Mike Lynch

@mikelynch@icosahedron.website
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Coder and writer in Sydney, Australia. Contains syntactically significant whitespace. #botally #haskell #python #opendata #music #art #writing
Blog (technical)https://mikelynch.org/
Blog (writing, personal)https://nannygoathill.wordpress.com/
Botshttps://bots.mikelynch.org/
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Main account is @fsvo these days, though I'm also at @mikelynch
Going to shift most of my Mastodon activity to @mikelynch and see how that goes

A fragmented sort of blog post about the lockdown, Stuck-Inovism, trying not to see all this through the lens of science fiction, and how we idealise the crises of the past:

https://nannygoathill.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/home/

MALADY: United States writer (1905-1973)
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what if instead of april fools day we had april fowls day, where we just, post and appreciate nice fowl?

here, I’ll start: here’s the orange-footed scrubfowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-footed_scrubfowl, and the helmeted guineafowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmeted_guineafowl

Orange-footed scrubfowl - Wikipedia

war, destruction, bleak

I’m trying to get back into some twentieth-century media consumption habits, listening to the ABC radio news in the morning, instead of reading the website.

With a news bulletin, some editorial thought was put into which stories are important, and it feels a lot more psychologically healthy than trying to get info from the firehose of analysis and lockdown lifestyle stuff on the news sites. Reading news sites these days feels like reading the birdsite.

ATel #13601: Rapid rising of Betelgeuse's luminosity

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