Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@kissane @robinsonmeyer The two of you are prime examples, for me, of people who manage to put themselves out there without hardening into Debate Me Gender-Nonspecific Bros.

This is adjacent on one side to the corrosive forces of fame. On another side, to something I think of as the Linguist Scicomm Problem, which is a pattern in science communication where you spend so much time rebutting people’s surface-level misconceptions that you never get to anything else. (Thinking of online linguists who keep explaining that linguistics is descriptive and never actually get to the, you know, linguistics.)

A bad thing about social media is this pattern where a person with expertise starts rebutting bad ideas, and it’s great, but over time it primes them to see everyone who doesn’t hold exactly their opinions as part of a horde of goons with terrible ideas, because that’s who they end up interacting with.

Eventually their online persona is, like, Truth Gladiator. And that’s so much less interesting and important to me than Thoughtful Person With Useful Perspectives.

@aegir CC: @migurski.

@dnomadb Hmm, looks like number of bands might be the bigger problem now, but this is useful – thank you!

Remote sensing folks: where can I find nontrivial amounts of openly licensed ~10 cm (or better) aerial hyperspectral data?

@cabel must be nice

The cat is annoyed with me because she doesn’t like the texture of the keyboard she’s standing on. Why would I do this to her.

@ceejbot May I recommend terrarium/aquarium/vivarium videos? The best of them are extremely calming for me.

@meetar @nelson All I know is I’m going to buy some iodine pills and cut every cable that runs to my apartment on November 16, 2026.

@hannah living the dream

@sgillies Subscribing for updates.

@brennen I can’t believe zoomers are trying to divide us.

(I got some new followers so now I have to shake the branches a bit. Sorry.)

It’s very important to pause and feel gratitude. Today I am grateful that my generation will never have moral panics about foolish things that tiny numbers of young people do with new technology, we will never sweepingly reject new technologies out of a vague sense of disgust, and we will never compulsively fiddle with media franchises that need some rest. It feels good to be objectively better than those awful boomers.