They're after me... @frickinLasers@qoto.org

wow the grand canyon is just gorges

My favourite "fuck around and find out" is probably Victoria Gillick who tried to prevent her daughter getting access to contraception and ended up becoming the definition of women's bodily autonomy in the UK for the last 36 years. She's still alive and angry, ha ha ha.

When someone is a dick to you, just remember they are probably hurting inside.

You can use that to destroy them.

I found a box of drink coasters in the shape of a save icon!

How cool is that?

Fun Facts
https://instagram.com/otterlyhuman

this shark tried out life on land and is NOT impressed

See these words from @chockenberry, lead developer of Twitterific?

It's exactly what I said would happen when Elon Musk screwed over 3rd Party developers.

Twitter didn't create broad adoption of Twitter. It was 3rd party developers.

Now devs are pissed—much more than they were before.

So what will they do next?

Drive broad adoption of the Fediverse.

This isn't the only former Twitter developer making these moves. @tapbots is also making an app for the Fediverse.

Bad move, Twitter!

Earlier today I posted something about the history of the h-index in which I stuck to the point and didn't go into a long digression about why the h-index is a poor metric for many of the uses to which it is put.

This post is to serve as notice that the h-index basically tracks career stage, albeit with different slopes for researchers of different impact—but that the effects of disciplinary and subdisciplinary citation conventions on slopes swamp researcher differences in productivity.

I made a desktop version of my favorite XKCD.

Note to Ron DeSantis & Sarah HUCKABEE
Sander:

Teaching children to hate America is indoctrination.

Teaching children to love America is also indoctrination.

Teaching children the truth about America, both its despicable bad and its inspiring good, is NOT indoctrination.

May need some new terminology here. A Mastodon Crush sounds like a cause of death.

Prisoner artwork on a cell wall at the abandoned Holmesburg Prison

Gallery:history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg-prison

#abandoned #art #photography #prisons

The gutted interior of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Elverson building, which is now the new police headquarters

Gallery and history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-philadelphia-inquirer

#philadelphia #photogrqphy #art #history #journalism

I don't want Mastodon to be a place where all I talk about is the continuing demise of Twitter, but...Twitter pulled the plug on all of the top third-party Twitter clients and Twitterrific's Craig Hockenberry has some things to say about it:

https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

1K Mastadonian followers! Thank you.

Hold on a minute, I need to look this up [googles “convert assload to pounds”]

Lo, these darkened words
Infecting my brain
Submitted for absorption
I shudder at Arial’s cruel attire
As this vanilla font
Doesn’t match
What’s in my mind.
#badpoetry

The re-entry seen from NSF camera are , well, I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCitZJD_nn4

I like offering to introduce people to my publisher because it shows I’m a kind and helpful person and also that I have a book deal

Interviewer: “Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

Me: “I guess I’d say my biggest weakness is listening."