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WideEyedCurious

@WideEyedCurious@mstdn.social

Insatiably curious multidisciplinary geek, jack of many trades, SF/fantasy #writer, amateur nature #photographer, #INTJ, #atheist, #Xer, #IndependentVoter, #environmentalist, #Minnesotan, lover of #cats and #music, #StOlaf and #JohnsHopkins alum, she/her

Same handle on #CounterSocial and #Post...and formerly on that dead bird place.

Home base: #Minnesota (Mni Sóta Makoce)

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WideEyedCurious, to animals
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“All is right again with the world,” said Stevie the cat. “The water must flow.”
#CatsOfMastodon #Purrsday #cats

WideEyedCurious, to animals
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Stevie the cat is not happy that the water fountain apparatus is drying after being cleaned. Stevie insists “The water must flow!”

WideEyedCurious,
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@swope 🙀😹

csilverman, to random
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Not sure if anybody's already coined the term "OStalgia"—the feeling you get when you see a screenshot of the OS you used growing up—but I've been having a fair amount of that lately.

Lot of good memories associated with System 7 and Mac OS 8–9.

WideEyedCurious,
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@csilverman But not 7.5. 🫤

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

WideEyedCurious,
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@RickiTarr I’m an introvert and need very little social interaction with other people. The older I get, the faster my introvert battery drains...even around people I like. I felt no isolation when the pandemic hit.

SecularJeffrey, to random
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My balls are so full of microplastics I can barely store any pee in them.

WideEyedCurious,
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@mxtthxw And DDT.

TonyStark, to random
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Look, I’m as tired of doing this as people probably are reading about it, but I just saw someone tell a bunch of people on here that wind farms don’t require much planning and can “easily be moved.”

That’s way off. Please stop doing this kind of thing and sharing it.

I’m a huge fan of wind energy. It’s our future. But please stick to facts and leave things to people who know what they’re talking about.

Construction of an offshore wind farm - Iberdrola
https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/our-activity/offshore-wind-energy/offshore-wind-park-construction

WideEyedCurious,
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@TonyStark I did communication work at an engineering company at my previous job where they had worked on a number of wind turbines projects in the U.S., and I can confirm such projects require lots of planning (and tons of environmental assessments) and are NOT easily moved. Seriously, where do people get these bizarre and utterly illogical ideas?

WideEyedCurious,
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@TonyStark And then there’s the high voltage transmission lines that need to get built (plus the environmental assessments for to those) to transfer the power to a substation...which itself may or may not already exist. And that doesn’t even factor the existing transmission infrastructure, which is so old throughout most of the U.S. that it needs to be replaced. The last proposal I worked on before leaving was to conduct an environmental assessment for planning a 1 🧵

WideEyedCurious,
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new high power transmission line in northern Minnesota and into Canada. That part of the project alone was over $600,000. 2 🧵

WideEyedCurious,
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@JamesRhodes @TonyStark And long overdue! We have so much crumbling infrastructure that needs to be replaced. The powergrid is especially vulnerable, and not just in Texas.

tantramar, to random
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Sometimes I think about how stressful it was, years ago, having a server co-located in a facility a 2.5-hour drive away — and what a hassle visiting it in person would be if, say, a software update went sideways — and then NASA/JPL comes along with Voyager and shows how the grown-ups do it.

WideEyedCurious,
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@tantramar I’m glad they’ve never given up on the ol’ girl.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The world is a much better place when Trump can’t speak.

WideEyedCurious,
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@StillIRise1963 Or spend all day shit posting.

WideEyedCurious, to ireland
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Low tides on Ireland's western coast have revealed the remains of defensive walls that are likely Bronze Age ramparts. Archaeologist Michael Gibbons discovered the ramparts, which are made of large limestone blocks, on a partially submerged isthmus, a narrow strip of land between two parts of the sea. But he's only recently obtained photographs of the site. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/low-tides-reveal-bronze-age-fortress-that-likely-defended-against-irish-mainland

#Ireland #Archaeology #History #Roman

WideEyedCurious, to animals
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Happy from sleepy Apricot. 😽

WideEyedCurious, to environment
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A recently discovered helium reservoir in Minnesota boasts "mind-bogglingly" high concentrations of the gas that are even greater than initially thought, potentially paving the way for commercial extraction. The new tests reveal helium concentrations up to 13.8%, which are the highest the industry has ever seen. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/its-had-11-billion-years-to-accumulate-helium-reservoir-in-minnesota-has-mind-bogglingly-large-concentrations

#Environment #helium #Minnesota

WideEyedCurious, to Illinois
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Brace yourselves, Illinoisans: A truly shocking number of cicadas are about to live, make sweet love, and die in a tree near you. Two broods of periodical cicadas—are slated to emerge together in central Illinois this summer. The last time that these broods swarmed aboveground together, Thomas Jefferson was president and the city of Chicago had yet to exist. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/the-entire-state-of-illinois-is-going-to-be-crawling-with-cicadas/

#Illinois #Insects #Cicadas

tantramar, (edited ) to random
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always humbling to see an alt account with twice as many followers as me. #KeepinItReal 🤦‍♂️

WideEyedCurious,
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@tantramar Quality not quantity...

WideEyedCurious, to movies
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Watching “GalaxyQuest” 🚀

MissPixiePancake, to Humor
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I’m going to buy a house just for cat toys.

#Humor #Funny #Lol #Fun #Humour #Cat #Cats

WideEyedCurious,
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@MissPixiePancake 😹😹

WideEyedCurious, to Cats
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Stevie the cat really likes the bassinet stroller; he keeps taking naps in it. 😊

StillIRise1963, to random
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Yes, I take it personally when you say you won't vote, or vote for the Dem. Why? Because among other things, the fascists tried to commit a Black GENOCIDE during the pandemic. Your actions or inaction will give them the power to do it again in some other way. My survival depends on them NOT gaining power. So does yours.

WideEyedCurious,
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@SteveBologna @HeatherH @KirstenAnne @StillIRise1963 Democrat voters have a history of not understanding that they need to play the long game. The other side already understands this.

WideEyedCurious,
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@StillIRise1963 @SteveBologna @KirstenAnne And means showing up to vote every damn time. I’m sick of these Dems who vote, pout when everything they want doesn’t happen, and then declare that what’s the point in voting.

WideEyedCurious,
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@Lesliesez @SteveBologna @KirstenAnne @StillIRise1963 They want someone who checks every box that important to them, which is ridiculous. How many of us agree 100% with anyone? I know I don’t, not even my own parents or siblings.

WideEyedCurious,
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@atlgaytheist @SteveBologna @KirstenAnne @StillIRise1963 I’m lifelong independent voter and even I know better than to vote third party. None of them in the U.S. are remotely viable alternatives. At best, they’re one-trick ponies. These days, they’re simply a means to run spoiler candidates.

WideEyedCurious,
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@mrcompletely @SteveBologna @StillIRise1963 @KirstenAnne Agreed. The left has not placed a priority on local or state elections, allowing the right to take over first county and state governments first, allowing for the voter suppression strategies and extreme policies we see today . Again the right plays the long game, and has for decades. The left, not so much. It also doesn't help that left embraced their own flavor of neoliberalism in the 1990s, which they have begun veering away from.

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