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in reply to Eugen Rochko

#progmetal ? Do you know #porcupinetree ? if not you should. While I have your eye PLEASE carry over hashtags into replies…


NASA Invites Media to First Astrobotic, ULA Robotic Artemis Moon Launch nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv… #NASA #Missions #Artemis



On November 3, 2008, Tim Carmody joined Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson as the third writer/editor of Snarkmarket. “A Concise History of the Future” is a lightly edited chat between the three of them as they got ready to announce the new Snarkmaster (and a new web redesign) to the Snarkmatrix. snarkmarket.com/2008/2313/


OK the release candidate for #inkscape 1.3.1 has dropped and If you can, please do me a solid and test the live path effects:

inkscape.org/release/inkscape-…

That is, everything to do with the rounded corners, tapered stroke, super pen/pencil, clones, etc etc you get the idea. It's the one part of the code that I think is at a high risk of crashes and regressions.

You can report bugs to the usual place. I can help if you get a crash and aren't seeing a crash report screen.

Please re-share!

in reply to Martin Owens

I love inkscape - I use it all the time for scientific figures. I switched from Illustrator once I started my own group and I haven't looked back!
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Frank Aylward
I'd by happy to chat - my usage is not that advanced though - mainly fixing up scientific figures once I've made general plots in R, for example



I arrived on Mastodon one year ago today. Here's what I wrote to celebrate that anniversary:

lisamelton.net/2023/11/03/one-…



Boost your app-building skills with Nextcloud's comprehensive tutorial on creating dashboard widgets.

Part 1 - JavaScript basics.
Part 2 - Vue.js magic. 🛠

#NextcloudTutorial

nextcloud.com/developer/

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Vue3 with composition API is the best GUI development framework/tools i have ever used. And i have tried various over the last ten years.


Hubble Provides Unique Ultraviolet View of Jupiter nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-… #NASA #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Jupiter #Planets #TheSolarSystem
in reply to NASA

Hubble drill going strong all these years later!

See what the telescope is looking at now: spacetelescopelive.org/latest

Solar system observations, from weather on the giant planets to finding objects in the Kuiper Belt, continue to show how valuable an aging spacecraft really can be hubblesite.org/science/solar-s…



Native Earth, Native Sky CRS-29 Payload science.nasa.gov/learning-reso… #NASA #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ScienceResearch #ScienceActivation


Our movement was born online and it grew thanks to the reach that Twitter afforded us.

But the Twitter we knew is largely gone. Today's dangerous cesspool of hate and disinformation is bad for progressive organizing, so we've decided to step back from "X." indivisibleteam.medium.com/wer…





Mini story modes coming to Vampire Survivors in the Adventures Update gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/mini…

#IndieGame #SteamDeck #VampireSurvivors

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

and they're promising to add at least as many vampires as in the previous update, maybe more!



NASA ASTRO CAMP® Sets New Record While Providing STEM Opportunities nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-ast… #NASA #StennisSpaceCenter



"Fiasco" has a fun origin!

It goes back to an Italian phrase that meant "to make a bottle." Weird!

Nobody knows for sure what that meant, but the leading theory seems to be that the loser in a game would have to buy the next bottle of wine.

It was first used in English as theater slang to describe a failure or breakdown in a performance.

etymonline.com/search?q=fiasco

#etymology #WordNerd #FridayFun

in reply to Mignon Fogarty

Fiasco is also a a really fun narrative tabletop game!
bullypulpitgames.com/products/…

(I'm not associated with them, just a big fan)



Seeing the Present in Past Tense. We know on some level that an era is ending and another is beginning. What should we view as having begun to fade into the past? kottke.org/23/11/seeing-the-pr…


When we think of #food, we often aren’t paying attention to soil, but it’s actually what sustains our global food system.

Unfortunately, #ClimateChange, unsustainable farming practices & more are degrading soil around the world.

I don’t get to see each episode of Serving Up Science until they are published, but I like this new video. And I’m so glad they let me talk about soil health. youtu.be/FnOHwq6iSpk?si=5umwoG…

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Have you come across these systems?

wickcuriosityshop.net/collecti…

Charles Seber was using some of the planter systems that he made, to experiment with changing the soil grades.

It had to be done within the normal crop-rotation cycle process to avoid nutrient-depletion, but it worked well as a route towards generating healthy soil bacteria. 😁.

The planters operate by optimising the conditions for soil bacteria growth. 😁



The mess we made with our #dotcons use.
Error 402: But How Do We Pay For Content? | Techdirt
techdirt.com/2023/11/02/error-…


Hubble Tangos with a Dancer in Dorado science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #ScienceMissionDirectorate #SpiralGalaxies #TheUniverse


Here's the Steam Deck most played for October 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/here…

#SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

How ironic to see Baldur's Gate 3 at the top of the list just when it became unplayable since patch 4 of the game.


Counter-Strike 2 sees the return of community maps gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/coun…

#CS2 #CSGO #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

if only it could see the return of not crashing/corrupting files on start (on fedora) 😢


My latest preprint exploring transposable element (TE) activity in the genomes of sparrows.

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/…

We found remarkably high levels of repeat content in the newly generated genomes of
Bell's, Song, and Savannah Sparrow. 31% of the Bell's sparrow genome is spanned by repetitive elements.
This is ~3x as much as previously reported in most songbirds.

Thanks to all my co-authors for their contributions to this project!

#Genomics
#TransposableElements
#ornithology
#sparrows



This shot cannot be replicated because they replaced this window the next day.

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

in reply to Eugen Rochko

What is wrong with me, that I immediately want to touch that window to find out why. 🫢


found our steps from yesterday on the same frozen shores, changed by wind


November is around the corner! Catch our team at global industry events next month:

Smart Country Convention, Berlin 🇩🇪
Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona 🇪🇸
Cloud Expo Europe, Paris 🇫🇷
Educ@tech Expo, Paris 🇫🇷

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-a…



Jupiter by Moonlight

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231103.ht… #APOD

#APOD


Twitter DMs Are Completely Broken #YouTube youtu.be/ps-y6uWtqsw


Jupiter by Moonlight apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231103.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Congratulations to @shayshinecastle on becoming the Editor-in-Chief of Boulder Weekly.

I'm so grateful to be in a community that supports a rich ecosystem of experienced journalists and local publications.

boulderweekly.com/opinion/wort…



Synth genius Wendy Carlos studied physics & music at Brown & Columbia. She helped develop the 1st Moog synthesizer & her 1968 classical album Switched-On Bach went platinum. She brought #music & tech together & composed soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Tron & more.

Carlos was assigned male at birth & transitioned to female. Unfortunately, many journalists focus more on her gender than her accomplishments that changed music forever. wendycarlos.com

This entry was edited (2 years ago)
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

If you haven't seen it, this 1970 interview with Wendy is worth checking out: youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=zqIY3B…



I gotta say, the Keynote presentation I gave for the North Carolina Marine Debris Symposium today has been one of my most enjoyable talks this year!

Many thanks to the organizing committee for having me and for their encouragement to weave in my personal story about getting into science, plastics research, and science communication.

Looking forward to the other awesome opportunities to discuss with local NC community members, scientists, and policy makers this week.

#plastics #NCMDS



Songtradr fired half the staff at bandcamp, and that signals a dark future for bandcamp as a company.

So we're going to do something about it:
ajroach42.com/the-uncertain-fu…

in reply to Andrew (Television Executive)

@djsundog and I are launching a project to build federated, open source, #bandcamp alternative.

We're building this because we need it. We're doing it ourselves because it will become a part of the larger media production and distribution ecosystem we have planned.

We welcome other open source projects, and we might even contribute to a few of them, but for the next several months, this is our full time gig.

Long term vision: mountaintown.technology/

Repo: code.communitymedia.network/Mo…

How and why: ajroach42.com/the-uncertain-fu…

This entry was edited (2 years ago)


I know that some of you all wondered what happened to Merlin Star after they closed their public account on Mastodon.

Well, they recently posted this: merlinjstar.com/2023/10/24/thi…

Seems they aren't doing as well as hoped. They also gave mutual aid links at the end of the blog post.

Anyways, donate if you can, boost if you can't.

PayPal: paypal.com/paypalme/MerlinJSta…

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/ndmathnerd/goal

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid



Last Kingdom Hearts stream my internet died so I'm just going to reuse the title and thumbnail #Gaming youtube.com/watch?v=PrY7XyYDY-…


And now your moment of Looie-loo. It's November, which means it's time to break out the flannel sheets for my Linen Pumas to keep warm and cozy.
#caturday #cats #LinenPumas #catsofmastodon


A little morning walk up Borraichill Mòr. I should have been working, but I looked out the window, saw the sun, and ran for the hills.

#IsleOfIslay #InnerHebrides #Argyll #ScottishIslands #ScottishHighlands #Scotland

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