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For the past few years, I’ve maintained a list of space opera novels by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors. You can find the list right here:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

There’s also a way to suggest works that are missing. It’s a growing, incomplete list!

Enjoy!

i wish i could make my roomates understand the basic thermodynamic principle that with good insulation and 40°C weather, windows must stay shut

I had an old kindle voyage laying around that was almost unusable because the touch screen broke on the top part exactly where the menu buttons are.
I managed to install koreader on it and now it's perfect to read pdfs

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I'm laughing mostly, but now he's not allowed to work on our hpc cluster anymore

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new master student managed to delete three month worth of stimulated data with one bash script set wrong. Of course we don't have a backup. I don't know whether to laugh or cry

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Using the radioactive decay present in a banana to generate random numbers. Even if you don't appreciate the math/code/hardware behind it, you can appreciate the aesthetic of this Arduino-based generator and banana holder.

Quick explanation: hackster.io/news/the-just-bana

More complex (including code and math/probability), from the developer: valerionappi.it/brng-en/

a few pics I took in the past days:
We're assembling and testing modules for protoDUNE horizontal drift photon detection system 🥰

it's the first time I'm back at CERN since the pandemic, I had almost forgotten how much I love this place

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I've wasted two days trying to find an affordable accommodation near cern, the internal hotel is full D:

first time doing a poster for a conference, the plan is to make it so ugly so that my supervisor won't allow me to make one ever again

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Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

that happened today:
1. walked 20k steps;
2. had a very sweet and refreshing horchata in the afternoon;
3. bought a cute cheap summer dress at the street market.

I survived to my seminar, now I can crash and sleep the whole afternoon

i miss him so much, I can't wait to go back home and squish his cheeks

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