ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

December 15th (Thursday) is this year’s #RNGDay!

It’s a day to celebrate and think about random numbers, and also the day that next year’s date is decided randomly!

https://rngday.com/

❤️ Artist: #DavidSpeed uk - in City: #Shoreditch 299Old Street, #London UK 🇬🇧 - #Streetart #art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork

New to Mastodon. Here is my brief #introduction:

I'm a border professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands (full chair title: Professor Geopolitics and Political Geography). And co-founder and coordinator of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research. My work largely deals with #borders #visa #migration #refugees #maps and occasionally #football. See for more www.henkvanhoutum.nl

#twittermigration @geography @immigration @migrationresearch @politicalscience @geopolitics

My experience studying the Haughton Crater on Devon Island is one that I won't soon forget. To close out this thread, here a few more of my favorite photos of the landscape.

Cheers!

#Mars #Arctic #FieldworkFriday #Photography

The train was delayed, so I had time to take more pictures 🚂

#LondonKIngsCross #TrainStation #Photography #iphone #London BlackAndWhite #SchwarzWeiss #Architecture #Bahnhof

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

Storytime:

One stormy winter's night, a knight named Sir Guy rode down the #Northumberland coast. The knight searched for shelter, but the coast was wild and empty.

In a flash of lightning, he saw the ramparts and towers of a castle perched above the raging sea: Dunstanburgh Castle. On riding up, he thought the place deserted, until with a crash of thunder, the door was thrown open.

There stood a giant of a man, surrounded by flickering flames. The man bade Sir Guy follow him into a great, echoing stone hall, lit by an eerie light.

All around the hall were sleeping knights, and at the centre lay the figure of a sleeping queen with a crown upon her brow.

The giant presented Sir Guy with a choice: blow the horn that lay by the queen, or draw the sword from the scabbard beside it. Only the right choice would wake the queen. Sir Guy hesitated in indecision, but finally thought that drawing the sword could be seen as a threat, and instead wound the horn.

With another thunderclap and a rushing of wind, Guy fell senseless to the floor. He awoke to a cold, clear dawn. He was outside, the castle was a ruin, and although he searched, he could find no trace of the hall or the sleeping queen.

Sir Guy returned many times to Dunstanburgh, haunted by the wrong choice he had made, but he never saw the queen or the flaming man again.

It's said that his ghost still haunts the ruins, ever fruitlessly searching.

#Storytelling #FolkStory #Folklore #Stories #Winter #GhostStory

China's social credit system is not what it seems. good report by AlgorithmWatch https://r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/sv94Xx-cTJFrPnlvkG76VA?m

As A'v annoonced - that's me pitten 100% o the Mastodon interface intae Scots
Noo it wants luiked ower, an suggestit edits afore we verify the translation an push tae hae it incluidit. If ye'r wantin tae tak pairt in gaun forret wi this project, pit yersel forret in the replies tae this, an A'll bring aab'dy thegither.
Owersettin principle is thit as monie Scots speakers unnerstaun a simple Scots.
@trumpet cuid ye please gie this a wee heeze (boost) tae get the wird oot athort the server. 🐘

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you'll be fending off random and oddly-specific fishing questions for the rest of your life.

If this garbage can photo brings you joy, you know what to do.

Having laws on the books that have no penalty and laws that we are saying apply to SCOTUS Justices but in reality do not is ridiculous. If we want rule of law it must apply to everyone equally.