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Aunty
@auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
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Physics Nerd and Engineer.

Talk to me about science or music or beer.

[bridged from https://aus.social/@AuntyRed on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
[Auspol]

How the fuck are you going to call yourself a "Patriot" when you named your party after a fucking Yank
Sign saying "Bastian for Berowra" TRUMPet of PATRIOTS The trump part of trumpet underlined
April 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Man, there are some Psychos in the Senate hey. Actually had to use the party's "How to vote" card for the rest of my preferences after number 3

#auspol
April 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I got tricked by woolworths and their fake craft breweries again

https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/PostTruthBeer.html
Post-Truth Marketing (and a Really Tasty Beer)
caffeineandlasers.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Man #substack fckn sucks. Like:

"Imagine if you could have a blog, but we got rid of any ability to customize its interface sp everyones blog looks identical. Also you are locked on our platform"

Who comes up with this shit
April 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Just got psychic damage noticing the upload date for my favorite "Like a version" cover was 10 years ago
April 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I've made this argument before, but hear me out.

Another reason why libraries are great are because you don't feel guilty about not finishing books anymore

https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/anotherReasonWhyLibrariesAreGreat.html

#library #libraries #books #bookstodon
Another reason why libraries are great
caffeineandlasers.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
If I ever get filthy filthy rich, I'm going to sponsor a family with newborn twins to get an upgrade to first class. Share the pain around to the other side ya know?
April 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I finished reading #technofeudalism by Yannis Varifakas and decided to try and condense its message into 4 poorly drawn comic frames. Enjoy

#pol #economy #economics #webcomics #books
Frame 1 To understand the economy, you need to understand the relationship between money and power Frame 2 In a feudal society, money flows TO power This is why kings were so rich, they had power over the land, so wealth flowed to them Frame 3 In a capitalist system, power flows to wealth This is why you do whatever your boss says for 8 hours a day Frame 4 *poorly drawn FANG logos* These companies attain their wealth, because the Own the cloud Once again wealth flows TO Power This is Technofeudalism
April 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I finished reading #technofeudalism by Yannis Varifakas and decided to try and condense its message into 4 poorly drawn comic frames. Enjoy

#pol #economy #economics #webcomics #books
Frame 1 To understand the economy, you need to understand the relationship between money and power Frame 2 In a feudal society, money flows TO power This is why kings were so rich, they had power over the land, so wealth flowed to them Frame 3 In a capitalist system, power flows to wealth This is why you do whatever your boss says for 8 hours a day Frame 4 *poorly drawn FANG logos* These companies attain their wealth, because the Own the cloud Once again wealth flows TO Power This is Technofeudalism
April 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Can we please stop giving authority to the robots?

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/ai-against-small-internet.html

#SmallWeb #cybersecurity
April 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Can we take away the Nobel prize from that guy who invented the blue LED?

He has clearly caused to much damage to peoples sleep to deserve that prize.
April 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Are all the #bluesky accounts requesting to follow me thru #bridgeyfed with no posts / followers bots?

They are all weird #democrat types. I'm used to sexy beautiful women type bots, not democrats

Surely I'm not that interesting to bluesky democrat types
April 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Does anyone on #obsidian (Or works with markdown notes in #vim / #emacs) have a good system for sharing notes with others when they have embedded images?
April 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Increased at Newcastle Airport (The UK Newcastle, not the Aussie Newie) they have a machine for their taxis which pre-charhes the trip, in order to avoid the cabbies pulling some dodgey turn-off-the-meter buisness to scam you

The fact that as I single traveler I still got given a Maxicab […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
April 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Turns out the persuit for better beer has pushed analytic chemistry and optical instrumentation. Brewers and beer appreciators are responsible for both refractometry and colloquine. I wrote a blogpost about it

https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/beerAndOptics.html

#physics #chemistry #beer […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
April 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Man, Germans sure fuckin' love an Aperol Spritz aye? What's up with that?
April 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
We used to have class in science. What happened? #science #microscopy
A modern microscope with white plastic cladding A beautiful antique brass microscope
April 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Microsoft cant figure out how to save my powerpoint file, and errors out every time I try and save it locally to my desktop.

This feels like the most microsoft thing ever
April 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
A key paper in Scientific Accessibility: Covering Open-Access fees by adding sponsorships to your scientific figures

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.24254

#science #Astrodon #academicchatter #academia #aprilfools
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Damn, I am bad at #sewing, but still feels good to #repair and #diy
An inner stitch of a brown bag. The stitch is pink and very uneven The outer stitch
March 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I was on the phone to insurance, and one of the first things they say is "Make sure you read the PDS before making any decisions", then 5 minutes later on same call "Alright, shall we lock it in now then?" And then they were surprised when I said "No I'd like to read the PDS first please"

🤦
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
For anyone who might find this helpful, I found a janky workaround to embed your latest fediverse post on your website since I couldn't find any "official" way of doing it.

https://caffeineandlasers.com/blogs/embeddingYourLatestMastodonPost.html

Tl;dr using JS grab the RSS feed to extract […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
March 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
To my beloved readers, all four of you. (Actually I don't keep metrics so I don't know)

I have migrated my website to my own domain and a new provider.

https://caffeineandlasers.com/

Same site, same fun, slightly different URL

Ta!
Caffeine and Lasers
caffeineandlasers.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Good Lord GPT4.5 is expensive. I just used $2AUD on a single 3 message (+context) conversation

#openai
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
auntyred.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
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March 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM