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

We grew two more crystals for #MineralMonth. Next up: red and green.

#MineralMonth movies. https://www.rockngem.com/minerals-taking-center-stage-in-movies/

At first I misread "crow" as "cow" and this cartoon became much more Gary Larson.
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RT @xkcdComic
Metacarcinization https://xkcd.com/2418/ https://m.xkcd.com/2418/
https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1355210376804069376

RT @AriBerman
106 bills introduced in 28 states already this year to restrict voting access, finds @BrennanCenter

That's 3x as high as last year

GOP weaponizing Trump's lies to make it harder to vote

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-2021

RT @DannyDeraney
This dog is practicing faces in the mirror and I am dead.

RT @Gamefreakgeek
Money isn't real.
It's cake.

"Instead of making your life a drama or a novela, make it a sitcom." --Brenda Ulloa Martinez, @StoryCorps

RT @InfoSecSherpa
I choose to pronounce the command chmod as if it were a Hebrew word, with a real gutteral and throaty ch sound.

RT @rabbitdoingwork

RT @jaxwendy
my 2021 pedagogy: OKAY WHO WANTS TO SEE A DOG

An image search for Captain Canada turns up some results, but disappointingly his shield is not a Crokinole board.

RT @EvanKirstel
Fun optical illusion 🤩

RT @Oatmeal
Meteor shower

#MineralMonth
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RT @Rainmaker1973
Chrysomallon squamiferum, commonly known as the scaly-foot snail, is the only known extant animal that incorporates iron sulfide into its skeleton (into both its sclerites and into its shell as an exoskeleton) https://buff.ly/2AnR4jV
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1354853204832514051

RT @MBoffin
Cracks me up that there's a C++ standard library just called... "algorithm". Like... really? That's all ya got? 😆 Feels like the same energy as when I'm at the end of a game jam, my code's a mess, and I'm just out there naming stuff like "DoTheThing()" 😂 #gamedev

I forgot why I came into this browser tab.

This is the way. Normalize it.
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RT @DJJudd
Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a copy of the US Constitution, per pool.
https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1354481623451000834

RT @zefrank
Also. Fuck the electoral college. We trounced that dick. Democrats have won the popular vote 7 times in the last 8 elections. We are not a nation of white supremacists. We can't allow an idiotic system from a time when there were slaves allow these people to have access to power.

Volcanology is a complicated profession. #MineralMonth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoSmPkWmG4k

A tiny snowperson standing guard in a park bench.