Cody K. @codykirkp@qoto.org

You know how your dogs look at you when they're peeing/pooping? They're making sure you got their back.

See, unlike us, if a lion or.. velociraptors attack, they just can't pinch it off and run like we can.

They're vulnerable. Defenseless. They're looking at you to make sure you got their six.

So next time your dog is doing their biz... put your phone down. Scan the horizon for threats (laser raptors, coyotes, Jordan Peterson). Be a pet bro.

2063 Mars (Muskbase Alpha)

Announcement:

Verified colonists are limited to 6000 breaths a day.

Unverified colonists are limited to 600 breaths a day.

BTW this is why it was stupid for all those government / emergency services accounts to resume posting on Twitter. Absolutely unreliable in critical situations

Calendar shadow: n. The block of free time immediately preceding a scheduled calendar item, which is nonetheless completely useless for any form of productivity whatsoever.

@freemo You forgot the best part!

`curl wttr.in/dfw`

Supply it with an area for local conditions. In my case, I use an airport code.

Screenshot from MacOS.

A little gutted to hear that President Carter is in the end game of his time on earth. Very few humans are as good people as Jimmy Carter. Compassionate and a man of action.

It’s not widely known but during the world’s first nuclear accident, a partial meltdown at Canada’s Chalk River reactor, as a USNavy lieutenant, he descended into the reactor as part of the team shutting down the reactor. He had radioactive urine for weeks.

Another dramatic look at tiny asteroid #Sar2667 burning up near northern France, just minutes ago.
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RT @Faytuks
Footage from France showing the meteor burning up

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1624968996247285763

Remember, in a queue, items go in the back and come out the front. With a llama, it's the other way around. #DataStructures #ComputerScience #llama #llamas #LlamasOfMastodon #llamadon #mnemonic #pedagogy #drawing

This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates

Codebreakers deciphered century-old letters stored for centuries in French archives and discover they were written of Mary, Queen of Scots. It turns out she was "well-trained in the art of cipher by her mother, Marie de Guise, from a very young age."

My Ars colleague @jenlucpiquant spins a fascinating tale that nicely blends #history and #cryptology.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/lost-and-found-code-breakers-decipher-50-letters-of-mary-queen-of-scots/

Zelensky's flew in to DC this morning to meet with Biden, then addressing Congress this evening.

Never mind his ability to hold off a Russian invasion, I'm impressed by his ability to function immediately after a transatlantic flight.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lionel-messi-is-impossible/

Lots of talk about the potential for a major Ohio Valley and Northeast snowstorm next week. While the track and snow impacts are still up in the air, it's certainly going to be very windy and then cold for a while after that.

#Weather

Is there something like a directory of government agencies, US/state lawmakers, world leaders on Mastodon?

Seems like a big deal that @Techmeme is now featuring Mastodons prominently.

Also a good way to find other journalists on here.

https://www.techmeme.com/

Time ago, the now scary bird site, was useful for science, knowledge building, hazard communication, etc...

We wrote a paper on that: Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events.

https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/3/129/2020/

Ironically, the Great Banning is the first time that Mastodon has felt like it's fulfilling the role for me that Twitter once did—a place to keep up-to-date on a fast-moving event, where everyone is talking about the same thing