Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

🚨BIG SCIENCE NEWS 🚨

And our results (along with our international colleagues) have dropped!

Our team (and others) have started to see the strongest evidence as yet of the stochastic gravitational wave background - ripples in space-time cause by ALL the supermassive black holes in the history of the Universe colliding!

We use pulsars to study these riplles and we needed almost 20 years of data to even get the first hints! It's the long game!

I'm a co-author on the Aussie papers (as part of my work) but I also wrote about it here in my latest feature article on #SpaceAustralia

This is why I have been going on about pulsars for a few weeks now - this was coming!

Check it out here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/australian-scientists-help-uncover-cosmic-gravitational-rumblings

📸 Shanika Galaudage

#Astrodon #Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #GravitationalWaves #Science #Pulsars

Soon I will launch the 2023 edition of the Interactive Fiction Top 50. But for now, let's play a game. I give you the first sentences of classic works of IF, you guess which ones! Answers behind CW-tags, please; or you can just post 'I know'! Let's start with three games. (The third one might be quite difficult.)

Sentence 1: My dear child, listen, and I'll feed you a tale.

Sentence 2: It must be the warlock Krill.

Sentence 3: "Sir? Sir, wake up."

#InteractiveFiction

New #introduction with more recent work!

My name is Léa, in my 30s, i've been on the fediverse for a year now and loving it!

I'm drawing and sharing my imaginary world with #fountainPen and #watercolours, mostly OCs and airplanes, clouds, flying creatures and machines 🛩️
I love comics a lot, working on some!

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

https://t.me/Kyivpost_official/11760
BoycottAllThingsSwiss⚠️🇨🇭The Swiss Federal Council has rejected the application of the Swiss company Ruag AG for the sale of 96 Leopard 1A5 main battle tanks for use in Ukraine, the county’s government portal reported. #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Russia #Switzerland #RussiaUkraineWar #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

And just discovered that #Mondelez owns #Cadbury chocolate too.
So that's Britain's most famous chocolate brand also implicated in funding Putin's war against #Ukraine.

Don't buy #Marabou, #Daim or #Oreo.
#StopPutinsWar
#StopBusinessInRussia
#StandWithUkraine

Time for the formal #GetFediHired post!

I have varied developer experience going back to the 90s. Front, back, apps, engines. I've spent a lot of time on game design tools -- game languages and VMs and interpreters.

If you want to build a toolset for your users to go creatively wild, we should talk. Doesn't have to be games.

(I recently spent a couple years building a narrative/dialogue engine for a multiplayer game, but a big layoff hit. Now I'm looking again.)

Thanks.

#LookingForWork

Realizing I left the A/C at 69° all day

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

Futurama is back. Again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmtcYvhj68

Who wants to tell her? #LongCovid