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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

文章合为时而著，歌诗合为事而作。

Serious translation: Prose is written for the era, poetry is written for the moment.

New Living Internet translation: Post takes as long as the world needs to hear them, post memes while they're still funny.

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Big prehensile feathers that work like fingers. Boost if you agree

The knitted wing of my duck with three big feather-fingers

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Japan is about to get its first female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi has supported revising Japan's postwar pacifist constitution to strengthen the country's military. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16071809

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Vinay ಕಶ್ಯಪ್ (Mr./Dr.) @vlk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

It is a truism that outsiders appreciate hallowed ground much more than locals. I remember, way back in '87 when I met my first Missourian, that I was shocked to learn they had no appreciation of being from the same state as Sam Clemens, and that his […]

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A top down photo of a diorama at the Mark Twain Birthplace museum, holding all the wealth Tom Sawyer accumulated while outsourcing the painting of the wall:
• Ben's half-eaten apple
• A dead rat on a string
• Twelve marbles
• A jaw harp
• Blue glass to look through
• A bottle stopper
• A tin soldier
• A brass doorknob
• A dog collar without a dog
• A knife with no blade
• A kitten with only one eye

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Tiota Sram @tiotasram.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Day 9: Eniko Fox

We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @eniko

Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp […]

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Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 7d

[Black widow #spider]

@JosephTLapp Confirmed it's a Black Widow female living in this. Any good options other than hoping the local lizards manage to catch her?

A rain chain bucket with a thick unkempt web. A cicada shell is stuck in it. Next to it is a very fat female black widow spider hanging upside down, its red hourglass clearly visible.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Yes, that was a deliberate Mega-lo-Mania reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmUQgEQv9_I&t=391s

#amiga500

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Phil Stooke @philstooke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Let's take a look at the sample field for Viking 1 - the area within reach of the sampler arm. This image from a USGS Professional Paper shows the sample field at the start of the mission and at the end of the primary mission […]

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Viking 1 imaged its sample field - the area within reach of its arm. A link in the post goes to a contemporary drawn map of the field but this image is a photomap made by projecting images onto the drawn map. This map has north at the top. Rocks and other features are given fanciful names like Grumpy and Sandy Flats. The area which the arm could reach is outlined in white.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

WOW. Tonight with distant bonus lightning too!!! I am so spoiled.

Silhouetted spruce trees, with bright green auroras in the background, behind a few clouds that are lit up by lightning!

Bright green auroras behind clouds, above a very flat horizon

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Haha ok that went great, but had to end on a real bummer with talking about satellite pollution. Plus I got a question from Alan Stern that wasn't just yelling at me for saying "Planet 9" in a presentation so I think that counts as success (he wanted to know more details about the neat 10:1 TNO […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

WOW WOW WOW

Bright green stripes of auroras with some chunky columns. There's the silhouette of a spruce tree on one side of the photo

The green horizontal stripe of auroras almost looks like it's made of a series of vertical stripes

Bright green horizontal stripes of auroras, with a chunk of red over on one side, over the silhouette of a bunch of spruce trees

The Milky Way faintly visible through bright green auroras below, with the silhouette of several spruce trees

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Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Having your most powerful spell dissected and turned into ordinary offensive magic must have been such a blow to Qual. #frieren #animangafoundit @apc

A classroom of mages analyzing Zoltraak. Caption shows "mages across the land studied and analyzed Zoltraak."

Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 9d

A Parliament of Owls! Could hear at least 4 indoviduals. #owls #austin

Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@tsrono @malcircuit
Clearly these two are the same image, right??
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Stitch pasted in from the Wikipedia article, and a really poor attempt to outline "stitch" in the nebula.

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Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Hmm, this nebula doesn't have a name, I'm thinking Stitch Nebula in honor of Lilo & Stitch. Or maybe the Jerboa Nebula? It's right next to the Bubble nebula, which gets all the press. The bright spot in the middle doesn't even have a designation in the World […]

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A Telescopius viewport showing the Bubble nebula to the top left, and an unnamed nebula in the middle that vaguely resembles Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Wot’s going on here?

We left some stuff wrapped up in a *blue* tarp on the back paved area for a bit over a year. We have some medium sized back birds who live in our garden and spend most of their time digging up the mulch and making a general mess of the garden […]

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Photo of a bird’s next on the ground with an assortment of blue things they have collected and flown in.

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 12d

From dumb idea to completed mittens in 13 days

The palm side with a nordic motif made of command signs and cursors

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Just set up a small wearables exhibit for this weekend's #bayareamakerfaire. I'll be giving workshops today and a talk tomorrow as well, so it's going to be a (fun) busy weekend!

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Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Finally aligned a free night with clear skies and no moon. @catherineryanhyde Going to try for NGC6781 and maybe the Helix nebula if I can stay up that late.

Astrophotography setup at night in my neighborhood in front of a bunch of houses. A laptop is taking image captures.

Closeup of the laptop screen, showing a heavily washed out picture of NGC6781, a small planetary nebula. It is mostly a blue circle with a red edge highlight.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

I’m trying to figure out what works better for alt text accessibility in practice — please reply ONLY if you ever actually use text-to-speech, braille interfaces, or anything similar for accessing the alt text of images. (Boosts welcome.)

If I post a picture of writing in another language — say […]

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Phil Stooke @philstooke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

So Mariner 9 data produced four sites, prime and backup for each lander. But Viking had much better cameras and would have to certify them as safe. The very first pictures of the A1 site were fascinating... much too fascinating to be confident about landing […]

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Viking Orbiter 1 image 006A33 in the A1 landing ellipse. The area looked featureless in Mariner 9 images but it is quite rough with many small hills and craters. It was too rough to land in.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Practical Necromancy for Beginners Now Out

I wrote a short, incomplete, opinionated introduction to generative AI for history and archaeology students. The work is what I wish my students had before they came to my class last September, and is built from my teaching notes and remarks that I […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

I’m out walking Odin and it just hit me like a ton of bricks that the reason the dummies in these stories are so specifically from the Kingdom of Chu (a real place) is that Chu 楚 literally means “clear, readily apparent”

Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 14d

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