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I regret to inform that not only is she a gamer girl, but a grand strategy sicko

November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM

acfoltzer

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behold!

a brown tabby kitten, held in one outstretched human hand, caught in a full yawn. she's slightly too large for just one hand, but is still quite small

November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM

acfoltzer

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she is somehow both big and very small in the same photo

brown tabby kitten with a big beefy arm slung over and resting next to her chin on plaid pajama pants

November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM

acfoltzer

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outtakes

tabby kitten caught mid meow, but looking like she's failing to hold back a sneeze

tabby kitten again mid-meow, but this time looking of snarling displeasure

November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM

acfoltzer

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meet Bridget, everyone

a brown tabby kitten mewing up and to the side. her mouth and eyes are ringed with white, and she looks ready for trouble

brown tabby kitten getting sleepy on my plaid pajama pants

brown tabby kitten now fully asleep, paw and chin clutching my pajama pants. I'm rubbing her sweet little chin with my thumb, emphasizing her tiny scale

November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM

acfoltzer

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he has no idea we're about to bring him home a new sister

high-contrast photo of an orange tabby cat looking out toward some light. shadows play along ridges of his plush fur

November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM

acfoltzer

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I played it from the embed in Discord before clicking through to thank you for this gem, and ... yep it's undeniably that specific era of teen film

screenshot of me in Discord saying "opening credits to any teen movie 1995-2005" before linking the post where @antlervel.vet makes the same observation but better

November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM

acfoltzer

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thank you @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy and also I am sorry

In the style of "Zohran *for* New York City": I'd just like to interject *for* a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM

acfoltzer

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high-contrast photo of an orange tabby cat in partial sunlight. the depth of field is small, but we can see the suggestions of greenery and a blue sky through a blurry window. his full attention is focused over our right shoulder as he faces the young day

November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM

acfoltzer

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good morning

a crow wades through a large, leafy puddle accumulating around the curb cut of a sidewalk corner in a gray scene. a corrugated metal trough planter, dog water bowl, and bike racks line the street. bench seating and a colorful sandwich board reading "sizzlin' hot dogz" rest against the green brick building.

November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM

acfoltzer

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she was putting on a snoozing clinic when we were there last

a snow leopard draped over a well-scratched log, legs and luxuriously thick tail dangling down and face resting upwards into the sun

October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM

acfoltzer

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I am pleased to report there is yet more cool shit in this paper

screenshot of text: Direct measurement of the wind with lidar in space has recently become possible with the Aeolus mission (https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Aeolus). Aeolus, launched in 2018, is the first satellite mission to provide global profiles of Earth’s wind in cloud-free air. Short pulses of ultraviolet light from a laser measures the Doppler shift from the small amount of light that is scattered back to the instrument from molecules and particles to deliver vertical profiles of the horizontal speed of the winds in the lowermost 26 km of the atmosphere. Tests at ECMWF show short-range forecasts, particularly in the data sparse southern hemisphere and tropics, can be improved when Aeolus data are assimilated (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2019/tests-show-positive-impact-new-aeolus-wind-data-forecasts).

screenshot of text: contain wind vanes to provide wind direction. Among the many types of wind instruments (see referenced texts), the most precise one is the sonic anemometer, which is often used for turbulence measurements. It measures the individual components of the wind (u,v,w) by transmitting sound pulses in opposite directions along three orthogonal paths. Since sound waves travel with the atmospheric medium, a wind component can be obtained by the difference between the two transit times. The temperature can also be calculated by the sum of the two transit times using the speed of sound equation. By convention, most surface stations

October 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM

acfoltzer

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I thought I knew about most of the tricks, between the GOES satellites, basically every airplane broadcasting outside temperature and pressure, and good old fashioned weather balloons. but this blew my mind, I had no idea

$screenshot of the above-linked review: ii GPS radio occultation GPS radio occultation (GPSRO) is an important satellite measurement made from the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC-2), consisting of six satellites in LEO (Fig. 2). GPSRO temperature and moisture profiles are widely used in NWP data assimilation. The highly precise radio occultation (RO) signal measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers on the COSMIC satellites record the radio signal amplitude and phase in terms of the transit time, which is affected by the density of the air and the amount of moisture within it. The path of a radio signal propagating between a GPS satellite and a receiver on a LEO satellite is bent as a result of refractive index gradients in the atmosphere. The vertical atmospheric profiles of temperature, humidity and pressure are derived by measuring the degree to which GPS signals bend as they travel through Earth’s atmosphere. As a result, upper-tropospheric to lower-stratospheric temperature profiles and lower-tropospheric humidity profiles can be precisely obtained.$

October 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM

acfoltzer

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@edzitron.com uhh were you also a tween tying up the phone line to hang out on Stratics IRC? I knew there was something familiar about the way you post

screenshot of a text excerpt: What friends Zitron did have as a kid, he found via the computer. His dad had a laptop and a PCMCIA card, and Zitron would dial up and play Ultima Online and EverQuest, finding himself in mIRC chat rooms devoted to the games. “My initial experience with the internet was just kind of wonderment, but

October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM

acfoltzer

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Bojangles, my partner's dad's therapy cat

a brown mackerel tabby with unusually large eyes crouches on a wood-veneered cat tree. the photo was taken with a telephoto lens which makes him look extra flat and round

October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM

acfoltzer

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fresh off a C-17 from Los Alamitos globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae0808&...

Screenshot of the flight track of RCH725, a C-17 Globemaster arriving at Portland International Airport

October 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM

acfoltzer

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Randy's glad that I'm home

a tuxedo cat, overturned on a wooden floor to soak up a sunbeam, looks at the camera with a sweet, upside-down face

October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM

acfoltzer

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I've been enjoying the hell out of getting good enough with gold stake to just toss in some random jokers at the end just for the sticker. I think I have fewer than 20 to go at this point, and will be sad when it's done. When else will I take an ante 8 Midas Mask and Superposition?

a Balatro screenshot showing the shop screen before the final boss on yellow deck with a joker lineup of eternal rental Superposition, Half Joker, Hologram, perishable rental Midas Mask, and perishable Superposition. the first three have gold stickers, Midas has none, and Superposition has green

September 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM

acfoltzer

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Gutted today to see a small memorial for this guy where his bed would have been. He was always so happy to see me, even though he was so thin that I figured he was much older. Rest in peace Django, I'm sorry I misheard your name.