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frankashwood@flipping.rocks ("Frank Ashwood") wrote:

Since you all really like Onychophora, here's a Peripatoides - another of NZ's beautiful endemic velvet worms.

Unlike the previous post, these little critters give live birth, but that's not the strangest thing about their reproduction. During mating, males deposit sperm packages anywhere onto the skin of the female, which then DISSOLVE HOLES in her skin and travel throughout her body. This process has a name as unromantic as the act itself: 'dermal-haemocoelic sperm transfer'.

And they say romance is dead.

#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Entomology #Macrophotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

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• A photograph of a blue velvet worm, a soft-bodied invertebrate covered in beautiful orange spots. (remote)

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larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org ("Lars Brinkhoff") wrote:

I made my own Forth a while back. Like most others, it's just a toy and my personal plaything. But I'd like to think it has some merits to make it interesting.

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/lbForth

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

1/ Even though stars are huge, they're so far away they mostly look like points to us. While we've been able to resolve details in a handful of stars within the Milky Way, our home galaxy, we now have a close-up view of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own, 160 000 lightyears away.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/

📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #space #science

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• The image shows a bright oval structure, surrounded by a fainter larger ring, against a black background. The oval corresponds to the light coming from the star WOH G64 and the dust cocoon around it, while the ring may be the inner side of a torus of dust around them. (remote)

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evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:

#KEXP's album of the year voting page is a great place to learn about all the new records I missed this year:

https://www.kexp.org/countdowns/best-of-2024/

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duncanlock@cosocial.ca ("Duncan Lock") wrote:

Things don't "fall into the public domain" at the end of their copyright term, Ugh.

Once released from copyright, works Ascend into the glorious ranks of the public domain, fulfilling their rightful destiny as part of the cultural heritage of humanity!

#copyright #publicdomain #culture

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LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Georges Garen (1854-1913), "Embrasement de la Tour Eiffel," original illustration for the lithograph produced for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, watercolor and gouach on paper mounted to thicker paper stock, 520x330 mm (20 1/2x13 inches on 24 1/4x17 in), sheet, photo from Swann Galleries, Dec 15, 2022. #arthistory #Art

From Swann Galleries: “Garen's bold, colorful image of the Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair, and its grand pavillions, alighting the night sky above the twinkling Seine beautifully portrayed the wonders of the world-famous spectacle. It was chosen as one of the representative images of the Exposition and this original painting was made into a mass-produced lithograph on one of the latest printing technologies…

The lithograph was immediately disseminated throughout Europe, enticing visitors to the Exposition and establishing Garen's image as its iconic face.”

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• Description in post. (remote)

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Sequin is a sort of ANSI disassembler that describes ANSI escape sequences in human readable form. The tool is handy for terminal emulation and other retrocomputing projects.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/sequin

#ansi #tools #retrocomputing

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

Republican family values.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/21/poster-boy-for-maga-politicians/

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• John D. Jessup (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Google’s New Modular Phone May Be the Last You’ll Need to Buy | WIRED:

"it’s an attempt to launch a phone where all of the main components are interchangeable via modules that click in and out, attaching via electro-permanent magnets."

The early 2010s were exciting times for technology. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/google-project-ara/

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

The "leopards eating our schools" party has "won".

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/21/posturing-buffoon/

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• Graph of percentage of state education funding vs. which party they voted for in the last election (remote)

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

It's still being decided, and who knows what will come of all this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/21/google-sell-chrome-us-court-filing-demand-competition-laws

"The proposals ... include the forced sale of the Chrome browser and a five-year ban from entering the browser market; a block on paying third parties such as [Mozilla] to make Google the default search engine on their products..."

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

Clearly, I am disqualified from everything.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/21/how-could-they-pass-me-over/

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• THESE CLIMATE "SCIENTISTS" ARENT AFTER THE TRUTH, THEY WANT POWER. POWER SO THEY CAN CONTROL YOUR LIVES. NOW TO BECOME AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STATISTICS FOR POUER / MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh SHIT WHEN 1S THAT GRANT PROPOSAL DUE? (remote)

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valhalla@social.gl-como.it ("Elena ``of Valhalla''") wrote:

@mike , I assume, wrote this

chinwag.au/verification/

and. it's. genius.

I salute you.

Only one thing: out of *pure curiosity* I have been wondering what safeguards are in place to prevent you from flagging random accounts for verification at any time when you are out of gin.

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ayoub@spore.social ("Elia Ayoub (he/him)") wrote:

Breaking: The #ICC has officially issued arrest warrants for #Netanyahu and #Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

It was a unanimous ruling.

#Israel

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Drove in the snow for the first time today. It was interesting to get some experience in how much weather affects driving. It would be very funny if weather affected computing to the same degree.

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• 3bc50aa25e411dc6.jpeg (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Alright, everyone. You all need to decide. Is it going to be X, Bluesky or Mastodon? It feels so disingenuous and self-absorbed to keep reposting everything I want to share across all three platforms, and tiring to keep track of which conversation I had where. Please decide!

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lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Leonard Ritter") wrote:

TIL gossip is an outdated word and the new euphemism is "reports by members of the community"

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cjwatson@mastodon.ie ("Colin Watson") wrote:

Oh look, my former employer is on AAM. Alison is just about as unimpressed/bemused as you might expect. "It's a flag for something, all right." https://www.askamanager.org/2024/11/job-application-is-fixated-on-high-school-academic-performance.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Why are you so cute?! 😭

#CatsOfMastodon

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• A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose (Peaches) resting on my office chair in the shape of a loaf of bread, reminiscent of Maxwell the cat. She looks very cute.

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mcc wrote:

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Presented without comment.

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• Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (remote)

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

Aw, bummer. It looks like makers and hobbyists are not buying enough Lattice FPGAs. Lattice is announcing layoffs:

https://www.hillsboronewstimes.com/business/hillsboro-semiconductor-industry-takes-another-hit-as-lattice-announces-14-workforce-reduction/article_5bc138c6-a089-11ef-b6ed-c36ab7740877.html

#FPGA

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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

insane

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglp4nz75zo

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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/marionicolais.bsky.social/post/3lbg366uyuc2a

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mathiasx@mastodon.xyz ("Matt Gauger") wrote:

I may have asked here before, but asking again: can anyone recommend a VPS hosting provider, that is a worker-owned co op and ideally uses renewable energy?

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tomw ("Tom Walker") wrote:

@moh_kohn A lot of more-technical people are validating the "decentralisation" thing though – treating an (at best) vague aspiration as if it's fact, or giving a bit of a shrug and "no one's figured this out perfectly, seems like they're trying?" Which does play a role in offering people (false) reassurance.

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tomw ("Tom Walker") wrote:

The thing with Bluesky is that people want to believe.

You can go blue in the face pointing out that the decentralisation simply doesn't exist, and people say "hmm, well, benefit of the doubt, seems like they're working on it..."

You can give lengthy chapter and verse about how this is not a workable design for a decentralised system and it just doesn't get much response.

That's because people want to believe it, and so they do.

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

Oh wow. Tim Laman's photo of an orangutan climbing a fig tree is quite amazing.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/20/a-bornean-orangutan-on-a-fearless-quest-for-figs-tim-lamans-best-photograph

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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:

for today's research poster session, I quickly released a website for my research project:

https://hack.cybersystems.engineer/

you may notice that this website sucks, but my task over the next few months is to make it not suck.

initial feedback welcome! :heart_cybre: