@futurebird@sauropods.win
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde

But he's a literal minded autistic fellow by day and a compulsive liar with butter smooth social skills by night.

No one thinks they are the same person.

More interesting than Hyde being a beastly brawler. IMO.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

In a simpler less connected time A George Santos could have been more of a Count of St Germain-- an amusing man of mystery, who was probably full of it, (I mean think about it, was he an immortal and secret history vampire polymath... or just another specimen of the serial fabulist. )

And no one has earned that title "fabulist" more than Santos.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

People who just lie and lie and lie kind of fascinate me. Too bad so many are so destructive.

It would be neat to be able to lie like that for a day... and if no one could remember it but you.

I guess part of it is some form of "people skills"

Though I have discovered that 70 percent of people skills is simply remembering names. The rest is "advanced" and totally opaque to me.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@leon_p_smith

It's not an admiring fascination. I mean it's like how people are interested in vampires and other monsters.

I guess if you struggle to lie when you know it's polite and kind, and harmless ... someone who feels nothing telling lies for no good reason seems like they have a horrible superpower.

futurebird, to animals
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

A bedraggled woman enters a fancy restaurant. "I'm so hungry please..." she says, and she is so thin and sad seeming the head waiter feels bad and sits her at a table in the break room bringing her some dinner rolls with butter and that day's stew.

She looks at the food, as if in disbelief. Then she looks up at the head waiter "You don't ... have any steak or caviar or anything? Maybe some scampi in butter?" She says.

(This woman represents my cat, )

thor_rapid, to animals German
@thor_rapid@social.tchncs.de avatar

Unterbaumkatze Donna.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@thor_rapid eleven round christmas baubles

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Fetching pizza for the robotics team with stray cats following me through bedsty like the impresario of some kind whimsical of brooklyn pizza parade.

pizza it is so damn heavy i had no idea ow ow ow my poor little arms.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

ok i’m not in bed sty i don’t really know brooklyn

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

:: You see, it’s not just how you see the world that changes. To measure a system is to forever alter it: a physical effect on matter itself. Any object recorded or counted is subject to this distortion. The universe looked very different before the first imagination dreamed of numbers. No modern human eye has seen (or mind perceived) the unsubtized beauty of nature in tens of thousands of years. And yet, in the wilds of deepest wilderness, there are … refuges remnants of a metricless universe.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@miguelpergamon When I start a post with :: it’s fiction. I should explain that more often!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

I look at a lot of electronics kits and I have... concerns about this "DIY Bottle Humidifier"

Is this some kind of psyop from IP66-69 fans designed to traumatize young people into making everything waterproof "just in case". ?

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@swart

Is there an IP number for fire?

IP 69🔥

LeftAnteriorOblique, to Cat
@LeftAnteriorOblique@universeodon.com avatar

Apparently I can bake anything from scratch. Anything.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@LeftAnteriorOblique

catllah

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Tumblr is a magic place where you can vote about werwolves and vampires and if you're straight you are "other"

😊

It's not the real world but I get why some people pretend that it is.

(if you want to vote https://www.tumblr.com/fagboybreakdowns/736066202008436736?source=share)

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@mentallyalex

I'm an old lady and just thought bi and pan were the same.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@floatybirb @Pagan_Animist @mentallyalex

I just can't get used to the new word. I remember I had this tiny little Bi pride flag pin in high school and I never put it on anything, but I still have it.

I've been married to a guy who I like very much for decades and will stay with him for decades more. But I'm still bi.

I think "no one cares" but then people get homophobic around me or transphobic and I hate it.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@david_megginson @mentallyalex

"A bi person is sexually and/or romantically attracted to other people because of their gender."

I don't know any bi people who would agree with this.

futurebird, (edited )
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@Hamykia @LCWebsXOXO @floatybirb @Pagan_Animist @mentallyalex

I don’t think being attracted to trans or to cis people or nby people in particular is a “sexuality” for the same reasons I think liking a particular body type or race or hair color also isn’t a “sexuality.”

It’s too much information and personal.

(And also I don’t really get it. So being told the word I’ve used for decades means something new ugh 😩 )

BathysphereHat, to random
@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online avatar

My sister, who has worked with pure caffeine, has confidently informed me that if they hadn't put unreasonable amounts of citric acid and sugar in the Panera Lemonade That Kills You, you would be able to taste the caffeine.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@zachnfine @BathysphereHat oh I wasn’t trying to get off caffeine at that time. I just wanted to save $

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@antipode77 @BathysphereHat not a big fan of coffee— but now i drink tea

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

This tiny little doll house reflow hot plate works great! I’m about to go nuts with SMD design boards. The components are so cheap I’m gonna be a menace!

A package heating with chipquick on a tiny hot plate as it speeds up to 300C

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@davad

MHP30 from miniware the same people who make those fast-heating TS101 irons.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Is there a simple way to count how many LEDs are using the wireless power from the ring?

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@StephanMatthiesen Yes, that’s correct: they use the magnetic field projected by the AC in the ring coil to induce their own AC in a tiny coil hidden under each LED package— then a precious little group of square-dancing diodes rectifies the current back in to much more respectable DC which lights up the diode. (as much i understand it it so far)

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@StephanMatthiesen I want to make a circuit that counts them. Using some kind of simple reading from the ring itself— but I have learned this isn’t as simple as I thought at all.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@shannonpersists @StephanMatthiesen Well I didn’t design this —the idea of sending power wirelessly as a magnetic field is as old as diodes. Maybe as old as Liden jars.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@th @StephanMatthiesen To change from AC to DC more smoothly otherwise they would get slowly damaged i think??

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@th @StephanMatthiesen Technically the flicker is too fast to see— but I feel like I can sense it … probably just mind games.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • morbius
  • Egalitarianism
  • tacticalgear
  • normalnudes
  • Youngstown
  • NeutralPolitics
  • osvaldo12
  • oldschoolgamer
  • rhentai
  • everett
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • DreamBathrooms
  • slotface
  • kopitiam
  • cisconetworking
  • OmnivoreApp
  • Leos
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Durango
  • cubers
  • Kemonomimi
  • TeamSpeak
  • tester
  • lostlight
  • modclub
  • smallboobs
  • relationshipadvice
  • All magazines
    •