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Daniel Nidzgorski

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<p>I&#39;m a queer ecologist (he/him) living in Seattle, with my husband Casey (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gairdeachas" class="u-url mention">@<span>gairdeachas</span></a></span>). Other passions include hiking, biking, D&amp;D, partner acrobatics, crocheting, woodworking, and science fiction and fantasy.</p>

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    Meet the Masked Crusader, co-founder of the superhero squad in @jonobie&amp;#39;s murder mystery party last weekend. Such a fun event!

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    A coworker took a document I&amp;#39;d drafted and &amp;quot;ran it through Copilot&amp;quot; -- and then 100% replaced my draft with Copilot&amp;#39;s output. Sure, there were a few spots where Copilot made it more succinct or plain-language, but 90% was just saying the same thing slightly differently, in Copilot&amp;#39;s voice instead of my voice. I don&amp;#39;t look forward to a future where AI&amp;#39;s re/writing becomes so prevalent and expected that anyone&amp;#39;s real writing style...

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    &amp;quot;Move fast and break things&amp;quot; is a different kind of awful when it&amp;#39;s my manager constantly being in a rush and we&amp;#39;re the things getting broken.

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    I was rolling my eyes at the Obligatory Romance Subplot in this book. Clearly the initial slow burn of an enemies-to-lovers trope. Le sigh.... But no! It was all just a setup for betrayal and murder! Wheeee! Shattering a trope into wicked, glinting shards? Yes please! #bookstodon

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    #BloomScrolling

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    US Independence Day: In which we reenact being shelled mercilessly by British warships and set on fire.

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    Sensor readings from the &amp;quot;Kelvin timeline&amp;quot; suggest that the original #StarTrek science advisors may have been Vulcan. After the planet Vulcan was destroyed, that timeline&amp;#39;s movies were clearly lacking in science advisors. They completely screwed up something as basic as How Things Fall Down! (1/n)

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    Once in a blue moon, special characters (e.g., apostrophes) will show up as gibberish on kindle. Fortunately, that&#39;s easy to fix. In Calibre&#39;s preferences: 1) Common Options &gt; Text and check &quot;Smarten punctuation.&quot; 2) To make it happen automatically: Adding books &gt; Adding actions and check &quot;Automatically convert added books...&quot; and &quot;When auto-converting, convert even if the format being added...&quot; Now any time you add a book to Calibre, it gets con...

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    *phew!* The name was the same, but fortunately there was nothing about the nightmare-study that&#39;s anything like the real one.

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    As I&amp;#39;ve been trying to cook and clean tonight, I keep stopping and staring off into space. Things clicked this evening on a work problem I&amp;#39;d been struggling with. Give the mind time to wander, and voila! And I&amp;#39;m enjoying thinking through how I want to proceed! The problem, though, is that because of the data and statistics I&amp;#39;m working with, I&amp;#39;m staring off into logarithmic space. &amp;lt;shudder&amp;gt;

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    This is a beautiful rendition of Coldplay&amp;#39;s song &amp;quot;Yellow.&amp;quot; Dylan Holloway, a trans artist, recorded this song both before and after his transition and wove it together into a &amp;quot;duet with my past self.&amp;quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSmc7s1rgU

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    I get mixing up hawks, eagles, and ospreys. A &quot;sea hawk&quot; is actually an osprey, after all (different family from hawks). But you&#39;d think people would know what an *owl* looks like?