Mastodawn

Quentin Dec 23, 2022

Daniel Swain Dec 22, 2022

The upcoming winter storm is predicted to cause a massive #seiche in #LakeErie, with a water level difference of nearly 20 ft (6 m) between #Toledo & #Buffalo! A seiche is a large standing wave oscillating in a body of water. Follow this 🧵 for more! https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/anim.php/?lake=eri&var=zeta

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NOAA_GLERL/status/1606024131643723776

NOAA/GLERL GLCFS

Information from NOAA-GLERL

Quentin Dec 23, 2022

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Another Angry Woman Dec 21, 2022

make better choices

Quentin Dec 22, 2022

Dgar Dec 22, 2022

The Inigo Montoya method of greeting people.
Step 1: Polite greeting.
Step 2: Your name.
Step 3: Relevant personal link.
Step 4: Manage Expectations.

Quentin Dec 20, 2022

Genesis

Dec 19, 2022

So here's a random thing that I learnt yesterday. Compasses are region-specific and the needle will "stick" if a normal compass is used in the wrong region! Australia and New Zealand are in magnetic zone 5. If you want a #compass that works anywhere in the world, it needs to have a "global needle", which is built a bit differently to account for the problem of the magnet aiming directly through the earth to magnetic north and dragging the needle down with it.

Quentin Dec 19, 2022

DPRK Official News Dec 18, 2022

All DPRK journalists have full freedom to criticize Western billionaires, without fear of reprisals

#elonmusk #twitter

Quentin Dec 16, 2022

Nika Shilobod Dec 16, 2022

📜 A list of resources for the new people to #Mastodon from #Twitter

- FediTips: @feditips
- FediFollows (interesting accounts): @FediFollows
- FediTips Guides: https://fedi.tips/
- Resources for Newbies: https://github.com/nolanlawson/resources-for-mastodon-newbies
- Crowd Sourced Newbie Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1D3VmoLQWB7D-XF6dEXstJuAgo66Nk9Pq/mobilebasic
- Awesome Mastodon: https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon
- Awesome Fediverse: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse
- Academic Listing: https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/
- Nitter: https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Quentin Dec 9, 2022

@jr Got the new phone - Pixel 7 all setup! Took me awhile to work out how to "fix" the gestures. I might be a Luddite but the default swipe up for home / swipe up& hold for recent apps and swipe right for back are so inefficient and prone to errors. (Am I swiping in the app or trying to go back?) Am I the only one?

Quentin Dec 5, 2022

Looking back at my notes from a work meeting this morning. After a couple of points about things I need to do, the last line says:

"Look into"

Look into what? Self from three hours ago? I don't remember!!!

Quentin Dec 2, 2022

NV Access Dec 2, 2022

Our In-Process blog is out! This week, we have news on a FOSS grant from Salesforce, upcoming API breaking changes for developers, new resources for Ukrainians, making an impact in Botswana AND a bunch of tips for getting the most out of Mastodon!
Read it all here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2nd-december-2022/

In-Process 2nd December 2022

Can you believe it is December already?! (and where is that Interrobang from last time?!) We are still working away towards NVDA 2022.4, although we don’t have an update on it this week, rest assur…

NV Access

Quentin Dec 1, 2022

So the cat turned our new Christmas tree with four feet... into one with three. Never mind that four feet clearly wasn't stable enough to overcome the Power of Kitten in the first place. So, one tub and some weight plates later, and it's now a Christmas tree with a 50kg base (and some baubles still to replace, I know). Stay tuned, as I expect we'll shortly see the cat up the top of the tree instead of that angel (hey at least they are both white?)