Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. ❤️ Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping 🕰️ (Profile banner, Irina Irbis, ArtStation)
Joined Nov 2022
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Next time no people.
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A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:
1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.
2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.
3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.
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This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.
This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.
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Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706.
Du Châtelet is an important figure in the development of classical physics, but she is not nearly as well known as many of her male contemporaries.
Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
I've been catching up on @stancarey's sweary blog Strong Language (https://stronglang.wordpress.com/) and I have a belated offering for the May 4, 2021 #music-related post.
"Nashville" by the Old 97s uses profanity beautifully. This song helped me convince a friend who was trying to stop swearing to rethink his goals 😜
"Well I married Caroline
Back in May of '99
It was fucked up at the time
But I figured we'd keep trying"
Those are strong lyrics. Changing an f-bomb; e.g., "It was messed up at the time..." just doesn't evoke the same level of anguish.
Old 97s - Nashville (2014, Most Messed Up)
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A few words on alternative platforms you might be considering:
- Tumblr: still exists, now run by Automattic, the WordPress crew -- decent folks. Not my kind of thing but seems to have found its niche, might even interoperate with Mastodon some day.
- Cohost: good vibe, good people, feels small-scale Tumblr-ish. Run by a "not-for-profit software company".
- Post.news: funded by early Twitter investor Andreessen Horowitz. Nonsense micropayment scheme. Avoid.
- Hive: security nightmare. Avoid.
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Things I would love to see Mastodon implement (at least on the biggest “main” servers):
1: Integrate “find your friends” from other networks (especially twitter) in onboarding
2: Make following people universal / simpler without having to copy/paste a user’s full handle (should be one click no matter where you are)
3: Give users an *option* to find / discover accounts related to their network (personalized)
@MsHouseMD Thank you! These ancient traditions are absolutely fascinating to me.
A friend recently brought to my attention that Merriam-Webster defines "yule" only as synonymous with Christmas. Further down the page the etymology and history are briefly given but I'd think the definition could be expanded!
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“The Other Side Of Christmas: Pagan Winter Solstice Festivals”
“December 25th might signify the birth of Jesus for Christians, but the Winter Solstice is also central to other traditions.”
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/winter-solstice-pagan-holidays
#VariousTraditions #culture #customs #WinterFestivals #trivia
Just shared over on Counter.Social. I'd have never known this, but I begin to understand why @ct_bergstrom appreciates these animals. This is amazing.
"Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills"
#Music for a chilly morning in southern California 🎶🌅
Mediaeval Baebes - Blow, Northern Wind
I love that they're singing in Middle English 😲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X3JP8aINo
Lyrics (with modern translation) are at the YouTube link. According to Heather Teysko of the Renaissance English Podcast this is one of the oldest known songs in English with lyrics dating to about 1200 (https://www.englandcast.com/2014/12/old-music-monday-blow-northern-wynd/).
@ct_bergstrom There is no substitute! But this band has a bit of the same sound to my ear.
Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl (from 2011)
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RIP Angelo Badalamenti, whose music I think about almost every day.
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My Nieces didn't know who Bill the Cat was. I was asked to describe caffeine...
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So far (in the past couple years) I've had a handful of really good exchanges with people on the Fediverse. Obviously, I haven't been that frequent of a user. Hosting my own service has helped motivate me to get more involved, and in any case, I've realized that the platform is only as good as who you use it with.
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All those high profile Republicans insisted that Herschel Walker would make a great senator, but since he didn't get the job I'm sure they'll insist that he be elected RNC chair.
Right guys?
Right guys?
*crickets*
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Heavy emphasis on European rather than Indo-, but this is a fun chart from Kenneth Katzner's book The #Languages of the World (new Routledge edition, 1995) #linguistics #words #IndoEuropean
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Needless to say, it says a lot about #elonmusktwitter that an algorithm added a sensitive content warning label to my tweet with our live @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat chat just now asking "Can Thriving Online Include Thriving on Mastodon?" https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWwbgovnxQ
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. ❤️ Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping 🕰️ (Profile banner, Irina Irbis, ArtStation)
Joined Nov 2022
