Thomas B. Rücker @tbr@society.oftrolls.com

In 1988, IRC was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Arzneimittelschrank aufräumen?

Klar, machen wir regelmäßig, so alle 25 Jahre...

It rained the other day, and this tiny 3cm flower collected a tiny amount of water.

And when the sun hits it just right, a tiny world is revealed.

#photography #flowers #rain #macro

Comparison is the thief of joy. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide

Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, StarryEarth)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190421.html #APoD

OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR watch!

my sister once said self care is not arguing with people who are committed to misunderstanding you... and ya know what? yeah 😎

Six Stages of Debugging

Step 1 : That can’t happen.

Step 2 : That doesn’t happen on my machine.

Step 3 : That shouldn’t happen.

Step 4 : Why does that happen?

Step 5 : Oh, I see.

Step 6 : how did that ever work?

Das finde ich extrem witzig: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/g20-latest-australians-literally-bury-their-heads-in-the-sand-over-tony-abbotts-refusal-to-put-9859269.html

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the beach in Australia to express their anger at Tony Abbott’s failure to address climate change – by literally burying their heads in the sand.

@HTHR
"Gay marriage will ruin the concept of family" say the dudes who go to a bar every night to complain about their families, to other dudes who're also complaining about their families.

The world's largest tree, at just 3 weeks old.

"Break things, move fast" is the IT industry.

"Move fast, break things" is the furniture removal industry.

I just learned that some people who work in solar energy production have a unit of measurement called a sunshine hour.

It's apparently not much used, but it seems to defined as 1 hour of sunlight when the solar irradiance exceeds 120 Watts per square metre (W/m^2).

I like this, and I might start using it just because I can.

The source code for several Infocom interactive fiction games was published on Github, e.g. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Steve Meretzky and Douglas Adams

https://github.com/historicalsource/hitchhikersguide

In 2387...

Ahhhh, French public transport. It’s almost reliable.

Almost.

"ultraviolet" is such a cool word tbh
it sounds like the name of a superheroine

standing in unity against game of thrones on this day, #UglyFrogsOnSunday

weirdness levels are currently at 94% but fluctuating wildly

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