Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

Quite often "targeted ads" seem to be activated by me using a single word irrespective of context. The "AIs" just aren't very smart.

After a sunny week, it's weird foggy drizzle out there this morning

https://hgtvhome.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/grdn/fullset/2014/8/11/0/Original_orig-photo-watermelon-edd5b7b20000.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.1280.960.suffix/1452647702371.jpeg #ducks #watermelon

Thread from Japan #accelerator lab J-PARC about getting a more independent Muon g-2 measurement #physics

RT https://twitter.com/jiromurata/status/1381016369878069250

This planetoid is rotating so fast even an oblate spheroid is unstable, it also has a ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea#Rotation #space #astronomy

If people live and work on #Mars, there'd be days (sols) of the week there that are not synchronised with Earth (24h39 vs. 24h), although it's close enough that the occasional short week could keep the weekends roughly in sync
#space

#Mars helicopter flight delayed to Wednesday (is it Wednesday on Mars? I dunno)
#space
RT https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1380924973360033792

#Mars helicopter flight on Sunday, data on Monday #space

RT https://twitter.com/NASAMars/status/1380595882475720707

Seeing how tech companies treat user data, I'm not having an implanted brain interface any time soon

The trees here are budding or getting small leaves

A large #doughnut shaped #cloud appears in the north polar region of #Mars around the same time every Martian year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mars#Repeating_northern_annular_cloud
#space

Here's a picture of something not working (the green particle goes unstable and is lost). Do you have a picture of something not working from your research? #physics #accelerators

#Mars helicopter blades unlocked
#space
RT https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1380050243316711426

Video may have been edited #news #comedy #uk

RT https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1378056214047830016

Lots of news about clots today except the ones writing the headlines

Another pet peeve: people using "cannot" when they mean "should not"

This illustrates the gulf between reading a headline and seeing the timeseries in context.

No particular axe to grind here other than don't use language to do quantities, use a graph.

Iceland #volcano seen from a flight
[video]
RT https://twitter.com/LeeProud/status/1379471527586975748

#Robot arm acrobatics
[video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChOe_WfZ-o