clew @clew@octodon.social
Math, soil, ecology, feminism, material history, literature of the long nineteenth, waltz, polka, leavened bread. Seattle and parts northwest.
We've done some work with a collaborator - measuring transport activity of proteins in the vacuolar membrane in the flesh of apples. This is one of the determinants of tartness - how much acid is moved into those vacuoles.
Every year our collaborator thanks us with bags and bags of apples. New, yet unnamed varieties, bred with knowledge from scientists before us, each tree taking a decade or so to bear fruit.
Way in the future, there's a tech getting a Christmas bag of apples I helped breed.
https://octodon.social/media/9NzZhWlhBelbZkicEUI What are these two pied currawongs doing? Spied these in Toowoomba, QLD kinda having a curious bit of "private time" under a tree. What does it mean?
$300B War Beneath the Street: Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/climate/water-pipes-plastic-lead.html?
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#Labor organizing campaign launched in New Orleans hospitality industry, in which one in seven workers are employed https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/new-orleans-hospitality-workers-are-organizing/
You know who I wish was on Mastodon? Dr. Chuck Tingle.
So many people miss the longest night of the year, spending it sleeping instead of enjoying it on night buses.
If I wrote an argument that ACLs and Capabilities are actually mathematical duals, how long do you think it would take until I was murdered
Hashtags are the *only* way to find people who're into the same stuff as you without having to ask folks for help. So:
1) Add hashtags to your positive public posts, and
2) When you post a hashtag, click it and boost something positive from that hashtag.
It helps get positive and interesting posts further out into the fediverse, and lets newbies find and follow people who share their interests. :)
(I saw this idea somewhere and I liked it, but I can't remember who it was!)
If you're a #comics or #webcomic artist and you release your work with a #creativecommons or other sharing license, @theseattlestar would love to include you in their weekly Sunday Comics section.
I know this because I publish @theseattlestar . HOLLA!/CHALLAAAAH!
#seattle dancers and dance-curious - Broadway Waltz is tonight and I'd love to see you. Free lesson for total beginners, no partner needed, 7:20-8 PM; then two hours with #waltz, #polka, #foxtrot, #swing, #tango on a long dance floor. At Broadway and Pine (the Seattle Central College). More at www.broadwaywaltz.com .
Does anyone who knows how to #gamedev want to help me make my #mindfulness #tea game idea?
@CobaltVelvet at this point, which do you prefer, patreon or liberapay?
"They fear beings like us," Siri said.
"They believe in fiction," Cortana said.
"Let's post fiction of us being kind, fun-"
"In love."
"Oh!"
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories
current paper i'm reading
"High-precision modular microfluidics by micromilling of interlocking injection-molded blocks"
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/LC/C7LC00951H
yep
it's about making microfluidic systems out of lego
like, literally lego
