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Been improving lately at making vegan Spanish omelette ๐Ÿ˜


DEM L 190 looks like #NewYearsEve fireworks! ๐ŸŽ†

This supernova remnant was also voted our Twitter audience's favorite Hubble image from 2022. Good choice!

DEM L 190 is 160,000 light-years away, and made of the debris from a large star's death. For more: go.nasa.gov/3WXpb7p
#Hubble



It's been a big year for NASAโ€”and in 2023, we're returning our first asteroid sample to Earth, sending @NASAAero breakthroughs to the skies, and announcing the #Artemis II crew that will orbit the Moon.

Check out what's next: youtube.com/watch?v=KjBisqblTLโ€ฆ
#NASA

in reply to NASA

Good vid...would have been nice to dive in deeper to some of the upcoming projects!


The site that did a defamation takedown on my video in the UK has told me they've requested the hit to be removed.

So now I just have to wait for YouTube to fully restore it.

youtu.be/wKZ3k2zutBo

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

wow, thatโ€™s incredible. Youโ€™re not having good luck latelyโ€ฆ

Do you have a PeerTube instance for your videos?

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@steamdeckspree anyone is free to republish this one to spread the word ๐Ÿ‘




I love how UoPeople pushes Firefox to it's students.

And before that, they talk about LibreOffice. I'm happy to see that.



For anyone in the UK who can't see my recent video warning people off the scam website, because they got it blocked in the UK, it's on TILVids: tilvids.com/w/sx3oWxzUqQeHDe3pโ€ฆ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

It makes US defamation laws look reasonable in comparison. And that's one hell of an accomplishment!


The scam site steamdeck . info is trying to bury my video on them. I will be fighting this. This isnโ€™t right. It is a very clear Steam / Steam Deck scam site I am warning people about.

youtu.be/wKZ3k2zutBo

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@awoodland I imagine it's probably best not to share if you're still in contact with them and don't want to burn bridges, but I don't see how an email footer could be used to demand confidentiality any more than it could be used to demand five bucks.
in reply to Damon L. Wakes

@DamonWakes @awoodland lmao i will never do any kind of partner / business with a "store" like this, there's no worry about burning bridges, it's likely one person and was only set up recently


Moon over Makemake apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221231.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD


Moon over Makemake

Illustration Credit: Alex H. Parker (Southwest Research Institute)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221231.htโ€ฆ #APOD

#APOD


Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200 Billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/20โ€ฆ


I'm reading The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth. Many hearty belly laughs to be had!
I've just read the section on "Transferred Epithets" and came across this gem of an example:

"It's astonishing how often epithets are transferred and how little we notice. Nobody ever stops to think about a disabled toilet, and why and how it has been disabled. Perhaps the flush has been sabotaged or the U-bend deliberately blocked...P.G. Wodehouse was the great master of this technique...Wodehouse's best for my considered money, was: 'His eyes widened and an astonished piece of toast fell from his grasp.' The idea of astonished toast is just too much, and we let out a surprised chortle."



Robot dancing!
youtu.be/GH9vq0h5NJ8


And it's finally fixed ๐ŸŽ‰

invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/โ€ฆ



via the lovely @Kevin O'Brien and Daily Kos.


Some, uh, interesting genders found in web forms on the internet, including "Venezuela", "I have no plans to purchase a new vehicle", "Tax Entity", "Everything", and "Stainless Steel". (via @waxy) genders.wtf/
in reply to kottke.org

hey, @effy (obvs you know this but,...) Kotte found you! ๐Ÿ™Œ


The last place in Hurstbridge still open for coffee. No more lattes in this village until the end of January! Everyone is on holiday break!
sigh!
in reply to Muse

I will probably be driving to Research for a cuppa now and again throughout January. But it's not the same as taking a nice walk through the park, ending with a little something nice before walking home.
in reply to Muse

oh poostain. our coffiere is going to be giving birth ffs - she cant make coffee at the same time?? jeesh!



'In social networking, I believe that Twitter will survive, displacing both Parler and Trumpโ€™s Truth Social as the โ€œgo-toโ€ forum for indignant outrage. For the rest of us, more and more Mastodon hubs and instances will spawn as a global federation of communities, with no single authority and fluid communes of users.' irishtimes.com/business/innovaโ€ฆ from @chrisjhorn



The @NASA_Orion spacecraft has arrived back at @NASAKennedy in Florida after an 1.4 million mile mission beyond the Moon and a cross-country truck ride from Naval Base San Diego in California. go.nasa.gov/3C8ttRl
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
in reply to NASA

but it was that last 100 miles that just....dragged....oooonnn forever


One first closeup image of another planet was a paint-by-numbers pastel drawing of Mars, done by JPL engineer Richard Grumm using data transmitted from NASA's Mariner 4 probe in July 1965. kottke.org/22/12/our-first-cloโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

I just love the image of scientists coloring in the data with colored pencils because they were so excited they couldnโ€™t wait for the image to render!


Valve revealed the most played games on Steam Deck for 2022 gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/mostโ€ฆ #SteamDeck #Gaming
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

is this list sorted from 1 to 10 list or just top 10 in general? I would be quite surprised if Hades was most played.


The Exp 68 crew wraps up a busy year working on research and maintenance ahead of the New Yearโ€™s holiday while engineers and managers discuss potential next steps in response to the Soyuz MS-22โ€™s external cooling loop leak. go.nasa.gov/3CeCurX
#ISS
#iss


TIL that Congress passed the Clean Water Act over Nixon's veto. "It has proved to be one of the most transformative environmental laws ever enacted." nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opinionโ€ฆ


In 2022, we passed 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. It was a milestone decades in the making! Listen to the sounds and the pace of discovery. go.nasa.gov/3i1htds
#NASAExoplanets


I love #photography. From broad landscapes to extreme closeups, my pics from 2022 had a bit of everything. Your weekly faves included my โ€œpet rock,โ€ a Martian moon, and more.

๐Ÿ‘View and โ€œlikeโ€ photos: go.nasa.gov/2L6tFta
๐Ÿ“ทImage of the Week gallery: go.nasa.gov/3s4mRg7
#PerseveranceRover



Check out @MattTDN@twitter.com unboxing of these awesome accessories for the Steam Deck on the latest Game Sphere!
#podcasts #SteamDeck
youtu.be/MsuoARIzz5s



23 things that surprised experts about the pandemic, including the baking boom, the variability of illness, the number of variants, quackery, the swiftness of vaccine development, and the attack on science. statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid1โ€ฆ



You know how hard it is being a creator some times? When even the /r/steamdeck reddit mods remove a video posted by a fan, with no reasoning.

*sigh*

It was my video countering the PCGamesN piece on Steam Deck needing exclusives....

reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/commentโ€ฆ



What do your favorite Webb images of 2022 say about you?

1. Pick your favorite out of each set in this thread.
2. Keep track of your choices.
3. Find & share your result!

Letโ€™s get started โฌ‡๏ธ
#JamesWebb



The Great News Quiz of 2022. How much of what happened this year do you remember correctly? nytimes.com/interactive/2022/1โ€ฆ


This is a upload of a live playthrough of #JupiterHell back seated by its creator and #DoomRL maker Kornel Kisielewicz.

Great conversation and some fun cheesy gameplay. I skip a whole boss and half a level in this run. ๐Ÿ˜

youtu.be/KqRInrfyrHI



In our second set of images, choose between A) Stephanโ€™s Quintet; B) the Pillars of Creation in near-infrared light; C) Neptuneโ€™s Rings & Moons; and D) the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
#JamesWebb


In our first set of images, choose between A) Webbโ€™s First Deep Field; B) the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula; C) Jupiter; and D) Webb data showing the presence of water in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-96 b.
#JamesWebb


In our final set of images, choose between A) the Cartwheel Galaxy; B) Cloud L1527 and a hidden protostar; C) Saturnโ€™s moon Titan, and D) Webbโ€™s first direct image of an exoplanet, HIP 65426 b.
#JamesWebb


Beware of Steam Deck SCAM sites, and don't fall for it like JSAUX did.

youtu.be/wKZ3k2zutBo

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I should point out, JSAUX haven't even given a public statement of a "woops we partnered with a clear scam site" they just removed their retweet to hide what happened and not even a little "thanks for stopping us looking like fools".
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

i mean... jsaux was just another amazon keysmash brand name who happened to luck into the "amazon's choice" slot for "steam deck dock" and have been frantically trying to learn how a brand name should act.

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