❄️🦊 @icefox@octodon.social

Catching up. Inktober 1: Omen Encounter. Full little short story can be read on my Tumblr:

http://sparkyopteryx.tumblr.com/post/178651713488/inktober-1-the-first-time-i-saw-the-omen-i-was

Done entirely in ballpoint.

https://imgur.com/gallery/SeA8gTU#EGss7Ry

Cooking in Antarctica

Please boost if your account is safe for non-binary people.

Dennis Kuschel built a minicomputer with a homebrew TTL CPU - it's an 8 bit CPU with 16 bit address space, but it runs a virtual 16 bit CPU which can run Contiki, a multitasking OS with TCP/IP stack and C compiler. The machine even serves its own website:
http://www.mycpu.eu/

Via radicalbrad on the 6502 forums. #retrocomputing

Time to start looking for work again. If you know anyone who's looking for a PHP/Python/HTML/JS/CSS developer, please send them my way: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Resume

RT @ScottFilmCritic@twitter.com
If you only see two signs about a raccoon room today, make it these two.

5/ Sturgeon's argument is that you judge a field by its *best* work, not its worst; dismissing a genre by pointing at its crappiest work and harrumphing "It's all shit" is unfair. I'd argue that the same thing is true of subcultures. Sure, you can dredge up examples of genres and

"I can't help you," the witch said, "I can only mend what is broken."
"Am I not broken?"
"Your soul is hale, your body is hale. They just don't fit together. It happens."
"Is there nothing you can do?"
"Find someone else with the same complaint, and I'll swap your souls."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

any website that can detect my use of ad/script blockers is a website that justifies the use of ad/script blockers

Science Meme of the Day :

#science #sciencematters #memes #humor #astronomy #ceres

Language idea: “Spelling wasp”

Each candidate comes forward to invent a new word and spelling based on meaning given to them on the spot

RT @ruskin147@twitter.com: This chart from a rather good US department of Homeland Security report on blockchain shows how rarely it’s needed ( HT ⁦@ProfWoodward⁩ )

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1049353345259978752

M78 is a reflection nebula in Orion. It is the characteristic blue of reflection nebulas as the dust and gas in the nebula preferentially scatter the blue light from nearby stars, sending much of the blue light towards us while the redder light passes through the nebula. #astrophoto

*sigh*

I want topics.

I want a threaded view on an ongoing discussion.

I don't want an autoscrolling stream.

I want to be able to look back into the past.

Why am I even on here?