@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-08 06:35:50
Tip for #FlyingLess as a family: prepare for long train rides with board card games. The #privacy friendly app games by @… are absolutely brilliant, easy to use, stable not stealing your data (or trying to sell your kids stuff).
(Edited to give right masto account: top work, thanks Secuso🙏 for the hours of fun your sudoku app has provided already).
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-06-10 01:07:18
Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-08 01:58:49
On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-05 23:07:50
IRS needs 11,000 hires to ‘maintain’ phone support for 2026 filing season, plans on 60% cut to IT staffing
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/irs-needs-11000-hires-to-maintain-phone-support-for-2026-filing-season-plans-on-60-cut-to-it-staffing/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-08 19:01:29
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Flying Mojito Bros feat. Scott Hirsch:
🎵 Wild Mountain Honey
#FlyingMojitoBros #ScottHirsch
https://flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com/album/wild-mountain-honey-ft-scott-hirsch
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yHAlQDpUYEmvR8ro9Z9tD
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-09 08:38:12
Investigating MAXI J1752$-$457 with NuSTAR in the aftermath of a superburst
Sean N. Pike, Hitoshi Negoro, Douglas Buisson, Benjamin Coughenour, Julian Gerber, Aarran W. Shaw, Mutsumi Sugizaki, John A. Tomsick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05677
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-06-05 08:51:32
My morning so far:
- Essential system is not working, opened support ticket.
- Two hours later still no change.
- Called service desk: "Yes we assigned the ticket to the 2nd level"
- Checked ticket queue: "Priority 4: Low"
- Called service desk "Tell the 2nd level guys if they don't make this work before lunch we're coming over and confiscate every Switch 2 we find!"
@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@anderelampe@chaos.social2025-05-04 16:00:13
Fröhlichen May the 4th Tag, und um ordentlich zu feiern, möchte ich euch dieses Video ans Herz legen, und generell alle Videos dieses Autoren, die immer so angenehm und ruhig erzählt sind und einen schönen Einblick in viele Aspekte der Filmkunst geben.
https://youtu.be/JkuS-JkHd8s
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-02 07:30:29
Fe contribution to the magnetic anisotropy of $L{1_0}$-ordered FePt thin films studied by angle-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Goro Shibata, Keisuke Ikeda, Takeshi Seki, Shoya Sakamoto, Yosuke Nonaka, Zhendong Chi, Yuxuan Wan, Masahiro Suzuki, Tsuneharu Koide, Hiroki Wadati, Koki Takanashi, Atsushi Fujimori
https://…
