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

My new favorite meme of the day.
#Trains #TootToot

From Portland's KGW (Not yet on Mastodon): Milwaukie (Oregon) becomes second-largest Oregon city to ban natural gas in new construction. #portland #PDX #ClimateChange https://www.kgw.com/article/tech/science/climate-change/milwaukie-to-ban-natural-gas-new-construction/283-c46fa9c6-6aaa-427f-901f-ba2f56ce7c4e

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

#FediTips

If you’re curious about an account that hasn’t made it onto your federated feed yet, you can open up your browser and check it out there (assuming they have public toots). Their url is just instance.instance/@ user_handle (no space between the @ and the handle I just didn’t want to tag someone).

For example, I’m on pdx.social and my handle is @ingalls so you can find me at pdx.social/@ingalls

This will pull their toots from their own instance instead of ones that made it to yours.

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

One of the biggest achievements of humanity: the decline of child mortality during the last 200 years.

From my @OurWorldInData post on child mortality: http://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-big-problem-in-brief

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

For the Black folks who just joined -

Every Friday we have a tradition on Mastodon where we make posts related to Black Joy under the caption #BlackFriday. Please feel free to join in!

#BlackMastodon

If you haven't already, give yourself the gift of ditching grades as much as possible in your courses. Stop being adversarial with your students. Try trust in the new year. #ungrading

If you haven't already, would strongly recommend pinning an introductory toot to your profile. If you have particular images or video or audio you want to feature, they can be attached to pinned toots.

Also, pinned toots are automatically "backfilled" so you never have a blank profile on any server.

To add a pinned toot:

1. Log in with a third party app or through your server's website
2. Go to the toot you want to pin
3. Click ⋯ and "pin on profile"

You can also pin several toots at once!

"A new fleet of Northwest-themed Amtrak Cascades trains will transport passengers in style between Seattle, Vancouver, BC, Portland and other stations along the I-5 corridor when eight new trainsets and two new locomotives arrive in the Pacific Northwest in 2026." https://wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2022/new-passenger-trains-coming-i-5-corridor

Teaching a #Python workshop?

When quizzing the room, avoid:
> What will this code do?

Instead try:
> What are the POSSIBLE things this code MIGHT do?

Followed by "which do you think Python picked?"

Starting with the space of possibilities is often less intimidating.