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Artemis201

@Artemis201@mstdn.social

#Engineering and #SpaceInstrumentation PhD student. Designing and building a solar rocket payload. Also enjoys #backpacking and #MagicTheGathering | she/her |

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Artemis201, to random
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oof. Reading Artemis by Andy Weir, and I haven't read a book this libertarian since The Sword of Truth in high school. (I got about 2 pages into Ayn Rand so that one doesn't count).
Generous benevolent completely-normal-person trillionaire
deregulating space created this amazing (and perfectly safe) haven with no issues
you can sell alcohol to minors
you can have sex with minors (why is it always this?)
All the useful main characters thing unions are useless and just gobble up your money
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vicgrinberg, to Astro
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That feeling when finally, 10+ years later, the "other side" of a science argument is citing your group's results as correct and agrees with your interpretation 😳💪

Artemis201,
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@vicgrinberg good job!
What did you figure out?

Artemis201,
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@vicgrinberg cool! Thanks

mrawdon, to tech
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This tool is theoretically interesting, but almost everyone it kicks out for me is in . A few writers, a few celebrities (no thanks), and basically no one from , , , , or .

Basically it seems like the non-tech groups of people I followed on have had negligible adoption of .

https://followgraph.vercel.app

Artemis201,
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@doctorLURK @mrawdon
100% support this. Following the hashtag lets me know what folks are talking about, and it's not too overwhelming for my feed

Artemis201, to random
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I love having guests over, and i made sure both my game room and living room can be turned into bedrooms when needed (the only other rooms are my bedroom, the kitchen, and the bathroom).
It's great, except for when I get up at 6am and they don't get up until 10 or 11. Sitting in my bedroom quietly, waiting for people to wake up so i can go into those rooms and get my art stuff. For 5 hours 😭

Artemis201,
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Already been out on a walk, went down the road to feed two different neighbors' cats that I'm watching, checked all the internets, watered all the plants, and weeded the garden.

Dunstable, to random

I grew up with parents who were fairly homophobic. I remember them calling Pride parades disgusting, being very opposed to marriage equality, and having very traditional views on gender roles.

Today I was visiting for Father's Day and my Da, completely unprompted, started talking about how horrible and frightening the anti-trans laws in the US south are.

It was a heartwarming moment and a great reminder of how change and growth are possible.

Artemis201,
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@Dunstable my parents the same!
I remember once when i was a kid they took us to a protest at an abortion clinic.
Now my mom's volunteering for pride, and my dad is complaining loudly "why can't they just let people be people?"
They're risking their relationships with some of their friends over this (especially all their church friends), because they think it's important.
I'm proud of them.

c_dan4th, to Colorado
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Out of state co-worker: "I'm coming to Colorado in late June for a Bachelor party and we're all going to hike up a 14er!"

Me: "Heh! Got snowshoes?"

OOSC: "But it's summer!"

Me: "Not at 14k it's not!"

Artemis201,
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@c_dan4th @dominicvfx
I took this today near Nederland. All the higher mountains still have snow on them, and it looks like some just got a new layer of snow last night. By my estimation, north sides will still be completely snow covered. South sides will be clear below 12k feet except for in gullies. Above 12k feet south sides will see some bare areas and some areas with drifts taller than people.

Artemis201,
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@c_dan4th @dominicvfx when my parents visited camping a few years ago, they officially closed all the trails near the camp ground to cross country skiing on July 4. There were plenty of trails still ski-able at that point

Artemis201, to random
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Went on a run this morning in the mountains and counted nearly 20 different types of flowers. Lots of yellow and white and purple

c_dan4th, to random
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A post-op email from my health insurance company:
"Adopting positive habits can help people successfully manage their new lifestyle."

What do they think happened? I went in to get a hernia repaired so I don't need to change my lifestyle. 🤷‍♂️

Artemis201,
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@c_dan4th hmm. Maybe they think you should get out more. Regular exercise is good for you!

John, to Geology
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    Artemis201,
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    @John I've been all about this app since you first posted about it a few weeks ago. It's amazing

    Artemis201,
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    @socialjusticewizard i don't think i can post on that website, but i really have been enjoying Jumpstart as a great way to play with new players. It's reusable too, as long as you don't pick the same two colors to shuffle together.

    jacob, to random
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    “Mastodon had its chance and it blew it”

    I couldn’t agree with this post more. I had super high hopes, but I’m pretty convinced now that between the technical and social issues there’s not a good chance of mastodon being anything other than a tiny niche.

    I’m unlikely to go back to Twitter, and BlueSky seems unlikely to be a place I wanna hang out, so I guess this is still home for me for now. But I’m pretty sad things here aren’t going in a different direction.

    https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

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    @jacob i completely agree on this post. The UI sucks, especially for onboarding, the main app in the app store is/was very glitchy, it's difficult to find anything or build a community, and the user base is very "my way or the highway".
    I've been here for 7 months and my follow list is long save carefully curated, but my Twitter feed is still more interesting overall. None of my favorite communities moved over here. Most of the content creators i like don't post here

    Dunstable, to mtg

    I've been watching some youtube videos that had themselves labeled as "prerelease guides" for the LOTR set, but they all focus too much on higher rarities.

    I don't need a prerelease guide to tell me that Gandalf the White is strong, I'm already playing that it I open it. Most of your prerelease deck is going to be commons, by definition - focus on those in your guides, people!

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    @Dunstable
    Have you checked out Limited Resources yet? I find their commons and uncommons review very useful.

    c_dan4th, to random
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    Okay, this Maxar image of is pretty astonishing.

    Artemis201,
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    @c_dan4th that is such high detail. wow

    arielbchapman, to queer

    We’re in this weird place where diaspora Jews can’t talk about the possible eradication of LGBTQ+ rights in Israel to non-Jews because whenever we even mention ‘Israel’ we are shut down. We’re told it’s too controversial or that Israel is automatically the bad guy.

    ‘Israel’ is not a dirty word.

    LGBTQ+ Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Christians, Muslims and Arabs all deserve equal protection and allyship.

    Artemis201,
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    @arielbchapman
    I see this very similarly to how some folks will see all the terrible shit happening in Texas or Florida, and say "ha you suckers deserve it because you voted for it".
    People forget that individuals are different from their government. That's just victim blaming, especially when the government is actively disenfranchising its own citizens.
    <3 love and solidarity
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    NunavutBirder, to random
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    My son made his first qamutiq. 24 foot. They head out camping tomorrow. So proud. .

    Artemis201,
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    @NunavutBirder looks very solid. I'd happily take that out camping

    betsyvr, to random
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    Anyone have any music rec’s for pride month? I feel like 97% of my music is by queer artists but wanted to see what others are listening to.

    Artemis201,
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    @betsyvr Hosier is excellent. His song Take Me To Church is particularly queer focused and also a very good song

    Artemis201,
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    @betsyvr also I've been enjoying Rise Against, if you're up for some really good punk. One of their recent songs Nowhere Generation really speaks to me

    niphette, to mtg

    Anyway hello ! Any other Magic Twitter refugees?

    Artemis201,
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    @jonmichaels @niphette
    I second this! There are a few of us who post with it, and it really helps bring discussions together.

    Ivor, to random
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    That's the first 8 metres of this piece of work finished. Beyond the trough, up to the top of the field is another 42 and that will be my work here complete. Andrew has scraped the ground with an excavator, making life easier for me.

    The unusual continuous through stones look better now the wall is up to level, ready to put on the cope stones. It was a lovely day for working.

    Artemis201,
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    @Ivor good job! Rock work is hard and slow. I'm impressed

    To, to mtg

    It's been around three months since I started playing Magic. Since then, I've played mainly mono white. I invested all my wildcards into the deck, and I'm just slowly building up a collection for other strategies. Since I don't have a lot of experience with building Magic decks and I'm missing a lot of card knowledge, most of the decks I (want to) use are copied from the internet or adjusted with a little bit of personal flavor. They're a base for me to learn the game itself, but I'm missing out on a lot of building know-how. That's something I want to change!

    Starting today, I'll post sort of a diary for my deck building process. I'll build a new deck every other day. But I don't want to invest in new cards I might not need for bigger projects. So, I'll build decks only using my limited card pool that I collected in the last couple of months as a F2P player.

    Day 1: :white: :green: :blue: +1/+1 counter

    This is my first attempt because a lot of strategies I enjoy are focused on counters. This deck is more or less a hybrid of two decks I'm currently building anyway (Heavily "stolen" from others). It's just missing the same key cards 😅😅
    The most important card in the deck is Brokers Ascendancy, which creates very explosive growth together with Botanical Brawler and Kami of Whispered Hopes. Jugan defends the Tempel and the Planeswalkers are also doing a lot of work.
    The biggest downside is the lack of early removal because the deck tends to be overwhelmed with opponents building an aggressive board state early on, but I'm considering getting rid of some other cards to make room for it. I'm just not sure about which removal would be the most useful with Ossification and Lay Down Arms dead to the lack of basic lands.

    I played the deck in Standard without rank. Win rate was pretty even. The deck has a lot of potential and I'm excited to play a more refined version in the future.

    Screenshot from a game with the deck. It shows a 10/10 Iron Apprentice, 7/7 Kami and 9/9 Brawler on the field, together with Brokers Ascendancy. The Brawler still has summoning sickness, which means it became a 9/9 in just one turn.

    Artemis201,
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    @To @DoctorLURK
    I'm just curious because I like to see other perspectives, and I don't get to play against other aggro much.

    Artemis201,
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    @DoctorLURK @To
    My partner loves value decks for similar reasons.

    Artemis201,
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    @DoctorLURK @To
    I personally have been evolving a bit more towards combo. I've been having a ton of fun with a new Bruticlad deck where i durdle around making useless tokens until i make the perfect token army and run over someone.

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