Ooze

hacks4pancakes, 4 months ago to random

None of us actually enjoy having to call out tech conferences for still in our year 2024 having zero speakers who aren’t white men. Getting lots of comment abuse, legal threats, guilt trips, and being known for that instead of our jobs isn’t like great or fun, actually.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to auscovid19

Queensland GPs flooded with patients reporting heart problems after long COVID. By Jackie Sinnerton

“We are now seeing the impact of long COVID which makes it clear that Queenslanders should be more aware of taking precautions."

#COVID19 #LongCOVID @auscovid19

Source: https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queensland-gps-flooded-with-patients-reporting-heart-problems-after-long-covid/news-story/b686874815523bd94562e625aa54d195

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WyrdingWays, 4 months ago to random

Have you ever had an object on your altar move? I feel like a complete nut saying this because I have never experienced it before,but I have a figure on my altar that keeps orienting itself to the same direction. I haven’t witnessed it moving, but for at least 2 weeks I have found it reoriented to this position after I have turned it into a different one. My husband swears he isn’t doing it, which, he could be messing with me (he’s a hardcore atheist), but I don’t know why he’d keep it up.

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

Do you think there are "normal" people? If so, what constitutes normal? If not, why not?

fraying, 4 months ago to random

My friend @bix helpfully captured what I’ve spent all day thinking about.
https://bix.blog/2024/01/11/activitypub-is-to-the-indieweb-as-a-i-is-to-silicon-valley/

davidtoddmccarty, 4 months ago to random

Something just occurred to me.

Are we being sanctimonious by not being on Xitter but relying on others to tell us what is being reported there? Maybe I’m wrong about how some of this breaking news is being sourced.

If not, that’s completely hypocritical. We’re just using Xitter by proxy.

Ooze, 4 months ago to random

If you could make the music come out of your phone at the same time as the Bluetooth speaker you could have povo stereo.

KarenDorman, 4 months ago to crochet

Holy f*@k - I did a Thing!
I inherited a part ball of variegated yarn - which I dislike using because I feel it's disorganized, chaotic and messy looking. But I've seen this thing done online and decided to spend a day screwing around and tried it. It bloody worked. (Eventually) I'm amazed. A combination of programming and sorcery.

#crochet #yarn #art #FiberArts
@sewing
@crochet

A small panel of crochet made with green, yellow and white variegated yarn, but it is organized into an argyle pattern. The technique is called colour pooling.

ahermitforhire, 4 months ago to random

what should i put in this little bottle i’ve had sitting around for ages? pinky for scale.

Ooze, 4 months ago to Astronomy

Deosil is anticlockwise

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the Sun travels through the sky, and specifically about which way it goes. In fact I wrote my Honours thesis about it, which I will put up here in the not too distant future. But I digress. The direction of the Sun’s movement is usually described as clockwise. But why is clockwise clockwise? Which is to say, why is the direction we call clockwise turning the way it is? No one will be surprised to know that clocks go that way because they are mimicking the direction of the Sun. This is based on a person facing the direction of the sunrise and seeing the Sun gradually move to their right over the course of the day; east, then southeast, then south, then southwest, then west. This direction is also referred to in English as deosil, a word with Gaelic roots. It is from from Old Irish, dess meaning right and sel meaning to turn.

However this situation does not obtain the planet over. Indeed where I live the Sun absolutely does not do this. My Sun rises in the east and then moves northeast, then north, then northwest, then west. I remember trying to explain this to a bunch of northern hemisphere Pagans at a Glastonbury solstice vigil one time, and they fully thought I was mad. They were unable to separate the concept of deosil from that of clockwise for the same reason I was unable to reconcile what I saw when I looked at the sky with the representation of that sky on an astrological chart, i.e. it just didn’t look that way to me. It took me a very long time to learn any astrology because of this. My breakthrough came when I eventually found some astrological software that had a feature to display the chart wheel as it appears in the southern hemisphere. It was a revelation. Suddenly the framework I had been taught to work with accurately reflected the reality of my sky, where deosil is anticlockwise.

So me and the bloke made a thing to help us austral dwellers see an astrological chart that shows our actual sky, with things moving in the direction they move for us. Here is a still from our real time, live updating chart for Hobart (42°52’48.0″S 147°19’01.2″E), Tasmania, Australia. You will have to go to the blog to see the actual live one.

Read the rest of this piece at;

https://ooze.net/deosil-is-anticlockwise/

P.S. If anyone knows how to italicise text in a toot please let me know.

#Astrology #Astronomy #Religion #Pagan #Tasmania

KathyReid, 4 months ago to Futurology

Great piece on the state of #research funding from @ANUResearch's Kylie Message

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/university-research-funding-and-declining-public-trust/103293026

mattcen, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to sysadmin

:boost_requested: #GetFediHired #Jobs #SysAdmin #Python #FOSS #FLOSS
Hey #FediHired, I'm on a #JobSearch. I'm a #Linux systems engineer and #Python developer with 15+ years' experience, based in #Melbourne, Australia. I have a high attention to detail & lots of experience working with people (15+ years community organising/Scout leading). Motivating values: free/ #OpenSource software, accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, privacy, and security, analysing/improving/automating systems/processes. Recent personal projects involve #Docker, #Django, #Ansible.
Ideally seek remote role with communicative/cohesive team, variety, flexible hours, ideally max 4 days/week.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcen/
Resume: https://blog.mattcen.com/resume/

Ooze, 4 months ago to animals

Home

Allis the house duck. Allis decided to live with the humans rather than with the ducks a year ago. She spends a lot of her time sitting under the ute.

She seems to be making a nest, but I'm not sure if she has been to visit Roger the drake recently.

#farm #animals

A large Muscovy duck eating duck pellets and drinking water alternatively.

Ooze, 4 months ago to mastodon

I reckon people who moved to Mastodon and stayed are the kind of people who would pass the get a second marshmallow in 15 minutes if you don't eat the first one till then test.

#Mastodon

steve, 4 months ago to ai

As I'm teaching this term for the first time since the #AI #chatbot revolution, I feel I need to add a course policy on use of generative AI for coursework. Here's what I've come up with...

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harshad, 4 months ago to motorcycles

Today or this week does not bode well for a motorcycle ride to town, but have groceries to fetch and car won't start today (looks like rats got some wires) 🤷‍♂️

It's in-your-face cloudy since morning. Another low pressure area in the ocean? Okay

#Kodaikanal #motorcycles !

pluralistic, 4 months ago to Watches

It's time for action

#horology #anarchism #sign #nola

TarkabarkaHolgy, 4 months ago to random Hungarian

I have some mild synesthesia, so I see numbers as colors. 2024 is green.

Happy new year! 💚 May we live in uninteresting times...

#NewYear #HappyNewYear

Ooze, 4 months ago to Cat

Home

And that folks is why it is called cat mint

#cat #gardening #tasmania

A black British Shorthair cat licking and nuzzling and eating a act mint bush.

thomasfuchs, 4 months ago to random

You know what’s awesome? Every time I use my 1970s Hi-Fi stuff I just turn it on and it works.

There’s no updates to download and install, no notifications to swipe away and no Bluetooth that needs reconnecting.