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alex, 1 day ago to random

Apropos of nothing this Friday: a reminder to never use Google Scholar for correct citations! They are wrong for everything except arXiv papers! And even then it's dicey! It's a shit product!

If anything, use DOIs and Zotero!

For instance, one way I assume that someone hasn't actually read Ruha Benjamin's Race After Technology, despite citing it, is that the citation is to a Social Forces review of the book, which says the publisher is Wiley, and not Polity.

nev, 2 days ago to animals

Wasabi being a flomp

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

Seen from above. She forms more of a triangular shape, and is less tucked-in than when she is in a circle.

mhoye, 6 days ago to random

We really need something better than bike lanes.

They aren't wide enough, they aren't safe enough, they aren't good enough. Now that ebikes and electric motorcycles, electric scooters (two, three or four wheels), electric skateboards and monowheels are common, we need something better.

Even on a regular old acoustic bike, if you can hold 30kph you are moving far too fast for the standard, next-to-a-curb bike lane. People just don't think bikes can move that fast. But everything can, now.

kai, 6 days ago to Toronto

The light was really pretty in #Toronto today. 😊

Exterior day urban streetscape

nev, 7 days ago to random

Have to talk to another human being, wish me luck y'all

nev, 1 year ago to random

apropos of nothing, just have to get this off my chest: call it victim-blaming if you must, but even a simple maritime fisherman should suspect that anyone who tells you you're gonna be getting american gold without firing a shot is a straight up scammer

nev, 12 days ago to random

Ughghghhh there's nothing for it: I have to answer the horrible email I have been avoiding all day

nev, 13 days ago to random

Here beginneth #Monsterdon for Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977), mute at will

nev, 13 days ago to random

Dream journal: at one of those perpetually-almost-going-out-of-business stores in the mall, bought an olive-green corduroy blazer and a black velvet blazer.

Upon waking, not sure whether I regret that I don't have them irl??

Also dreamt that I had to give shots to two cats I was taking care of, but I lost the info saying which cat should get which shot and was googling the cryptic labels on the syringes to see if I could figure out which was which.

sundogplanets, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

Hello Toronto - I'm giving a public talk there in 8 days. Want to hear me yell about satellites for an hour? Come say hi!

EDITED to add: Oops I didn't give image credit! The image in the poster was taken by Joshua Rozells, see APOD link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html

nev, 15 days ago to random

dear diary, today while looking for a café I passed a trendy gender-neutral hair place and utterly, completely failed to go in

…I'll look at their website and make an appointment I guess

I did find a café and the coffee is good though :blobcoffee:

nev, 16 days ago to random

took the plunge, going mouseless

i just got around to making myself at "home" (by swapping the fn and ctrl, thank goodness I have a Windows box to use <https://superuser.com/a/1608389>)

#ThinkPadClub

nev, 19 days ago to animals

Wasabi's crooked little face

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

amyfou, 20 days ago to random

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nev, 20 days ago to random

Y'all it's #Monsterdon and there will be SPIDERS so, you know, mute at will.

nev, 22 days ago to random

it's my birthday!! so i'm getting work done early and then skiving off to tommy thompson park with my sister, catch you later losers

mhoye, 24 days ago to random

Well, a while ago I put a bunch of effort into making a minimalist install of Wordpress work with SQLite. Now that's over and I'm looking for an alternative.

https://mastodon.social/@javi@goblin.band/112365876463601732

OK, team, what blogging software do I want? I'd like a built-in editor, static site generation, generates/manages an RSS feed, doesn't refer to writing or art as "content" and isn't written or run by people who like playing footsies with the worst people in the world.

yvonne, 26 days ago to random

Sometimes you see the title of a new history book and can only nod to yourself in admiration.

nev, 28 days ago to random

at day of in-person co-op workshops, hiding from everyone, pray for me

normally not a huge deal but Passover taps out my Being Around Humans budget for, like, a month, so

nev, 1 month ago to random

I did it y'all, I survived the Seder

nev, 1 month ago to animals

cat in bag

#Caturday #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats