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"The monstrous denizens of the intergalactic deep reveal themselves not through the light they emit, but by how they stir the space-time we share. When a gravitational wave moves through you, you are, for a moment, a different shape.” By me, in the Washington Post:
wapo.st/3PLNyoi

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@realcaseyrollins People there and on Bluesky basically see the fediverse as extreme control freaks in endless warfare with each other, and having to pick a server knowing which servers are at war with any other is insane, and being banned, blocked or defederated for extremely innocuous things. I think they are basically correct
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Please, I'm begging you, if you're a researcher, archive your data, back up your files, have a data succession plan.

Chat to your library, chat to your colleagues. The best time is as you collect the data, the second best time is now.

I'm dealing with multiple different data nightmares now. People leave academia, people retire, people pass away with a plan to make a plan.

No judgement here, just sadness for all that hard work thrown into uncertainty.

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay

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“Lol, look at you showing your extremism by not liking our culture of Nazi flags at drag shows and people shooting children who ring the doorbell. Woke much, loser?”

Fuck that.

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@DrEvanGowan I have problems seeing and serif helps me distinguish between letters, especially I and lowercase L. In my younger days I loved sans, but now really regret the pain I put people through.

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Despite some stubborn clouds, I caught the International Space Station transiting the Sun today.

#Space #Sun #Science #HydrogenAlpha

@trinsec @freemo Today it loaded just fine. Like it did when I used it every day. Thanks for helping me. I really appreciate your attention.

When I was a kid in the sixties, I babysat for people who made a very good living from fishing. (Middle class living, owned house, single earner, family of five). Today, there are few, if any fishing boats left. San Francisco, the same. I wonder what happened-- overfished? factory fishing? climate change? Just a thought on earth day.

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Calling it a gotcha that I "critique Biden policies after voting for him" is what's wrong with US politics today.

Voting for him doesn't mean I can't critique him—it's literally the best reason to be critical. It's called holding electeds accountable. It's how democracy works. And it’s how political parties work when they aren’t cults.

@trinsec @freemo Ah, they're very, very slow to load. I'm pretty sure the slowness is on my end. The home timeline always takes quite a while (10-15 mins) to load. It appears the list are lagging too. Alas. I've some debugging to do.

@trinsec @freemo Whilst gathering the info you requested, I came back to check lists and .... the content appeared. I dunno. When first responding to this, I got failure msgs. Perhaps it's my Mac. There was a upgrade since Apr 1. Thank you for your time.

@trinsec December. But I was here on April 1 and they were working then...

Ideas? Thanks

Toots in my lists seem to be missing (msg:There is nothing in this list yet. When members of this list post new toots, they will appear here).

I checked, and some list members had tooted today. I haven't been on-site recently, so I may have missed something.

Can someone direct me to the info I need to reactivate the lists.

Thank you in advance.

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Did you feel shaking in central #California a short time ago? At 3:23 p.m. PT there was a M4.5 #earthquake located about 32 km ENE of Salinas. Shaking was felt by 1000's across central California.
Details: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake
Report #shaking here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake

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