Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @Lenniesaurus
Scots word of the day: SITOOTERIE

Meaning: outside eating area, a place where one might sit oot tae eat

Example: a sitooterie? In this weather, Moira? Are you mental? It's BALTIC.

This is ma favourite word, thought I'd whap it oot tae gie masel a wee boost. Thanks for sharing

RT @Rainmaker1973
Magnetic aligners are suitable for aligning long, slender ferromagnetic objects like nails so they can be packaged compactly https://buff.ly/2IXodHy [source of the gif: https://buff.ly/2ISxf8C]

RT @FSVDesign
‘It wasn’t all bad!’

Plot synopsis of Mandalorian S2E4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5-exkVbp5U

RT @DSAArchaeology
The future is here!!!

H/t to Bad Archaeology on FB. https://www.facebook.com/1500836503517178/posts/2761357150798434/?d=n

We made it to Thanksgiving without a massive COVID outbreak on campus!

https://college.lclark.edu/offices/health_promotion_and_wellness/covid-resources/list/

Safe travels to all the students heading home for the rest of the semester.

RT @xkcdComic
Viral Quiz Identity Theft https://xkcd.com/2388/ https://m.xkcd.com/2388/

It never ceases to amaze me how the GOP has managed to merge Christianity with predatory capitalism and don't-tell-me-what-to-do libertarianism with autocracy.

RT @BDaveWalters
I really want to know what the coyote wanted the badger to see so bad.

Roughly speaking, rail connection games have you building minimum spanning trees. Ticket to Ride suggests Kruskal's algorithm, while TransAmerica suggests Prim's.

RT @qikipedia
In the 11th century, the Native American city of Cahokia (in what is now Illinois) is estimated to have had up to 20,000 inhabitants, making it larger than London at the time.

RT @PIGSquad
We're hosting another digital coworking night tomorrow (Friday) from 7pm-10pm at http://bit.ly/PIGSquadDiscord!
Pop in if you're interested in working on a project & screen sharing, chatting with other devs, seeing what everyone is working on, playing games, or lurking 🤩
See ya soon!

RT @PonchoRebound
Will it make sense if I haven’t seen the first 1,983 films?

RT @qikipedia
In the 1960s, MIT graduate George B. Blonsky patented a centrifugal birthing machine. His invention came complete with a ‘fetus reception net’.

The replies here are illuminating.
---
RT @michaelharriot
What’s NOT white but makes you FEEL white?
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1329323704682229761

Hurricane Omega is the name of my next low budget disaster movie, which everyone will think is way over the top for about two years.

I didn't realize Portland had municipal water tanks dating back to the 18th century.

This is a fraud on the readers of @people. This is an embarrassment to this magazine. I was getting ready to win Sexiest Man Alive. Frankly, I did win.

RT @nycsouthpaw
The Trump campaign's proposal--literally I am not making this up--is that *THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN* will obtain and count all or a subset of the Pennsylvania mail ballot envelopes and, based on the formula in footnote 3, let the judge know if he should declare them the winner.

RT @techladyallison
They found a small owl inside of this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree, he hitched a ride all the way to NYC and is now being treated and cared for at a wildlife rehab facility.