Did #Nerdica.net go away or is it just down today? Not sure if I missed something.

Apparently this woman is actually standing on top of the Burj Khalifa!

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uQHhYRuaEtM

For anyone in the Minnesota or Western Wisconsin area, the National Weather Service-Twin Cities updates are cross-posted to @nwstwincities via #BirdSiteLive.

Midwesterners passively aggressively typing up letters to slip into their neighbor's mailboxes asking them to please drive slower on neighborhood streets.

*This is the way.*

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Please boost!

It's been a few years since I tried installing Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 5. Maybe I should give it another go.

I'm really interested in the ideas behind decentralized services, but it is so easy to get quickly overwhelmed by all the various apps and protocols out there.

2020 is coming to a close, finally! And it's been a year at Engineering Archive.

https://blog.engrxiv.org/2020/12/done-with-2020

#engineering #OpenScience #OpenEngineering

"Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat: Techno-Economic Analysis and Due Diligence" - :oeng: http://osf.io/795su/ #engineering #openengr

@musicmatze@mastodon.technology
No, probably not. And that's really too bad.

Mastodon is pretty close but I think the next social network should just be based on email. I can subscribe to the people I want to follow and they send emails to a specific address to "post" to their subscribers.

With Mastodon, I wish it was easier to have an account on a "home" instance and then "join" other instances to participate in the local community via the local timeline without having to setup an account on each instance.

Are there any coronavirus focused instances?

On the Google coronavirus website: Trump hadn't even asked them to build the product before he announced on live TV that 1,700 engineers were already working on it.

https://www.protocol.com/trump-google-coronavirus-website-surprise

Just drank a whisky that is old enough to vote. #Scotland

In terms of environmental impact, worry more about what food you are eating than where it comes from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

Heard about a family member who lays their #coffee grounds out to dry for continued reuse. 🤢