Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

A single large tomato - sliced. #AYearForArt #SPringIntoArt #FoodPics #GardenLife

#introduction I joined Mastodon yesterday and am learning how to use it. I live in Massachusetts north of Boston. Some of the family names I research include Salt, Denman, Boothby, Snow, Sweet, Coffin, Hockman, and Minor #surnames My roots are mostly New England but my Salt line came to Virginia first. All of my great grandparent lines migrated to Ohio, so I do a lot of Ohio research.

#TodayInOaklandHistory March 9, 1862, Andrew Anderson was born in the Halland province of Sweden. By the 1880s he had made his way to the Bay Area

Andrew and his wife Emma lived in West #Oakland. He worked as a deckhand on the ferryboat Piedmont

And he was my great-grandfather

https://oaklandwiki.org/Andrew_Anderson

New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration:

This is our first quarterly update analyzing which platforms are growing - esp #mastodon & #postnews. Includes new data on users posting, app downloads & more.

Get it here: ▶️ https://is.gd/EI1lOl

Any help boosting and sharing out this new work is very appreciated!

Yesterday evening I was playing with some new techniques ✏️

What do you think? Do pastel neurons have any future?

#sketching #procreatebrushes #neurons #neuroscience #sciart

Free Wifi for mathematicians...

sternuo: I sneeze
Minimus needs his sudariolum (handkerchief) today: he has a gravedo (cold) and destillatio nasi (a runny nose). salve, Minime!
(This is what a Roman would say when somebody sneezed - it means Hello)
#LatinVerbs

⚠️exit mode: hibernation
➡️Welcome to 2023!

Mel Brooks Does a Reddit AMA : https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/11kiq4s/im_mel_brooks_ask_me_anything/

My mom 50 years ago with an IBM 1401 and me a few years ago with a DEC PDP-10. #InternationalWomensDay

Aerial image of a forming thermokarst lake in western #Alaska. Ice wedges in the ground are melting, the ground is sinking/subsiding and water is ponding in the newly formed depressions. This process will likely continue and accelerate and eventually form a #lake
The image is around 370m wide and taken from about 1000m altitude in one of our flight campaigns in 2021.
164.535°W; 66.532 °N
#aerial #aviation #eochat #landscape #remotesensing #earthart #science #permafrost #arctic #geography

I found it, here is the small program I wrote for Run! magazine. They paid me $15 lol, I never cached the check, it was just too cool to hold onto.

#C64 #retrocomputing

It's #ThrowbackThursday and as it was #InternationalWomensDay yesterday, here's a project I worked on with Inspiring Girls a few years back, which focused on gender stereotyping in children's cartoons.

Meet Angela the Astronaut! 🚀 🪐

#TBT #MastoArt #PolymerClay

#PenroseKitchenTiles ok, it's starting.

I’ve tried drawing whales a few times with limited success, but I think I’ve finally captured their grandeur, so majestic and regal.

Also, I learned that if you draw alcohol marker over pencil, the pencil won’t erase. This is Copic markers on regular typing paper, and it bled almost completely through to the back. I think I will get smoother results and less bleeding on better quality paper. Still learning. Always learning.
#mastoart #copic #character #markers #whale

New comic is up on Daily Kos, plus some thoughts on why the term "culture wars" is a euphemism in a time of ascendant fascism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/7/2156679/-Cartoon-Culture-wars

1959 Sealtest Ice Cream in Gay new packaging.
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#icecream #Gay #Advertisement #Food #Ephemera #Retro #Vintage #Dessert @GayOldTime

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

I did something fun this week: I made a typewriter simulator!

It ended up being more complex than it seemed. You can overtype, rotate paper, set margins, use Wite-Out, change ribbons… Let me know what you make!

(Desktop only so far.) https://shifthappens.site/typewriter/

If you're a small Bandcamp artist looking for some new listeners, leave a note with a link to your favorite song you've released and I'll listen to it, give you a thought or two about it and boost it.

(Boosts to this to get it in front of more eyes are appreciated.)