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Southern friends, if you have clear skies, apparently there's an aurora.

ASWFC AURORA ALERT
ISSUED AT 1123 UT on 22 Mar 2026
GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS. AURORA MAY BE OBSERVED DURING LOCAL NIGHT TIME HOURS IN GOOD OBSERVING CONDITIONS AT HIGH LATITUDES.

sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora

#aurora

Space Weather Services website

Aurora - Aurora viewing conditions, forecast and sightings
c=AU; co=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; ou=Central Office; ou=Bureau of Meteorology; ou=Space Weather Services
#aurora

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apparently someone here has actually seen it. in 2004. I should set up an L.Exposure program in the camera, just in case, but I'd wandered off to bed before your advice.

I should just go get a key, and learn how to parse #Aurora json from BoM ...

#aurora
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Oh hey, do you (yes YOU) publish toots on a regular theme (art, fiction, particular niche interests)? Would you like to archive them to a searchable blog and/or RSS feed?

I wrote a program to do that. The tl-dr is that I use the "Hugo" blogging engine which compiles markdown files into blog posts on a static site (no wordpress, no database, no hacking surfaces). Then I use this script that I wrote to search my mastodon and make new markdown files for any new toots. I run it once with -- count=0 to get all matching toots forever, then daily with --count=14 to update the last two weeks' toots (refreshing likes etc, on recent posts). Then it's the standard compile-the-blog-and-push-it-to-the-server process.

github.com/unixbigot/rankle?ta…

The same process can also be combined with Matt @mattgemmell Gemmel's github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-… to turn a collection of toots into an e-book.

GitHub - unixbigot/rankle: A script to find out why your mastodon toot went viral, by inspecting the followcount of boosters

A script to find out why your mastodon toot went viral, by inspecting the followcount of boosters - unixbigot/rankle
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Hi All,

You may know me from other productions such as @david@theblower.au ; @david@photog.social or @david@bne.social and @david@pixelfed.social

Yes, ok, I seem to collect accounts all over the place.

Anyway, I hail from SE Qld, and dabble in blacksmithing, cooking, photography and other things while also working in IT. I've not played around with friendica (amazing really, since I used to have a diaspora account way way back), so I'm mainly here to poke around and see what it offers.

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