greetings and salutations

woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about.

a common throughline in Shit What I Like is understanding how and why systems work. popular tags include:

• #tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
• #mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short
• #maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
• #technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
• #better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics 
• #my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
• #cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
• #textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
• #evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile endeavors
• #good lines - art i think is neat
• #answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
• #capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games

elsewhere:

• twitter: @/ gfsofthegalaxy
• ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
• discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)

salmonbyte:

leek with garlic (digital media, 2023)

psikonauti:

Camille Bombois (French, 1883–1970)

Pêcheur au bord de l'eau, ca. 1930

Oil on canvas

art-of-mathematics:

knotty-et-al:

Visualization of the Rubik’s cube

Inspired by this:

girlfriendsofthegalaxy:

Guest post: Genomics has a spreadsheet problem

Mandhri Abeysooriya Surveys show spreadsheets are the most widely used analytical tool in academic research. But they are prone to errors. D

Retraction Watch

hey did you know excel will mistake some gene names for dates and autoconvert them

In response to these issues, the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) has made changes to some gene names prone to errors. This includes converting the SEPT-1 gene to SEPTIN1 and the MARCH1 gene to MARCHF1.

We also found some novel errors. Some were connected to the local language setting. For example, the AGO2 gene was converted to Aug-02, perhaps due to “Ago” being short for “August” in Spanish. Similarly, MEI1 was switched to May-01 (“Mei” is “May” in Dutch), and TAMM41 to Jan-41 (“Tammikuu” is “January” in Finnish).

a partial fix is now live, except it doesn’t work with macros

derekq-art:

Ride ‘em

chipper-smol:

chipper-smol:

You are a cat, do you:

Play with the new fish toy your human bought for you that wiggles tantalizingly

Keep playing with the broken off paper handle of a gift bag

Tags that I was obviously fishing for yet still brought me great delight reading:

Bonus tag that made me laugh:

writeouswriter:

Too much capitalism in Christmas and not enough in Halloween, companies need to start slapping little bats and pumpkins back onto their packaging asap

teathattast:

nyancrimew:

new by me

EXCLUSIVE: second biggest russian insurance company hacked

EXCLUSIVE: second biggest russian insurance company hacked

unique insights into one of the biggest russian financial institutions

maia :3

fm-townz:

fm-townz:

Hard at work at the yaoi factory

They fucking called fujOSHA on us

@itsybitsydragon absolutely bonkers appliqué work in here, let me know if u want to see any specific pages

bryan-damage: