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

RT @LisaForteUK
Hippos. Another thing absent from my threat model..... how are they this fast!?!

RT @pilliarscreatio
This is wild and at first I thought I was a joke. Some of the concepts that NASA considered to snare the Agena during the Gemini program.
“Texas Lasso” - I’m sure Pete would’ve been willing to give it a try 😂

A grocery cashier just tried to offer me a senior discount.

What do you call the part at the end of a Python program that begins like this?

if __name__ == '__main__':

It's not really a function or a method. Is it the "main script"?

Nothern flicker hanging off the suet like a Golden Retriever that wants to be a lap dog. #IDontCareIfItFitsISitsAnyway #EntireLoonyTunesFoodChainInOneJoke #WhatDoYouMeanTheseHashtagsAreNotWidelyUsed

A talk on clouds and climate from my collaborator Jessica Kleiss: https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/321686-science-faculty-lecture-series-clouds-and-climate

RT @jackremmington
I actually laughed out loud. Catch me never pronouncing microwave correctly again

RT @vinn_ayy
The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership

RT @bigpenisman3000

... and how could I not tag @heyitspython on this treasure trove of Prince?

.@elizhargrave @traviswillse Have you been down this rabbit hole?
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RT @judi722
#Prince / birds - day 138 💜
https://twitter.com/judi722/status/1334879806220070918

OH: "I was sitting in front of Netflix and it just kind of happened."

*whispers* Siva Afi
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RT @shanselman
Folks complaining about Break Dancing in the Olympics are forgetting about curling and horse dancing. I think this is awesome. https://twitter.com/Olympics/status/1336031436818829317
https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1336061446417833984

RT @NickInfoSec
([a-zA-Z0-9@#$_&-+?!;:'"*()/~`|•√π÷׶∆£¢€¥^°={}\\%©®™✓\[\]]){1,64} https://twitter.com/msftsecurity/status/1334520266332966914

Analogously, climate change actions that are "necessary" and "politically feasible" do not overlap. #TheGOPIsAnApocalypticDeathCult
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RT @xkcdComic
Covid Precaution Level https://xkcd.com/2395/ https://m.xkcd.com/2395/
https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1336085047313539072

The headline doesn't say how big, so I'm gonna go ahead and check off "kaiju" on my 2020 bingo card. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/us/argentine-black-and-white-tegus-southeast-invasion-trnd/index.html

RT @cantcomputer
This is the last time my chainsaw bogs down while I am using it. Follow me for more l33t hax!

RT @TheOnion
Report: Majority Of Psychological Experiments Conducted In 1970s Just Crimes https://bit.ly/3mUIBrJ

Kids these days: challenge accepted!
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RT @cstross
Options for “what the kids are wearing these days is Just Plain Wrong”:

1. Mid-18th century French royal court dress (in fluorescent synthetic fabrics: also, genderswapped)

2. Space suits, with neckties

3. Anything that’s alive and semi-sentient

4. Flares
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1335901579568947202

RT @qikipedia
In 2010, one person in Sweden voted for ";13;Hallands län;80;Halmstad;01;Halmstads västra valkrets;0904;Söndrum 4;pwn DROP TABLE VALJ;1".

Unfortunately for the attempted hacker, the Swedes did sanitize their database inputs.

(Image: xkcd/Randall Munroe.)