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An engraving of a mollusc shell, 1810
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January 2023

Works entering the public domain include:

Written work by: Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf

Art by: Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka

Films including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Troubles

Music by Béla Bartók, Ira and George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, and Sophie Tucker


@aspuru I #run past this fly-looking #pigeon #mural in #Pittsburgh somewhat regularly 😎

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this was the best thing I ever tweeted

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Melting my brain that this lists “Free shipping"

February 2023

this font rules, great work Braille Institute

brailleinstitute.org/freefont

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Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute
A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.  What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability.  We are making it free for anyone to use!


I speak Chinese to the mirror
A park has its own winter
I put on music
Winter has no flies
I leisurely make coffee
Flies don’t know what is a homeland
I add a bit of sugar
A homeland is a native accent
I am on the other end of a phone line
And I hear my fear

Bei Dao 北島
on the solace of conversing in a native tongue, even if only with oneself, mirrored —
(hint: read every other line)

revisited this favorite poem in my translation seminar so this evening’s #everynightapoem
#chinese #translation

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March 2023

@stux
Yes, the technical term for this is a "Brachistochrone". The turn around at midpoint is called a "skew flip". In the scifi show "The Expanse" they call the maneuver a "flip and burn"

projectrho.com/public_html/roc
#AtomicRockets

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April 2023

To kill a French vampire, you need to drive a baguette through their heart. That might sound easy, but I assure you, it's painstaking.

Me trialing some mindship names with my pilot custom urushi
In case you're wondering
-the pond with nine branches means something beautiful
-the cloud floor is the court's reading room
-a snowy desk is a reference to reading by the reflection of light on snow
-the water hen's call is similar to quốc (water but above all country)
-the pine's amber refers to long life
-a red bird is a messenger

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Just released version 1.5 of GitHub Fiddle Tunes project, now with 50 traditional Irish #FiddleTunes #IrishTrad #IrishMusic #TradMusic #Violin 🎻🪕 github.com/lorddev/fiddle-tune

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Release Release 1.5 · lorddev/fiddle-tunes
Now with 50 tunes! Deleted "Music in the Glen" Added "Vincent Campbell's" Added "Gallagher's Frolics" Added "Fisherman's Lilt" Added "The Woman of the House"

@moira @strangefour Well, apparently not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_i #monsterdon

> To simulate buildings being torn and thrown up into the air, miniatures were mostly made of lightweight materials such as cardboard, wafer-thin paraffin, gypsum and Styrofoam which was pre-cut and assembled. Some pieces were trained on the miniature set, blowing everything upwards thanks to multiple compressed air tanks underneath the set.

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Battle in Outer Space - Wikipedia

May 2023

@Taweret
Almost heaven, Transylvania
Magyar Castles, Carpathian Mountains
Life is old there, older than the trees
Paprika Hendl stew, makin' me thirsty

Dracula, take me home
To the place I belong
Transylvania, fearful peasants
Take me home, Dracula

Happy Mothra’s Day

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July 2023

For a while I thought it’d be cool to try and recreate the macrodata refinement terminal from severance in code. I finally started poking at it this afternoon using the Arduino PicoDVI library

Hey lovely Mastodon folk. I've just released an HP-35, HP-45, HP-80 simulator called HP-1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HP-45 calculator. (Free) standalone versions for Mac and WIndows (no need for any Python installation or knowledge) & Python source for Linux. It's been a coding marathon, so it'd mean a lot to me if you could boost this post, so it gets in front of the right people. Download here: sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.htm Enjoy. #retrocomputing #calculators #python #coding #rpn

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