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I've always liked this building in #Caernarfon. I managed to catch it without people walking by. #architecture #photography #Cymru #Wales
The gemwaith (jewellers) in Caernarfon. An usually narrow corner building with a round, pointed tower.
#Photography #architecture #cymru #Wales #caernarfon

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A Partial Lunar Eclipse apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231029.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 October 29 – A Partial Lunar Eclipse

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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#SilentSunsday #Mosstodon #LichenSubscrube #Nature
The top of an old stone wall that is partly covered with some bright green moss and turquoise lichen. In the distance, patchy sunshine falls on a wide valley and distant hills - a feeling of expansiveness and fresh air!
#nature #Mosstodon #silentsunsday #LichenSubscrube

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#books
Suzy: “I love my school books. Just think! Pretty soon we’ll have read all of this!” “I like to read ahead and see what we’re going to learn next. It’s so exciting to know stuff.” “Having a book is like having a good friend with you.” Calvin: “If you flip the pages of my book, an animated T-Rex drives a Batmobile and explodes!” Suzy: “Sometimes, I think books are the only friends worth having.”
#books
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Johanna's Garden
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This brings back memories. Actually, I remember having these thoughts about elementary school text books, but we never came close to getting through our science text books.

In third grade, I had nephritis (following strep throat), and I was out so long, months, that the school sent me tutor to catch me up once I was well enough to sit up for an hour a day. It didn't take long to catch up, and I was able to use the extra time to do science chapters. I was so excited.

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Microsoft's Blizzard Acquisition Isn't Completely Bad #Gaming #YouTUbe youtu.be/wqzXanQz4jw

Microsoft's Blizzard Acquisition Isn't Completely Bad

Recently Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard King was successful and whilst monopolies are bad and all that I don't actually hate that it's happen...
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#gaming #YouTube

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I've turned one of my teaching modules in #Paleontology into an #OER. It's only one single lab, but many more are waiting to be OER-ised... therefore I really need your input to avoid future mistakes.
github.com/EmiliaJarochowska/Y…

Thanks to the feedback (shoutout to @leouieda and @JMMaok) I knew this:
✅ Must be editable
✅ Must include rubric
✅ Must include an example: I included a possible solution but without an essay, just the code. Now in #Rlanguage but #Python and #JuliaLang will follow.

The most watershed decision was to use #Quarto for everything to make it editable and renderable using Open Source tools and to make it version control-compatible. For people not familiar with #Quarto this may be a barrier?
Not sure what a good alternative would be. #OpenPedagogy


GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary

Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on assemblages of mammal microfossils from a cave in Hungary - GitHub - EmiliaJarochowska/Yankovich_cave: Reconstruction of Pleistocene climate based on ...
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#Python #julialang #quarto #oer #paleontology #rlanguage #openpedagogy @Dr Leonardo Uieda @J Miller

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The #Tory model for #socialcare:

1. defund local councils, while retaining their social care responsibilities;

2. Budget cuts make #infrastructure increasingly harder to maintain (or replace);

3. 'Encourage' councils to use private provision to make up gap between need & public provision for care;

4. 'allow' market rates to be set by providers & open sector to #investment to spur 'innovation' in provision;

5. watch taxpayers money flow to the rich (not the needy)
theguardian.com/society/2023/o…


Biggest private children’s homes in England made £300m profit last year

Fee income for 20 largest operators – many private equity-owned – soars as councils struggle to meet costs
Michael Savage (The Guardian)
#infrastructure #tory #socialcare #investment

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Thanks to Miguel Godinho Ferreira & Karina Xavier for the invitation to teach in the "From Cells to Organisms" module in the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia PhD program.

Here's a classic reading recommendation for anyone interested in the topic who's looking for a starting point.

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Protein bioinformatics job at Arcadia

#ScienceJobs

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Arcadia Science - Scientist, Protein Bioinformatics

A Bit About Us: We are Arcadia Science. Arcadia is a science company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to transform evolutionary innovations into real-world solutions by openly developing more efficient, replicable, and sustainable ways t…
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#ScienceJobs

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With @EvelienAdri and Hannah, we delivered a compact #viromics workshop at #EBAME8 in Brest 🇫🇷. If you want to have a look check it out github.com/adriaenssens-lab/vi…

EBAME workshop Viromics 2023

Contribute to adriaenssens-lab/viromics development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#viromics #ebame8 @EvelienAdri

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hehehe!
in reply to Muse

Isaac Kuo
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Okay, that's funny, but still ... that can't be a real question considering her yellow outfit is Tarantino's direct homage to Bruce Lee's iconic original.
in reply to Muse

Muse
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@Isaac Kuo No doubt someone shot down Tarantino's ego with your insight. But the little girl is the best!
@Isaac Kuo

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bears crossing road
How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species
Ours is a time of what environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb describes as an “infrastructure tsunami.” The automobile reigns supreme and civilization’s appetite for new roads appears insatiable. There are about 40 million miles of roadways in the world, Goldfarb writes, and our collective future will bring many more cars and the need for even more roads. But the environmental and social costs of this tsunami are almost unimaginable.

Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species

In "Crossings," Ben Goldfarb explores the science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life.
M.R. O’Connor (Undark Magazine)

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I know it's not doing anything special compositionally, but I like this shot anyway. My wife.

Canon AE-1 Program
Ilford HP5 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography

A black and white photo of a woman with dark curled hair wearing a short-sleeve button-down sweater top, with her head tilted slightly.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #monochromephotography
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Eugen Rochko
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@eumrz Yes, film is making a comeback, same as vinyl. Kodak still makes film, and you can find film labs that will develop and scan film for you in many major cities. Look through #BelieveInFilm for more.
#believeinfilm

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When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of 5 or 6 whales, presumably for protection. No one knew whales slept vertically until a 2008 study documented the behavior. And no one captured really good photography of it in the wild until 2017 with Patrick Dykstra documenting sperm whales.
Credit - Mr. Patric Dykstra

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someone wants to go on the weekend trip..

#catsofmastodon

cat hiding in the travel bag…
#CatsOfMastodon

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Orionids in Taurus

Image Credit & Copyright: David Cortner

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APOD: 2023 October 26 - Orionids in Taurus

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Putting this here so I’m motivated to finish up the spec socialjson.org

Social JSON

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Eugen Rochko
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I don't want to be discouraging, but this was already attempted with OStatus, which was going for the same thing with Atom feeds. It did not survive in that form, as the complexities of ActivityPub turned out necessary for real-world use outside developer circles.

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You'd have to be a genuine idiot to trust your entire financial life to Elon Musk, but he's counting on millions of idiots to do just that. Don't be one of them.

theverge.com/2023/10/26/239342…


Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024

Elon Musk held a Twitter / X all-hands call on Thursday and discussed plans to transform the platform into a financial services hub, according to leaked audio.
Jacob Kastrenakes (The Verge)

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Linux Kernel Github Is Absolutely Chaotic #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/FK9hFut3g94

Linux Kernel Github Is Absolutely Chaotic

If you've ever been to the Linux kernel github you would know it's an absolutely chaotic place but if not you're in for an absolute ride as I show off some o...
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#linux #YouTube
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Kevin Karhan
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#Protip: Unless one is a #KernelDeveloper, don't pull a random #git but instead just pull the releases from kernel.org .

@marcan went over the reason WHY one shouldn't do this in this rant / vent:

social.treehouse.systems/@marc…

The Linux Kernel Archives

kernel.org
#Git #kerneldeveloper #protip

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New #Mastodon for Android update comes with lists and a reworked home tab. We won't stop until it's the best social media app on Android!

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Mastodon for Android update

New Mastodon for Android update finally brings lists and a reworked home tab to the mobile platform.
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#mastodon
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Eugen Rochko
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@quaewpos Ich nutze iOS...
@quaewpos
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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@quaewpos Unser Android-Entwickler ist einfach sehr schnell.
@quaewpos

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seagull
"Watchin' U!"

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big kitty
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! gasp!

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baby raccoons
Dawwwwww!

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surprise ending
Surprise!
in reply to Muse

Bruce Crosby
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Oh I agree Muse, it's just as wrong with any animal. It just seems to me that there is a certain amount of hypocrisy between dog people and cat people.
in reply to Muse

Muse
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I like animals. Pretty much all animals. I might make an exception for mosquitoes, but generally speaking. Our breeding has done horrible things to many domesticated animals including cows, chickens, pigs, etc. Industrialisation and capitalism have had us turn living beings into things for use. The cycle of life can be brutal, but that is no excuse for our making it even more brutal by not extending empathy to the rest of our living family, and therefore treating them with dignity and respect. A number of Native American Indian tribes pray not to a god at a meal, but give thanks to and ask forgiveness of the animals they must kill to eat.

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It’s finally sunny, so Erica is in the greenhouse. #CatsOfMastodon
Erica, a black fluffcat, is sitting in the entrance to the greenhouse.
#CatsOfMastodon

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She gets one (1) hour of fish time every night, and fish time is the greatest time (best $16 I've spent this year).

#Caturday #CatsofMastodon

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#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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Drew this one just before an insurrectionist was elected Speaker of the House

#uspol #cartoon #politics #fascism #democracy #authoritarianism

INTIMI-NATION 1. Party leaders and followers show how it's done! First, try to overturn election results through violent insurrection. Capitol building with January 6 rioters in front. In the crowd is a "Stop the steal" sign and a hangman's noose 2. After that, bully state officials and Congresspeople into not certifying the vote. Republican lawmaker: They'll firebomb my house if I don't do this! (Pushes nay button) 3. When that doesn't work, harass judges and prosecutors who try to hold people accountable for crimes. Prosecutor holding indictment papers, being harassed. Thought balloon: I did not sign up for this. 4. Then threaten members of your own party who won't support an insurrectionist for speaker of the House. Voice on Congressman's wife's cellphone: Get your husband to vote for our man or we're coming after you! Kicker at bottom of panel: Democracy at work!
#politics #cartoon #fascism #democracy #uspol #authoritarianism

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At the Salvador Dalí House-Museum in Portlligat (Catalonia).

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'Otto Hahn, who remained in Berlin, was so dependent on Meitner that he continued to collaborate with her, even after she’d fled to Sweden. He sent her the results of their experiments on postcards via courier. It was Meitner, not Hahn, who analyzed the results and discovered that they had split the atom. It was Meitner, not Hahn, who coined the term for her discovery—“nuclear fission”.

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The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

The film Oppenheimer is approaching a worldwide gross of $1 billion, making it the highest-grossing biographical film on record. It’s a tragic irony that the scientific genius in whose shadow Oppen…
Literary Hub

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Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset

Video Credit & Copyright: Tengyu Cai

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Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset

Credit & Copyright: Tengyu Cai (IG: tengyu.cai)Date: October 8, 2023Location: Big Island, Hawaii, USADetails: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231025.html
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#APOD

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I removed the warning about jpterm not being ready for usage, please try it out!

pip install jpterm

github.com/davidbrochart/jpter…


GitHub - davidbrochart/jpterm: Jupyter in the terminal

Jupyter in the terminal. Contribute to davidbrochart/jpterm development by creating an account on GitHub.
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in reply to David Brochart

Alan Sill
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Oh, this is the coolest damn thing in the world! Thanks to you and @textualize.
github.com/davidbrochart/jpter…

GitHub - davidbrochart/jpterm: Jupyter in the terminal

Jupyter in the terminal. Contribute to davidbrochart/jpterm development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
@textualize
in reply to Alan Sill

Alan Sill
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@textualize Okay, it's early days yet with this project and much left to fix, but hope others will pile in and help out! If you would like to add this project to be aggregated by the "Good First Issues" project at hpc.social/projects/good-first… (scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the part directed to maintainers), we'll see if we can get some folks to help out with this.

Welcome to HPC.social!

A welcome to our high performance computing community!
Alan Sill
@Textualize

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In the alignment chart of "how to open bags of frozen goods," my husband's choice is easily "chaotic evil."
A picture of trader joe's frozen peppers with a small round hole in the middle of the back of the bag--not the corner, not an edge and rolled up, a random location.
in reply to Jonathan

not that ready
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@jonoor if I were a smart person I would get a monitor for my home office, but I am not a smart person so I remain true neutral
@Jonathan

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I visited the sweetest cutie this #caturday Meet Sebastian who does high-5s!
#Caturday

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Just some rocks. It's not much.

Canon AE-1 Program
Ilford HP5
Canon Lens FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography

A black and white photo of 3 rocks in a body of water, with the reflection in the water revealing a line of trees.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #monochromephotography

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💫 Hay un sábado de común denominadores #488 💫

🧑‍💻 Último sábado de octubre y compartimos nuestras lecturas recomendadas del mes.
Reflexiones sobre la soberanía digital en América Latina, solucionismo tecnológico y distopías digitales, inteligencia artificial y desinformación, y algunas experiencias maravillosas sobre lo que ocurre cuando la tecnología está en manos de las propias comunidades 😍

¡Disfruten de los artículos!

👇👇👇
sursiendo.org/2023/10/hay-un-s…

Hay un sábado de común denominadores – Sursiendo

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@elmau 🙅‍♀️

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#intro
• former 'sysadmin' for visionOn.tv
• megaproject since 2007, part of gamesmonitor.org.uk
• occasional handyperson and accidental techie in the movement of movements
• messy allotmenteer and grottie yottie
Raspberries on the 30th November, FFS! The ongoing greenhouse build in the background.
#intro
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Going to be playing more BATTLETECH over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. See you in the chat!

Samsai's Owncast

Playing Linux games and occasionally doing some coding streams.
Samsai's Owncast

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#Caturday

Meet the new member of the family! Cali came to us through the wonder of Mastodon and @Gargron! She’s very scared and timid right now but hopefully she will settle in quickly!

#Caturday @Eugen Rochko

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Happy #Caturday!!! 🐱

Miss Layla says “Good morning!!!” to you all as she does her biiiiiig stretch.

#Caturday
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“No, I’ve never heard of monorail cat, why do you ask?” #catsofmastodon #caturday
A short haired tabby on the back of a chair with her arm and leg dangling down
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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