Cam Fox @dentalflossbay@qoto.org

#Texas AG’s office sought state data on #transgender Texans

“Employees at the TX Dept of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from #Republican AG Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their TX driver’s license & other dept recs during the past 2 yrs.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
#TXAG #discrimination #equality #lgbtqia #persecution #KenPaxton #GregAbbott
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/

One of my favourites, the really aptly named Burnished Brass - Diachrysia chrysitis. Images not enhanced. It really does look as metallic as this.

I follow back, & am always really grateful for a boost.

#Moths #Mothing #Moth#BackGardenWildlife #Insect #Insects #lepidoptera #ukmoths #sussexwildlife #sussex #brighton #BrightonMoths #MothingMonday

A beautiful male chickweed geometer moth (Haematopis grataria). #moth #moths #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

My first posting on mastodon but as I have no followers nobody is likely to see it.
I am a pencil artist based in the West Midlands and this is one I did recently just for a bit of fun and called it Emmy Emu..

Painted Lady #butterfly #butterflies #nature #naturephotography #insects #macro #Perthshire #Scotland

#HVO's geology field team reports they are finding Pele's hairs (small filaments of quenched lava) draped across older lava flows near Saddle Road, just past Pu‘u Huluhulu cinder cone. Hairs deposited many km (mi) from active vents by the windblown eruption plume. #MaunaLoaErupts

I don’t know why, but to me the common buckeye is often prettier in photos than in life.

3 planthoppers of the Pyrops genus (Fulgoridae) from Chiang Mai. Commonly known as "lanternflies," clearly a misnomer as they emit as much light as my big toe. And they're not flies, either. But they are handsome and always a delight to find, mostly on tree trunks. Candelaria, the commonest here, spinolae and viridirostris. #insects #bugs #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #entomology #MacroPhotography #Thailand

@Vergo @acegikmo Do you know what Dan Kalman calls the most marvelous theorem of mathematics?
Let the cubic polynomial P have as its three zeros the vertices of a triangle in the complex plane. Then the critical values of P are the foci of the unique ellipse inscribed in the triangle that is tangent at the midpoints of the sides of the triangle. http://www.dankalman.net/AUhome/pdffiles/mardenMH.pdf

The swollen stem of a Cordia nodosa plant houses a symbiotic colony of Azteca ants, including a massive queen. The ants protect the plant from herbivores in exchange for lodging. Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador.

#ants #rainforest #azteca #insects

Thanksgiving with my in laws was really cool. One topic stands out:

My father-in-law (who hasn’t written a line of code since the 1990s, but spent the 70s-90s doing just that, but I never knew any specifics) was describing a time he had a bug they couldn’t actually figure out the cause of, so he wrote code to overflow the memory space and bypass the bug to return to normal execution. I guess I never saw my FIL as one of those OG hacker types but here we are. The man then goes deeper into the weeds and has a background in memory analysis that I was totally unaware of!
Proceeded to talk about the printed-out hundreds of pages a day of core dumps he manually reviewed in the 1970s and how he was “the core dump guy” at his org back then.
I’ve been his daughter-in-law for 12 years and had NO IDEA about any of this. It was the coolest bonding moment we’ve ever had, as I was talking about my fascination with memory forensics and he was reliving his stories. He spent a few hours this week perusing my copy of The Art of Memory Forensics, and remarked how “it’s neat how it really hadn’t changed, but the scale is just SO MUCH BIGGER” and how damn useful Volatility would have been for him if he’d had the storage space to use it.

It’s been a challenge for me to understand and relate to my FIL (he’s a good guy, but we are very different socially and don’t connect easily). Finding common ground on something like core dump analysis was not on my holiday bingo card but I’ll take it.

I'm thinking a bit about the editorializing that inherently comes with image descriptions and CWs. That's a piece of the system of power that keeps being at issue.