plato's cave: the video game

Ok this is a truly great tweet

excited for this github.com/python/cpyth...

new package: pypi.org/project/zarr... plain types for working with Zarr data!

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

A Giant Sea Spider (genus Colossendeis), also known as a pycnogonid, found on the deep seafloor at depths between 2,200 and 4,000 meters. 🌊🦀 While some species are small, those in the deep ocean can grow over 50 cm (20 inches) across due to deep-sea gigantism. #ocean #deepsea #nature #wildlife

Scenes from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Chick” being filmed on our Island

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I'll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it's already getting bumped.

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

I made this real simple library for working with Zarr Convention Metadata: github.com/zarr-convent...

All clean codebases are alike; each broken codebase is broken in its own way.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces I think I found something Northern Angry bird aka Gannet

New world record for most ominous frozen lake! www.google.com/maps/@45.409...

industrial-scale fine art in Turkmenistan: www.google.com/maps/@38.552...

so glad we don't do this any more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmu

is this a normal spoon shape?

wild name for a boat

Guess which of these plastic strips in the Ikea kitchen get smacked the most

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P! ⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026 Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd... #neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

SEVERAL Followers Georgs here absolutely wrecking the linear regression, which is something my 14yo just covered in math class

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

what's the plan here

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

metal railings at work in Baden Baden

dang @thorlabs.bsky.social what's with these wild dovetailed posts:

banishing **kwargs with a runtime type checker + a bunch of new types in github.com/zarr-develop...

Tonight, when leaving Athens by ferry, I got surprised by this beautiful spectacle. I think they were using the ferry as a wind shield and maybe also the lights to spot fish. They followed the ship for about 30 min.

If anyone has thoughts / opinions / concerns about how Zarr Python represents array data types, please check out github.com/zarr-develop... and give feedback!

🚀 New preprint! "Spatial Data Science Languages: Commonalities and Needs" 🌍 Exploring challenges & insights from #Rstats #Python & #JuliaLang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more! 🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Get in the trousers, Wallace! W&G Evangelion

This was extremely fun to work on, thanks @earthmover.io for the opportunity!

Novel locking mechanism for this sliding door

aesculapian snake seen in northern italy