Hermit in the longleaf woods. Tiny house, tiny lab, and a big shed where I make things. Coping with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. she/her
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5 Aug 2023
This morning at Home Depot. Big trucks bad drivers = lines in the parking lots need to be farther apart. I am glad I came out first so I could get in from my passenger side and skillfully back out of there because they for sure would have hit my car backing out.
5 Aug 2023
I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.
What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.
A summary 🧵
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4 Aug 2023
Why are rice cookers the only countertop appliance with a carrying handle?
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28 Jul 2023
Is it just me or did room temperature superconductor feel just like arsenic bacteria all over again?
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26 Jul 2023
I just took down my framed original pen drawing of Lady Longleaf, my longtime avatar, and found this taped to the back. Thanks, past me. I totally don’t remember putting that there.
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Barbara Tomlinson retweeted
21 Jul 2023
🚄Engineers were inspired by the kingfisher's sleek form when troubleshooting a problem with Japan's bullet train design. Mimicking the kingfisher's pointed beak and aerodynamic head shape, designers cut down on their high-speed trains' excessive noise and air displacement.
ALT A kingfisher with wings, head, and beak flat and pointed forward, exhibiting its sleek form while in flight.
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15 Jul 2023
In just a few months Hank Green was diagnosed and treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma and kept making videos the whole time. Meanwhile Diana Cowern has been completely incapacitated for a year with MECFS. I feel like cancer is sorted. Please work on mysterious chronic illnesses now.
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3 Jul 2023
Question for my sciencey friends: would you drink filtered water from a jug that previously contained muriatic acid? My brother had to put 12 gallons of acid in his pool and he likes the bottles.
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3 Jul 2023
I told him to fill the bottles with water and let it soak for a day, empty, repeat. After a week or so it’s probably fine. It’ll be cleaner than the drinking water machine at Publix. He’s just gotta get those labels off because stigma is not water soluble.
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Barbara Tomlinson retweeted
21 Jun 2023
Here we go again, a new record anomaly for North Atlantic sea surface temperatures.
Today's anomaly is a full 1.15°C above the 1982-2023 mean for the day. I thought the previous peak was high, but I may need to extend the y-axis again soon!
Data: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/s…
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20 Jun 2023
Does anybody recognize this plant? It just appeared in the woods near my clothesline between two longleaf pines. I burned there less than a year ago. Seek can’t get past Dicots 😒
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18 Jun 2023
I’m working on my air moving cubicle. I had a old brass outlet cover so I used it in the only outlet that’s on the wood. I feel like that calls for a brown outlet instead of white. Right?
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18 Jun 2023
But if I plug in this white 24 VDC power supply for some LEDs doesn’t that just clash with the brown? Maybe I should swap the cover to white instead.
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18 Jun 2023
Yeah, that’s probably best. I’ll save the brass cover for something else
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15 Jun 2023
I hear thunder. Tornado watches again. My power was out from 9:30 to 3:30 last night. I couldn’t sleep because it was hot so I called the power company just to be sure they knew my power was out. It came back on while I was listening to options on the automated system.
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15 Jun 2023
Now I’m wondering what’s my better tornado shelter, my booth inside the shed with heavy longleaf posts and beams or the tiny house? I think an actual tornado could skin the shed like a banana, but it might spare the booth.
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15 Jun 2023
I can see the tiny house doing a Wizard of Oz though. Wet sand might not have enough friction to hold my footings in the ground. But it’s also a pretty small target and being on a hilltop is helpful. (Thanks, Bernoulli.) Anyway, I like my odds. I’m ready I guess.
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6 Jun 2023
I’m more excited about this new Danny Michel album drop than I am for more episodes of Yellowstone. By a lot, honestly. I find it hard to relate to those homicidal maniacs even after they got them a conservation easement. youtu.be/eGV-rpiiyTA
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5 Jun 2023
I’m sure Apple VR is great, but what if it was a face shield and respirator that would adapt the focal length to what I’m working on? So I don’t have to buy all different diopter safety glasses. I would buy that
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5 Jun 2023
Apple has new software for Apple Watch aimed at children to be sure they get enough daylight to avoid developing myopia, but Apple Watches are all huge! I can’t even wear one except when I’m asleep. Do children have bigger wrists than me now??
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