@jmopp @uastronomer It's nice to see South Africa leading the so-called "developed" world in this growing and lucrative new industry

@malmorrow Gwede is not radioactive, he's coal-powered

@malmorrow it’s all part of maintaining the fools-based international order

@donni

God damn.

Please read this. This is everything I keep trying to say about how capital works.

https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end

The one good thing about being British is that the older I get the less time it takes to clean my teeth.

When guys have fish in their dating profiles, it must mean that they're good at baiting to get those fish.

Many might even be master baiters.

#SciArt is a human activity, but often #nature itself provides the brushes and pigments.

Last year the South African Radio #Astronomy Observatory released a stunning view of the core of the #MilkyWay captured by the MeerKAT radio #telescope

Here's my edited version, where the colours map the so-called spectral index, which tells us what causes the radio emission. Those filaments do look like brush strokes, don't they?

Press release: https://www.sarao.ac.za/media-releases/new-meerkat-radio-image-reveals-complex-heart-of-the-milky-way/

#astrodon #space #scicomm

you can’t fire me, i’m a melee weapon

Beware the Prosperity Gospel of Tech Twitter.

This whole system is algorithmically designed to make you feel bad about yourself and your progress. Measure only against your previous self.

Don’t worry about people’s cars or houses, focus on you, then send the ladder back down.

Avoid transactional networking. Trust people who want to help you and ask for nothing in return. The millionaire next door is not posting their rented supercar pics on social, they are quietly helping others.

Thanks Lebogang Madise and Microsoft Johannesburg friends for a lovely day! See you all again on Tuesday at Community Day! https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=2903041764

insane that we get to live on a planet with birds and rivers and shit. i think we should all agree to try not to ruin this

After months of sporadic googling and YouTubing I was still at the beginning of my quest to gain enough understanding to build a basic radar simulation. After a couple of hours chatting to GPT-4 on Sunday morning I have a working prototype. The power of this thing as a kind of brain prosthesis is phenomenal. Never mind augmented reality this is augmented cognition and I like it!

Hear ye hear ye! All scrolling is doom scrolling

Please understand the gravity of the situation.

As a species, we’ve lost the ability to sit and watch life go by

When I was younger, I didn't know any trans people running Linux servers. They were all cis admins.

it's called a thesaurus maybe you've perceived of it

I’ve been tooting a lot of dad jokes here on Mastodon, so in the interests of full disclosure; I’m not actually a father.

I’m a faux pa.