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Our puppies, #IdąPsięta, tested their teeth on that watering can. Now it got fixed – with a zip tie.

#fixing #repair #garden

This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.

When I was young and had all the time in the world, a fantasy novel was 160 pages. Now, when I have dozens of demands on my time, they’re 500 pages. #Fantasy

Sorry, I had to https://mastodonapp.uk/@andyleader/110695471933146750

@HeavenlyPossum > ProPublica helpfully supplies the answer: a firm called RealPage, which provides software called YieldStar, which allows landlords across the country to coordinate price increases en masse:

You know, this sounds like collusion and price-fixing as a service.

Important pulsar fact!

The cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" was adapted from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell has received just about every other award under the sun, including the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. She used the prize money —about £2.3 million— to establish a scholarship for white women, minority, and refugee students in physics.

Anyway, happy 80th birthday to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars!

Ratbags.

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Tiny Awards is a new effort to celebrate the best of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web” made in the last year. As part of the selection committee, I helped narrow the ~300 nominees down to 16 finalists, and now you decide who wins. I wrote a little about each site here— voting’s open until July 20! https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/