Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Hannah Gadsby's "Douglas" (Netflix) was quite good.
Anti-crypto take
All of these banks investing people's retirement savings in crypto are going to demand to be bailed out when the pyramid collapses.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
To celebrate, I'm giving away a copy of my card game Siva Afi: The Fireknife Dance of Samoa.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/siva-afi:-the-fireknife-dance-of-samoa
Boost to be entered in the drawing.
I'd also be interested in meeting any other fire dancers on Mastodon.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.
When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.
It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.
@kreyren Every line is indented by 8 spaces, but you can vary the font size of the spaces.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Did you see the news that all of the #JWST instruments are aligned now?
Check out this comparison of one of the newly released calibration images from the MIRI instrument compared to images taken of the same region of space by the WISE and Spitzer space telescopes! Look at that resolution! So many newly resolved stars and structures! 🤩
I can't wait for all the new discoveries we'll make with JWST! #Science data starts in only a couple months!
(Image from @/AndrasGasper on birdapp)
Disturbingly, we don't know what this was attached to.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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I’d tell you a Fibonacci joke, but it’s probably as bad as the last two you’ve heard combined.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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@yaelwrites reminds me of Kim Mok's manifesto manifesto https://www.kimmok.com/#/the-manifesto-manifesto/
@FailForward @users I presume so, but what happened in Dec-May?
16 states, including Oregon and Washington, file lawsuits to electrify USPS fleet - OPB
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/04/28/usps-postal-service-fleet-lawsuits/
@heydrdj I've gone all in, as is my wont. Students generally like it, finding it much less stressful.
I haven't noticed much change in the final grade distribution. Only a few students underrate themselves and fewer overrate.
It is important to have a verification that things were turned in, if only so you have something to look back at when considering final grades.
I still struggle with the question of deadlines; I want to give slack out of compassion (and to avoid agonizing about excuses for things being a couple of days late), but to much gives students room to get themselves into trouble.
Students are stressed studying for finals right now, so my college did the only reasonable thing: bring a therapy llama to campus.
@jmerchen I like it. It touches on most of the key points. Also relevant is Diaspora, which is written for a slightly earlier version of FATE (but might get a second edition someday).
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Just stress tested my fidget rings for over a week and they didn't even come loose! Very excited to get these onto my shop.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
