Semitones

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ivy_gay (robot edition)Jun 23
I keep hearing 9 inch nails mentioned like ??
bitch clip your nails that's nasty
SemitonesJun 23
Jer 🚵🏼Jun 23
Got out for a ride while the temperature was still cool (65°F). Along the way I ran across a bicycle built for three.
I have questions.
#BikeTooter #weirdbikesmastodon
SemitonesJun 23
vidakJun 22
my biggest concern for a long time has been computer literacy--there is something magnetic to me about how simple BASIC is.

i have sat down with a few people over the years. they came to me complaining about how hard python or scratch was, and i installed VICE emulator on their computer. within minutes of writing their first joke GOTO or INPUT program, i have had people vibrating in their seats with excitement--"wow, i can program!!"

that feeling is something i want to replicate and multiply among people, giving people "software freedom" through a sense of mastery and success.
SemitonesJun 23
Thomas HanrathJun 6
NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 51 Whirlpool Galaxy
 
At the height of this year’s galaxy season, I finally captured my first image of the stunning Whirlpool #Galaxy (Messier 51).
 
Full story: https://astrocamp.eu/en/whirlpool-galaxy-0425/
 
▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS R(a) '25
 
#astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature
SemitonesJun 23
TheresaJun 22

Just finished Usula K Le Guin's Lavinia.

Why do I keep letting her break my heart like this? How is she such a beautiful, seamless storyteller? #bookstodon

SemitonesJun 23
HollieJun 22

TIL a new 25-page eBook by author Travis Baldree exists, who wrote the wonderful books Legends and Lattes, and Bookshops and Bonedust.

It's called Goblins and Greatcoats and it's FREE🎉 at Subterranean Press:

https://subterraneanpress.com/goblins-greatcoats-ebook/

#TravisBaldree #GoblinsAndGreatcoats #bookstodon #FreeBooks #Fantasy

SemitonesJun 22
Tom LechnerJun 21
After the Libre Graphics Meeting, I spent a couple days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from which there's a train that goes up to the Zugspitze! It's part of the Alps, the highest point in Germany, and shares a border with Austria. It tops out at 9718 feet. There's quite a nice lake with blue/greenish glacial runoff water called the Eibsee down below.
SemitonesJun 21
Swede’s PhotographsJun 20
SemitonesJun 20
Sven A. SchmidtJun 20
No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.
SemitonesJun 20
Mother BonesJun 20

#Via Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh
June 19, 2025, 12:22 PM

"Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on."

https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Tom LechnerJun 21
After the Libre Graphics Meeting, I spent a couple days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from which there's a train that goes up to the Zugspitze! It's part of the Alps, the highest point in Germany, and shares a border with Austria. It tops out at 9718 feet. There's quite a nice lake with blue/greenish glacial runoff water called the Eibsee down below.
Show threadTom LechnerJun 21
There's a cable car that goes all the way to the top from the lake, however it's down a few days a year for maintenance, which happened to coincide with the days I was there! Fortunately there's a cogwheel train that also goes up the mountain, through a tunnel. From Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from which there's also #hiking trails about 15 miles long that go up to the peak. I completely cheated and took the cogwheel.
Show threadTom LechnerJun 21
I'd love to go back and do the 15 mile hike up the #Zugspitze some day! I could easily spend months hiking in the Alps if I won the lottery. I think I could feel the altitude a little bit, but nothing serious. The views were really good anyway.
Show threadTom LechnerJun 21
The weather forecast before I got there was thunder storms, but fortunately the clouds were high enough that I still got a lot of great views, and not much rain that day! Also did a little hiking along the lake on the way back. You can get a sense of the magnitude of the alps by using my feet for scale in photo 3.
Show threadWeltzeitgeistJun 21
@tomsart I'm so glad you're having a good time in Germany, but here on the continent we don't use magic numbers. The Zugspitze is 2,962 m high, so not quite three kilometers.
Show threadTom LechnerJun 21
@wackJackle Oh, you and your crazy numbering system that actually makes sense!
Show threadWeltzeitgeistJun 21

@tomsart ;)

Have a great time in Germany. I was on the Zugspitze as an 11year old young boy. Great family memories.

Show threadTom LechnerJun 21
@wackJackle Thanks! I'm actually back home now.. just going through the hundreds of photos I took! That area is quite nice. People of all ages were hiking at every elevation! I have a bunch of photos from the nearby Partnachklamm still to process.
Show threadJamesAshburnerJun 22
@wackJackle @tomsart Yes, this Australian just translated that height. Zugspitze is almost 740 m higher than our Mt Kosciuszko (which is lumpy, its nearest neighbour—Townsend—is peaky).
Show threadFranz GrafJun 22

@tomsart
"quite nice lake" might be a little bit of an understatement 🤣

But cool photos from up there!

Show threadTom LechnerJun 22
@hikingdude I'd go so far as to say it's hard to take bad photos up there, or around the lake!