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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Apollo Shutting Down June 30th
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/06/08/apollo-shutting-down-june-30th/ #mjtsaiblog
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This is only the second time a former president has been indicted. The first was also Trump. (According to ABC News)
I've been organizing my #music playlists and started noticing many songs that mention #california in title or lyrics. (Tom Petty has quite a few.)
I looked around online and found several hundred songs that fall into this category! I didn't try to compare w/other states but I suspect CA may have one of the highest mention rates.
Anyway, here's a favorite.
Wilco - California Stars (Live at Farm Aid, 1998)
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1Password passkey support for the web launches in public beta on the Mac https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/06/1password-passkey-browser-extension/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Is speech violence? Here's a very interesting discussion from 2022 (~20 min) with Peter Boghossian and a group of university students.
😩 When you have a really bad night with a migraine and take a PTO day from work...then feel guilty about resting, so you do laundry and clean your house 🧺 🧹
(With respect to Grandpa, who actually did work in a coal mine, and to Grandma, who did this every day) #music
Lee Dorsey - Working In a Coal Mine
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Physicist Rudolph Peierls was born #OTD in 1907. He contributed across the breadth of 20th century physics, from quantum field theory to nuclear physics to statistical mechanics.
Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation
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I wish people would be more concerned about how they live their lives especially in regard as to how they treat others and be less concerned about how others live theirs, and in fact just leave them alone.
This is definitely a better way to handle the extremists, however.
The North Face defends drag queen Pride advert-
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/the-north-face-pride-campaign-pattie-gonia-backlash/
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Regardless of what gets announced today, thank you to the many thousands of Apple employees who are making it happen behind the scenes. Just because you don't see them, or know all their names, still remember they are people when you are firing off your hot takes.
(this post aimed towards myself)
I'm stunned by this. Is US right wing madness infecting the whole world?
#science #stem #education #school
"On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy, among others.
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Even as thousands of scientists across the country protested the decision to slash evolution last month, it did not deter India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) — the public body that designs curriculum and textbooks — from expanding its list of omitted topics."
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The #Bible has been removed from libraries in Utah after a parent used a new law that permits the removal of "pornographic".
The parent argued that the Bible contained topics such as incest, bestiality, genital mutilation, and infanticide, making it pornographic under the new definition set forth in Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227.
A GOP lawmaker expressed "sadness" regarding the situation.
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Tonight’s #pizza is a very simple one — realized I have garlic confit in the fridge so it’s just semi-roasted tomato, garlic confit, garlic olive oil, salt, rosemary, and cheese.
I’ll make it again for sure! #cooking #food
(Garlic confit is just garlic you slow cook in olive oil and then you save both in a sterile jar. The oil is fantastic too. Highly recommend — particularly with fresh garlic this fall.)
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@christianselig Just read FlyingLaserTurtle’s outlandish attack on Apollo’s “inefficiencies.” Have you had an opportunity to publicly voice your concerns with Reddit’s accusations? If not, let’s make a video.
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@christianselig I can't believe they're using commenting and voting to determine how active users are, and using that to justify the claim that Apollo is less efficient. I almost never comment or vote. I just browse. A lot! I'm sure I blow through hundreds of requests a day, and by their metrics Apollo is just being incredibly inefficient because the requests per comment/vote would be astronomical. 🙄
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The first time I heard the word “launch” I had no idea what it meant. I quickly understood that launch day is like test day in school. A day where pain teaches you what you should have learned. And because of that stinging pain, what you learn at launch day has a good chance of staying with you.
As someone who enjoys the Apollo app for Reddit, I’ve been distressed about the new pricing and Reddit’s apparent attempts to drive away third-party app developers. Apollo’s developer (https://mastodon.social/@christianselig) made a terrific app (and the Pixel Pals are adorable ❤️)
Gordon Gekko (“Wall Street”) wasn’t entirely wrong but greed is taking us straight back to monopolies in many areas of business.
Anyway, while reading Reddit posts on this topic I’ve seen a fair amount of fediverse-bashing. I thought this OP made some solid points.
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Medical history includes substances considered non-medicinal today, such as fragrance (unguents, oils, attars, etc).
Took a fantastic class from Nuri McBride, fragrance anthropologist extraordinaire, on vessels used from Neolithic times until now to make and store fragrance for rituals, adornment, and medicine.
https://deathscent.com/2020/01/28/the-sweet-smell-of-plague-preservatives/
Photos show a double pomander (apple opens to the skull) from 1628 possibly made for King James II of England.
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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
