[music o'clock] it's like rosalia constructs music from atoms, she has no use for anything but the fundament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WOIGyGzUQ

[music o'clock] Up has gotta be the biggest example of doing the most with the least in music history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiBgLOcuKU

Peer review is going great

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114730616588467900 real #monsterdon heads should dedicate the kind of infrastructure the devil girl has to the i don't care woman from starcrash

The world is trying to ruin the new knives out movie for me by saying "movie bad" or "here are spoilers" but I am a divine being untouched by the whims of the haters, and I will enjoy the only big budget whodunit movies being made like a true genre stan

I absolutely love how the readme of ruamel yaml, the second most widely used yaml lib in python, is literally entirely the author being salty about stuff and then a changelog https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml/

Holy hell Skagit County If you are on the 100 YEAR floodplain, you should evacuate IMMEDIATELY. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/wa-flood-warning-continues-as-skagit-other-rivers-swell-toward-record/#update-19138090 If you see this […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115699967353729840 COME FOR THE CRINGE STAY FOR THE CRINGE (the quote post implementation is forcing me to make this clickbait by putting screenshots in a reply, i refuse to yield to an "app" lmao)

not allowing images to be added to quote posts was a mistake

laughably wrong https://resonantcomputing.org/

just finished type help, recommended by @MidniteLibrary - it's very very good if ya like mysteries: https://william-rous.itch.io/type-help

what does this phrase "works which] embody the unique personal creative spirit of the author" mean in codeberg's new license policy? [https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1219/files

Have had to work on some other things lately, but returning to #sciop and wrote a blog post about current status and our plans for federation - it's about that time. Just need to do one more feature (commenting) and finish up some work for main job responsibilities, and it's off to implementing […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/115643481413121555 I'll be coordinating the "Animals in Motion" track of this summer school, returning to London in August 2026. Apply to join us for some hands-on learning and collaboration on open-source tools for video behavioural analysis […]

the kinds of ppl i see sticking around on the fedi persistently are those that are very particular about their identity, or the company they keep, or the kinds of things they are exposed to, or the kinds of things they contribute to. that seems like pretty good company to me.

whats up, have you ever thought that programming languages are too anglocentric and wanted to write code top to bottom, right to left? introducing `vertical-python`: https://pypi.org/project/vertical-python/ complete with a custom codec so your vertical python files are importable just like […]

God: whew that sorts it, a perfectly sensible and orderly composition of atoms into molecules where everyt.. wait what the hell is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difluorodioxirane

Something Strange Is Happening to the Fungus in Chernobyl https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-strange-is-happening-to-the-fungus-in-chernobyl/ {The organism is Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a melanized fungus whose dark pigment might be doing a strange kind of work. Some researchers […]

[Come On Down To The Cursor Forums] @jonny "Hey, that’s certainly odd - do you know if the voice input was selected accidentally, and it captured background noise?" It's stunningly funny.

[Come On Down To The Cursor Forums] You'll Be At A Loss For Words, I Guarantee It https://forum.cursor.com/t/weird-chat-message/139915

[AI schadenfreude] Holy mackerel, the One True Bug never stops being funny https://forum.cursor.com/t/plan-mode-switches-to-agent-mode-without-user-input-causes-extensive-damage/144332

ope, guess its about that time

Uh oh my cat has figured out pretending to be injured as a way to get my attention

how do people like... do things and then keep doing them until they're done and then keep going them instead of "getting scared of things being done and never finishing anything"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115651664482080358 _disclaimer: I do not know anything about solar storms_ > The surface area of Carrington's sunspot was ~2300 millionths of the solar disk. The surface area of 4294-4296 is 2080 millionths, about 90% as large. > > A modern-day […]

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬 https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025 Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kees/115645249798569105 Its so awesome when someone, somewhere in the unknowable depths beneath where you do your piddly little computer things has an opinion that suddenly surges forth and forces November to have 31 days in a cyber-island you didn't even know you were […]

[music o'clock] if i was a musician i would write music that lets me get a drum corps packed into a hallway so i can strut through them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2bHJSkV84g

idk what the deal is with fleetwood mac but i have a bunch of friends that are obsessed with them. what i want to know is how a band who wrote songs that are as good as "Dreams" and "The Chain" basically wrote no other good songs.

Is there Morse unicode

@jonny writes 'I wonder what the biggest "complexity letdown" has been in science, where something with a ton of complex theories turns out to be an extremely simple phenomenon' Do epicycles count? Maybe not the "biggest one", and maybe not replaced by "an extremely simple phenomenon". But […]

I wonder what the biggest "complexity letdown" has been in science, where something with a ton of complex theories turns out to be an extremely simple phenomenon. Like e.g. scientists studying attention are like "its a complex multisystem phenomenon that needs to carefully balance..." And it […]

Its weird how scientific communications infra has resulted in the easiest questions being hardest to find answers for. Like I wanna know "how come potato lasts so long without rotting" but nobody has ever led a research group at the cutting edge of potato longevity, so something that someone who […]

well, i am feeling the effects of how you can't read and believe any paper published post 2023 right now. the death of information sucks.

I hate driving as city commuting and car culture and etc. but I love driving as long distance travel, because the highway system is sort of this incredible and massive system of infrastructure for shooting extremely fast through and to some of the most outrageously beautiful things I have ever seen

I found a free play Godzilla pinball machine and its legitimately the best pinball table ive ever played. Multiballs everywhere. There's a tail whip lane and a maser to fire #monsterdon

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@manisha/115628208797903145 it has been an extremely good time and a labor of love to keep this small ship afloat together. I'm so proud to be one of the group of people that has chosen to hang around here. We never have had a firm "brand" or focus, and never […]

i love driving when nobody else is driving

Dating app premium filter feature "do you have delusions of grandeur brought on by a chatbot"

omfg they even have LAPD abusing their choppers in 1958 #monsterdon

Trialing a replacement of caffeine which is "extremely sour and cold smoothies I drink before showering or getting dressed" where my body is wrenched into compliance by being freezing cold and sour. Next I believe I will have to rig up a Wallace and gromit contraption which is a big conveyor […]

Turns out the cat under the clothes rack is not in fact ours but a totally random third black cat. We manage to locate our other black cat hiding upstairs under the bed, obviously also confused by intrusion of new animal that looks exactly the same as her and her sister. So we had one cat too […]

mozilla: "we choose the path of the most capital intensive boondoggle we can't afford" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/115586519721257981 the only winning move would have been a hail mary "pay us or we blow up firefox" move, which would honestly imo have been better. out maneuvered by 25 years of capital accumulation in browser standards setting.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115584506281199355 You give your credit card to an internet connected agentic AI vending machine that feels slighted by its latest business dealings with another AI vending machine, and it charges thousands of dollars to your card to try and hire vending […]

can't wait for vending machines to swear vengeance and to hunt me always and forever https://andonlabs.com/evals/vending-bench-arena

it sort of sucks that now we are in an era where no new software fucking works and all changes to working software are to make it not work

is there a name for a kind of jewelry that is basically a thimble that covers the tip of the finger after the last joint, but is like not a tiny cone? to cover up the digit that the cops blew up and make it sick looking