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It feels like never catching COVID is the new ‘winning the lottery’.

Not for fans of Donald Trump 

I'm a sucker for good writing. Those of you who are not fans of Donald Trump may enjoy this:

shuttersparks.net/donald-trump

Anyway, I’m a Black woman who has never worked for the GOP and has been pretty accurate about what they’ve become, and I’d really love some support to make more content to challenge conservative noise. patreon.com/gothamgirlblue

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I keep hearing that #Mastodon is not likely to replace #Twitter. To that I say: so what?
I've been contributing to the #Linux desktop for the last 15 years not because it's likely to replace #Windows, but because providing people with free desktop is the right thing to do.
I use and support Mastodon not because it's likely to replace Twitter, but because it's a social network done right.

#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men

Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)

Oh hey, time for my regular reminder: friends don't let friends use counter-dot-social.

That instance's owner is untrustworthy, racist, gleefully disregards software licenses, tracks every click his users make on the site.

Ok thanks good talk, send your friends to me if they're there I'll help them find an instance.

#introduction

Hi, my name is Alex, but the internet generally knows me as Rogue Soul.

I dabbled in #astrophysics at Uni. At heart, primarily a tech guy who has found himself working in the world of art & antiques.

I'm not much of a social animal (#INTP) but when I do decide to share it's generally about:

#antiques #astronomy #chess #electronics #film #gaming #militaria #music #history #photography #physics #retrocomputing #retrogaming #sega #space #vinyl #wales

Total #nerd & #geek

Behold "Diode", a browser-based emulator for building circuits in a little animated breadboard: withdiode.com

This is super fun

Game of Thrones rewatch, seasons 1-4: wow, this show is spectacular, can’t believe I didn’t watch from the beginning
Seasons 5 & 6: oh, yeah, I see the issue now
Seasons 7 & 8: dear god make it stop, what did I do to deserve this

This is mostly for @loriemerson “Emma Nutt became the first female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch company, because the attitude and behavior of the teenage boys previously employed as operators was unacceptable.“

tried an account migration but now i have to find everyone again aaa

Jeremiah was, and I can't stress this enough, a bullfrog.

Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

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