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Yesterday I went out for a non-Super Bowl party. Instead of watching the game, we watched a bunch of Doctor Who episodes - much more fun!

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New Jersey is open for socializing on the fediverse. Come join a growing server with a local focus.

Signup now: https://gardenstate.social/auth/sign_up

Boost this post to help grow smaller instances and distribute users across the fediverse.

#findAServer #mastodonlol #NewJersey #fediverse #mastodon #joinMastodon #nj

I'm contemplating relocating my account to a different Mastodon server, DMV.community, which is locally focused on the DC area. I don't post much about software any more and just boost general (if quirky) news.

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A man named Bruno Schröder was a mining engineer for most of his life. When passed away in his 80s in June 2022, he had around 60,000 or so books spread out on the 4 floors of his house in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The books likely weigh about the same as 15 modern cars. 📚
#books #library #BookCollection #collection #Germany

h/t @BrianJopek

Photo of the top floor of a house with the slated roof and walls all but covered in books in bookcases.

Photo of the entryway of a house with the walls all but covered in books in bookcases.

Photo of a room in a house with the walls and center column all but covered in books in bookcases.

Photo of the a different angle of the top floor of a house with the slated roof and walls all but covered in books in bookcases.

WashPost: 10 spring movies that (mostly) aren’t sequels

"Ostensibly the story of R.M. Renfield, a supporting player in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula” ... Nicholas Hoult plays the servile title character, but it’s the Count himself, played by Nicolas Cage as the most horrible of all horrible bosses, who is sure to steal — or at least take a very big bite out of — the spotlight."

https://wapo.st/3YrFj1U

#movies

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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecrafian Vein - or is that Lustcraftian Vein? - we look at "In the Name of Cavities" (2021) by Rajeev Singh, from the anthology LUSTCRAFTIAN HORRORS.

NSFW.

https://deepcuts.blog/2023/02/11/in-the-name-of-cavities-2021-by-rajeev-singh/

#blog #nsfw #lovecraft #erotica #cthulhu #cthulhumythos #tentacle #lovecraftian

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MAD Magazine pulls the plug on the tech world — on sale FEB 14

Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson

#madmagazine #ElonMusk #Comic #Satire #Illustration

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People who prefer ketchup over mustard are annoying because as soon as you say you like mustard, they go on and on about how much they hate it. Like, okay. You have the same flavor palette you had when you were 5 but that doesn’t mean you should insult what I put in my coffee.

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Wheatley: so these guys pull on a rope and that makes an alchemist appear
King: this story is a little confusing
Wheatley: it is now, yes
Wheatley: but to help you all follow along, I’ve taken the liberty of putting some psilocybin in all your smores
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:

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Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

Drawing of Eunice Newton Foote by Carlyn Iverson. Credit: NOAA Climate.gov.

Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century.

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An otter family, all snuggled together after hunting in a loch for over an hour.

Fabulous creatures to watch and photograph.

#otter #mull #scotland #wildlife #photography #nature

A family of three otters, a mum with her two cubs, snuggled together on a bed of seaweed. Photographed on the Isle Of Mull.

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Hello everyone! I just created my profile here, so this is my first post and of course, an #introduction . I'm still trying to understand how this social media works.
Anyway, my name is Matsya and i'm an artist living in Brazil. I work mostly traditionally with watercolors and inks and what drives me most is folktales, whimsical landscapes and fantasy characters.

#MastoArt #watercolor #watercolour #painting #art

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Via Evil Hat Productions on the bird site:

Today the creators of Kids on Brooms are donating 100% of their profits to charities supporting trans people.

If you want to play a wizard school game, play this one. It's great.

Support trans people. Support creators who know #TransRightsAreHumanRights

#ttrpg

➡️ https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/314452/Kids-on-Brooms-Core-Rulebook

Cover of the Kids on Brooms RPG. Two teenaged people with broomsticks and wands. A couple of spellbooks hover in the air nearby.

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PROSPERO: Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou

Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring.

— The Tempest, III, iii

#Shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

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We are working with the community to develop the Python Packaging Strategy. Read all about the first part of the discussion here.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/02/python-packaging-strategy-discussion.html

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