Dr. Timothy Pickering
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Dr. Timothy Pickering
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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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after 5 years in baltimore/DC nothing can really faze us when it comes to traffic…
Yf thou see thys, quote wyth a vampyre that ys not Dracula
drowning sorrows of being back in the us by driving in seattle traffic and then drinking some bodhizafa ipa to unwind…
too much garlic is only marginally sufficient. it is known.
this is very timely. thank you!!!
the bench on the front porch of our b’more house developed a layer of orange sheddings over time. i had assumed it was our neighbor’s large orange cat. however, i peeked out early one morning and saw that it was not, in fact, a cat… 🦊
yikes! we've put the clothes we were wearing thru the wash 3 times now and i think bonfire will be the ultimate solution...
hell yeah! good enough with easy future improvements is a great position to be in. i’ve been pleasantly surprised how future-proof the AMD system i built 5 years ago has been.
should be ryzen 9 for all that cooling capacity, but looks amazing…
well, they were hit, too, but they’re also amazing…
oh yeah, jack russell is in a whole different risk category than a 50+ kg great pyr mix…
it was bad. fortunately our friends were stocked with skunk-off shampoo that made a huge difference.
yeah, direct blast in the face will def mess them up, at least. fortunately this was thru a fence so no direct spray, but all of us within 3 meters got a pretty good dose…
TIL: if you’re really close to a skunk spraying, it does not smell like normal skunk aroma. it is so very much worse…
i was happy paul molitor got a ring, but still bitter it wasn’t as a brewer…
i'm old enough to remember the blue jays winning the world series...
everything bagel, tillamook chive & onion cream cheese, sprinkled with powdered biltong
oh wow! lowell’s loss will be your next gig’s massive gain…
say you’re in 🇨🇦 without saying you’re in 🇨🇦
in iceland you can watch northen lights while soaking in hot springs. so there's that...
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
got some proper aurorae in skagway tonite…
the building rotates faster as you near zenith and you could see the colors change and text get fuzzy in real time. some monitors were more sensitive to it than others. the observer's monitor for a while was super sensitive and the degauss button was well-worn...