spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
@kara@witchcraft.cafe @KaylinEvergreen fuck, now I'm vividly picturing some dipshit exec talking to John Carpenter and asking if there can't be a hot young blonde in her twenties there inexplicably to add "character"
@BernieTB I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seems to be a real dearth of local TV right now. I'd be happy to try anything that isn't another season of Rake
@BernieTB oh cool, that sounds potentially pretty interesting. I'll have to check it out!
@kara@witchcraft.cafe @KaylinEvergreen I fucking love The Thing. Horror at its absolute best: every character does the most sensible thing they could at every step, and it's just not enough to get them out alive
@BernieTB what is it? A doco?
@wion@writing.exchange I don't know about ISSNs, but there are organisations like Figshare that offer freely available DOIs
@squid seems to have deleted his account, sadly. All I remember is him being weirdly sympathetic to atomwaffen, and everyone mocking him for this:
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post like your jacob wohl and you just got caught framing the former fbi director
@squid oh man, Jacob wohl used to hang out on a slack I'm on and his posting was sooooo bad
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Signal is testing out a new feature that encrypts message metadata. Once it's widely deployed, their server will facilitate delivering messages but without having access to who is sending them
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@fosdem That “free” word you keep using refers to “freedom”.
”We aren’t selective about about sponsors and sources of donations” is tone-deaf, reckless, & simply not acceptable in 2018 for any group that seeks legitimacy in the ethics of what they do.
Palantir develops open source (https://palantir.github.io) and also helps ICE find & deport asylum seekers. By your (lack of) ethical standards, they would be welcome as a sponsor.
Please see https://fundingmatters.tech and review your stance on this.
@BernieTB trying to figure out if that's better or worse than my shamefully unsaved eternal notepad++ to-do list
Mandela Effect
@natecull I get the same thing in a slightly weaker form from Brits: "So, do you celebrate Christmas in winter or in December?" is a question I've heard more than once. Incoherent cultural plurality seems to be a real challenge for those not born into it
There's something about good body horror that I just love: it's clever and creative, can demonstrate real technical competence in film making, but at the same time it's normally far enough removed from reality to avoid being genuinely disturbing
It's nearly Halloween! What's everyone been watching or planning to see this year? I've had a great time rewatching Pan's Labyrinth and The Thing, enjoyed some new-to-me Cronenberg in Scanners, and attempted the woefully awful Vampyros Lesbos
@skulljudenfreund that's fucking metal I love it \m/
@MySideIsHumanity Dutch is fun like that: I don't speak it, but if you adopt the mindset of a toddler making funny sounds it's actually pretty easy to understand simple words and sentences
Anyway, there was lots of stuff like that. I get that it's a replica, but I just don't see why you'd go to the effort of building a big fake boat (pictured) without making at least a plausible effort on the rigging.
(to those who followed me for chemistry or whatever: it'll come back, but please try to empathise with my boat disappointment)
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
