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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 mtg
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Hey folks. What's the most recent card your have downloaded on your phone?

Mine's this zombie dude. I've been looking at cards I can add to my Gisa and Geralf deck to increase the variety of useful effects available.

Artemis201, (edited ) to MagicTheGathering
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Are you planning on getting the upcoming set?

Artemis201,
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Also what do you think about the fact that it's 7-card booster packs and no commander decks?

Artemis201,
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@RethinkJeff do you mean aftermath boosters?
Set boosters were wildly popular, more so than draft boosters

Artemis201,
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@RethinkJeff from what I heard from stores, the set boosters were outselling draft boosters so much that they were having trouble moving draft boosters at all. It basically killed them. So Wizards made play boosters as a combination of both

Artemis201,
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@RethinkJeff yeah. From what I understand, the set boosters were better in terms of expected value. So anyone buying boxes just to get cards bought the set boosters.

Cregg, to mtg
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Following to see more magic content but the wrong mtg keeps showing up in my feed

Artemis201,
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@Cregg same. My goal is to mute anyone who uses the hashtag for politics, and then make my own post about the game

WolfIsMe, to random
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When your blind date tells you he has brain worms.

A well-built man walks away, wide-eyed, maintaining eye contact.

Artemis201,
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@WolfIsMe @stux

The Expanse Im Glad GIF

c_dan4th, to random
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This might make it a little easier to burn the candle at both ends, but do you have anything with any more ends to burn? Like four? Or seven? Asking for a friend who is me.

Artemis201,
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@c_dan4th does this count?

Toastie, to random
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Lofi hip hop beats to survive capitalism / heal ancestral trauma to

Artemis201,
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@Toastie I'd put that on

archaeohistories, to history
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This monster is the Fiat 2000. It was developed by Italy during the WWI, and was enormous, especially for the period.

It weighed around 44 tons, and had up 20mm of armor. It also had a turret, which was quite a novel feature at the time. Only two prototypes were built.

© MilitaryHistoria

Artemis201,
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@archaeohistories

TatianaIlyina, to academia
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Just learned that a very promising early career scientist in my discipline has left academia, not seeing a desired career future for herself here. That company is lucky to get her. Yet, it saddens me enormously that it is often the most dynamic, brilliant, curious once, who are challenging status quo, committed to diversity and making our world a better place, who are leaving .

What are we doing wrong to make academic careers so unattractive for the best young minds?

Artemis201,
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@TatianaIlyina I'm planning on going into industry because academia:
demands unhealthy work life balance
Only offers short term contacts
Expects me to do service and write grants without paying me
Pays a whole lot less
Demands I complete underfunded projects
Doesn't have enough jobs for all the graduates
Expects me to move several times

I like working with students, but Im pretty sure that with a little effort, I can do that from within the company I'm looking at

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Throwback: As a student, I served on the faculty search committee twice; once as an undergrad and once as a grad student. No pay, of course, but I was invited to a few paid lunches with the candidates.

https://mstdn.social/@Artemis201/112395015616532527

Artemis201,
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@ScottLett even if they can find some pay, sadly I won't be able to participate. I've got a PhD thesis due right around the time they're expecting the work to ramp up. =(

Artemis201, to random
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Work: We really value grad student opinions in our new director search. Would you like to serve on the director search committee? It'll be about 60 hours of work during the fall semester.
Me: Cool. Is there funding to cover the students' time?
Work: ....
Work: This is a service position

Artemis201,
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For anyone not in the know, students are limited to working 20 hours a week during the semester.
This is asking (notoriously overworked and underpaid) grad students to either spend 75% of their research time not doing research, or volunteering this time outside of work.

It's also unfair to the professional researchers who are being asked to do this without being paid, but at least the professionals have a "service" requirement as part of their yearly evaluation that this fulfills.

Artemis201,
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LOLOLOLOL

They asked me to do this on Friday afternoon.
I received an email today (tuesday) at 7:30am requiring an answer because their first meeting is today.

My dudes, that is less than 2 business days. It has been checks notes 10.5 business hours since you asked, and less than a day since you told me you weren't paying me. 💀

Artemis201, to minipainting
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Charge!
Today is a day. I got all these horse dudes from the Joan of Arc board game and seeing how fast I can paint them. 16 knights and probably 8 hours so far. They have lots of small fiddly bits like saddles and armor and reins and trim that take forever. Fortunately the only thing I have left is reins, lance, and a wash
Then into my favorite bit. Basing! I'll probably do a grassy field that's been torn up by a charge. Lots of dirt clods (happy for method recs)

stevenjgibbons, to random
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Literally thousands of these spiders in the leaves! Not sure what they are. They are invisible until you approach but scurry out in vast numbers as your shoes disturb the leaves and move fast in seemingly random directions. Again, hard to picture as they move so fast!

Artemis201,
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@stevenjgibbons not certain, but those could be young wolf spiders. Do you have those where you live?

tabletopgamingdeals, to aitools
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Bardsung: Legend of the Ancient Forge (Core Game)

"Only" $70 (reg $200)

https://miniature-market.sjv.io/OrqyNN

Artemis201,
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@tabletopgamingdeals I picked one up! Thanks

Artemis201, to MagicTheGathering
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Okay cool card! I just put Matzalantli The Great Door in my zombies commander deck and it is 🔥🔥🔥!
I play Gisa and Geralf as a commander, and the deck runs best when I dump all my library into the graveyard and then return the zombies to the battlefield. Up until now, the 40% of non-zombie cards (lands) were mostly useless.
Last night I played Matzalantli and it was regularly tapping for 15+ mana!

john, to random
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Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.

Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.

(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)

Artemis201,
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@john I think grass-and-mud structures technically would fit the bill of a fiber layered and glued with natural binding material, but I suspect that doesn't work for your project

18+ Artemis201, to mtg
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sigh
Oh look. Modern Horizons 3 cards are getting revealed and there's another "free spells" cycle. I'm really getting tired of this

  1. WOTC has admitted that one of the primary features of overpowered cards is free/cost reduction
  2. If they put out a new "free" cycle every summer, it really gets tiring. How long until you can build a whole (bad) deck out of free cards?
  3. Of course it's the obligatory free blue counterspell. At least the other colors have variety.
Artemis201,
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@RethinkJeff oof. Yeah 3 lands on turn 1 is a bit of a head start. Sakura-Tribe Elder also a good match.

Artemis201,
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@JackbyDev @MysticKetchup judge promos are completely playable. That one's out

tabletopgamingdeals, to aitools
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The Miniature Market Backrooms are Open

https://miniature-market.sjv.io/MmqgkM

This week's deals include RPG Travel Cases, Dragon Ball TCG, Pandemic Hot Zone, Epic Card Game expansions, FLEX NBA stuff, Summoner Wars, Super Fantasy Brawl, Kings of War and more!

Artemis201,
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@tabletopgamingdeals dang. I missed the boat on Steam watchers. Already sold out.

Artemis201, (edited )
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@tabletopgamingdeals no worries! I appreciate all the stuff you post

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