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ndhapple@journa.host ("Nolan Hicks") wrote:

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

people who have driven in countries where you drive on the left and also in countries where you drive on the right: when you stop to think about which side you need to drive on right now, is there a specific road (or two) that you picture in your mind to help you remember?

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

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changelog@changelog.social ("Changelog") wrote:

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marcprecipice@xoxo.zone ("Marc Hedlund") wrote:

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• The two Black, Tennessee lawmakers expelled from state office for protesting gun violence, with their fists raised in the air. (remote)

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

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• Transistorizing the Vacuum Tube: A vacuum-channel transistor closely resembles an ordinary metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor or MOSFET (left). In a MOSFET, voltage applied to the gate sets up an electric field in the semiconductor material below. This field in turn draws charge carriers into the channel between the source and drain regions, allowing current to flow. No current flows into the gate, which is insulated from the substrate below it by a thin oxide layer. The vacuum-channel transistor the authors developed (right) similarly uses a thin layer of oxide to insulate the gate from the cathode and anode, which are sharply pointed to intensify the electric field at the tips.Illustration: James Provost; Inset Image: NASA Ames Research Center (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's still cold, we're still buried in snow, but I am so glad to be living in Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/07/democratic-states-are-so-much-nicer-than-republican-ones/

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• Minnesota high school activists (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
DoctorDeathray@retro.social wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Travis Tritt joins the clown show. It's always amazing that conservatives will consider themselves brave for joining the most ridiculous causes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/07/travis-tritt-so-brave/

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• Dylan Mulvaney, laughing (remote)
• Travis Tritt claims he is brave for boycotting Anheuser-Busch (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Fascists gotta fash, even when it exposes their fascism to the light.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/07/if-you-strike-me-down-i-shall-become-more-powerful-than-you-can-possibly-imagine/

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• Johnson, Pearson, Jones: the Tennessee Three (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"This is Ponderous"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9GBKJu8jo

"The Legend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLRNwv9CQrY

"She"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhzBwOZcz3I

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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

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• Amorphous blob chasing a dumbbell shaped speck.

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

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PlayHistory@oldbytes.space ("Play History") wrote:

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stevenlawson@photog.social ("Steven Lawson Photography") wrote:

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• Portrait format colour image showing an empty energy drink can floating on a perfectly still street puddle in which the blue lights from a nearby hotel are reflected in a grid pattern (remote)
• Landscape format colour image shot at night showing a young woman stood outside a bar smoking a cigarette as she looks towards a neon sign on the window which says 'Pubk' and the red neon glow of the sign is flooding her face with colour while the tip of her cigarette glows like the bright orange bars of the neon sign (remote)
• Portrait format street scene shot at night showing a verticl red neon sign which reads 'Bijoux' while around it the buildings have blue, red, yellow and pink glows from surrounding neon (remote)
• Portrait format colour image shot through a red-iron barred window which is secured by a brass padlock and through the window is an orange lantern which is casting a reddish glow around the interior of the room (remote)

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akkana@fosstodon.org ("Akkana Peck") wrote:

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sinvega ("Sin Vega") wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

I just slept for over 10 hours and it was glorious but I’m still exhausted

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Started reading “Morbid Obsessions”; “ok yeah good introduction, sounds like this will be emotional but good to read”

First sentence of the first story: “Have you ever woken, knowing deep in your tattered soul, that you are poison?”

Fuck.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As a Blink API OWNER I vote on a lot of go/no-go decisions about web platform features. That's a cheerless process lawyering role in which we make sure that all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed -- often to ensure that trailing browsers can catch up quickly if and when they choose to -- but rarely does it cause me joy.

This Intent-to-Ship was the exception.

Hot damn, WebGPU is a go!

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webgpu-release/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

To illustrate the arbitrariness of Japanese pronunciation of kanji… I present 川内 but pronounced せんだい (Sendai). If you ask 10 Japanese off the street I can confidently say most will get it wrong.

Apparently the reason it has this kanji is because some daimyo decreed it in 1720…prior to that point it had more predictable kanji like 仙台 or 千代

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E5%86%85%E5%B8%82

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I've said this before but it's always a good sign when you're watching an old movie and there's a "Gowns By ____" entry in the opening credits

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhh... See the Changes by Crosby, Stills & Nash

https://pandora.app.link/JDF9LcG5Myb

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• 8cf152f8750cfbdb.png

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I don't comment on it much anymore because I am mostly 😱 on the inside, which is not a helpful response to share.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

unpopular (?) opinion: the Scion xA was the best-looking subcompact car, at least in the US market

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ItzyG@tech.lgbt ("Ditzayana :v_enby:") wrote:

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• Headshot of a white woman with blonde hair (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Being comfortable with ssh port forwarding is like a super power. I mean... A very niche super power, but still. I'll take it. 😆

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ericajoy@mastodon.cloud ("EricaJoy :verifinking:") wrote:

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alxd@writing.exchange ("alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts") wrote:

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• A sustainable futuristic city full of modern solar tuk-tuks, pedal cars and greenery, with lots of people walking on foot, solar panel flowers and more (remote)