Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

This paper is 5 years old but I just happened across it and have been talking it up to like four different friend groups because it’s so fun. I particularly enjoyed the retrograde klimarübe (you know, the rutabaga that represents an idealized continent for climate delineation purposes … you know).

Mikolajewicz et al. (2018): “The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth” – https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/1191/2018/

I work in the field of remote sensing but the only thing the name “remote sensing” has going for it is that it sounds like something that a gutta-percha magnate established an as-yet–unclaimed £5,000 prize to prove the existence of in 1926.

@stephenjudkins Hah, got it: it was Food Fight!

@stephenjudkins Not knowing is going to bug me all day.

@stephenjudkins On the north side of the street, right? Just east of that downhill slope toward the river. Can’t think what street it would have been on, though.

I had these vegan shrimp from a crustpunk grocery popup near Ladd’s Division in like 2004 that still jump-scare me out of my own memory sometimes.

Extremely appreciated @kissane’s piece on Mastodon and Bluesky, but honestly everything past the first paragraph was a bit of a haze through some intense sense-memories from 1995: https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

@glennf Just camping out in the replies here to make friends with other people affronted by “sound fairly boring”.

@BartWronski I think it’s wide-radius unsharp masking, which I understand was somewhat common as a kind of automatic dodge and burn in this era.

My sleep was disturbed by dreams of a TV show about long-duration astronauts. The writers couldn’t stick to a tone, so sometimes it was “What We Do in the Shadows” but about intense, mentally tough pilots in a tiny shared space; other times, they were doing Sorkinesque float-and-talks and making Important Arguments. I would rather have dreamed about falling off a roof again.

I’m not a Mastodon partisan, but I do have a pretty strong preference for not providing free #content for a commercial venture unless I know exactly what the deal is. https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110273442030673147

Just for my own sick amusement, here’s what happens if you white-balance off a cloud near totality and crop: https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/gk2a-2023-04-20-0400-crop.jpeg

To my great though trivial annoyance, their processing pipeline cuts off the limb. It does look great, though, as expected. This is from the 4/20 eclipse, which @dscovr_epic also got an excellent frame of. Link to a 30 megabyte 1 km/pixel version: https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/gk2a-2023-04-20-0400.jpeg

Amazing that I’m so good at spotting the hypocrisies, biases, and unhelpful fixations of others on social media when I have none of my own. How do I do it?

@burritojustice Posting my CSV on LinkedIn, etc.

@allafarce

– Interesting people’s favorites. Flickr was amazing for this.
– Looking up new things I learn. Someone uses a weird phrase: who else uses that phrase? Or quotes, or facts.
– Google Alerts for intriguing things with low news volumes.
– Imagining things that might exist and searching for them. Even if they don’t, something else interesting often pops up.
– Any time I see a stranger make a point that stops me and makes me think, I check out their profile and follow links.