marymessall
@marymessall.mendeddrum.org.ap.brid.gy
Lady physicist. Opinionated nerd.
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Re #strangerthings (maybe spoilers)...
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEREK TURNBOW'S PARENTS?
Please, I need to know! I will accept any plausible answer that isn't "they died in that barn because all of our heroes forgot about them."
Thank you!
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEREK TURNBOW'S PARENTS?
Please, I need to know! I will accept any plausible answer that isn't "they died in that barn because all of our heroes forgot about them."
Thank you!
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Re #strangerthings (maybe spoilers)...
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEREK TURNBOW'S PARENTS?
Please, I need to know! I will accept any plausible answer that isn't "they died in that barn because all of our heroes forgot about them."
Thank you!
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEREK TURNBOW'S PARENTS?
Please, I need to know! I will accept any plausible answer that isn't "they died in that barn because all of our heroes forgot about them."
Thank you!
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Got at new #framework 13 for Christmas. Actually we ordered it in November *just* before the price of RAM started to go up. It's the DIY edition (so that I ended up putting the memory and SSD in myself before installing the keyboard and display bezel), and I […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
December 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Got at new #framework 13 for Christmas. Actually we ordered it in November *just* before the price of RAM started to go up. It's the DIY edition (so that I ended up putting the memory and SSD in myself before installing the keyboard and display bezel), and I […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
Yesterday, I told Copilot that it was a "bullshit machine," and that felt very satisfying. (It had been "empathizing" with me and telling me how happy it was to help.)
I can't remember where I got "bullshit machine," but I really like it (or "BS machine") as a general description of generative […]
I can't remember where I got "bullshit machine," but I really like it (or "BS machine") as a general description of generative […]
Original post on mendeddrum.org
mendeddrum.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Yesterday, I told Copilot that it was a "bullshit machine," and that felt very satisfying. (It had been "empathizing" with me and telling me how happy it was to help.)
I can't remember where I got "bullshit machine," but I really like it (or "BS machine") as a general description of generative […]
I can't remember where I got "bullshit machine," but I really like it (or "BS machine") as a general description of generative […]
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Me and my new lens is slowly getting to know each other. But I have so much to learn. The first few days all my photos was blurry because I couldn’t hold the camera steady enough with this lens.
Anyway. Here’s a fieldfare who just stepped out of a cold bath […]
[Original post on front-end.social]
Anyway. Here’s a fieldfare who just stepped out of a cold bath […]
[Original post on front-end.social]
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Me and my new lens is slowly getting to know each other. But I have so much to learn. The first few days all my photos was blurry because I couldn’t hold the camera steady enough with this lens.
Anyway. Here’s a fieldfare who just stepped out of a cold bath […]
[Original post on front-end.social]
Anyway. Here’s a fieldfare who just stepped out of a cold bath […]
[Original post on front-end.social]
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Any science books folks are excited about being released in 2026?
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Any science books folks are excited about being released in 2026?
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I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
It turns out there are more Thanksgiving songs than I thought! This seems like a great playlist, and will help keep Thanksgiving from being swallowed up by Christmas.
https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/a22530294/thanksgiving-songs/
https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/a22530294/thanksgiving-songs/
Add 50 Fabulous Thanksgiving Songs to Your Turkey Day Playlist
Because dinner is best served with a side of good music.
www.countryliving.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It turns out there are more Thanksgiving songs than I thought! This seems like a great playlist, and will help keep Thanksgiving from being swallowed up by Christmas.
https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/a22530294/thanksgiving-songs/
https://www.countryliving.com/entertaining/a22530294/thanksgiving-songs/
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Every now and then I rediscover this amazing website that integrates tax assessment photos taken of almost every building in NYC in the 1940's with a clickable map. Sort what Google street view would look like, if it were 1946.
https://1940s.nyc/map/
https://1940s.nyc/map/
1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940
1940s.nyc
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Every now and then I rediscover this amazing website that integrates tax assessment photos taken of almost every building in NYC in the 1940's with a clickable map. Sort what Google street view would look like, if it were 1946.
https://1940s.nyc/map/
https://1940s.nyc/map/
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Apparently unpopular opinion on Senate bill to end the shutdown: If there's an opportunity to fund SNAP for the whole year and THEN go back to fighting about healthcare, I think we need to take it. Kids need to eat.
This bill (unlike one passed by the House in September) includes funding for […]
This bill (unlike one passed by the House in September) includes funding for […]
Original post on universeodon.com
universeodon.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Apparently unpopular opinion on Senate bill to end the shutdown: If there's an opportunity to fund SNAP for the whole year and THEN go back to fighting about healthcare, I think we need to take it. Kids need to eat.
This bill (unlike one passed by the House in September) includes funding for […]
This bill (unlike one passed by the House in September) includes funding for […]
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If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar.
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
Original post on cloudisland.nz
cloudisland.nz
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar.
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that.
This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]
Hey Mastodon friends - I used to read a lot of comic strips, and somehow I don't anymore? Who can I follow here that will put single panel or multi-panel funnies in my feed?
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hey Mastodon friends - I used to read a lot of comic strips, and somehow I don't anymore? Who can I follow here that will put single panel or multi-panel funnies in my feed?
I seem to have the ability to post more than 500 characters now, and I'm super happy about it. Thanks, @patrick ! Just makes me love this instance even more.
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I seem to have the ability to post more than 500 characters now, and I'm super happy about it. Thanks, @patrick ! Just makes me love this instance even more.
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Amazon's stock didn't even flinch from that big outage. I guess no one thinks many customers will move to alternatives and some probably were just impressed by their near monopoly.
booooooo
booooooo
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Amazon's stock didn't even flinch from that big outage. I guess no one thinks many customers will move to alternatives and some probably were just impressed by their near monopoly.
booooooo
booooooo
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We showed out y'all.
Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.
Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We showed out y'all.
Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.
Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
Oh, the drama!
October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Oh, the drama!
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September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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[US Pol, doxxing, bad internet practices that have been normalized]
Reading up on that site that is doxxing people who said anything even remotely negative about the Kirk killing.
One big takeaway is... WHY IN THE NAME OF DICK FUCKING GOD ARE YOU PEOPLE POSTING YOUR RL NAME AND JOBS ONLINE? […]
Reading up on that site that is doxxing people who said anything even remotely negative about the Kirk killing.
One big takeaway is... WHY IN THE NAME OF DICK FUCKING GOD ARE YOU PEOPLE POSTING YOUR RL NAME AND JOBS ONLINE? […]
Original post on chitter.xyz
chitter.xyz
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
[US Pol, doxxing, bad internet practices that have been normalized]
Reading up on that site that is doxxing people who said anything even remotely negative about the Kirk killing.
One big takeaway is... WHY IN THE NAME OF DICK FUCKING GOD ARE YOU PEOPLE POSTING YOUR RL NAME AND JOBS ONLINE? […]
Reading up on that site that is doxxing people who said anything even remotely negative about the Kirk killing.
One big takeaway is... WHY IN THE NAME OF DICK FUCKING GOD ARE YOU PEOPLE POSTING YOUR RL NAME AND JOBS ONLINE? […]
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We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
But don’t call them Nazis.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
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Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
If you find your published and copyrighted material in the database, make sure to file a claim here […]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
If you find your published and copyrighted material in the database, make sure to file a claim here […]
Original post on mastodon.sdf.org
mastodon.sdf.org
September 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
If you find your published and copyrighted material in the database, make sure to file a claim here […]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
If you find your published and copyrighted material in the database, make sure to file a claim here […]
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Hi! Do I know anyone in biotech or medical engineering who’d be up to chat with my niece for a writing assignment she has?
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hi! Do I know anyone in biotech or medical engineering who’d be up to chat with my niece for a writing assignment she has?
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Auroras are coming tonight!!!
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-g3-strong-geomagnetic-storm-watch-0102-sep-2025
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-g3-strong-geomagnetic-storm-watch-0102-sep-2025
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Auroras are coming tonight!!!
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-g3-strong-geomagnetic-storm-watch-0102-sep-2025
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-g3-strong-geomagnetic-storm-watch-0102-sep-2025
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Quote posts are coming to Mastodon -- I favor this -- and the development team sure seems to be doing this the right way, with user choice at key steps.
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115068741796881534
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115068741796881534
Mastodon
mastodon.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Quote posts are coming to Mastodon -- I favor this -- and the development team sure seems to be doing this the right way, with user choice at key steps.
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115068741796881534
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115068741796881534