🌸🌹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
pretty cool song. heard it a few times before I really appreciated it, but it's one of my radio favorites of the past year
The Lone Bellow - Honey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O35z3ac7qfE
I know there was a bit of mockery about those massive screens they use to replace glass doors in the freezer aisles of some stores back when they were first introduced, but I saw them in person recently and they're actually... still a really dumb idea. It's so dumb.
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The star nearby the moon tonight is Spica, the brightest star in the constellation #Virgo
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The disk of the Sun with the big #sunspot group AR (1)3354 rotating away from the center: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMII.jpg images from 21:23 UTC yesterday and 19:53 UTC today.
#BlackMirror season 6 episode 3 kinda shits on all the work that #NASA does and plans to do to make long duration space missions psychologically enriching. like, that gray paste stuff is total bullshit and they know it: even astronauts today have better than that. the characters in the show even appear to have a working green room on-station, so they could probably grow stuff to eat.
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extracting this incredibly useful set of conversation tips out of tiktok and into text form where i have some hope of being able to find it again:
“4 ways to instantly be [kinder] in group [conversations]”
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8e2sfpy/
1. Be the “you were saying?” person: when someone gets interrupted, and the interruption ends, turning back to the person who was talking and saying “you were saying?”
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School sent us a message about a bear in the area this morning. It was labeled as a two part message but the second half took a while to arrive.
Since it was so delayed, was half expecting the second message to say: "this is the bear. I control the school now!!"
@bookstodon just found out there's a redirection from indiebound links to bookshop.org: was that a unilateral thing? was there drama?
#books #indiebooks #indiebound #bookshop
@oliphant I didn't know facebook had a fediverse integration, but I'm inclined to think it makes little difference from a "data hoovering" perspective given that our posts are already publicly accessible
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Please, I'm begging you, if you're a researcher, archive your data, back up your files, have a data succession plan.
Chat to your library, chat to your colleagues. The best time is as you collect the data, the second best time is now.
I'm dealing with multiple different data nightmares now. People leave academia, people retire, people pass away with a plan to make a plan.
No judgement here, just sadness for all that hard work thrown into uncertainty.
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Hi friends... I need help.
#LinkedIn, who I heavily depend on to run my marketing agency, suspended me without a reason (“suspected unauthorized login” is what they've said) on Thursday last week.
I made a case immediately, crickets. Now a friend posted on my behalf on Twitter https://twitter.com/bellastone/status/1673406459701260298?s=20
And their support replied with this.
This is a huge impact to my business. So if any of you can bring more attention to that tweet or know anyone at LinkedIn... I'd appreciate your help.
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John "More Than" Goodenough, who helped develop lithium ion batteries likely powering the device you're reading this with now, has died aged 100. He gave up almost all rights to his inventions and continued work on battery development until almost the end https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23774166/john-b-goodenough-lithium-ion-battery-nobel-prize-died
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Cereal killer.
Inspired by a Piper Thibodeau concept.
#art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #3d #b3d #blender3d #breakfast #shark #MastoArt #FediArt
Inspired by a Piper Thibodeau concept.
#art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #3d #b3d #blender3d #breakfast #shark #MastoArt #FediArt
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OK, gardeners -- I need your advice. Two cantaloupe seeds sprouted from my compost heap, so I planted them in the garden bed with low expectations. One died, but the other is now blooming beautifully. I read somewhere that you're supposed to have more than one plant to encourage pollination. Is that true? What can I do to make it more likely that it'll fruit? I see occasional bees here, but not necessarily enough to rely on -- could I maybe try to hand-pollinate it, or should I leave it alone?
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This was amazing to see.
The barn swallow parent (above) had apparently had it with its lazy fledgling (below), and literally dragged it from the nest and dropped it into the sky over the water. Fortunately, the nestling could indeed fly, and just hadn't wanted to.
they did Annie Murphy wrong having her wear that yellow jumpsuit after we'd just seen Salma Hayek wearing it
#tv #blackmirror
@est oh, I knew it was a joke. I think the question is fun and interesting regardless
@mikemccaffrey
depending on what you mean, the answer is trivial. if you mean, "did eggs exist before chickens," then, obviously, yes.
if you mean, "did chickens exist before the first chicken egg," it's an ill-posed because so-called speciation events involve populations of pre-existing species. the creatures that produced chicken eggs must have been more or less continuous with what came before because otherwise you just don't have a way to get to the chicken. you'd have to pick some arbitrary dividing line in the evolutionary history
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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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