Laurabunny

@laogeodritt@kind.social
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⚡ electronics engineering & biomedical devices
🎻 cellist, flautist, classical singer
✏️ fiction, poetry, calligraphy, watercolour
📜social & cultural history
💡 all opinions my own
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Header ID: A painterly cello seen from the front, with a very red body. Avatar: a round-faced Asian person with glasses, eyes closed with a slight smile as they play the cello.
Websitehttps://arenthil.net
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Just a reminder that Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically any genetic tech today, was only possible because of an extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. The value of basic #science cannot be predicted and often is realized decades after it's done.

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
https://www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discovery-in-yellowstone-national-park-led-to-the-renowned-technique-of-dna-amplification-pcr

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Richmond Scientific

In light of the #Wildfire smoke blanketing huge swaths of North America and elsewhere, I’m reposting these instructions on how to build your own #CorsiRosenthal air filter. During the peak of the pandemic a number of designs were developed for low-cost, high efficiency air filters and the CR was the hands-down winner.

#AirQuality

https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.

Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

There can be beauty in death, bittersweet as it may be. A death surrounded by family, music, memories—love.

A piece inspired by a new friend. Mixed Japanese calligraphy and Latin #calligraphy. India ink on parchment-textured paper.

Poetry is my own. I am a student of the Japanese language, pardon awkward poetry—at the very least I expect I've rather unceremoniously mixed classical and modern Japanese.

#art #ItalicScript #JapaneseCalligraphy #書道 #草書 #poetry #multilingual #japanese #death

Bad News: to end a bad bday month I was denied Low Income housing I applied to for not meeting minimums

Literally told I was too poor, for poor housing

Trying to raise $1,500 to recoup for the move while I wait for HUD having to use 1/2 my savings for June

Anything helps

TY

https://gofund.me/82287f1a

#mutualaid
#lgbtq
#disability

Today, I was asked about effective air cleaners, because wildfires have already begun to flare in North America.

Extensive global testing has found that a DIY #CorsiRosenthalBox will outperform almost every commercial HEPA unit while costing less to run.

For the US & Canada, the best source of filters to build one is Costco: Filtrete 1900, 2200, or 2500 models with at least one 20-inch dimension.

These units also help mitigate allergens and infectious aerosols like #Covid and Influenza.

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I know you've heard about dual-row QFN, but have you met dual-row QFP (with mixed gull-wing and J-leads, no less)? cc @CursedFootprint

YEARNING!

comic source: @mandyseley

#rats

(4/x) First sketch of the first couple! Not 100% happy with Asami here, but very happy with Korra. I'll probably adjust these sketches digitally, if needed, and trace them onto my final paper for watercolour once I'm fully satisfied with them.

(Definitely not confident enough in my illustration skills to sketch directly on my final paper!)

#DesertBus #DB2025 #Craftalong #LGBTQIA #Lesbian #Sapphic #Korrasami

Context: we often have users who use Latin-lookalikes in their name—e.g., Cyrillic/Greek or maths symbols—emoji, etc. These seem like they'd be barriers.

Our nickname policy is broadly accessibility to all members:

1) Obviously, it has to conform with other rules about not being hateful, etc.

2) Can be found via @mention menu with any English keyboard layout;

2) Legible and identifiable as a personal identity to English speakers (so no 漢字 hànzì-only nicknames for example);

etc.

Questions about #accessibility for the visually impaired:

I'm a mod on Discord and regularly have to evaluate nicknames.

1) What kind of nickname trends are barriers or annoyances (if any) to y'all or people you know? In the interest of listening to marginalised folk, please only respond with first- and secondhand accounts, not best guesses.

2) What screen-readers could I use for this, representative of what people use w/Discord? Budget is ≈zero (alas), and Win/Linux/Android available.