donpdonp @donpdonp@mastodon.xyz

77 Terawatt Hours/Year - Comparable to the energy consumption of Chile, has just been made obsolete with Ethereum's successful transition to Proof of Stake. https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/

The right levels of coffee and https://www.thehousecrunch.com/ make for a slamming good morning.

@raucao I agree discovery has so much potential in the fediverse. #hashtaglife

"Your practice must be: intentional, aimed at improving performance, designed for your current skill level, combined with immediate feedback and repetitious."

"...hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." -- Uncle Iroh

Quote by John Green: “In some ways, pain is the opposite of language.”

@raucao I dont know how good it is but https://funkwhale.audio is a thing. #fediverse

"Their emotions were neglected in some way as helpless children, so avoidants have a deep core wound where they assume abandonment. They feel safer preparing for this ending because they know it will happen. And not allowing themselves to feel is in fact an unconscious form of self-abandonment." https://www.freetoattach.com/

An amusing and thoughtful "Vaccine Apartheid Explained"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTz_XrsIwc

Carl Sagan — 'we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers'

NasaSpaceFlight videos continue to be incredible. Feels like watching the future being built before my eyes. Particularly amazing is the scale of things being built, and at the same time, how ordinary the construction looks. Workers in harnesses, standard construction lifts and cranes do all the final assembly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkISOyq6eTk

Our central library (Portland, Or) is open again!

Veloren 0.11 release party today! #mmorpg #voxel https://veloren.net/release-0-11/

@raucao
Looks like freenode might have dropped their user database *again*. I had to sign up at https://irc.com/login/sso before my sasl creds would work.

Bezos and New Sheppard fly tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ does an incredible job of reliving the entire Apollo 11 mission.

Its been great to spend the whole rainy Sunday with my ebook reader and a fun scifi novel.

The humans at the base of StarShip 15 give a sense of scale to this behemoth of a ship. And its not even stacked on the SuperHeavy launch vehicle yet.

Nothing makes me feel like maybe I'm dyslexic like trying to read sheet music. After 20 years of occasional trying, its still not any easier.

Its day 4 after getting the first shot of pfizer. I'm feeling a little run down but otherwise fine. Glad to be on the path to vaccination.

I wont miss the "Toot" name in mastodon. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080