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zrb

@zrb@astrodon.social

Software engineer in astronomy. Interested in high-energy astrophysics, leftist theory, and permaculture gardening.

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skinnylatte, to random
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The random people who post nonsequitur comments about China to anything I post about Singapore will be blocked. Don’t pretend you know anything about Asia if you can’t read about another country without thinking ‘China is relevant’. Ugh

ellestad,
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@skinnylatte For the record, I watch Anime occaisionally, but I learned everything I know about Japan from the MacOS version of "Cosmology of Kyoto". LOL.

nixCraft, to random
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Google Ad from 1999. https://www.instagram.com/blackcactusx/p/C4llg93IaGb/

gmarcosanti,
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@nixCraft
1994: you have to be an hacker to find stuff on the Internet
2004: every information on the Internet is there, easily findable with few clicks
2024: you have to be an hacker to find stuff on the Internet

gwynnion, to random
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James Baldwin: "You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

gwynnion,
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White people don't generally bother learning about Black people's lived reality but feel comfortable dictating the terms of their identities and experiences anyway. Men don't learn about women. Cis people don't learn about trans people. Americans don't learn how our "foreign policy" affects others.

helpmeskeletor, to random
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The extraordinary level of proof people demand for this genocide is actually just garden-variety genocide denial.

That’s what it looks like - not the grand denunciation you might be waiting for.

Hope this helps.

yassie_j, to random
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I finally finished Tomb Raider (2013). What an incredible game. Despite being over a decade old, the game still looks amazing. The environment design, the lighting, the weather effects make for an awe-inspiring, dramatic experience.

The characters in the game have a very believable, grounded, and sympathetic portrayal, and Lara Croft goes through some incredible character development throughout the game. I do find it actually very cool that by the middle of the game, the militia on the island start to get terrified of you.

This has to be one of my favourite games, it just is a very satisfying and engaging story, with just the right amount of everything. The second and third games tried to be more expansive, but they don’t feel the same as this game IMHO.

More games just need to be like this: immersive, crafted, and executed well in scope.

indigenous_commentator, to random
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This is what happened in Palestine while we were sleeping last night. Palestinians were supposed to be in a "safe zone" when they were attacked and bombed. How can you justify voting for a 2 party system that believes genocide is the answer? I don't want your shitty, pathetic, pro-genocide answers. No! I just want you to reflect on the images in this video, because there are worse ones I could've shared. But I've chosen to spare you, unlike Isreal not sparing Palestinians...

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lina, to random
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them: "what's that tattoo?"

me: "it's Ned Ludd, the mythical leader of the luddites"

them: "but aren't you in tech?"

me: "aha! you have fallen for my expertly laid trap, and now you must listen to my lecture on the history of the luddites!"

jpaskaruk, to linux
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If you are attempting to try out a desktop for the first time because you've had enough of Microsoft's shit but are feeling a need to scream in order to express just how frustratingly weird and annoying this operating system is...

I'm here for you. I promise to do my best to both validate your emotions and guide you towards the knowledge you need to be free.

timberwraith, to random
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I am once again mentioning that for 55 of my 55 years of life, I have largely not given a shit about sports.

But cis people being bigoted fucks about trans women in sports has forced an activity that I have always found to be loathsome and boring into my awareness.

And they've left me with the conclusion that far too many cis people are as loathsome and boring as their bigoted, obsessive opinions about sports.

timberwraith,
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So again, if it were up to me, sports would be driven into the culture's dusty corners as a hobbyist's pursuit that has no place in schools and it would not be an industry in which billions of dollars are wasted as a means of lining a few pockets with community funds siphoned off from taxes and ticket sales.

Play at your local park and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

karaguebo, to astrophotography Spanish
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Dos fotos que tenía pendientes de procesar del pasado 19abril2024 #Luna #Moon #astronomia #astrophoto #astrophotography

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leyrer, to random
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Happy Towel Day to all the hoopy froods out there that know where their towel is!

AmishSuperModel, to random
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What if we just require Supreme Court Justices to wear patches with all their sponsors kinda like NASCAR drivers?

timberwraith, to random
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This video is something else. It does a fairly cogent and humorous analysis of the current state of the "man-o-sphere," its grifters, and its destructive influence over boys/men. It also delves into the impact of patriarchy and toxic masculinity on men's lives and how it cheapens and empties out their lives of emotion and meaning.

It's long, entertaining, and kind of depressing.

(H/T Pharyngula at Freethought Blogs)

https://youtu.be/GHkhTIEe254

timberwraith,
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Personally, the way that cis women hold on to the parts of patriarchy that specifically elevate and maintain their power as cis people, as cis women specifically, has been a cold, icy bucket of political water tossed into my naive feminist face.

It has been a sad, depressing learning experience.

woodpunk, to uk
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FREE 3D Printer! Any that wants this customised and upgraded Ender 2 just needs to come and collect it from J4/J5 M40 ASAP, ideally this weekend.

I gave about 20 of these away, back when I had a big following on the other site, before it became a festering shitpile and this is the last one I have left. It was the testbed for customisation, so it's fully loaded!

nyrath, to random
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Non-nuclear strategies for deflecting comets and asteroids (pdf file)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234347108_Non-nuclear_strategies_for_deflecting_comets_and_asteroids

ploum, (edited ) to random
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The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

tadbithuman, to random

I hope to see Palestine in it's full glory in my lifetime, a free and inclusive state for all its inhabitants, in all of historic Palestine.

trenchworms, to random
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a foreign body wishes to leave the party. a group of mesenchymal stem cells cut it off at the door.

"please stay," they say, in unison. "we encyst."

yanone, to random German
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In green: Countries that recognize Palestine.
In gray: The “international community”.

elsie, to random Polish
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pull request merged we are so back

KatM, to trees
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My favorite neighbors. 🌲

View of a forest at eye level while the sun shines through, illuminating the evergreen branches and casting the tree trunks as dark shadows.

spacetelescope, to random
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During last year’s Roman Science Inspired by the "Emerging JWST Results" conference, a Science Writer’s Workshop sought to provide writers and journalists with strategies to explain the most important objectives for . (1/7) 🧵

spacetelescope,
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By leveraging gravitational microlensing events, where scientists identify exoplanets as their parent star passes in front of a larger, brighter star, astronomers project that will find more than 1,000 exoplanets similar to those in our solar system. (3/7)

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spacetelescope,
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will provide precise information about the distances of galaxies as it peers into the early universe with its near-infrared images and spectroscopic vision. Astronomers theorize that it will see more than 10-20 million early galaxies analyze their star formation. (4/7)

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_L1vY_, to random
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I have never had a Bluetooth anything. I have avoided signing into things "using your Google account" since they started trying to make us do that. I don't have Spotify or iTunes or Tidal or Apple Music or whatever. I buy MP3 tracks or CDs and play them on those devices.
I skip any sign-in that is optional, even if they try to hide it and imply you must sign in. I have never signed into FB on my phone. I never use an app when there's an option to use mobile web (and there's almost always is).

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