🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
@clayrivers
I'm somewhat confused: your article briefly mentioned some neo-nazis, gestures towards the broader institutional threats to various groups, then recounts how caring and effective your mother's treatment is. that doesn't sound worse than what I thought about Florida. the former is well known, while the latter just demonstrates that there are good folks in the state too.
@ourhumanfam @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social
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OMG! It is happening! I planted them early because of the hot weather... So excited! #Gardening
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@at it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it
@est@emily.news I can't think of any
@est@emily.news when I see your posts in my feed, before I read them, it's like, "Should be interesting, let's stop scrolling and have a read."
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@meshell awful in what way? Never read, but Wendig has been on my radar for a little while.
@bookstodon
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Here is the set of prints and postcards that are part of @operamariposa ‘s benefit prize draw ending next week! All proceeds go towards helping those with #MECFS and #fibromyalgia . https://operamariposa.rallyup.com/may2023/Campaign/Details
@Hayob
Yeah, second that. At least if I want to understand what a specific person's rating means, I like the comment. Also for that case, it helps to see how they rate things generally.
OTOH, for an aggregate...yeah I just actively thought about it and it's different for different types of books. I'm more sensitive to 2 vs 3 vs 4 for a technical book, but not so much for 4 vs 5. For a novel, setting aside dog-piling and controversy skewing things negative, I might pay attention if it's getting 1 or 2, but 3-5 is all in the noise.
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Saturn, when viewed in the near-infrared methane absorption band, appears blue. You're able to peer through the upper hazes into the clouds below and the bands and belts start to take shape. It's still false color, but almost looks like a whole new planet.
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
@paranoiapen sorry to break in, but you should see the folks I follow. Yeah, some are posting about "serious business" like politics and climate change, but it's also a lot of screwing around. I suppose most of the "chatting" is buried in threads though where you might not see @paul
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I don't know how much more adorableness I can take from this set of moose twins. Here they are kissing each other as captured by photographer Lacee Johnson.
#CutenessOverload #Alaska #AlaskaMooseBabies #Moosetodon
I kinda think redwing blackbirds are actually trying to get photographed. everytime I take out my camera in the park, at least one always comes near enough for a great close up shot
#birds #birding #birdphotography #birdwatching
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@julialuna for what purpose?
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Lol, this cracks me up. Free Shrugs ftw.
I have a two publications to my name, mostly for being *attached* to the group that actually wrote and edited the papers. (I did write software based on some of the ideas in the paper, but they weren't originally my ideas.)
OK. Whatever. What I'm curious about is, I'm on #ResearchGate and, lately, I get pretty regular notifications of new #citations on one of these papers, about once a month. It's a total of 80 since September 2018. Is this typical?
It's not a bad paper: I think it's actually quite good. Still, it's not "groundbreaking"? It's about an approach to #SystemsBiology where we use computer simulation that integrates multiple models to validate our overall understanding of an organism. Is that what folks are into these days?
Anyway, I just want a hint, because I'm not likely to actually read all these papers that cite us, if this is, like, paper mill output or are other folks legitimately taking on the ideas and building on them.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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