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David Zaslavsky
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Software engineer, former particle physicist, occasional blogger. I support the principle of cake.

Posting habits: ~80% #Monsterdon, ~10% #Python/#tech, ~10% […]

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@schwegler I personally have never paid much attention to which tone people use but I'm curious about how it's perceived by others
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
yes yes Yes YEs YES YES YES!!!

PURPLE! RED! ORANGE!! GREEN!!! WOWWWW

(It was not this bright naked-eye, but these colours are all totally visible! Incredible!)
A patch of bright auroras, made up of columns that all start bright green at the bottom, transition to orange further up, then bright pink, then purple. There are silhouetted trees in front, and some satellite streaks behind. Similar to the previous picture, but with some more bright green at the very bottom of the sky A patch of bright red and purple on one side of the sky, with bright green on the other, looking a bit swirly. There's silhouetted trees in front of the red, and a silhouetted barn in front of the green. An arc made up of vertical columns of purple, red, and green, with bright green background. There are silhouetted bare trees in one corner of the photo.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside […]

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A bright red arc over a bright green arc, with some small trees silhouetted below Looking straight up at red and green pillars Looking straight up at red and green pillars, some are almost white. Bright red auroras peeking through bright green auroras, with some silhouetted trees below
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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@kfdm Ah I see. Yeah, I'd probably just parse the HTML in that case. You could download it once and run a parser locally, and probably have the job done in less time than it would take to find anything like an API.
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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@kfdm You mean for getting *user* data? Huh, yeah I haven't seen anyone else want to do that. There are APIs for package data but not for user data AFAIK.

#python
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM