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Uma pessoa simples, com umas ideias muito complicadas. Mulher trans. Programadora de computador. Fã de ciência e matemática. Escritora amadora. Criadora de jogos amadora. Curiosa sobre um bocado de coisas. Posts em português and/or English.
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Dear Manager, It’s hard to tell you what I did this week. It’s a whole lot easier to tell you what I will never do. You know what that is? 1) give you up 2) let you down 3) run around 4) desert you 5) tell a lie, hurt you

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

If you’ve ever moved into a new home, then you know how difficult it can be to steer bulky furniture through narrow hallways or around awkward corners. A new proof reveals the biggest shape that can slide down an L-shaped hallway. Richard Green reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 164 comments

[CON][CON][CON][CON][CON][CON R][FOR][FOR][FOR][FOR][FOR][F MI░][MI░][MI░][MI░][MI░][MI░ ][DA░][DA░][DA░][DA░][DA░][D E░][DE░][DE░][DE░][DE░][DE❓] ============================ Another brick in the wall. #Poesia #PoesiaConcreta #ArteASCII #Poetry #ConcretePoetry #ASCIIArt

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

#RickRolling

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is more important now than ever: github.com/bluesky-soci... I subscribe to some pretty aggressive blocklists to make things usable, but they inevitably have false-positives. I shouldn't have to choose between not-seeing spam and seeing posts from people I care about.

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

submitted 51 days ago • 102 comments

Há algumas horas, eu vi uns shitposts discutindo se o livro do dragão seria de #humanas. O livro em questão: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile... A discussão: bsky.app/profile/carl... (1/9)

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Chomsky is famous for his phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as an example of a sentence that's grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical. Dress is a form of cultural communication and every aesthetic has its own "rules" to communicate ideas.

submitted 54 days ago • 23 comments

In 1994, a math professor discovered that Intel's Pentium chip sometimes gave the wrong answer when dividing. Fixing this "FDIV" bug cost Intel $475 million. I analyzed the Pentium chip and found the bug. 1/N

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

My fellow cis people: Read the whole thread.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the death of Leelah Alcorn. She was a trans girl who was 17 years old when she died. I want you all to remember her with me.

submitted 58 days ago • 43 comments

Beautiful.

submitted 58 days ago • 23 comments

Double sweetness 🐰🦆

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Pictures that explain things ‘Our Land in the Making’ (1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

After a cosy Christmas fire, there are cinders in the fireplace, as well as ashes, which in French are called cendres. 'Cinder' and 'cendre' may look alike but they aren't etymologically related: they come from two unrelated words. However, 'cendre' did influence the spelling of 'cinder'. More:

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

submitted 60 days ago • 163 comments

I made another Christmas-themed puzzle that you'll enjoy if you like regular expressions.

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

I noticed that someone #followed me (received a #notification), but the person does not appear on my #follower list. Is it a #quirk, or #moderation #filters hide the person from me? How can I see who else is #hidden?

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments