George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

Friday fun with the web.

I made this with MathML and CSS only 📏📐

Kids learn by having fun. Fun makes everything better.

As adult professionals, we tend to forget this and take ourselves too seriously sometimes.

Make something silly today! I guarantee you'll learn something along the way.

Word.

This arrived today via fax so I am required to follow its instructions. @dev

#cats #catsofmastodon

Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted!

"An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

Not recommended for reading right before bed. It's real bad up there in Low Earth Orbit, folks.

Still looking for trinkets and baubles for Christmas? I've got coasters and signs to satisfy the inner geek.

http://www.lewis-workshop.com

Boosts appreciated, I'm one man with a dream and an advertising budget made out of chocolate coins.

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The Trump administration is a line-up of the world’s most unmasculine men - Bonespurs Trump, Fox-commando, self-abhoring alcoholic Hegseth, sexually confused stoner RFK, couch humper, morally and intellectually limp as spaghetti J.D. Vance.

They literally are the most laughable gallery of snowflakes in the history of the world.

Sometimes there is no why, only do

@catsalad

I think today's going to be a FOOF day.

FOOF is notoriously, explosively unstable, so much so that the "Things I won't work with" blog has referred to FOOF as "Satan's kimchi".

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

I don't normally like seeing animals dressed up, but this Halloween costume stood out 🤣🤣

I'm in tears you guys. MY FARKING VET had this made after I let them know that the oncology vet had to put Rhys to sleep.

My regular vet called and I told her the news, then she asked me for photos of him. I had no idea why, just thought she wanted to see him being a happy dog! While we were in Michigan I got a phone call, telling me they have a gift for us.

They had this waiting at the desk for me. I cannot believe this.

#dogs #dogsofmastodon #pets #mastodogs

Is this a firewall?

#Fariña #catsofmastodon #allcatsarebeautiful

Wayyyy beyond FUBAR.

“Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.” - NPR
https://apple.news/A5bNAbND7TCeEua25o_o6Qg

This is one of the most impressive tech videos I've ever seen on #YouTube. Just a walking tour of the "engine room" on one of the largest container ships in the world. And yeah, those are pretty big pieces of equipment, and ... what? Those are only for pumping water and sewage and stuff like that? The big engines are further along? You mean ... Oh my God! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0NrqCBOwgY

Sometimes the smartest thing you can do as a builder is stop chasing “10x productivity” and start chasing clarity.
Most breakthroughs don’t happen during sprints — they happen in silence, when you finally see the pattern behind the noise.

Slow is not the opposite of progress.
It’s the foundation of it.
#BuildInPublic #Mindset #Productivity #Tech

Plimpton 322, the 3800 year old clay tablet with shockingly large, distinct Pythagorean* triples in cuneiform has become my touchstone for what is "old" in terms of human history.

Every time I hear about some ancient event, or artifact I place it in my mind relative to Plimpton 322.

If it was before Plimpton 322 it's "old! long long ago!" if it is after? Then it's just "somewhat old, but not THAT long ago."

*integers that satisfy a**2 + b**2 = c**2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322