Welp, so. I guess I'm here now and it's #introduction / #introductions time? I'm a #science writer, #journalist, #podcast host & video maker with a special fondness for weird/gross biology. I'm also a #DnD GM and a huge nerd for #books (especially #scifi) and #comics.
This week, I wrote about a type of lemur that picks its nose with an incredibly spindly finger that's so long it can reach up through its nasal cavity and touch its pharynx.
Nice to meet you, too!
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Bizarre aye-ayes use spooky, bony finger for nose picking
A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs.Mindy Weisberger (Live Science)
“People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?”
The first sentence of this article is like a Black Mirror episode pitch that got immediately shitcanned because nobody wants to watch heavy-handed Marxist social critique based on an utterly implausible premise.
fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-d…
Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same
Prophetic is developing technology to induce lucid dreams, in which CEOs can practice for board meetings and architects can design buildings while asleep.Rachyl Jones (Fortune)
APOD: 2023 December 2 - Startrails over Beijing Ancient Observatory
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Startrails over Beijing Ancient Observatory
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)
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APOD: 2023 December 2 - Startrails over Beijing Ancient Observatory
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
I just realized that not only I celebrate a whole year of Doodle O'Clock in November, but also it's been a year since I have been here on Mastodon!
Thank you so much for having me around here and being the absolute most lovely corner there is online ❤️
#Illustration #Drawing #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Mastodon #fanart
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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Margay Leopardus wiedii - South America and Central America
Graceful, athletic and beautiful feline of the Amazon jungle, #margays are small wild cats endemic to South and Central America. Every margay has a unique sp...YouTube
Here's a little video about the new color film stock from Harman/Ilford, Phoenix 200. Previously Kodak had the only factory producing color film, so this is very exciting.
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Phoenix 200
prints: https://graincheck.darkroom.tech/podcast: @mamiyamigos instagram: @50_shades_of_jasontunes: http://share.epidemicsound.com/grainydaysbusiness inquiri...YouTube
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Stampeding Bison in Yellowstone! | Wildlife in 360 VR
American bison jaunt along a snow-packed roadway in Yellowstone National Park. These bison also use their massive heads to plow away the snow that covers th...YouTube
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I liked the colors here. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm
My research focuses on how senior congressional staffers in the U.S. make decisions on #science policy.
For over a year, I’ve been sifting through hours & hours & hours of transcripts from my interviews while analyzing the data & writing.
Now, it's time to begin sharing what I've learned... sheril.substack.com/p/lets-beg… #politics
Let's Begin.
Within hundreds of pages of text from my interviews with senior congressional staffers are hours of insightful commentary.Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)
Does this account for the shifting baseline in people’s views where they and so many go hard to the right that centrist positions are viewed as hard left?
Speaking as a Brit 🇬🇧, universal healthcare is not some socialist hard left thing.
The centre, who cares about the economy realises that the economy benefits from better health in the workforce, enjoys the cost saving of not having to fund health insurance and improves on the increased liquidity of Human Resources where people can swap jobs as they are not locked in on insurance.
Healthcare is human equivalent to roads, where everyone benefits and the cheapest way is through government monopoly. Yes, cheapest as a cost to business.
Healthcare is NOT left wing! It is only questioned by those obsessed with not helping people or businesses and I can only think of one thing that’s about. #Racism
Today we have @10leej back on the show to chat about his Intel ARC GPUs and all manner of other things (We do go a bit off topic) #Linux #intel #nvidia #amd
Video: youtu.be/MceZRu9fsXw
Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
#196 Exploring The Depths Of Linux Support | Joshua Lee
Today we have 10leej otherwise known as Joshua Lee back on the show, he originally mentioned he bought a bunch of Intel Arc cards so I had to find out why pl...YouTube
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It’s fucking nuts that service providers can just remove your purchases like this without refunds.
playstation.com/en-us/legal/ps…
youtube.com/watch?v=krXH8jXefq…
Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4GZUCwVRLs👉 https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/👉 Merchandise: https://store.rossmanngroup.com/memes-dr...YouTube
On Buying Toddler Clothes
One problem with having a toddler is that there’s so much you can buy them, and it’s so easy to be tempted by all of it. Orkottke.org
NASA Welcomes Angola as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory - NASA
During a ceremony in Washington Nov. 30, Angola became the 33rd country to sign the Artemis Accords.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
woo! Just out of curiosity is there a reason Mastodon is a collection on their online shop? Just all their own stuff and then suddenly a Mastodon collection in the middle of it 🤣
1/ #Billionaire #Ecoterrorism
Kill off, sicken, or weaken, your own citizens & neighbors so long as you can make billions?
The ruling families say, "Fuck, yes!"
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in #MiddleEast
[& in the US, but shhh.🤫 ]
""Very disturbing. Big oil companies (#BP, #Shell, et. al) & states in the Middle East are violating the human rights of millions of people by failing to tackle air pollution from fossil fuels.
"Despite the massive human suffering, Big Oil & #petrostates carry on with business as usual with total impunity & zero accountability."
#climate #pollution #AirPollution #health
bbc.com/news/science-environme…
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds
The UAE, hosts of the COP28 climate summit, is breaking its own ban on gas flaring, the BBC finds.By Owen Pinnell and Sarah Ibrahim (BBC News)
December's Night Sky Notes: A Flame in the Sky – the Orion Nebula - NASA Science
It’s that time of year again: winter! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the cold, crisp sky offers spectacular views of the Orion Nebula!science.nasa.gov
Erickson to Retire after Over 40 Years of Service - NASA Science
December 1, 2023 It is my pleasure to share information about new hires within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) on this blog, and it is also my bittersweet duty to share information about retirements.science.nasa.gov
Jingle Jam 2023 Games Collection Bundle is live with 70+ games
It's that time of year again, time for another Jingle Jam 2023 Games Collection Bundle to grab loads of games and support charity.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nextcloud + Tailscale = 🥰
👩🏽💻 Interested in accessing your Nextcloud from anywhere, on any device, without being exposed to the public internet?
🔐 Increase your security and keep your users and data safe!
🕸️ @tailscale allows you to create a mesh network on your mobile, desktop, and servers - all protected by #Wireguard VPN and as user friendly as it gets.
Alex shows us how in this speedy less-than-10-minutes tutorial 🦾
How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes
How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes.https://tailscale.com/3 users and 100 devices for free. Try Tailscale today!YouTube
Here's the most played Steam Deck games for November 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/here…
Here's the most played Steam Deck games for November 2023
December has arrived and so Valve have revealed the most popular games played on Steam Deck through November 2023 sorted by hours played overall.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hubble Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Servicing Mission 1 - NASA Science
In the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
Roots of Pacha 1.1 adds new content and a fix for Steam Deck external controllers gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/root…
Roots of Pacha 1.1 adds new content and a fix for Steam Deck external controllers
The single-player and co-op life sim / farming game Roots of Pacha has a big update out now, with it there's plenty of new content and a nice fix for Steam Deck players docking to the big screen.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Translation knowledge (valid for the entire Nextcloud project) - Wiki
Nextcloud is available in many languages. How is that done? Instead of maintaining our own translation server, like Pootle, Nextcloud uses Transifex to facilitate translations for many languages.Nextcloud community
NASA Honors Steve Jurczyk, Former Acting Administrator, Space Leader - NASA
Former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk passed away Nov. 23, at the age of 61, following a battle with pancreatic cancer.Abbey A. Donaldson (NASA)
X’s Yaccarino calls Musk “candid and profound” after “go f*** yourself” tirade
"Elon's interview was candid and profound," X CEO writes in memo to staff.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
The @yogscast #JingleJam2023 officially opens in about 20 minutes with the Jingle Cats stream—festive cat videos with Lewis and Simon. The charity fundraiser on jinglejam.tiltify.com will launch at the same time.
Story Mode for Them's Fightin' Herds cancelled and active development to cease gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/stor…
Story Mode for Them's Fightin' Herds cancelled and active development to cease
Some sad news for fans of the fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds, as the developer Mane6 has cancelled the Story Mode and will be ceasing active development on the game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I love the game and what that team pulled off. Getting announced as part of the lockdown EVO online was great at getting eyes into it.
On the flip side this is a reminder to never buy a game on future promises (same with most tech). Buy it in its actually released state if that makes you happy, and should they meet those future goals then even better!
that's sad to hear, because #ThemFightingHerds really was promising...
But I guess too many people pirate and mod #FightingIsMagic to the point that I know a literal #Arcade cabinet with it on!
(it's at @cbase in #Berlin...)
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