Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Every GOP official, especially party leaders like Kevin McCarthy, should be asked, wherever they go, whenever they appear, whether they condemn Trump’s call for termination of “all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution” so that Trump can now be declared the winner.
They must utterly reject and walk away from this seditious, authoritarian madman. Now.

The unreasonable effectiveness of polymorphic records

https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-polymorphic-records.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-polymorphic-records.html

#haskell #programming

@cvvhrn This is me with Fifi sitting on FIFI-LS, mounted on SOFIA, taken just before I left Palmdale for the last time on the day after my last mission. My beard was trimmed to fit under an N95 ar three time!

#Meme

SOFIA Saturday: NASA 747-SP N747NA- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The super rare 747-SP carries a 2.5 meter Cassegrain reflector IR telescope above atmospheric moisture to enhance readings. Sadly its mission is over and will be parked at Pima (see next post for inside shots) #NASA #SAOFIA #Astronomy #aviationphotography #planespotting #haveglass #aviation #AvGeek #spotter
#aviationdaily #photography #aircraft #Nikon #Z9
#AvgeeksofMastodon

Steele's Law:
There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than ten men
or fewer than one hundred.

Today's breakfast
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-butter both side of toast thick
-make hole in center
-on medium heat, toast bread in pan with egg in hole, sprinkled with a palmful of cheese
-flip when cheese is melted
-add cheese to new side
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Could add some of the following a garnish:
-salsa
-syrup????
-bacon bits <3
-tomato vinaigrette

Insurance is such a scam.

"You're protected*"

* Except you have to ship everything that was damaged to us, at your cost.

* And you only have ten days to do so.

* And first you have to pay to get an independent repair cost estimate for everything. Like who even does that nowadays?

* And if they do pay out, they will only pay what the going price is on eBay or Craigslist (!?)

* And the insurance is void if the power spike was longer than 1 ms.

If there's one thing I would like to see change about #fediblock, it would be that I would like to see the reasons why you are implementing the ban, beyond two words. Screenshots of said bad behavior, etc.. so that other #mastoadmin can have more context to judge for themselves and their own users.

Right now it feels very "he said, she said" with no receipts, drama between server admins blocking without talking to each other, etc...

"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so."
- 11th Circuit panel, per curiam

@webuiltthiscity If my older zoomer kids post on IG at all, it's to stories so their friends see it. More like Snapchat, I guess. They don't love social media in general. Not in the way my GenX generation adopted it.

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

Comet C/2020 F3 "NEOWISE" reflected in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (7/10/2020).

This is a single frame. There was moon light illuminating Fannette Island and the bay. I did a little dodging and burning and color grading in #darktable running on a Linux box.

Sony a7rIII, 55mm prime, f/1.8, 5sec, ISO640.

#astronomy #comet #astrophotography #astrophoto #photography #laketahoe #lake #emeraldbay #sierra #linuxphotography

Welcome to #Whammageddon. The challenge: during the month of December, go as long as possible without hearing the song “Last Christmas” by Wham. Post when you lose. Covers don’t count. Have fun.

https://www.whamageddon.com

They should give Donald Trump’s tax returns to Justice Alito so everyone will know what’s in them.