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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
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Don’t forget to destroy your clocks this weekend!!
so many times I hear someone on the general interest features in the news say, "it's more complicated than you thought," but usually I think, "really? I already think that's quite complicated..." usually it's something with a science or tech aspect that I've actually thought about it
the music from Chrono Cross is 🔥
#videogames #music #YasunoriMitsuda
You'd need opt-in from browsers and websites to make it work though without it being a total privacy nightmare. I was thinking of complicated encryption scheme to support this...but, notionally, it's like if every web page had a little chat room associated with it that you could optionally join when you visit the page, but not at other times.
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Work in progress on my next portrait: Victorian lepidopterist, scientific illustrator, traveller and diarist Margaret Fountaine (1862-1940).
For #printerSolstice prompt variety.
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #lepidopterist #entomology #scientist #butterflies
Sometimes I think a kind of virtual presence on the web would be nice. Not like the IM Available/Away/Busy thing, but more like, if I happen to be looking up the lyrics to some song, I can see who else is looking and strike up a conversation or just virtually "wave".
@peterdrake oh. expiration dates on food are marketing nonsense.
@LouisIngenthron what you describe bears very little resemblance to nearly all of the anime I've seen, so I can't respond specifically to what you describe...
@peterdrake it does? it's basically just sugar
@rogerparkinson sheepof? sheep onlyfans?
@LouisIngenthron I was 95% joking 😄 I was thinking about how I react to crushes and the idea of *confessing your love* in the way that high school girls in anime sterotypically do. Although I have a more natural way of interacting with people IRL, those ideas still run through my mind.
I'm curious what anime you watched, if you remember. I've genuinely not found the character motivations, writ large, to be any more or less incomprehensible than in comparable media. Certainly, a lot of things are heightened, but it's cartoons, so that's to be expected.
Also, there is a bit of an insider dialog through common tropes and certain cultural touchstones that are unique to Japan or to people generally interested in anime, but I've always felt that lends a richness to the media rather than making it inaccessible (in *most* cases).
I had a moment when I realized how much my understanding of human relationships is influenced by anime, and, honestly, I felt disgust.
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The Myrmecobius fasciatus or Numbat, also known as The Walpurti, is native to Southern and Western Australia, as well as New South Wales. While they look like squirrels and a combination of other animals, they are actually insectivorous marsupialis! They eat up to 20,000 termites a day, using sticky, long tongues just like aardwolves, aardvarks and anteaters!
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I'm not sure if people realize that Twitter collapsing will mean no more articles in newspapers that are just a collection of people tweeting about a particular topic as though that's what everyone's saying.
Twitter becoming irrelevant is going to be so awesome you have no idea
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Apparently, in French, a transom window is known by a German phrase meaning “what is that?”
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"The #HBCU Library Alliance & #HarvardLibrary are embarking on this project [to advance] open, public access to archives & special collections pertaining to #AfricanAmerican history. Funds are provided by the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative, which has designated $6 million for this project."
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-08/hbcula-hl-partnership
PS: Universities can't stop states determined to prohibit the teaching of accurate US history. But they can make it easy for students to find more of the missing chapters.
#music
Rasputina - Irish (Willow Tree Triptych)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bk6eEDX64
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What kind of biologist should you be?
I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.
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Being free feels great. I remember my first web server on an old laptop back in 2000. The internet seemed limitless and *I* could help to create a small part of it.
Now, a renaissance is underway. Capturing that old magic.
Creativity, freedom made me love computers, but weren't the main reasons I abandoned Big Social. Yet, from the other side? It a magnificent benefit.
I had accepted big companies as unavoidable (to really reach people) Turns out we don't need them after all!
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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