charlotte minsky

in other words every post I make

Screenshot of Bluesky draft with the word "Mmm"

I don't know how to say this without sounding like I made it up but I just dropped a tofurky brand vegan italian sausage on my phone screen and this is what it typed

the postprint is here! essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

also happy to send PDFs to anyone who DMs or emails me :)

What does it take to turn Earth into a Snowball? Formation of a volcanic plateau about the size of India at the equator, according to our new study led by Charlotte Minsky:

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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me fantasizing about getting a tattoo when I was a teenager: it has to have 14 layers of meaning and represent core aspects of my personality and values that will never change

me shopping around for artists as an adult with a frontal lobe: what if I got an armadillo on my arm. arm-adillo.

on the one hand I get it because it's really just pickled radish and what is a pickle brine if not a solution of ⊆ {acid, salt, sugar}

on the other hand I do not at all get it

Picture of radish container that's says "spicy radish kimchi(s)" and then "ingredients: korean radish, sprite (carbonated water, corn syrup, citric acid), sugar, scallions, vinegar, red pepper powder, salt"

YEAH

what's your ranking?

you to use any WiFi or zigbee bulb from any brand, and also have fully local control w/ no third-party cloud-based stuff unless you want it. So I use that + cheap non-Philips zigbee bulbs (and that also lets you do more useful customized automations)

yeah, I've had a perfectly fine time with my WiFi-connected lights, but I also don't have a ton of them so I haven't experienced the potential network interference consequence

I will say, what I actually recommend is setting up a raspberry pi with Home Assistant (open source IOT OS), which allows

Hue uses the Zigbee protocol, which is going to get you more longevity and reliability and less interference with your WiFi network than the WiFi-based Wiz bulbs if you have a lot of devices, but that may not be worth the price differential (both per bulb and the overhead of the hub for Hue)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk? Less of a "puzzle-y" mystery in vibe, perhaps, but deliciously wintery with a bit of dark humor

we 👊 recruit

don't talk to me about the Boston and Albany Railroad

Never clicked on a ‘continue this thread’ faster.

lol

Stack of books: tinkers by Paul Harding, Language and Myth by Cassirer, Sevenes by Neal Stephenson, Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney, Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie, Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and William Gibson's Archangel

haul :)

Picture of three books stacked on top of a cardboard box labeled "free." Books are Machine Translation by Thierry Poibeau, Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger by Hartmut Lange, and Types and Programming Languages

spotted an extremely Cambridge, MA box of free books (not pictured: stacks of 70s Star Trek novels)

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I agree but only bc I just did the math and I don't think the salt content is high enough

100%

I feel very privileged, the credit system in general is just so predatory and racist it makes me very 😬

it is now

oh yeah, yet another meaning!

I've also at times been a dyke on a dike on a hike

that's so good

alternatively: my social network

dyke (geology) = one type of rock cutting through another type of rock
dyke swarm = a bunch of those near each other, often from a big magmatic event where magma fills all the rock cracks in an area
giant radiating dyke swarm = really big ones radiating out from one location

happy lesbian visibility week I work with geologists and here are some things people have said during meetings where I have to keep a straight face

- "giant radiating dyke swarms"
- "these dykes haven't been dated but we know their orientation"
- "I didn't realize this dyke penetrated so deeply"

Window with DIY fake stained glass in the pattern of the "kite"-shaped aperiodic monotile filled in with a rainbow of different colors

slowly finding more ways to sneak aperiodic monotiles into my apartment