Posts by anne@beach.city
(DIR) Post #9ki4DiCQhda31ycCm0 by anne@beach.city
2019-07-09T20:38:20Z
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These look strange to my Canadian eyes because I'm used to (white-tailed) deer that are spotted only as fawns. Fallow deer, though, retain their spots throughout life.
(DIR) Post #9lGsjvQb72ZYbWzxJ2 by anne@beach.city
2019-07-27T09:38:14Z
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Today is the Pride Walk in Amsterdam.Distinct from the huge Canal Parade, this is about actual queer people marching to show we're here and we're proud. At the end, in the Vondelpark, there at all kinds of community organizations to get in touch with. Want a gay men's choir? They'll be there with a sign up sheet.
(DIR) Post #9lGzlG36d2MSWoaoTo by anne@beach.city
2019-07-27T11:03:57Z
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@epicmorphism I wasn't kidding about the men's choir
(DIR) Post #9lboqVgH1eqMr1YfZ2 by anne@beach.city
2019-08-06T12:04:26Z
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Welcome to mastodon everyone! I love seeing all this art posted. But we do have some folks on here who don't see well, and they really appreciate it if you add a description to your images. Just briefly what you're showing people, so that they have some idea what they're looking for.I know sometimes it seems like too much work, and if you can't you can't. But it does make your work accessible to more people, not least because more of us will boost it.#introduction #florespondence #mastoart
(DIR) Post #9lbryFKdzgrWKPp0XA by anne@beach.city
2019-08-06T12:22:17Z
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Peonies (and an experiment with a ring light)#florespondence
(DIR) Post #9lfZKfjl5sqHFTQraK by anne@beach.city
2019-08-08T06:24:52Z
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#365feministselfies
(DIR) Post #9lfaaxLpTNrYStZIBs by anne@beach.city
2019-07-26T23:13:05Z
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For some reason I find it really disconcerting when someone with a "generic" North American accent glottalizes their t's. My first reaction is that it sounds "uneducated". I know enough about accents to know this is wrong in almost every respect, and also unjust. Not to mention I am surrounded by English accents from all around the world. But somehow an accent close to mine - Montreal anglophone, a kind of central Canadian accent - but with a glottalized t really grabs my attention.
(DIR) Post #9lsNuqQv7r2tNwdA6S by anne@beach.city
2019-08-14T11:51:48Z
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@boisdevache @starkatt That's a very good question!Many sky surveys are looking for a very specific thing. For example pulsar surveys scan the skies looking for pulsars. They (generally) look at the sky with radio telescopes and record data in a way that doesn't let you measure the absolute brightness of that part of the sky but do allow the detection of rapidly changing wide-band signals. 1/?
(DIR) Post #9lsRS5mtMKLMQOS920 by anne@beach.city
2019-08-14T12:27:47Z
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@boisdevache @starkatt if you'll forgive another long answer:There are surveys done just as general-purpose sky surveys. Of course they reach have their limits, and they are done with at least one drievoudig goal in mind, but these are done with the idea in mind that they will answer questions nobody has yet thought of. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an extremely successful example of this.1/¿
(DIR) Post #9lsRS61QUHyB9TFkga by anne@beach.city
2019-08-14T12:31:59Z
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@boisdevache @starkatt But I personally have worked more with the Fermi gamma-ray telescope. It has a very wide field of view and operates in a mode where it scans the entire sky every few hours. The entire data set is public, and there is a catalog of sources.2/?
(DIR) Post #9lsRS6DTlTbvkqtNTM by anne@beach.city
2019-08-14T12:33:31Z
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@boisdevache @starkatt But the way one does science with it is usually to come up with a question ("this source is weird, I wonder if it shows up in gamma rays? I wonder if it's changing?") and search through the data for the answer. One might build up a light curve, for example, that shows that the source unexpectedly brightened in gamma rays. 3/?
(DIR) Post #9lwWkRokzvVXfcbH7o by anne@beach.city
2019-08-16T11:03:15Z
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#365feministselfie #femmefriday
(DIR) Post #9lwpLL1J247ITfD5xQ by anne@beach.city
2019-08-16T10:11:48Z
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Anyone else miss the degauss button on fancy old CRTs?Not that I ever had to degauss one (I learned my lesson after the TV incident) but there was something about the way it made your picture jump around that was satisfying.#retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #9m38Wt9bWmrfbY4YYS by anne@beach.city
2019-08-19T16:15:15Z
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I take birthdays as times to reflect on where I am and how I got here.Fourteen years ago to the day, I was struggling with myself and I thought "In a year I'll be thirty. What kind of person do I want to be?" And I decided that no matter the cost I had to transition, to embrace being a girl. Even though I knew it would cost me a long-term relationship with someone I loved.It has been difficult, and I've had some awful times, but never once have I regretted that decision.
(DIR) Post #9m4x1DeR4cnGjI6rtA by anne@beach.city
2019-08-20T13:30:46Z
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I feel a bit overdressed for a checkup at the doctor, but I'm going for a birthday dinner afterwards. And I always make sure to dress femme enough to avoid confusing doctors. Poor things, they tend to have a very simple idea of gender.#365feministselfies
(DIR) Post #9m9E7CIxT50A90L8sK by anne@beach.city
2019-08-22T11:36:04Z
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I'd like to express my appreciation of trans guys.There are a lot of toxic expectations we place on men. And I know that bone-deep need to have our gender recognized by those around us. But the trans men I know are some of the best examples of positive masculinity I've ever met. I hope they can teach us all to expect more.
(DIR) Post #9mPCocL3r0ZkYBLdVQ by anne@beach.city
2019-08-29T19:18:37Z
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When I think of the International Earth Rotation Service (more often than you might think) I picture them taking shifts on a big crank.https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Home/home_node.html
(DIR) Post #9mPslnReIiRKCZlbZw by anne@beach.city
2019-08-30T10:24:53Z
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Pet peeve: science fiction that writes planets as All One Place, as if the Earth didn't reach from Amsterdam to the Atacama desert to Kinshasa to Green Bank, West Virginia. Not to mention hydrothermal vents, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Antarctic ice sheet.
(DIR) Post #9nxUzemlIqKlpjYSYq by anne@beach.city
2019-10-15T18:54:42Z
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Went out to Tynemouth on Saturday.
(DIR) Post #9o8yX5k1TEQq3HyaJ6 by anne@beach.city
2019-10-21T07:52:11Z
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Amazing little critter. actually they were maybe a couple of centimeters across, so not so very little.