That's Joan Feynman; her brother Richard was one of the scientists at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project.
"When I was a child, it was believed that animals became extinct because they were too specialized. My father used to tell us about the saber-tooth tiger’s teeth — how they got too big and the tiger couldn’t eat because he couldn’t take game anymore. And I remember my father saying, with my brother sitting there, ‘I wonder what it will be with the human beings that will be so overspecialized that they’ll kill themselves off?’
My father never found out that my brother was working on the bomb."
For some reason, this Slovakian gas station fills me with hope. http://i.imgur.com/KxMJ28e.jpg
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Patreon post 2: Staff pages
Anywho- some of our staff members also have ways to support them directly, Patreon or otherwise! You should consider supporting them :)
@thefishcrow -
https://patreon.com/thefishcrow
@inurashii - http://inurashii.xyz/
@kyra - https://www.patreon.com/kyrart
Patreon post
Awoofriends- we have a Patreon if you want to support our staff!
The money goes to me, which I
then distribute to our staff when payments hit. I have very good full-time employment and do not take any money for myself.
Currently we've only paid @kyra for her art, and we commission her at least once a month on top of that!
She's very busy, but her next piece will be a drawing of the story that won the competition to name @awoofriend.
Yup, it's gonna be this kind of day.
https://awoo.space/media/oM6k_utCFfw9nnLgp64 https://awoo.space/media/xx-aN_lA0O_BdevklTE
capitalism, body positivity
the revolution will not come from a corporation.
how capitalism ruined #bodypositivity
#NP Crash Twinsanity soundtrack - Spiralmouth
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9A06BA8BC88B4F0F
Best. Sountrack. Ever.
A smol goat http://i.imgur.com/xUXj7VN.gifv
I have had it up to my eyebrows with software that:
• forces me to do wrench the guts of the system just to get it working right;
• forcefully reverts the changes I made to get it working right;
• asks yes-or-no questions as yes-or-nag-me-again-later;
• uninstalls working third-party software that improves on its functionality (yes, this has happened);
• claims to be free but then tries to throw ads at me anyhow;
• makes me pay for it then just up and stops working.
Fuck Microsoft and Adobe.
And I'll set up a VM with a copy of Windows 7 stripped of anything like telemetry, and I'll use that for the scant few apps worth keeping around. I'll take a melon baller to the bits of code that suggest such nonsense is even necessary. Any software I legitimately own the right to use, I will install with whatever methods are necessary to make them simply work without phoning home. I'm never getting a piece of legit software yanked out from under me again.
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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