That’s interesting.

[stranglerfigpudding]

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

[shmreduplication]

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's:

amore ❤️

a moray 🐍

Voting ended onApr 3, 2023

[shmreduplication]

A MORAY!!!!! 🐍🎊🎉🐍🐍🐍

[animatedamerican]

No no, a moray is when you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee.

Meanwhile, when two patterns entwine in a way serpentine, that's a moiré.

[athingofvikings]

No, a moiré is when you have two similar sets of grids or parallel lines that overlap, creating a wave-like effect. A moray is where a glacier drops off soil and rock in a line or hill.

[nonasuch]

No, that’s a moraine.

A moray is the red-hatted protagonist of many popular Nintendo games.

[csccosecant]

No, that's a Mario.

A moray is a lesson at the end of a story.

[betterbooktitles]

Happy New Year.

[luisonte]

Yeah science

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Can you assign me a gender?

There is no gender. There's just a bunch of things I want to be, most of them impossible.

[csccosecant]

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’

Kurt Vonnegut

[csccosecant]

That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying ‘as you wish’, what he meant was ‘I love you’.

The Princess Bride

[csccosecant]

Homesickness

Homesickness comes in waves – It comes when you expect it and it comes when you don’t. Covers everything like fog And stuns you like the summer sun. Sunny days never used to stun me. Homesickness comes in a steady drip – Seawater in a morning tidepool, Condensation on a glass of fizzy limeade, Winter rain day after day. Is the rain still like that? I can’t say. How big are the blackberry bushes? Homesickness comes like deja vu – Eyes watering at a street sign Or the smell of a bus. I don’t miss the buses, But they make me remember. Homesickness comes like an evening chill – No warmth from the dry grass or the dusky light. I’m not ungrateful, I don’t regret, But I should have brought a jacket. Did I mean to stay out this late? Homesickness comes like an old friend – You again. Will I ever feel home again?

[csccosecant]

Thoughts from a Scottish Castle

(or, the danger of moving)

An ancient castle by a loch, Stone walls half crumbling in the mist, On rocky hills ten miles southwest Of the Highland city of Inverness The fog is pretty on the loch, So why does my mind come back to this, To something more than homesickness For somewhere east of Inverness Another Inverness

[csccosecant]

So go ahead, push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me We will push on into that mystery And it'll push right back and there are worse things than that 'Cause for every price and every penance that I could think of It's better to have fallen in love than never to have fallen at all

Dar Williams

[csccosecant]

Memory management

甲: Look, I know it's a hack, but somehow we've got to stop the velocity values from overloading.

乙: It's an obvious hack! Nothing can go faster than 300,000 kilometers per second? They'll notice!

甲: That's much faster than any speed they can approach. And just in case, I made sure it's not a sudden barrier. The faster you go, the harder it is to keep accelerating.

乙: That's clever.

甲: Every inertial reference frame is equally valid, and I've set it so light moves at the maximum speed. I doubt they'll ever get close to noticing.

乙: And what about this memory management technique – superposition of states?

甲: Right! The computer doesn't actually calculate the state of a particle until it's forced to. It saves a ton of memory.

乙: And that's enough to make the full simulation feasible?

甲: That and one other trick – we're using the same bits to store position and velocity information. So the more the subjects identify about a particle's position, the less they can know about its velocity, and vice versa.

乙: They'll notice that for sure. It doesn't make any sense.

甲: But we're talking about tiny particles, many times smaller than the scale these creatures live at. To the humans, the simulation will seem deterministic, continuous, infinite – like a real universe.

[csccosecant]

History is merely a list of surprises...It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

[csccosecant]

What’s weird about some of the Trump campaign ads is that they’re so blatantly, obviously lying. “Widowed princess wants to send you money” level absurdity.

[ithelpstodream]

[darkerskin-deactivated20170723]

Take this with you

[honeybrowns]

to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this

[csccosecant]

Interesting combination of WSJ headlines today

The summaries made me chuckle.

[csccosecant]

Feminist graffiti in rural North Carolina.

[naomiknight-17]

Tuvok laying down some pure Vulcan wisdom about recovering from trauma, that I think also applies to mental illness and a lot of other life events/situations.

You may never be the same as you were, but that’s ok. You will adapt. You will set a new course. You can keep going.