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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

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

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Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

futurebird,
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half of you have tin ears! it’s Uranus! That’s the correct answer! It sounds like a dinosaur made of steampunk junk dancing and falling apart as it dances!

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@noplasticshower I thought it literally was the sound track as a kid since I didn’t really watch the movies.

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@MrBerard see me after class’

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Overheard on the bus:

1: “… a big sexy fireman.”
2: “oh no girl”
2: “… even has one of them spotty dogs. Takes it jogging.”
3: “Dalmation! Dalmation!”
1: “Yeah!”
2: “You shure he’s a real fireman?”
1: “He’s got the dalmation!”
3:”he got 101 bitches!”
1: 😡
2: 🤭

😆

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“Lazy Mary” is a real person!

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"The law is both powerful and fragile. No matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law."

Letitia James

Just caught up with the "how much money you think you may have" part of this quote.

Ouch. Delayed burn!

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Is it "unjust" and "mean" to not let Pica lick (but not even eat) my mozzarella sicks?

Facts:

  1. She has done this before
  2. She won't even eat them, just mouth them.
  3. She has a strong opinion about doing this.
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Pica will NOT have access to how you voted in this poll! Please I'm hungry! I know she is very powerful...

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@tuckerm

Not an ant... more of a bug.

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@StrangeNoises @lisamelton They are such irresistible little twerps.

futurebird,
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@richpuchalsky The ants always win every vote in our house— something I think I should have considered before putting the system in place.

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Official campaign video says "unified reich" to describe Trump victory.

Campaign blames the intern.

I guess we should be happy they aren't just doubling down and saying "what's wrong with unity" or whatever.

The Intern.

That doesn't explain anything!
Why do you have lil nazi interns? (we know why)

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It's like the scene in Dr. Strangelove where he can't control his arm.

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@philip_cardella

Between that and the fluoride freak out club Dr. Strangelove is MUCH more relevant of a movie than I'd like it to be.

sings

we'll meet again... don't know where... don't know wheeen...

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@spacegeck

It was just Trump. He liked it and shared it. He's attracted to that stuff.

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@WhiteCatTamer

They took it down. They do seem to think this one was a bit too far to double down on.

Just.

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Bookbags! They are too deep. They eat pencils, they eat pens. And I am not going to stand for it anymore.

Why is it so hard to have shallow pockets near the top for small items? What do they think people put in bags? Huge long boards? Footballs? Long footballs?

I've had enough. I'm going to sew in extra little shallow pockets or maybe fill the bottom with foam IDK. This is the crisis of our times.

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I have a bit of a problem with buying too many blank journals & notebooks. And as my taste has grown more fancy (I'm a paper snob for the ages) I've realized that I will never write in any of the notebooks on several shelves at home. But they are very nice blank books.

I could have maybe sold them as a lot on ebay for like $50 ... but that's annoying.

I took them to work and put up a little sign on the book cart in the hall "Free blank notebooks. Take one!"

They are all gone! I'm so happy!

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I was a little worried they'd just sit there and someone would be annoyed ... but a bunch of students and teachers like notebooks. Go figure.

And now I'm not stressed about them not being used anymore.

And I can buy some more notebooks that I like better and will use.

(At least I don't have that disease where some people get scared to use a notebook that's "too nice." What's more nice is looking at your old notes in a nice journal... even if some pages are messy or crossed out.)

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@thelaughingmuse

I tended to buy two of any kind of journal since I would worry that I'd like it a lot and never be able to find it again if it was perfect for some task. I don't do this as much now... except when buying blank hand-bound books since I worry the person will stop making them.

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A big part of programming is boring details, language idiosyncrasies. For example, I wanted a java program to tell me the coordinates of the last mouse click. In Swing presents more options than I want— it’s too much control. So I have StdDraw to make the graphics & UI options less complicated: even then it wouldn’t work until I added pauses— This took like an hour.

How do I teach this miserable skill whatever it is?
You know it can be done, you keep isolating & eliminating until it works.

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Been doing some research into GitHub Sponsors the past few days.

Out of 27k accounts analysed:

~12k had at least one sponsor,
~2k had at least 10 sponsors,
~900 have more than 100 sponsors 78 more than 1000 (past or present)

About 10% of GitHub sponsor accounts are organizations, 90% individuals.

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@andrewnez

Kinda shocked to see Java doing so poorly!

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E-bikes are very cool and I'm glad they are getting popular.

However.

There is a big difference between a crash at 12mph and one at 20mph.

Your ebike can give you injuries normally only found in motorcycle accidents. And there isn't enough advice on what constitutes sufficient maintenance for ebikes.

If you don't get balding tires fixed on a regular bike you could fall off and bruise or break a leg.

At ebike speeds that same fall will shatter your leg in dozens of pieces.

BE CAREFUL

futurebird,
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I know this because I shattered my leg into dozens of pieces. (27 to be exact) that was three years ago. I rode my old fixie around the block for the first time two days ago. Will I ride an e-bike again? maybe?? not being sweaty at work is so worth it. (do NOT talk to me about “wipes”)

But if i get one it will have fancy breaks, frequent maintenance and I’m never going over 15mph again. Too scared.

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I saw this on a bumper sticker today. I love it so much.

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@roberthurdman

Do I work for ‘Big Ant’ — ?! a silly rumor!
You can’t prove anything.
Don’t worry about it, OK?

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