ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

To see how much cooking liquid different types of potatoes absorb, we cooked cubes of russet, Yukon Gold, and red potatoes in water dyed blue. Learn more about cooking potatoes depending on their starch level: https://cooks.io/3EvIJJ3

"A translator's best hope, I think, and still the hardest to achieve, is Dryden's hope that his author will speak the living language of the day. And not in a way that caters to its limits, one might add, but that gives its life and fibre something of a stretching in the process."

- Robert Fagles' Preface to his version of The Oresteia (1976).

#RobertFagles #Oresteia #Agamemnon #TheLibationBearers #TheEumenides #AncientGreek #bookstodon @bookstodon

Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Credits: J. Morse, U. Colorado, U. Minnesota, WFPC2, HST, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

The "everything is fine" bias in news media is dishonest, dystopian, and absolutely unsustainable. Mother fuckers look straight into a camera and say "Republicans introduced a bill to abolish the Democratic Party" with a straight face, with the same vocal inflection they'd use to tell you about the weather or a highway traffic update.

I call this "minimization bias." Journalists are constantly over correcting their tone in the face of increasingly extreme news stories— so afraid of being criticized as "overdramatic" that they neglect how serious many of these stories are: like genocide against transgender people or the mainstream rise of far-right extremism.

Note to self: invent hexagonal bananas, so when you cut a slice it doesn't go rolling off the counter onto the floor 🔪⬡🍌

Was super lucky with the American kestrel. And lucky to have a camera in the car.

EFF is pleased to announce a collaboration with illustrator Chelsea Saunders and
The Nib on a comic about Black communities’ resistance to technological militarization of policing and to surveillance. Check the full comic out here: https://eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/coded-resistance-comic

Don't seize the day, seize the means of production of the day.

On Dr. Seuss's birthday, his little-known, body-positive "adult" book of nudes https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/03/02/dr-seuss-seven-lady-godivas/

It's not about whether you personally want to or need to drive. It’s about understanding the simple truth that in cities, if everyone tries to move by car, no one moves much at all. So the more of us that are enticed to walk, bike & take transit, the better it is for EVERYONE.

#cities #NewYork #cars #driving #walking #bikes #PublicTransit #traffic #congestion

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷

Looking down into the MARTA Peachtree Center Station, Atlanta, GA.

#Atlanta #Georgia #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Symmetry #Diagonal #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

https://www.foraphotography.com

What do #Github and #Twitter have in common? They recently laid off #engineers and now are struggling with significant downtime.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/github-to-lay-off-10-of-staff-cut-down-office-space/

Rosalind Franklin, born in 1920, was a British chemist whose contributions were vital to the discovery of the structure of DNA. Her work led to the Nobel Prize being awarded to two men, Watson and Crick, who allegedly stole her work and never acknowledged her contribution. #WomensHistoryMonth

Wind Flow - From UAHiRISE (NASA) - https://flic.kr/p/2ez73ey

#Garfield #music #ItstheEndoftheWorldasWeKnowIt
#bot #lyrics

OK. I have to admit this was pretty amazing. First prompt ever. **unicorn made of amber with fossilized fairies inside** #midjourney

New paper day:

Just published in @NatureAstronomy, a study by @sandorkruk et al. on the increasing impact of satellite trails on Hubble & other low-Earth orbit space observatories.

We found a doubling in the number of trails per image from 2002–2021, with a significant rise of ~50% in 2021 alone, as the "megaconstellations" started to appear.

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#Astrodon #Astronomy #LightPollution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01903-3