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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
henri dessens' weather modification experiments in the 1950s: just clear out a patch of equatorial forest to initiate cumulus convection over it, or even better: just burn it down! the plan was to increase rainfall over cultivated areas, because who cares about the savannah anyway?
 https://doi.org/10.1029/GM005p0396
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i love open peer review for its incredible entertainment value
reviewer comment: p5, line 77: "biota". What does this mean?
author answer: It is the animal and plant life of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. We believe that this
is commonly known and does not need to be explained to the readers. Anyway, the meaning follows
from the next sentence.
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the constant moving around that's expected of you when pursuing an academic career highkey destroying my mental health ngl
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
does anyone know when was the first time someone ever mentioned "the year of the linux desktop"
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
alternate universe where chatgpt was around in 2020 and people had ai boyfriends during lockdowns
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
if you were ever wondering what's the most cited paper by a trans woman (excluding cs and feminism), it's either the chapter on regional climate projections in AR4, coauthored by penny whetton, with 12k citations, or jaia syvitski's 1992 j. geol. paper with 4465 citations (on google scholar)
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
the big short but it's the US government shorting its own economy
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
thanks to the wonders of free software i have managed to port the euphoria weedbot to discord
the srs bird saying "why tf does the fuckin logger not work"
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"ai safety" has got to be the best fake job ever invented
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
the glassworm shit is so funny. idk about you guys but my text editor can't infect me with stuxnet because it can't execute arbitrary code just like that because it's a fucking text editor
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
incredible things were happening in the soviet union
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/58/1/1520-0477_1977_058_0004_wmitsu_2_0_co_2.xml
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
the chicken-and-egg problem of techbros with the llm speech pattern: you can't tell if they learnt it by mimetism in their daily 3 hour conversations with chatgpt or if they're so naturally reddit ass that the training data is literally their own hackernews forum posts
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
there was already a great discord alternative and it was called the xkcd room on euphoria dot io
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
crazy how french wikipedia misgenders judith butler throughout their entire article and the rationale for this is a poll for six years ago about how they would rather not use the gender neutral pronoun for all general articles
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
wait people actually think there is something morally wrong with this?
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
did you know that you can use your .zshrc to use more inclusive command line aliases?
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
guy who clicks "prefer not to answer" whenever he fills out a "what's your gender" form because he's paranoid about anyone getting his personal data
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
so many scientific journals putting up super detailed pages for their "inclusive author name change policies" lately... maybe it's not over yet
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
what if pluribus was about a boymoder called karl sturka who makes a living as a java developer but all she wants to do is write rust so she's very jaded. and then the hive sends out one of the fallout new vegas love interests to convince her to let it hang and join them.
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
free as in free speech, not as in free beer
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
guy whos against LLM code assistants because it's tivoization in the cloud
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
guy who thinks the GPL is about protecting the copyright of the authors
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
one billion first person videos of cold blooded murder forever every day until the heat death of the universe
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
i understand why people love talking to chatgpt so much, asking for feedback and getting glazed in return (which NEVER happens in real life) feels like finding water after walking 100000 km through the desert
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
you can really tell who has attempted to play videogames on linux before proton and dxvk were a thing and who hasn't lol
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
the 2025 4x4
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
*tips fedora*
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
atmospheric scientists be like "sherwood et al. 2020 shows that MY favorite cloud type is THE MOST important regarding climate change!!!!!", meanwhile sherwood et al. 2020 looks like that
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
my code runs. i am now officially fluent in dutch
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
writing c++ when you don't know c++ is like listening to dutch when you only understand german
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
i removed the denormals in some super slow scientific stuff and i got like a 30% performance increase. so far that's expected but where's the catch. am i stupid. why do people not do this all the time for pratical applications that don't require arbitrary precision
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
my europa universalis V experience so far
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
oh my god
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
i love reading old papers because sometimes you find beautiful stuff from the early years of computer-generated graphics. and then you realize that the aral sea took up a whole pixel...
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
just found out about jt leroy/laura albert. what even is going on with supposedly cis women with complicated gender feelings
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
i fucking love science
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
whyyyy are supercomputers set up in local time. and more importantly why does python datetime assume local time by default.
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Um, they're okay. Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalis
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Calpurnius_Bibulus
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
handling date/time data in python is so easy! just follow this simple flowchart:
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
screaming rn
ailbhe reddy - "align" music video youtube comment saying "her name is i'll be ready? way to go parents"
and she replies "it's an irish name pronounced AL-VAH"
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
today was an exercise in practical understanding of why writing code that fails gracefully in the case of "inputs that shouldn't ever happen because that's not possible" is actually important
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
lots of people think they're house of Xtravaganza, when they are in fact FaZe clan
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
is most of this website just slurs discourse rehashed from 2012 shitredditsays
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY
a double rainbow ALL THE WAY 'CROSS THE SKY
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
imagine traveling back in time to 2014 and explaining that taytay is now the biggest artist in the world and a republican who's writing diss tracks about charli xcx
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
is there like a letterboxd but for train journeys. i want to keep track of everywhere i've been so far
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
finally got rid of manjaro lmao. literally the worst distro ever, idk how i dealt with that garbage fire for 5 years. and now my computer doesn't deadname me anymore too which is a big plus
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
daily reminder, for the next time you see someone complaining of "performative" anything
tweet by Spencer Bokat-Lindell:
So last week for Thanksgiving I ran a headline saying “Turducken Is Performative,” paraphrasing @kimseverson. Over the weekend I got an email from JUDITH BUTLER
The email:
To Spencer Bokat-Lindell,
I very much appreciated your piece in performative Turkey, but wanted to caution against the association of 'performative' with fake. The term gained meaning through J.L. Austin's theory of speech acts. There he gives the example of legal performative s such as "I sentence you" or "I pronounce you man and wife." In those cases the speech act makes something real happen in the world. Someone goes to jail or two people get married. Similarly, in Notes Toward a Performative Theory is Assembly, a title that appears to be echoed by your interesting piece, assemblies form an exemplify sometimes the very principles for which they call. They bring about a reality, or seek to, but they are not producing a falsehood by virtue of their performativity. Although some take performative to mean ersatz, that is not the main meaning of the term in speech act theory or its queer theory appropriation. Such a construal suggests that performative effects are not real or are the opposite of real.
In any case, I enjoyed your piece.
best wishes,
Judith Butler
UC Berkeley
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
talked to coworkers about professor watchlist and they had no idea it existed despite charlie kirk being all over the news...
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flower @ansleis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
mj lenderman, rina sawayama and soccer mommy taking part in the "no music for genocide" boycott... the goats are goated
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