KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

I wrote an ode to personal websites for one of my faves,
24ways. Featuring inspiring (and rights-respecting) websites from people whose work I love and respect.

https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

One of at least three sea otters I saw during a few minutes walking along the shoreline of Monterey Bay near Old Fisherman's Wharf last weekend.

#animals #nature #otters #ocean #Monterey #California

A long and fascinating article on Ken Liu and his translations of of works by Chinese SF writers. It also goes into some details on how he navigates the translations of political statements that Chinese writers may obscure in their writings to get past the censors.

#SFF #KenLiu #Translations #China #Writing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html

Interesting bit of trivia from a video about The Great Trigonometrical Survey: Everest did not approve of the mountain many know as Mount Everest Everest named after him. At the time the name was proposed he was the prior but now retired head of the survey. He'd made a practice of using local names and pointed out that even if locals disagreed what the peek should be called his name couldn't be accurately written in the local languages. The geographic committee ignored his letter of protest.

Today in Mens Fashion is fuckin Weird: these pants come in black, navy, dark khaki, gunmetal and dirt

I ignored all those headlines shouting about "scientist finding a black hole that shouldn't (or can't) exist" because it obviously exists. Sure, we can't explain why it exists now, but with future observations on it (and more objects like it that will probably be found in the future), it should be resolved. Read this by Phil Plait instead.

#Science #Astronomy #Space #BlackHoles

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/q-how-did-this-black-hole-get-so-big-a-maybe-its-really-two-black-holes

The #gloves looked like they might be #fluorescent. This confirmed it.

"What the...They said they were going to wait for me!"

#seagull #bay #birds

"C'mon, I'm trying to be serious here!"

Probably #Steinbeck would have said it a bit more elegantly, but I'm sure he would have thought it.

In #Monterey at #CanneryRow.

#statue #seagull #santa

Venus and Jupiter on the Horizon

Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191126.html #APoD

Here are some pies generated by a very confused neural net.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/189313008792/finest-pies

Pixelfed Embed will allow you to easily share your posts on any website.

We're rolling this out to instances tomorrow!

#pixelfed

Hi Fediverse 👋

today, our site https://swiso.org joined the #SaveDotOrg initiative to keep .org-domains non-profit.

We host our site on a .org domain. Furthermore, we heavily rely on services hosted on .org domains - as for example @codeberg

Please consider supporting the initiative by spreading the word or signing the letter:

https://savedotorg.org/

I vaguely knew that Antarctica used to be warmer and have animals and stuff but had never thought about what that transition would have been like.

Antarctica used to be connected to Australia and South America, and after all three continents were isolated it took another 30 million years for Antarctica to freeze.

In that time the animals of Australia and s America got really weird. Do we know anything about what evolved in Antarctica?

i do like the idea of the champion, after knocking off your hat, is initially shocked and then continues battling, respecting your strength

and i can't decide if it would be better for them to reveal you to the world like "meet your new champion!!" or to quietly put your hat back on