jonlandrum @jonlandrum@qoto.org

In the asteroid belt, there is an asteroid named 13079 Toots.

That's a lot of toots.

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=13079

I’m NOT on board with shitting on people on Mastodon just because they are a celebrity. If people - anybody - joins to get away from the crap on Twitter they should first of all be welcome.

So I just got done uploading several new emoji to #qoto

If anyone wants a specific emoji im happy to add it too, just DM me. We already added a few for racial and LGBT+ inclusion as well but happy to add emoji for inclusion of any groups, just let me know.

Here are some of my favorite new emoji...

#ReachAcross is a new hashtag we came up with over at #QOTO where you say something you admire about a group you view as an opponent to a cause you are passionate about. For example if you are a Liberal you would compliment Conservatives, if you are a Conservative you compliment Liberals. Whatever group or groups you feel passionate for whether its politics, activism, religion, whatever it might be.

Use the tag and list something you respect or admire about the opposing side. When you see someone mention a group that refers to you, then return a compliment in a reply.

I will kick it off:

#ReachAcross for this week is for the extreme left and extreme right political spectrum (non-moderates). I admire the passion and energy you put into your activism. There are many people who would love to have that sort of passion for anything.

(Some people who helped flush out the idea in the original thread: @arteteco @Surasanji @hashtaggrammar @commandelicious @comphys @QuentinMann @rnitsch @Nyoei @spinflip @hodot @SecondJon )

Please consider this: you have choices all day long about how you treat people. Every interaction can be kind, or it can be cruel, and the choice you make will have an effect on people you’ll never meet. Make a choice that you’ll feel good about.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Geico insurance company as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes"

Tired: late capitalism
Wired: late as in "the late capitalism"

Well, here's my Mastodon timeline, inside Emacs, on a DEC VT420.

@wilw Dude I'm sorry man. If its anyone from my server let me know.

I still say your a pretty good dude so your ok in my book for whatever that is worth.

I recently learned about hematene. It's a 2D material similar to graphene, and made in the same way, except instead of carbon it's made from α-Fe2O3 (hematite). It also looks like it has excellent potential as a photocatalyst.

Makes me wonder what other 2D materials we might have yet to discover.

(Balan et al, 2018)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-018-0134-y

Starting my next post which will be about the TEM mode on a two-conductor transmission line. Specifically I'll be looking at a coaxial geometry and using #FEniCS to calculate the field distributions, the characteristic impedance and the Poynting vector. Just had a go and it all seems to be working.

While I'll focus on a coaxial geometry the method can be extended to more complicated geometries just by changing the mesh & boundaries. I've just had a go at an odd mode impedance and it came out just right!

The best thing about this post will be how easy it is.

#physics #electromagnetism #HAM #radio #Maxwell #opensource #python

#QOTO is back!

The migration to the new server ran rather smoothly. We had a postgres version mismatch but it was resolved and we are rebuiding the feed. But no data was lost and all should be good. Welcome back and enjoy the new servers, we have doubled our capacity so hopefully everything will be far more responsive now.

With coasts illuminated by city lights, the islands of Indonesia stand out against the darkness of the Indian Ocean in this image taken aboard the @Space_Station. Take a closer look: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/lights-of-java-0?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASA&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=56126736 

So... You mean a generation of people who've been raised to be in constant debt which they can never pay off and have trouble affording basic things like housing, food, and electricity are the same people who find socialism attractive over capitalism? Haha wow that's wild who knew?

@jonlandrum hahahaha ::stops laughing and looks you dead in the eye with a serious look::