2017-12-01 23:00
egg|nomz|egg changed the topic of #kspacademia to:
https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
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iximeow >
UmbralRaptop: negatory, i need to figure that out as well
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UmbralRaptop >
IRAF and DS9 if you have grad student levels of self-loathing, astropy if you do not?
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UmbralRaptop >
(And possibly jupyter)
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B787_300 >
i mean DS9 is a nice viewer for FITS
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B787_300 >
also what are you trying to process from the images
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egg|anboscope|egg >
cows, probably,
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egg|anboscope|egg >
UmbralRaptop: M103!
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UmbralRaptop >
dwarf spheroid!
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B787_300 >
wasnt there a paper about M103 recently where Andromedra ripped its arms off
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egg|anboscope|egg >
um, 103 is an open cluster
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egg|anboscope|egg >
did you mean 110?
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B787_300 >
egg|anboscope|egg: i dont really do astronomy... i look at man made objects most of the time
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UmbralRaptop >
103, 32 and 110,close enough
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* UmbralRaptop
ignores the distance between Cassiopeia and Andromeda.
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egg|anboscope|egg >
UmbralRaptop: i wonder whether i could use the ccd in the finder for wide-field shots >_>
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UmbralRaptop >
egg|anboscope|egg: probably, yes.
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* UmbralRaptop
eggspects Hyades and Pleiades as a result.
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egg|anboscope|egg >
probably poorly corrected for that porpoise but might be fun to try
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* B787_300
slaps egg|anboscope|egg with a dolphin...
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* egg|anboscope|egg
pets the random mammal
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UmbralRaptop >
Not many interesting DSOs in Delphinius, though some of the stars have amusing names.
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B787_300 >
egg|anboscope|egg: s/porpoise/purpose
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Qboid >
B787_300 thinks egg|anboscope|egg meant to say: probably poorly corrected for that purpose but might be fun to try
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UmbralRaptop >
It's all fun and games until your telescope is used by nefarious porpoises.
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egg|anboscope|egg >
B787_300: they are the same for all practical cetaceans
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B787_300 >
UmbralRaptop: how else would they keep an eye out for the Vogons
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B787_300 >
i mean not telling humanity was kinda a duck move
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UmbralRaptop >
And the Star Trek IV probe.
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B787_300 >
i am not familiar with that one
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egg|anboscope|egg >
!choose zzz|stare at more things
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Qboid >
egg|anboscope|egg: Your options are: zzz, stare at more things. My choice: zzz
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B787_300 >
oh egg|anboscope|egg what part of Europe are you in again?
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egg|anboscope|egg >
FR
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B787_300 >
ah i though you were in Switzerland
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B787_300 >
well i will be in your neck of the woods soonish
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egg|anboscope|egg >
usually I'm in CH, but right now on vacation in FR
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egg|anboscope|egg >
Switzerland
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B787_300 >
that makes no sense
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egg|anboscope|egg >
Confoederatio Helvetica
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B787_300 >
and who are the Helves?
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UmbralRaptop >
Knockoff Arials
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* UmbralRaptop
ducks
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B787_300 >
then are the Gothics knockoff Arials?
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UmbralRaptop >
Something like that
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kmath >
<profanegeometry> experimental physics is too expensive i should've just bought a copy of mathematica or smth
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SnoopJeDi >
I'm slightly perplexed by fusors
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UmbralRaptop >
Omnidirectional colliders, right?
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egg|anboscope|egg >
!wpn whitequark
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* Qboid
gives whitequark a complex classmethod
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egg|anboscope|egg >
!wpn коте
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* Qboid
gives коте a bolometric equation
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egg|anboscope|egg >
!wpn bofh
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* Qboid
gives bofh a transfinite జ్ఞా
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egg|anboscope|egg >
!wpn the котяchrome kitten
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* Qboid
gives the котяchrome kitten a package-private cannon
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UmbralRaptop >
!wpn the grey kitten
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* Qboid
gives the grey kitten a Noetherian monorail
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UmbralRaptop >
!wpn
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* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptop a package-private trampoline which strongly resembles a numpy
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UmbralRaptop >
import trampoline as np
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B787_300 >
UmbralRaptop: from numpy import bounce?
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UmbralRaptop >
from russia import rogozon
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UmbralRaptop >
s/zon/zin/
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Qboid >
UmbralRaptop meant to say: from russia import rogozin
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UmbralRaptop >
grrr
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e_14159_ >
"IRC investigative journalists"
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UmbralRaptop >
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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egg >
UmbralRaptop: +r is annoying tbh
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egg >
UmbralRaptop: e.g. whitequark et al. aren't logged in
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egg >
UmbralRaptop: maybe +m and voice everyone?
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whitequark >
i can talk despite +r apparently
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whitequark >
maybe because i'm an op
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bofh >
I think +r only affects joins, not messages. But yeah, +m and voice everyone is the usual strat here.
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bofh >
I could try to script something that bans on strings like "IRC investigative journalists" but it feels like down that way lies madness.
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egg >
!pet whitequark
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* Qboid
pets whitequark
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egg >
blarg it is too hot
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egg >
bofh: how is finland
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kmath >
<TheEpsylon> @bofh453 You need to read all of Gotlib, there are some true gems (Les dingodossiers and rubrique à brac series are personal favorites)
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egg >
bofh: it has tarass boulba
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egg >
bofh: tarass boulba's sun is called sunset, because sunset boulba,
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egg >
bofh: [bulba] vs. [bulvaʁ], unsure what the en pronunciation of "boulevard" is
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Qboid >
egg meant to say: bofh: tarass boulba's son is called sunset, because sunset boulba,
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bofh >
ROFL THAT IS INCREDIBLE
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bofh >
there's a fucking heatwave everywhere -.-
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bofh >
so yeah, it's too damn hot everywhere.
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bofh >
at least better than in AMS.
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egg >
!wpn bofh and whitequark
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* Qboid
gives bofh and whitequark a hyperbola
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awang >
UmbralRaptop: Huh. Heard of equatorial mounts, but not of altazimuth mounts
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awang >
!slap IRC investigative journalists
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* Qboid
puts IRC investigative journalists into a small box that emulates real life, puts that box on his desk and analyzes his behavior
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UmbralRaptop >
!wa weather St Petersburg Florida
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Qboid >
UmbralRaptop: Error: NameResolutionFailure
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UmbralRaptop >
!wa weather St Petersburg Russia
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Qboid >
UmbralRaptop: weather | Saint Petersburg, Russia: temperature | 23 °C, conditions | partly cloudy, relative humidity | 78% (dew point: 19 °C), wind speed | 3 m/s, (48 minutes ago)
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bofh >
egg: ahh yes, the SI Standard Reference Camembert,
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UmbralRaptop >
Le Grand C?
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UmbralRaptop >
Also 86!
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kmath >
<✔kevinschawinski> I just used this picture for research. Lord Buckethead is definitely elongated and/or edge-on.
https://t.co/dFZ0UnP2nx
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bofh >
lmao twitter "detected suspicious activity on my account" and mandated I change my p/w.
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bofh >
no idea what that activity was but I guess some automated script took umbrage with hopping like a zillion ISPs since Saturday
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gives bofh an USB vertical (with ground plane)
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kmath >
<anni_leskela> Hahahaha check out this alternative transfer orbit to the Moon based on chaotic dynamics, it consumes almost 40% le…
https://t.co/SkVmxragrk
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UmbralRaptop >
Context: that's fuel in m/s
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kmath >
<The_Lagrangian> @anni_leskela this is what happens when you choose Blue Origin slow shipping to save 5 Galactic Bezos Tokens
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UmbralRaptor >
Amazon WSB Prime
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kmath >
<Bottlaeric> @anni_leskela When this picture was taken, Larry didn't knew that 2 and a half year later, we'd find his body on th…
https://t.co/o9XiYPpHg3
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APlayer >
The post was really good, but the thread gets better the more you read it
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kmath >
<MogTheConfessor> Everyone can turn off the internet and go outside to play now, I've found the best meme.
https://t.co/kF3WpDqhwJ
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awang >
UmbralRaptor: ...wat
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awang >
bofh: That looks impressive o_O
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UmbralRaptor >
awang: wat at which thing?
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awang >
UmbralRaptor: Mostly the KSP wiki thing
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awang >
Partially at the Earth-Moon transfer that takes 2 years
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awang >
I'm very tempted to figure out how to fire up KSP here so I can try it
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awang >
I have a feeling I'll be getting timed out well before 2 years though
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UmbralRaptor >
awang: I've deleted something like 2500 spam pages over the past week. =|
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UmbralRaptor >
Yay for Nuke
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Qboid >
awang: [WSB] => Weak Stability Boundary
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awang >
UmbralRaptor: Nuke? Some kind of modding tool?
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awang >
And why the heck would someone think spamming the KSP wiki page would be helpful for business?
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UmbralRaptor >
awang: yeah, add-on for mediawiki. And I have no idea.
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egg >
bofh: ants again
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egg >
good news: the usual methods of driving the bulk of them away with light works as well as last time
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egg >
bad news: it's in the bedroom, and formic acid is unpleasant, so now i need to hunt down the remaining ones
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bofh >
yikes, I presume in the bedroom w/the cat that the cat likes to meow at the door of?
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bofh >
(fwiw I don't think the winged ones
*specifically* can spray, but best to get rid of them anyway :/).
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egg >
yeah the cat is on the bed
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bofh >
!pet ANBOcat
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* Qboid
pets ANBOcat
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egg >
it's watching me swatting ants and beating up ants with rusted-chromium-vanadium adjustable pliers
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awang >
UmbralRaptor: Being a KSP wiki admin sounds fun
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egg >
bofh: does formic acid corrode chromium-vanadium steel,
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bofh >
I think slightly, but steels tend to be weak-acid resistant somewhat.
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egg >
hopefully the spam got saner
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egg >
!wpn bofh and UmbralRaptor
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* Qboid
gives bofh and UmbralRaptor a Dirac unicode abuse̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊̊
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UmbralRaptor >
!wpn egg
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gives egg a pentecostal visual Spivak
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egg >
!wpn whitequark
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gives whitequark a supermillimeter kappa hurricane with an atom attachment
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awang >
Specture, but without the requirement of running code on the victim's system
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awang >
s/Specture/Spectre
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Qboid >
awang meant to say: Spectre, but without the requirement of running code on the victim's system
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awang >
Although the existing mitigations apparently work fine
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Qboid >
U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>)
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Qboid >
U+0020 SPACE (␠)
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Qboid >
U+1F436 DOG FACE (🐶)
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Qboid >
U+1F525 FIRE (🔥)
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awang >
Gee, thanks Konsole
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kmath >
<PenguinGalaxy> I just thought of a solution to the heatwave! ⏎ ⏎ Everyone hold astronomical events! ⏎ ⏎ Get your scopes out, gather peop…
https://t.co/knu7w6FnkE
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egg >
cc UmbralRaptor et al.
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UmbralRaptor >
egg: the clouds know my desires apparently.
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egg >
bofh: tbh it might be cloudy tomorrow