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No Man's Sky: "you got an upgrade! I hope 10% faster thumb mumbling is a noticeable improvement."

Subnautica: "You got an upgrade! Here, either you now have access to two new biomes, or half of a nuisance task has been automated away."

The latter feels a lot better.

honestly robotic cranes stacking and unstacking useless concrete weights for all eternity is the surreal dieselpunk energy storage solution earth deserves qz.com/1355672/stacking-concre

This device should absolutely never be allowed to run unattended for any length of time.

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System should come online next weekend when a couple straggler components are acquired.

Gonna try and remember to take video.

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What the space heater started with: a whole raft of control systems and multiple redundant safety systems.

What it ended with after I repurposed it as a thermoforming heater: a toggle switch and straight 120V AC, baby.

(reminder that this is a completely new account so you need to re-follow if you haven't. pls boost)

The real superhero of mastodon.social is @CM_noelle who's been onboard the moderation team for over a year.

She's the one that gets rid of the nazis by blocking their servers.

She's the one that suspend the assholes off the instance.

She's the best. With the biggest :trebuchet:

Her Patreon is here:
patreon.com/noelleanthony

#SupportYourModerators

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Sometimes I wear a piece of meteoric iron I wrapped and strung onto a necklace, and that makes me really happy.

It's not the most eye-catching thing but I think it's just so cool.

overthinking Seeming lyrics 

I can't tell whether this is obvious or a massive stretch, but in Worldburners Unite, I think the line "see the tower through the trees" is referring to The Tower tarot card, given the context.

And I don't just mean the "terf is a slur" nonsense; it's something I'm seeing in my own spaces.

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Follow-up: George Paget Thomson, one of the physicists who experimentally confirmed wave behavior of the electron, was the son of J. J. Thomson, the physicist credited with verifying that the electron is a distinct particle.

Dad showed that the electron is a particle, and his son, in an act of filial physics rebellion, showed that it’s a wave.

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Okay though because I'm starting to see a whole lot of usage creep: I feel like "slur" shouldn't just become a synonym for "word that people use in mean ways".

mastodon meta, on recommending mastodon to people 

if you recommend anyone to mastodon, give them personal recommendations with notes of experience with the admins ("hey i'm on [instace] and the admin has treated me really well and shares marginalizations with me and knows my struggle") instead of or as well as big lists.

when you give someone a list, all the options sound kinda the same. when you say "check out mastodon" people go to mastodon.social. people don't understand instances a lot.

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