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powersoffour
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I work on open source data analysis and visualization tools, I stream occasionally at twitch.tv/powersoffour , and I have some ties to the astrophysics and […]

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November 8, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Via Kyle Griffin:

The #lgbtq youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group The Trevor Project said in a statement it had "an approximately a 125% increase in crisis contact volume" on Election Day through Wednesday morning compared to typical days.
November 7, 2024 at 12:42 AM
I feel so awful for my trans friends. I am going to do all I can to support them.
November 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM
There are so many more important things. But, I just got a budget email ... and it is hard to see how dismantling the entirety of the federal grantmaking infrastructure will not destroy modern academia.
November 6, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Spanish speaking phone banking is not well-populated right now, from what I've heard:

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/647512/
https://go.kamalaharris.com/calls/es/
November 5, 2024 at 6:00 PM
he's holding his final rally where my brother and i saw nin play on the lights in the sky tour
November 5, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Jen O'Malley Dillon about tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMONoEE61M
November 4, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I bought System Shock and System Shock 2 on GOG a long time ago and now, with the Amazon Prime subscription I feel increasingly guilty and self-conscious about, they are available to play on Luna.
November 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
I often regret not buying "The Art of 'Queen: The Eye'" at one of those bananapants bulk-discount-book stores back in the 90s but now that I'm an adult with a JOB I think I might finally pull the trigger
November 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Let's none of us get complacent ... but yowza
November 2, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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2/ 🏆👏🏻 Walz: "How great is gonna be just not to see him on TV anymore?"
November 2, 2024 at 10:05 PM
I do like this #dccrpg "Vote" image from https://goodman-games.com/
November 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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👉🏼BREAKING: #pennsylvania judge rules that Erie County must reopen early in-person voting and can ship overnight replacement ballots to out-of-state voters. Nearly 17,000 voters still have not received their requested mail-in ballots […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 1, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Happy Halloween!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00xWnqwvI

Any questions?
October 31, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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2/ More:

"This feeling of women right now, every age and every party. Here's whats gonna happen on Tuesday: They are gonna send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump.

👉🏼They're gonna send that message whether he likes it or not."👈🏼
October 31, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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ASCII control characters in my terminal https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/31/ascii-control-characters/
October 31, 2024 at 1:40 PM
love it when I can guess the version of software I worked on my recognizing the colormap and knowing when we changed it as the default
October 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Shout out to @takluyver’s h5glance, which let me figure out in seconds how to get the data I needed from a .h5oina file in seconds, after my eyes quickly glazed over looking at the actual file specification 😵‍💫😂

https://github.com/European-XFEL/h5glance

An essential tool if you work with […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
October 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I genuinely didn't expect one of the first stories about this sort of incident to be from where I live.

https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this-early-voting-turns-violent-in-champaign-co/
October 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
The dude down the street from me hung a Chinese flag on which he'd scrawled "Biden is our Bitch" next to a "Fuck Joe Biden" flag, and for a hot minute even had one with Joe as Porky Pig saying "That's all folks" but sure yeah let's make a Thing out of something that any good faith reading would […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 30, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Oh my gosh I just realized: Shadow Cruisers were covered in Voronoi tessellations. That's what they were. How did I not realize this until now. #babylon5

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/babylon5/images/2/2b/BCFiringBeam01.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20240214064931
October 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Another reason to host open content on #openinfrastructure https://www.404media.co/email/c98f7ffc-8a7a-4244-99e6-ef97b080402e/

"Scientists, artists, and archivists are panicking about #EpicGames’ deprecating of Sketchfab, the internet’s leading #repository for #openaccess #3d models, saying […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Holy crap, Paul Graham endorsed Harris. I am genuinely surprised by this.

https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/1851200055220306378
October 29, 2024 at 12:27 PM
So @oneunderscore__ just restarted this from 2017;

https://theonion.com/happy-monday-everyone-looking-forward-to-another-week-1819769158/

First off, this is absolutely masterful. Just completely pitch perfect in every way.

Second off, we can do this. Let's run through the tape.
October 28, 2024 at 11:29 PM