David W. Brown @dwb@qoto.org

Me: Yes! Early night! So tired.

Body: It's too quiet. Here are some weird pains that could be a heart attack.

Me: Stop. That's not a heart attack.

B: How about a dump of adrenaline for no reason.

Me: Seriously.

B: Mmm, anxiety...

Me: I hate you.

Awe. This is such an enjoyable read by @dwb
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/journey-to-the-doomsday-glacier
About his journey as science aid on icebreaker Aaron to the #doomsday #glacier #Thwaites in #Antarctica .

Reminds me of how I used to love #Longread journalism on all sorts of topics, like in the New Yorker for instance, or in German media.
But since I became climate-aware in 2018, I just didn't find my time well spent anymore on non-climate-related, or worse, non-climate-aware journalism. The latter is of course ALL journalism, except for 0.0001%. And the former, the non-climate-related journalism is factually non-existent as all topics have a big climate angle. 99.9999% of the journalists just don't know about the climate angle or blatantly refuse to cover it.
So since 2018, what I allow my time to be spent mainly on is scientific papers. And altho it satisfies my curiosity, and kindles even more curiosity, the reading experience is ofc simply not comparable to well-honed story-telling skills like Brown's voice.

Heimdall 2 at Mars and Moon. Hello Mastodon!

One mission. Four astronauts. So many ways to watch the #Artemis II astronaut announcement. The thread below tells you all the places you can find this historic event. We make history on Monday, April 3, starting at 11am ET (1500 UTC).
#NASA

To continue #SexyFuckingSaturnday, the glorious and delicious #Titan.

13 years to collage these pics together. The Titan in the center is covered with it's thick atmosphere. In the others, astronomers used infrared to strip away the thick plushy clouds and reveal the contours and canyons and exquisite naked texture that begs to be fondled by appreciative and aroused fingers.

Fuck me.

#astronomy #astroporn

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230331.html

If I were pope francis I would get a huge white puffer coat now just to be a little rascal

In the 1980s, I used to run video arcades for a living, along with repairing the games.

I never knew that the original Street Fighter came out with pneumatic controls!

You might remember the six buttons, three each for punch and kick, with three strength levels. For the pneumatic version, there was one big soft button for each. The harder you hit it, the stronger your attack.

Sadly, player injuries led to this being pulled. This guy's on a quest to recreate them.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/my-quest-to-recreate-street-fighters-long-lost-pneumatic-controls/

There’s Something Off About LED Bulbs https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.html

"Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right."
—The Confidence-Man, published today in 1857

When I visit any website

Beautiful QGIS labeling trick from
@newgeographer2:

"Use this make_circle hack in #qgis to create a curved title"

https://twitter.com/newgeographer2/status/1641044984525733889

#gischat #cartography #maps

"Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul … then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
—Moby-Dick

This year is going to see my journal/log’s 10th anniversary and 100th notebook. I read the whole article and took a lot of notes which inspired me to think about how I can consolidate my capture (logging) habit a bit more into one place, but still keep multiple capture tools. After finishing this essay, it feels like Dave accidentally invented GTD for himself in a different form based on a stream of captured ideas that are moved up in the chain to have projects and next actions. The part at the end where he writes about weekly, monthly, and yearly recaps feels very GTD-esque. I actually tracked my time in a notebook like this before. I had a timestamp of when I started and when I ended a session of work. I have a long history of working in sessions, as I used to do a lot of freelance work, which requires time tracking (a session means that I focus on one task for a more extended period of time). My only question is how Dave transcribes his notebook entries into his digital system? I did it by hand, and it was awful. Anyway, this is an excellent write-up of a fantastic system that I’m going to use as inspiration.

https://decoding.io/2023/03/my-notebook-system-ratfactor/

I have three words to say to the White House and all the journalists who’ve said they won’t pay for blue checkmarks.

“Come to Mastodon”

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/31/twitter-verification-white-house-biden-check-mark