Rosa Astra @morganastra@witches.town
I make pronoun.is and stuff. rabbit-hole spelunker. mostly here for the plant gossip
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http://pronoun.is/she
such a beautiful story about rail infrastructure making a material improvement in people's lives. (also this bridge is an incredible feat of civil engineering omg) https://news.cgtn.com/news/7767444f79597a6333566d54/share.html
carbon dating is when you meet a nice carbon-based lifeform and get along well and do cute romantic things together
just catching up on Cuban baseball in the official communist party newspaper, how's your Friday evening going? http://en.granma.cu/deportes/2017-09-26/a-no-hitter-for-david-mena
oh you like distributed systems? let me tell you about the original distributed systems: plants
TIL: the element cobalt is named after kobolds.
No, really: the compound in which cobalt is most commonly found was called "kobold ore" by miners.
@Gargron Taking no prisoners on birdsite
Why I Like Mastodon: a shitty but accurate graph https://tootplanet.space/media/P7Ph6wmr0ZUh_5ocaZc
an infinite lazy seq of genders
"Babylon 5's use of the internet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5's_use_of_the_Internet
all right gals here's the train video we've all been waiting for https://youtube.com/watch?v=9JCXNjpC5XM
OH: show me one country on the map where pickles are illegal, i will go there and break the law
fucking counterrevolutionaries sent my estrogen to the wrong pharmacy
Today was beautiful and mysterious
self-driving cars are a bad solution to every problem with cars
okay Stellaris is really good
astrophyical therapy
don't trust the government with any records you wouldn't trust fascists with
this is a really good cab-view video. climbing a mountain, mostly through beautiful natural mountainside forests punctuated by pretty little villages. there are some long tunnels through the mountain that are worth skipping though (unless you like tunnels) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZywCAPTA
280 char tweets are fine but imagine working at twitter and thinking literally anything could plausibly be a priority over banning nazis