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Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett`

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240216.ht… #APOD

#APOD


Great article! I hated PE as a kid. Other activities I have always enjoyed doing, I suppose because they didn't strike me as exercise--just fun. I like dancing, singing, long walks in nature (be sure to check these links!). Years later and I'm still recovering from having my back fractured. I am good at keeping at my exercises, because I keep turning them into dance-steps and do them to my favourite music. Walking involves saying "hi" to many of the neighbours, patting all the dogs being taken for a walk, and ends with a lovely cup of tea at my favourite cafe. So, things are getting better. And I feel emotionally better when I do them.

Running or yoga can help beat depression, research shows – even if exercise is the last thing you feel like

in reply to Muse

I am so sorry you had to experience that. PE can be sadistic.
As the new kid the other students would often gang up on me during dodgeball in order for them all to throw their balls at me at the same time. I'd come home bruised every time.
in reply to Muse

On the other hand, I loved fencing in college. Maestro Markie was strict, but he taught us step-by-step, different parries and maneuvers over the semester.


auspol, gambling

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-16/zer…

absolutely disgusting. you can't watch sports with your kids without being drowned in celebrity endorsed ads, teenagers are being encouraged to do "harmless" quick bets on the melbourne cup by their peers, keno is in every pub, and the albo government's response is "well, we made them put a single sentence at the end of the ads"

the labor government took around $13 million in lobbying money from the gambling industry in 2020, by the way

in reply to Lynnesbian

i cannot overstate my disappointment when i learned as a kid that the RSL's gaming rooms didn't contain a single xbox


If you've never heard it, Allan Day's talk about online communication from GUADEC 2023 is an absolute must watch youtu.be/dVVyokoQl2k?t=20064
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Thanks for highlighting it, I think it has some very useful things to learn or repeat to yourself. Especially when online stuff gets heated. I know you have covered a few of those situations.


"Life Comes from Space: The Decisive Evidence" (2022) by Milton Wainwright and Chandra Wickramasinghe.

Worth a read 📖 🤔, grab a copy here: worldscientific.com/worldscibo…



The Linux Cast Is Running Hyprland!?! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/F9ty1_1_ksE


@stux Opinion on minds.com?

I think it looks like #fediblock material

Anti-trans, anti-queer, global warming denial, magat talking points, ... It has everything.




Holy cow, this is bad - check out the nonsensical figures in this review: completely generated in Midjourney (!!), not even re-labeling the gibberish text labels (!!!).

This was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, where the editorial office should have caught this and nuked it from orbit. Wow.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@academicchatter #genAI

Edit: It's been retracted 3 days after publication and 1 day after it blew up. That was quick.

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NASA Welcomes Uruguay Foreign Minister for Artemis Accords Signing nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-wel… #NASA #NASAHeadquarters #ArtemisAccords #OfficeOfInternationalAndInteragencyRelationsOIIR


New clip on the react channel if you missed me talking about the insane emails youtu.be/YcPkMTORPpA
in reply to Brodie Robertson

using budgie to stand in for Birdie while the Budgie DE just uses a generic bird as their logo which does not resemble a budgie, is just too much for a Friday morning.


Last time we did probably our longest stream ever, that's not the plan today but let's still have fun youtube.com/watch?v=_O5VoVIJSv…


I love the colour and composition of this picture! AND IT'S FUNNY TOO!
in reply to Muse

I guess that folks these days are so attuned to their phones that they could catch a shot like that "from the hip". If you have a hungry gull stalking your ice cream it's a photo waiting to happen.
in reply to Muse

The photo may have been larger. The seagull may have already made lunges at the ice cream. Someone then would catch the shot, trimmed down to the action, then brightened the colour. Easy.



"Whatcha lookin' at?"


Crowdsourced Time Lapses That Help Monitor the Environment. “Chronolog is on a mission to engage communities with nature while recording important natural changes” like restoration efforts, fire recovery, erosion, and invasive species. kottke.org/24/02/crowdsourced-…
in reply to kottke.org

Cool idea, but they are charging $200 a piece for what's essentially a 3d printed frame, an ImageMagick script, and an email vacation responder.


Intuitive Machines Launches to the Moon nasa.gov/image-article/intuiti… #NASA #Artemis #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS #KennedySpaceCenter


NASA Joins Group to Advance Wildfire Coordination, Capabilities nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-joi… #NASA #Wildfires #Earth


ROSES-24 is live and OTPS has funding opportunities in sustainability! nasa.gov/general/roses-24-is-l… #NASA #General



in reply to Eugen Rochko

Nice! I have some Blood Angels I need to get around to painting.


An innocent California man's arrest and three-week incarceration demonstrates "the police will use whatever tool they have, even if it's a tool that has a huge risk of misidentifying someone," EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told the Ventura County Star. vcstar.com/story/news/local/20…



Sometimes a Nextcloud app grows from a simple idea to a top-rated store item ⭐️

Excited to hear stories behind some notable Nextcloud apps, we invited Julien Veyssier to share his journey from a contributor to a Nextcloud team member.

Listen now:

#NextcloudPodcast

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-p…



Spot the King of Planets: Observe Jupiter science.nasa.gov/solar-system/… #NASA #Jupiter #NightSkyNetwork


NASA Artemis Science, First Intuitive Machines Flight Head to Moon nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-art… #NASA #Missions #Artemis #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter


NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter #Artemis


Manjaro and Slimbook team up for the Slimbook Hero Linux gaming laptop gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/manj…

#Linux #Manjaro




No Man's Sky Omega Update arrives with a Free Weekend and lots new gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/no-m…

#NoMansSky #SteamDeck #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Looks like I will need to jump back into NMS for a bit to check out the changes. The Atlas Path choice change is probably what I am most interested in exploring.


I love the cover of Stephen & Evie Colbert’s new cookbook, Does This Taste Funny? “I love cocktail hour. It feels like a reward for having gone so long without a cocktail.” amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/12…


NASA Artemis Science, First Intuitive Machines Flight Head to Moon nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-art… #NASA #Missions #Artemis #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS

in reply to Eugen Rochko

That's a great photo. I love how the color is "the same but different" all around giving it a "it's a color photo, but it's not" vibe.

Keep it up.



Apple M1 gets OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2 support on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/appl…

#Apple #Linux



So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-m…

#til #computers #development #language #history

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Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 adding EA AntiCheat, breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/plan…

#SteamDeck #EA #PvZ #Linux



Get a whole lot of classic Capcom games in this Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/get-…

#Capcom #PCGaming #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Another bundle which humblestore even brings to my attention with an extra email, but which is not offered to people like me who live in #japan ..
I guess the industry just feels like they can get more money out of us here in selling the games one by one.


Helldivers 2 rated Playable for Steam Deck by Valve gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/hell…

#Helldivers2 #SteamDeck



For #WorldHippoDay an #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5,000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were regarded as very dangerous animals, but they were also associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth

On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

📷 mine

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