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Open Source, Mountain Time. Machine Learning. Linux Ops. Sometime painter. Friend to dogs. Cat servant. Book a call: https://cal.com/evelynmitchell Give me or the universe anonymous feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/evelynmitchell

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A Boston Globe article on a clown convention reminded me of the time I walked into a hotel lobby, looked around at the people sitting there, and said to my friends, “What is this, a clown convention?,” then one of the people, who had heard me, indignantly yelled, “WE’RE MAGICIANS!” 🤡🪄🎩🪖🐰

07.03.2026 14:38 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Cat watching duck and goose.

Cat watching duck and goose.

Throwback to a Caturday spy in the house of love.

07.03.2026 23:02 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

06.03.2026 19:38 👍 1383 🔁 269 💬 22 📌 26
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Smooth Federation, by Andrew Allen 10 track album

I recommend Smooth Federation - A Star Trek Jazz Tribute by Andrew Allen.

covervillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/smooth...

07.03.2026 00:51 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Rendering of proposed six-story apartment building

Rendering of proposed six-story apartment building

Developer gets ball rolling to replace bearing plant in Allston with 'car-free urban living'
www.universalhub.com/2026/develop...

#Boston #housing

04.03.2026 17:53 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Nancy 3/4/26 💅

04.03.2026 17:18 👍 14261 🔁 3417 💬 67 📌 141

that’s her emotional support ex boyfriend

04.03.2026 17:42 👍 169 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

03.03.2026 23:36 👍 216 🔁 44 💬 11 📌 20
A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains.

A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" 

His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!"

He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path."

She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married."

He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers."

Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!"

He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs.
"When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!"

She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains. A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!" He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path." She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married." He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers." Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!" He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs. "When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!" She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

'Castle'
One of the limited-edition prints in my shop
www.tomgauld.com/shop

03.03.2026 13:55 👍 800 🔁 233 💬 10 📌 14

What I mean here is that every time oil & gas prices spike, it will inspire another wave of solar + storage + electricity substitution investment somewhere. That infrastructure is functionally permanent, and each wave of deployment will drive costs further down learning curves.

03.03.2026 19:11 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Mary Beard – Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old Join one of the world's most acclaimed classicists as she discusses whether – and why – the classics still matter.

Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social at the British Museum as part of her #TalkingClassics tour as she discusses ancient history and its enduring relevance, from politics to pop culture.

📍 The British Museum
📅 Friday 1st May
🕡 6:30–7:30pm
🎟️ Via link below

02.03.2026 17:02 👍 358 🔁 84 💬 14 📌 7

Congratulations!

28.02.2026 19:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your gentle reminder that when the Carrington event impacted on telecommunications it was largely a copper based network.

Today’s fibre and wireless doesn’t give a rat’s ass about solar activity.

Apologies to all civil defence exercise writers who have to rethink their scenarios.

28.02.2026 00:11 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1

On the other hand you as an individual have some unique advantages:
- you care about your own variation
- your observations are naturally longitudinal
- you have deep and immediate experience with your context

24.02.2026 22:13 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I think people need to design for their own learning the opposite of the way most scientists need to design their experiments HEAR ME OUT

24.02.2026 22:09 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
A painting of a bird beside the text "Glad to see that you still have terrible fucking opinions"

A painting of a bird beside the text "Glad to see that you still have terrible fucking opinions"

23.02.2026 14:08 👍 342 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 2
A color-coded binary tree displaying how to expand (x+y)^3. There are 8=2^3 terms on the bottom, and by putting them in "alphabetical order" and grouping like terms, you see that (x+y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3.

A color-coded binary tree displaying how to expand (x+y)^3. There are 8=2^3 terms on the bottom, and by putting them in "alphabetical order" and grouping like terms, you see that (x+y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3.

My coauthor Dave Perkinson made this diagram to explain the binomial theorem and I think it's the perfect distillation. Here's our draft book, Discrete Structures, if you want more: kyleormsby.github.io/files/113spr... 🧮

18.02.2026 17:29 👍 52 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0

Seeing people use this to experiment w/turning Claude time from automated lecture into active learning & self-testing has brought me joy!

I added a Measure This resource to the repo, because my first thought was: how can you all get more credit for this at work??

github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

18.02.2026 15:33 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Today’s Ring of Fire solar eclipse in its stunning peak phase seen over Antarctica...

17.02.2026 16:29 👍 573 🔁 102 💬 18 📌 5
Fired clay and pigment sculpture of many faces emerging from a singular face

Fired clay and pigment sculpture of many faces emerging from a singular face

Fragment of an anthropomorphic brazier. Aztec (c. 1300)

17.02.2026 23:12 👍 475 🔁 126 💬 2 📌 27
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Watching the Light No. 2605" 5"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2026). A small textured painting with an orange-toned sunset sky with light blue cloud formations over a dark sea with a rocky shore, where water and rocks reflect light from the sky.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Watching the Light No. 2605" 5"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2026). A small textured painting with an orange-toned sunset sky with light blue cloud formations over a dark sea with a rocky shore, where water and rocks reflect light from the sky.

A seascape for your evening.

Tisha Mark ©2026, Watching the Light No. 2605, oil on gessobord, 5"x5"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/watc...

#art #painting #SciArt #bsnm #ArtSky

18.02.2026 00:21 👍 187 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 0
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RDM Weekly - Issue 033 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 33 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬

➡️ Intervention to Improve Students’ Knowledge of OS Practices @heeminkang.bsky.social and co-authors
➡️ Framework for Transparent and Responsible AI Use Mapped to the Research Process
➡️Making Qualitative Data Reusable
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

17.02.2026 14:45 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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We’re ready for everyone!

16.02.2026 22:18 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Words matter: Alternatives for charged terminology in the computing profession ACM’s efforts to combat exclusion in the computing profession, ACM's Diversity and Inclusion Council has launched "Words Matter," an effort to replace offensive or exclusionary terminology in the comp...

It's changing.
"master/slave: terms used in technology to describe the relationship between two processes or components. In addition to being a racially charged term, the terms do not necessarily reflect how the two interact."

Also: www.acm.org/diversity-in...

16.02.2026 23:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An adorable boreal chickadee perched high in a snow-covered white spruce bough. It has a chestnut cap and brown sides, black chin and grey nape. A dapper cousin of the black-capped chickadee.

An adorable boreal chickadee perched high in a snow-covered white spruce bough. It has a chestnut cap and brown sides, black chin and grey nape. A dapper cousin of the black-capped chickadee.

Amazing find for this year's Great Backyard Bird Count in my backyard! I've tried for years to get a clear photo of a boreal chickadee. They're forever mocking me from high in the spruce trees with their nasal 'chicka-day-days', but today, I finally managed to snap a photo of one! #GBBC #birds 🌿

14.02.2026 21:12 👍 425 🔁 35 💬 15 📌 0
A painting of a bird beside the text "what the shit are you doing?"

A painting of a bird beside the text "what the shit are you doing?"

12.02.2026 22:27 👍 412 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 8

AMEN

13.02.2026 02:41 👍 170 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
image from wallace and gromit, a calendar showing February 12th labelled on a calendar as "Gromits birthday"

image from wallace and gromit, a calendar showing February 12th labelled on a calendar as "Gromits birthday"

baby gromit with a pink boneshaped cake with one candle

baby gromit with a pink boneshaped cake with one candle

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

12.02.2026 20:43 👍 788 🔁 226 💬 12 📌 14

Don't sleep on this as a means of standing out.

However, "showing up" is not usually a singular act.

Instead, it's showing up, again and again and again, that nets you the opportunities.

10.02.2026 18:21 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Fantastic music-making. Thelonious Monk's quartet, recorded live in the studios of Radio France, February 1964.

“Don't play what the audience wants, play what you want and let the audience embrace what you do, even if it takes them fifteen or twenty years.”

—Thelonius Monk

08.02.2026 02:42 👍 67 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1