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Thanks, google.
Calling Chlorine Pentafluoride an 'irritant' sounds like calling a chainsaw an exfoliator.
Water? Fire. Sand? Fire. Asbestos? Fire. Gold? Fire.
CHLORINE PENTAFLUORIDE WILL OXIDISE FIRE ITSELF AND SET NORMAL FIRE ON FIRE.
'irritant'
Calling Chlorine Pentafluoride an 'irritant' sounds like calling a chainsaw an exfoliator.
Water? Fire. Sand? Fire. Asbestos? Fire. Gold? Fire.
CHLORINE PENTAFLUORIDE WILL OXIDISE FIRE ITSELF AND SET NORMAL FIRE ON FIRE.
'irritant'
December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thanks, google.
Calling Chlorine Pentafluoride an 'irritant' sounds like calling a chainsaw an exfoliator.
Water? Fire. Sand? Fire. Asbestos? Fire. Gold? Fire.
CHLORINE PENTAFLUORIDE WILL OXIDISE FIRE ITSELF AND SET NORMAL FIRE ON FIRE.
'irritant'
Calling Chlorine Pentafluoride an 'irritant' sounds like calling a chainsaw an exfoliator.
Water? Fire. Sand? Fire. Asbestos? Fire. Gold? Fire.
CHLORINE PENTAFLUORIDE WILL OXIDISE FIRE ITSELF AND SET NORMAL FIRE ON FIRE.
'irritant'
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In a historical milestone, Hubble has witnessed the catastrophic collision of asteroids in the nearby Fomalhaut planetary system 🪨💥
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In a historical milestone, Hubble has witnessed the catastrophic collision of asteroids in the nearby Fomalhaut planetary system 🪨💥
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
Observations also revealed that an object previously suspected to be a candidate planet was, in fact, a dust cloud.
🔭 🧪
Maybe some of this could have been avoided if Git didn't treat name changes as a world-breaking event, versus them being pretty normal in society. Providing a better way to address this (insert something about Article 16 of the GDPR here) might be what lets some future VCS take over Git's mantle.
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Maybe some of this could have been avoided if Git didn't treat name changes as a world-breaking event, versus them being pretty normal in society. Providing a better way to address this (insert something about Article 16 of the GDPR here) might be what lets some future VCS take over Git's mantle.
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"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs
Great idea! And if you want something to express that it feels a bit nippy outside, how about some Cult of Luna?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0alD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0alD...
December 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Great idea! And if you want something to express that it feels a bit nippy outside, how about some Cult of Luna?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0alD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0alD...
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I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now.
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus
December 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now.
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus
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He's not, because the processing of Santa Claus's own "naughty or nice" data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out by Santa as a competent authority. (DPA 2018 s35(2))
he's making a list
he's checking it twice
gonna find out who's naughty or nice
santa claus is in contravention of the data protection act (2018)
he's checking it twice
gonna find out who's naughty or nice
santa claus is in contravention of the data protection act (2018)
December 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
He's not, because the processing of Santa Claus's own "naughty or nice" data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out by Santa as a competent authority. (DPA 2018 s35(2))
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I always chuckle at this: I got two embargoed press releases today (meaning reporters can't write about them until a certain date) for papers that are both public on arXiv and have been for weeks. We really need to fix this system. #scicomm
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I always chuckle at this: I got two embargoed press releases today (meaning reporters can't write about them until a certain date) for papers that are both public on arXiv and have been for weeks. We really need to fix this system. #scicomm
today mood
Tom Waits - "God's Away On Business"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
today mood
I tried to make a joke about differential calculus, but in the end it just disintegrated.
I tried to make a joke about trypophobia, but there were too many holes in it AAAAAAAHHHH
I tried to make a joke about Pythagoras but I couldn't square the circle.
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I tried to make a joke about differential calculus, but in the end it just disintegrated.
Still one of my favourites after all this time.
Sólstafir: “Ótta”
Sólstafir: “Ótta”
Sólstafir - Ótta
YouTube video by Season of Mist
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Still one of my favourites after all this time.
Sólstafir: “Ótta”
Sólstafir: “Ótta”
POV-Ray
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
While I'm hesitant to ever confine any skill of mine to the dustbin as Shit Does Come Up, I feel it is very unlikely that I will ever be asked to do column chemistry again. It remains useful knowledge however.
While I'm hesitant to ever confine any skill of mine to the dustbin as Shit Does Come Up, I feel it is very unlikely that I will ever be asked to do column chemistry again. It remains useful knowledge however.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
POV-Ray
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Somehow I never noticed that the rules of variable star designations would result in a star called X TrA.
X TrA through the eyes of MATISSE: More evidence of clumpy molecular layers around C-type asymptotic giant branch stars
Aims. The goal of this study is to further the understanding of the wind formation mechanism in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars through the analysis of the close environment (within a few stellar ...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Somehow I never noticed that the rules of variable star designations would result in a star called X TrA.
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For those who, like me, love speculative and alien evolution, there's a remarkable new book out, "Wildlife on the Planet Furaha" by Gert van Dijk. www.crowood.com/book/wildlif...
Wildlife on the Planet Furaha | The Crowood Press
On the planet Furaha, Gert van Dijk creates a biosphere on a new world along with its solar system. Evolution on Furaha found solutions to life’s problems that remained unused on Earth. There are in-d...
www.crowood.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For those who, like me, love speculative and alien evolution, there's a remarkable new book out, "Wildlife on the Planet Furaha" by Gert van Dijk. www.crowood.com/book/wildlif...
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Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Checking the equivalent settings in LibreWolf, it looks like most of these are already disabled by default, with the exceptions of:
•browser.ml.chat.page
•browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
•browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
•extensions.ml.enabled
•browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
•browser.ml.chat.page
•browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
•browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
•extensions.ml.enabled
•browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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(copy paste-able in the alt text)
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Checking the equivalent settings in LibreWolf, it looks like most of these are already disabled by default, with the exceptions of:
•browser.ml.chat.page
•browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
•browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
•extensions.ml.enabled
•browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
•browser.ml.chat.page
•browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
•browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
•extensions.ml.enabled
•browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
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oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
How is it December already? WTF!
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
How is it December already? WTF!
Not sure about the debris disk on this one: Montesinos et al. (2016) label it as "dubious", and Yelverton et al. (2019) say there's no significant infrared excess. A system containing both a debris disk and a W UMa binary would be pretty neat though.
🟡 Quadrans – 44 Boo A
Yellow sun-like star in #Boötes, mag 4.83.
🌡️ 5877 K | 1.04 M☉ | 1.55 R☉ | 41 ly
Name Quadrans (“quadrant”) from the obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis, near the radiant of the Quadrantids.
Hosts a 23 K debris disk; part of a triple system.
#Quadrans #IAUStarNames #44Boötis
Yellow sun-like star in #Boötes, mag 4.83.
🌡️ 5877 K | 1.04 M☉ | 1.55 R☉ | 41 ly
Name Quadrans (“quadrant”) from the obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis, near the radiant of the Quadrantids.
Hosts a 23 K debris disk; part of a triple system.
#Quadrans #IAUStarNames #44Boötis
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Not sure about the debris disk on this one: Montesinos et al. (2016) label it as "dubious", and Yelverton et al. (2019) say there's no significant infrared excess. A system containing both a debris disk and a W UMa binary would be pretty neat though.
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Super cool--the role of (even very small) earthquakes in subsurface microbiology!
Up to 30% of life, by weight, is underground. Seismic activity may renew the energy supply for subterranean ecosystems by exposing new rock and changing flow paths of water, expanding options for chemolithotrophic bacteria. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/tp4i50XzuoQ
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Super cool--the role of (even very small) earthquakes in subsurface microbiology!
Time to add this to the Celestia build system...
A raytracer has been written in pure cmake.
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
Ray Tracing in pure CMake
A simple ray tracer written in pure CMake
64.github.io
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Time to add this to the Celestia build system...
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Years ago Adam Showman described to me his long term plan to better understand brown dwarf variability by adding more cloud physics to his GCM. Thankful today to be part of team led by his former student Xianyu Tan growing and expanding the vision with this new paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Large-amplitude variability driven by giant dust storms on a planetary-mass companion
Global-scale storms composed of silicates and metals explain the extreme weather and variability of the super-Jupiter VHS 1256B.
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Years ago Adam Showman described to me his long term plan to better understand brown dwarf variability by adding more cloud physics to his GCM. Thankful today to be part of team led by his former student Xianyu Tan growing and expanding the vision with this new paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...