DialMforMara @DialMforMara@octodon.social

M40 is the only double star in Messier's catalog. Observations by the Gaia mission show it to be an optical double, that is the stars are simply lined up in our line of sight and not gravitationally bound together as a binary.
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Thought: if you cannot successfully pilot a two person kayak or canoe together on a float trip and end up shouting at one another, you are probably NOT meant to be.

My greatest achivement

#2048

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@tomstearns @churley79 DING DING DING

We have two winners for Rush's rock anthem "Tom Sawyer". The seven-toed cat paw

@tomstearns

and the ... bulldog? ....

@churley79

As a prize, you both get a large collection of Ys and Zs!

YY Z Z YYZ ZYZ ZYZYZY

Congratulations!

Spanish magician: “I will disappear on the count of three. Ready?.. Uno, Dos” *poof*... and just like that he vanished without a Tres.

Ok, problem with Mastadon: In Firefox it incures a SIGNIFICANT amount of CPU. Firefox suddenly starts using an average of 10-20% of my CPU, a i5 M 540 at 2.5 GHz.

Only web applications could make copying data off the internet and displaying it on screen take that much CPU.

Testing in Chrome now. Seems fine so far. Still about 5% of CPU, which is pretty crazy for rending text and a few images.

WTF, do I blame Firefox or the person who wrote Mastadon?

"You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
- E.L. Doctorow

Just watched Tropic Thunder. I'm kind of shocked to say that I really liked it. In the genre of "movies about the absurdity and psychopathic cruelty of Hollywood," it's near the top of my list.

#movies

a moist owlette https://mastodon.social/media/8uE2wgt0ppac7CYyVqM

The difference integration (exposure) makes: M51 at 1 minute and 42 minutes of integration. https://octodon.social/media/q7c6rgg1cWn4V5_IF8o https://octodon.social/media/yh8q2YoQ1CXAzZTgzUs

Good morning.

What if I made a bot that just posted the title of any bill supported by a majority of US GOP House reps and added comments like "This will harm millions!" or "Wealth transfer to the wealthy!" or "Income inequality will become even worse!" or "This will marginalize minorities and women even more!" without reading the text of the bill at all.

Then I let that run for a few years.

How often would the comments be factually wrong?

(Note: I can't make bots. If you do this, just gimme a shout out)

The last miniscape. Was damn hard to pick right "wet" colors. Inspired by concept art and H.P.Lovecraft
https://www.patreon.com/posts/miniscapes-4-10556135
#pixelart #mastoart #landscape #scenery https://octodon.social/media/YRP3_6tdHybNtI7mgNg

I doodle pretty much every time I am talking on the phone. Like, A LOT. Especially during work conferences, in which I scribble pages and pages of useless junk just because it helps me staying focused.

So I've been thinking of using a #fidgetcube instead. Has anyone with #graphomania tried using it? Did they manage to avoid wasting paper by using the cube?

Hunter's eye https://octodon.social/media/Ir74O9zI4uguDpdj0nU

My little brother is now complaining that the commercials during Handmaiden's Tale are all tone deaf lingere and waxing ads. He says women ages 24-34 are maybe thinking about other things right now and is surprised nobody thought to maybe advertise for Planned Parenthood or something instead. He's a good kid.