neekerbreeker

@neekerbreeker@mastodon.green

Drug development chemist, science defender. Tolkien and LeGuin fangirl but reads cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. ❤️ classic rock, words, mythology & lore, clouds, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping.

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neekerbreeker, to random

A dystopian future in a library wouldn't be so...dystopian

#monsterdon #LogansRun

neekerbreeker, to science

9to5Mac, to random
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Netflix will now charge up to $23/month for access after latest price increase https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/18/netflix-23-dollars-price-hike/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

neekerbreeker,

@9to5Mac Streaming providers will keep raising prices until people stop paying.

The #library is still free (and the content is better)!

Henry Bemis joyfully climbing the stacks and exclaiming, "All the books I'll ever want!" in The Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough At Last" (S1 E8, original airdate 20 Nov 1959).

Virginicus, to Tolkien

New books of #Tolkien scholarship coming up, including one from @Alas_not_me https://annasmol.net/2023/10/14/new-tolkien-books-coming-soon/

neekerbreeker,

@Virginicus @Alas_not_me Thanks! The one about the themes of pity and power sounds like an interesting new angle.

wonderofscience, to random
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The evolution of the Moon.
4.5 billion years in 2 minutes.

Video credit: NASA Goddard
Full annotated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY

video/mp4

neekerbreeker,

@wonderofscience Nice! Thanks for the share.

It reminds me of this interactive #earth time travel site. Plug in the name of a city, then go back in various increments all the way to 750 million years ago, and see where the city was.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

Pro tip: Click on Display Options and tick "Show equator". I got very disoriented by the changing land masses! #geology #history #science

ProPublica, to Texas
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Book Bans in Spread as New State Law Takes Effect

As Texas enters its third straight school year of coordinated banning activity, a growing number of districts are targeting books.

Caught in the dragnet: featuring a “naked” crayon and one with a cartoon butt.

https://www.propublica.org/article/book-bans-texas-libraries?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

neekerbreeker,

@ProPublica I've been staring at this story and wondering how any remotely reasonable person can even momentarily equate a crayon without its paper wrapper with nudity that might harm children.

(Kudos to that author for a damn cute story idea! 🖍️)

Not on the same planet? These people aren't even in the same universe. (Their celestial bodies - oh noes, a dirty word! - are all clothed.)

emmxyzzy, to VintageOSes
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Hello! I made a lil' YouTube video about my favourite MS-DOS Multiplayer Games!

(The games are as good as my audio is bad. 😎)

Here's a link: https://youtu.be/L-a3J47HeyM

#MSDOS #retrogaming #dosgaming

neekerbreeker,

@emmxyzzy Ooooh! Thanks! Added to my watch list.

neekerbreeker, to random

Absolutely gobsmacked. "One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, Nature, was the target of a two-year-long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists..."

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group

dancinyogi, (edited ) to Polls
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Which muscle group tends to tense up the most when you're stressed?

#polls

Please boost for a wider demographic 😉

neekerbreeker,

@dancinyogi Bruxism is infuriating in multiple ways. I mean, my jaws?! Really?! If only I could get the same workout from the neck down every night while sleeping!

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The_Icarian, to random
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    neekerbreeker,

    @The_Icarian @SrRochardBunson There are also patent issues.

    In 2012 the FDA approved Korlym, a generic mifepristone tablet, to treat Cushing's disease. Korlym could be prescribed off-label for abortions.

    At least one other generic has been submitted to FDA (by Teva) but the Korlym manufacturer obtained additional method-of-use patents, so Teva is held up with patent infringement litigation.

    https://www.theregreview.org/2023/04/22/dolbow-patent-law-could-also-limit-mifepristone-access/

    arstechnica, to random
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    Ohio doc who said vaccines “magnetized” people loses medical license

    Tenpenny lost her license for refusing to cooperate with a board investigation.

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/ohio-doc-who-said-vaccines-magnetized-people-loses-medical-license/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    neekerbreeker,

    @arstechnica
    Woohoo!!! That makes my day. These quacks do a lot of harm.

    9to5Mac, to random
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    Download the macOS Tiger Redux wallpapers from Basic Apple Guy https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/18/download-macos-tiger-redux-wallpapers-basic-apple-guy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    neekerbreeker,

    @9to5Mac These are some gorgeous wallpapers! Thanks!

    I love the Rainbow Noir. (I hope this toot shows a preview)

    https://basicappleguy.com/haberdashery/m2macbookrainbow

    stancarey, to writing

    A lot of writing, especially academic writing, is mired in abstraction that can be avoided by finding the real verb. For example:

    Discussion of X took place → X was discussed
    We carried out measurement of Y → We measured Y
    It demonstrates close alignment with Z → It aligns closely with Z

    neekerbreeker,

    @staidwinnow @stancarey Hear, hear!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU

    On a related note (<- 😁) I see a lot of this: "The data shown in Figure 13 demonstrate that the observed degradation rates are similar."

    I'd argue that "shown" and especially "observed" should be removed. If the writer is making conclusions about degradation rates that weren't observed, we have a bigger problem than language.

    neekerbreeker,

    @stancarey Btw just noticed your profile pic and had to comment! The Burren is high on my bucket list if I ever get out that way.

    I love Irish culture and back in the early 1990s I read, "O Come Ye Back To Ireland" by Niall Williams and Christine Breen.

    They moved from New York to Kiltumper in the 80s and did a beautiful book series about their new life. Christine is an artist and mentioned working in The Burren. The geology and nature sound amazing!

    ronanmcd, to random
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    America is going to go through some serious minoritarian imposed hardships as the fundamentalists take over. Decades in the making they have the positions now to make everyone else follow their rules. They took it all while the rest were asleep.
    The Supreme Court Goes to War Against Businesses It Deems “Woke”
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/supreme-court-war-woke-businesses-alito.html?via=rss

    neekerbreeker,

    @ronanmcd Thanks, well said.

    Too many on the left in the US dismiss conservative religious extremists as "stupid", which suggests to me that they don't understand how long these movements have been in the planning and how organized the planners have been.

    SCOTUS is now a conservative juggernaut. Short term we can only minimize damage, and we must work together on a longterm plan.

    realsimon, (edited ) to instagramreality German
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    Should #tiktok be banned?
    (And pls tell me why)

    neekerbreeker,

    @realsimon Thanks for the poll! I voted No by the same rationale I don't support #bookbans. I don't want strangers deciding what information we can access.

    I hear about TikTok security risk. If there's adequate evidence I might reconsider, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to truly understand whether that risk is unique to TikTok given that for most people (at least in the US) our data is everywhere.

    neekerbreeker,

    @realsimon No, I did for a little while.

    I volunteer with an organization that does live call-in shows on YouTube and they're trying to grow on social media, so they started doing a pre-show on TikTok.

    I tried it but I feel like I'm already on too much social media. And I was a little worried about the security, so I closed my account.

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