mycotropic

mycotropic, 2 days ago to random

#Caturday

mcc, 3 days ago to random

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

elaterite, 3 days ago to california

I decided to roll the dice, that my CV joint on my car wouldn't blowup, for a run up north out of city lights to see the aurora--& I'm so glad I did! Two shots from northern California: First is from Doyle & the second is from Frenchman Lake. What an amazing display! For a time the aurora covered a 180 degrees from east to west & was overhead & could be seen in the south! I shot these photos with a 15mm f/2.0 30sec ISO400.

#Aurora #California #Lake #Solar #Sky #NightSky #Photography #Darktable

Color photo of an aurora. The landscape is forested mountains with a tongue of a lake going from the lower left to lower central frame. A distant body of water can be seen past the tongue. In the sky there are stars. On the horizon, just above the low mountain ridge line, is a band of yellow-green. Blue is above that. Then red. Then purple. There are numerous vertical streaks as well.

bud_t, 6 days ago to academicchatter

Fellow academic colleagues: please get involved in shared governance at your institution. I know, that kind of service takes up your time and is often thankless, but it is crucially important. And it is on the verge of extinction at many places. The rug is being pulled out from under us while we go about our teaching and research.

If we value our work in #HigherEd we have to do the work to make the institution a place that is fair, equitable, and just.

@academicchatter

GottaLaff, 6 days ago to legal

Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

#BREAKING: Judge #CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald #Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule. #documents #legal

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

mycotropic, 8 days ago to photography

A few springtime views of our back yard, 22 years of work are represented. My lovely wife does the pruning and most of the weeding and I built the infrastructure, pavers, patio stones, arbor and all that. It's spring in Denver but too early for the masses of blooms that are coming!

[Edit] Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L so the yard isn't actually that big, it's the lens.

#Photography #Spring #BackYard

A grape arbor is shown in the corner of the back of a house, paving stones cover the ground and red chai cushions appear ready to accept guests butts
A garden is shown abutting a lawn, it's spring but not yet flowering and the garden is in shade

futurebird, 9 days ago to random

The overhead for the AI on a minecraft ant is so great that the mod creators limit the colonies to just 20 ants to prevent lag. Fine for gameplay 20 feels like a lot.

Interesting the kind of things they do: remember the location of their nest, find a path back, collect leaves etc. are so taxing.

In the real world a colony of 1000+ is typical. Some colonies have millions of ants. And real ants have much more to "process" Kind of gives you a sense of the scale of the intelligence of a colony.

AmishSuperModel, 9 days ago to random

Great article about how religion became part of American Law (and NOT by it’s Founders as some like to claim).

“The National Day of Prayer kicked off a profusion of official endorsements of religion: the National Prayer Breakfast (1953); “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (1954); a Congressional Prayer Room in the U.S. Capitol (1955); “In God We Trust” as the U.S. motto (1956), on our money (1957) and inscribed on the rostrum of the speaker of the House (1962).”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/abolish-national-prayer-day/

Jennifer, 9 days ago to scifi

I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon #Bookstodon #Scifi #ScienceFiction

mycotropic, 9 days ago to animals

Kiton has this area covered, go about your business citizens.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

mycotropic, 9 days ago to Bloomscrolling

My backyard is busy using a macro lens!

#Bloomscrolling #Macro #Photography #RollyPolly

Tiny blue flowers with a sea of out of focus flowers in the background
Tiny purple flowers up close

mycotropic, 9 days ago to random

My daughter brought home her stuff from college, yes, that's her being eaten by seagulls and the texture is sewn on beads. It's 5 feet tall, where can I possibly hang it

A poem written by my daughter is shown, it's kind of long to type out

SJBradley, 10 days ago to Cats

I tried to get him to participate in #Caturday but he says he's "too tired" #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

falcennial, 10 days ago to random

a like button is some straight 1984 shit. it can mean "I like this thing," or "I like that you told me about this thing I dislike." when something can mean either yes or no, why have it? people either have their own personal rules, or adhere to a convention they know, or don't. why have it? what outcome is it for? what outcome does it achieve? why have it?

mycotropic, 12 days ago to random

She's already had enough and it's only 7:19am.

alexwild, 13 days ago to random

Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

mycotropic, 13 days ago to random

Talked with leadership about the protests in Colorado today, nobody said; "the arrests on Friday were a mistake" but they did say; "they immediately returned and are still there"..

The problems that will generate a response is the disruption of learning or teaching and the obvious stuff like violence or hate speach, not officially but those are the rules that were quoted. They also card locked the buildings so that students could access and use the toilet but non students can't, that's to keep the protest a student protest apparently and perhaps reduce the encampment impact.

My campus is across town and I mentioned that the armored response did nothing to keep things calm and head nods all around. We read my email to the chief and his response into the record as well. All in all I think that leadership learned quickly from Friday and is acting fairly and appropriately at this point.

#UniversityOfColorado
#Protests

mycotropic, 13 days ago to random

So this is what being stuck in an elevator is like!
#UniversityOfColorado
#AnschutzMedicalCampus
#Elevator