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Today, I am off to a conference.

I've never been to one before.

Dunno if anyone has any tips?

#academicchatter #academia #UKIO

@sideshow_jim
Plan your schedule in advance.

You don't have to attend something in EVERY time slot.

Take some notes, but find out where you can get the slides so you don't have to try to transcribe everything.

Meet some people and exchange contact info.

"I'm looking for a thing..."

Mastodon: "Have you tried building your own out of a cargo bike, a rasberry pi running linux, and Lego?"

every chord is a life or death situation when strumming the Mission Impossible theme song

src @ lingling_guitar

Visually spectacular "sculpted" supercell thunderstorm near Woodrow on high plains of eastern Colorado earlier today (6/8/24). This storm featured a blue-green & ground-scraping shelf cloud (& dust storm beneath) so wide I could not fully capture even with wide angle lens! #COwx

Saw a sign that said "afc urgent care" and now I'm wondering if it's a soccer team.

@ai6yr
My daughter's 175 lb Great Dane is transactional. If someone comes in her booth, he doesn't care, but once there is an exchange of money (cash, card, whatever) for product, he comes out and allows a pet. He was not trained to do this. It's hilarious. He also gives a toy to one of her other dogs (St Bernards) to get what they have, or even us if we have treats. 🤣

@Atropine @stux Yes, the situation here is bizarre and unconscionable.

We have many problems (gun violence, drug addiction, climate change, racism...) that would be complicated for people working in good faith to solve ... and one of our two major parties actively trying to make them worse.

Striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron. Found from west Africa to Japan and Australia, South America and the Caribbean. #birds #nature #biology #wildlife #video #reel

❗❗❗GO GET YOUR LAUNDRY OUT OF THE WASHING MACHINE AND PUT IT IN THE DRYER ❗❗❗

This has been an evergreen #PublicServiceAnnouncement.

@sean_ae Isn't that what social media is for?

WHY ARE BOOMERANGS SO EXPENSIVE? WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU MICROWAVE PLAYING CARDS? DOES THE ISLE OF MAN HAVE ANY WOMEN? GRIDLOCK! I'M HUNGRY!

I hate to say it, but I had a problem to solve involving tkinter that stumped search / StackOverflow, but ChatGPT came up with a solution after only a couple of queries. It was even able to explain obscure issues like, "your image isn't showing up because it's been garbage collected, so you need to keep a reference to it".

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