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

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Gyre *and* gimble? In this wabe?

#Violet knows what's up when we put on our office shoes and coats...

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

Good morning on another day in the zone between "everything is fine" and "we are doomed for sure."

Good morning on another day where, in the spirit of complex systems, what you do shapes the future.

A hydroelectric dam is also known as a heavy water reactor.
https://xkcd.com/2710/

it’s hard to believe that in this day and age people are still wearing fir

What if we could make Eliza really, really believable by lighting a coal mine on fire.

I don't know exactly how I'll be using Mastodon just yet, but here's an intro: Hi, I'm Celeste! I'm an environmental seismologist, mostly specializing in seismic signals generated by glacier processes. I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCalgary, which I started after finishing my PhD at Caltech in June. I sometimes take cool pictures in the field as Queen Elsa for fun and for outreach, like this one near my current field site in British Columbia:

Some of you will know that there are character codes which are magic, For example, 8 is backspace, 9 is tab, 13 is enter/return, 27 is escape.

And then there's 127, which is delete. Why?

Because if you're dealing with punched cards, you need to remove errors. And the only code which will work for cancelling out a column is all holes punched, since you can't un-punch a hole

And 127 in binary is `01111111`.

I would love to see tv and film that explores what Native life was like here *before* white people arrived

#Security truths

I just keep stumbling onto higher ed memes that need to be shared today.

Little ray of sunshine. #dog #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #derpsAndFloofs