szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

You do have to marvel at how many ways computer languages can say "nothing". I mean just a few...

0
0.0
0000-00-00
""
[]
{}
NaN
((void*)0)
NULL (or null)
specifically set to undefined
missing from containing object

And half of the bugs in my code is around dealing with one of these 🙂

Had a little fresh snow over my ski tracks since I hadn’t been out in a couple days, nice crisp snow out on the frozen tundra tonight though #DogsOfMastodon #Michigan #Skiing

You’re spoilt for choice with today’s ‘Spot the Dog’ - definitely a case of make play while the sun shines.

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #trees #photography

How does Earth breathes CO2 under different #ClimateChange scenarios?

Have a look at this visualization showing seasonal variations of atmospheric CO2 modulated by anthropogenic emissions and the strength of the ocean and land carbon sinks.

Computed with an #EarthSystemModel #MPI-ESM.
Details at #DKRZ Gallery:
https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/galerie/Vis/esm/seasonal-variations-of-co2-under-climate-change

We care about your privacy.

Your privacy is delicious to us.

Your privacy is juicy-sweet and crunchy and wine-dark red and breathes a rich, savage musk-like scent, heavy on iron and with notes of truffle and mushroom and old, buried bones in the forest floor.

Your privacy dribbles gently down our lips as we chew, and after long, fragrant, eternities, swallow. Gulping, wolfing it down.

We would do ANYTHING to keep you handing us your precious, precious privacy.

Please click.

O! Okazuje się, że jednak SI nie zastąpi redaktorów i autorów: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23571082/cnet-ai-written-stories-errors-corrections-red-ventures

I don’t know if “climate activist” is really the right way to put it. Like, if I’m drowning and trying to come up for air, I’m not suddenly an “oxygen activist”—I’m literally just trying to stay alive. Maybe addressing climate change shouldn’t be viewed as an “activist” position.

@monro This is why I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS crack the DRM on any ebook I purchase (and archive a DRM-free copy in an open file format). And why I've stopped buying new titles from Amazon (they "fixed" the DRM on Kindle files and there's no crack for new titles on sale since 01/01/2023). It's not because I'm a pirate, but because if I've paid for it I don't want to lose access to it due to negligence or malicious restraint of trade by the supplier.

"The biggest reason personal blogs need to make a comeback is a simple one: we should all be in control of our own platforms.

If what is happening on Twitter hasn’t demonstrated it, our relationship with these social media platforms is tenuous at best. The thing we are using to build our popularity today could very well be destroyed and disappear from the internet tomorrow, and then what?

What happens to all the content you have created?"

https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

When you want to let folks know that you're holding it together despite *gestures to the world* everything.

https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/im-fine

100% of artist's proceeds go to National Center for Transgender Equality (& Threadless throws in a few more bucks).

#HoldingItTogether #ThisIsFine

First #willow #basket of the season. Harvest, sort, weave. It calms my mind as I merge into my #creative #craft #muse.

A special #TwigOfTheDay today, Exidiopsis effusa ,Hair Ice , growing along a crack in a twig. The white candy floss in itself isn’t a fungi but a waste product of the fungi consuming the tree bark. Temperatures have to be below freezing, like today in Northumberland,for it to form into these dense hairlike white strands #fungi

It's becoming increasingly obvious that evangelical theologians have lost the plot when they invoke #nazi tropes to further their arguements against #LGBTQ people.

As for theology:

"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything."

[Robert A. Heinlein]

#EmptyThrPews
#DegenerateChristianity
#ChurchOrCult

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/03/secular-push-gay-marriage-among-clergy-like-nazi-germany-says/

It's absurd how many of these I own, given I've never lived in a country that uses them. As much as I am a convert to the UK plug design (versus the Australian one for sure) I think the UK should transition to the EU standard just for general sanity. (Yeah, not gonna happen any time soon… I know. Should be a condition of rejoining the EU 🤣)

I reckon things should simply stop shopping with cables. I don't need a million VGA cables either. I don't even remember when I last used one.

#Job alert! #Academia

Hey, my still small Mastodon bubble.

I have a 3-years #postdoc position open.

Developing biodiversity indicators; science-policy interactions to identify needs + more;

EU-project led by Quentin Groom
incl. GBIF @gbif
Pensoft
and + more

Come and work with me 🙂

https://t.co/UCCvllAB1T