ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Ash eruption at Sicily's Etna volcano, taken yesterday (6 Dec).

Photo: Fernando Famiani

#volcanoes #geology #Sicily #Etna

Welcome annalee as #curl committer 1228: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12607

This is part of a larger project -- a Toronto guy found an LP of Alvin and the Chipmunks covering pop songs

The guy had an old record player that could play at 16 RPM

So he played them all

They're here: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp

The version of Tom Petty's "Refugee" will haunt your dreams

I wept with uncontrollable laughter for the first two minutes of "Jesse's Girl"

#Newcastle #beach NSW on #Christmas Eve, looking beautiful, moody and turbulent. Peace to all!

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At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.

These beautifully carved stone slabs support a 17-tonne stone slab acting as the roof of the tomb. At the time of its construction, c. 3500 B.C., the island was still connected with the mainland, and is today only accessible by boat.

Day 20. #ArtAdventCalendar

Throwback to this joyful moment at the start of 2023, awkwardly holding a wet painting that ended up being Week 1 in my 52 Weeks of Finding Light adventure this year!

4”x4”, oil.

https://tishamark.com/product/week-1-52-weeks-of-finding-light

#MastoArt #art #painting

it's alive

#lightning

End of an Era.

I went out and bought this, the Dec. 2023 issue of National Geographic. It's the last issue of this venerable institution that will appear on newsstands. 🧵

the beautiful song of the limpkin, so soothing, the perfect thing to lull you to sleep https://xeno-canto.org/731017

The last important thing about the cloth simulation: reconstructing the normal & tangent vectors for proper lighting calculations, since the input mesh contains those for the initial static positions.

See how all the top-facing surfaces have green normals, but not the curtains.

I…. huh. 😒

#NYT 📆 May 5, 2023 The #northern lights have expanded farther #south. This phenomenon will peak in 📆 2025, during the phase known as #solar ☀️ maximum 📈. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/science/northern-lights.html

#SpaceWeather "The exposure of a human body to ionizing #radiation ☢️ has the same harmful effects whether the source of the radiation is a medical X-ray machine, a nuclear power plant, or radiation in #space 🌌. The degree of the harmful effect depends on the length of exposure and the radiation's energy #density." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather#Humans_in_space

#HumanSpaceflightHealth

Picture : :cc_zero: #NASA

In England, "booster shot" is spelled "borchestershire shot."