayer online game without text chat in 2024? If it was integrated into the game like it's supposed to be, I wouldn't need to wait for modders🤦♂️
Join me (early) in 1hr for GIVEAWAYS and PRIZES! I'm raising money for Make-A-Wish with dacu.tv and a bunch of other cool streamers! Can you help sick kiddos make some amazing memories while we play #ESO?
The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled how Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, looks like in polarised light, which tells us a lot about the magnetic field around this monster.
The lines overlaid on the image below mark the orientation of the polarisation, from which astronomers can work out the structure of the magnetic field around the black hole.
@astro_jcm
While the post above does mention that the lines were "overlaid" on the image, the article linked in the post doesn't make it any clearer that they are plotted and not directly observed; to the contrary, the caption of the image in #ESO's article seems to intentionally hide that fact (see alt text for more details).
Join me for an (actual) relaxed stream today! Building a streetscape in the lovely new indie game SummerHouse (not sponsored, I just love it), followed by ESO dugies after! Come say Hullo!
Hi, #Mastodon fam. My name is Monika and I just moved in to this neighbourhood a.k.a. server! That said, my #timeline is pretty empty right now, so I would #love to meet new #friends and fill it up with #fun#content. Interact with this post if you play some of these #games...
Discover the Unique Presentations, Panels, and Activities You Can Enjoy at ESO’s 10th Anniversary In-Person Event!
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if #ESO did anything right it was redesigning Sotha Sil to be the true living embodiment of cool throughout all the realms; he was already cool before this but his visual update was truly inspired in ESO. if i was an elf god this is what i would look like. hats off to the concept artist who i cannot seem to find the name of.