George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

A hummingbird moth (I’ve never seen one before) visiting the milkweed today.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/hummingbird_moth.shtml

The Monarchs seem to have arrived today!

I’m a terrible Gardner but I do make an effort to grow milkweed for the butterflies etc.

Hendrix reinterpreted the anthem for us. It is the land of the free and the home of the brave -- but the real act of bravery is showing love to others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

@mekkaokereke I had Ms. Becton for 6 weeks in 10th grade (we moved) but I learned how to write an essay from her. And to this day, I can't spell 'separate' without thinking of her because it was a major peeve for her when students spelled it wrong.
It was an honors class and a lot of the other students would make snide comments about her, how she dressed, how she spoke, where she lived (rumor had it she lived in a tent).
I am eternally grateful that she was willing to refresh the basics first. I had moved around a lot as a kid and while I was in the "smart classes", I missed a lot of stuff based on when a school taught them. Like I never officially learned math using decimals but I had math classes about using fractions for 3 straight semesters.

If you could somehow write your Mastodon posts directly in #Vim (or Emacs, or any text editor of your choice), that would be *very* cool. Maybe there's a way, but I don't know what it is or would be.

Vocabulary Quiz

The word _____________ means “marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances.”

If you don’t know take your best guess. No Googling the correct answer.

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https://grugbrain.dev/

Microservices

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know.

Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met.

Me: [spouting off about DEI on a board call] blah blah blah

Benson: [jumping on top of me and lunging across the screen to eat the last bite of chicken salad]

Me: [going off camera but not mute] GOTdammit! That was my salad! Oof! Leave it! Stop! Down! GAH. Fine! Take it! You DOG!

I love him and hate him.

This is why I'm drinking a Black Manhattan right now.

#BensonUpdate
#DogsOfMastodon

Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.

Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
https://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization

The workbench carcass is done and the top planed to mostly flat. Onto shelves, then the top!
#woodworking

U.S. destroys last of its declared chemical weapons — including a stockpile in Pueblo — closing a deadly chapter dating to World War I https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/08/pueblo-chemical-weapons-destoryed/?utm_content=buffera6f0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer