George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

Lisp: these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.
Lua: i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehow
Erlang: have they found out i run the internet yet
Rust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]

Time lapse of last night's #Jupiter with Io shadow transit. Covers five hours of real time. 200 x 2000 x 14 ms Ha 35 nm in Celestron 8" at f/10.

First post on here. Would love to connect with fellow lefties. A wee welcome boost would be much appreciated.

A public service announcement…

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), an emission nebula about 8,000 lightyears from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

The students in my upper-level electrodynamics course are taking their final exam right now, which always reminds me of the time I told my students they could bring a formula sheet to the final exam as long as it was on one side of a piece of paper.

If you look up to the sky with your naked eyes, the starry band of the Milky way appears constant.

If you could see it in X-rays - and we do, with space-based X-ray telescopes - it would be all glittering: here a black hole starting or ceasing to accrete from its stellar companion. There a neutron star on an eccentric orbit. A nova brightening up, a microquasar turning it's jets on and off ...

https://youtu.be/SZUuxbY8Mqw?t=81

#astrodon #astronomy #scicomm (infos ⬇️)

#Walken #Christmas

Even if he hadn’t written three of the most-loved #DoctorWho stories, Chris Boucher would be a legend for just this line:

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

RIP Chris 💙💙

Our #Godzilla #christmastree is up. Made from a few #Recycled Christmas trees people were taking to the tip. He needs some red light up eyes & other lights but he’s looking cool lol #Christmas #Monster

The Queens of Punk, 1980

Chrissie Hynde, Pauline Black, Debbie Harry, Poly-Styrene, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux

#music #punk #rock #punkrock #photography

[muppet nuclear test site]

Beaker: Meh meh meh meh meh. Meh meh meh meh meh meh.

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew: Indeed, Beaker. The destroyer of worlds.

Productivity tip: get a cat.

That way even if it takes you two hours to write 500 words you can just glance over to the cat that spent that entire time sleeping on the radiator and think that at least you got something done.

Granted, you will envy the cat’s lifestyle.

You go talk to kindergartners or 1st-grade kids,
you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They
ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.
You go talk to 12th graders & there's none of
that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

#CarlSagan #science