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Deborah Pickett

*draws on cigarette* Je regrette … rien #cats

Deborah Pickett

The warmup act is here, with some post-punk noise about the cat carceral system and the injustice of curfews. #cats #streaming

Deborah Pickett

#Cats (plural, Sophie is under the blanket, which is why creepy stalker Oscar is here).

Deborah Pickett

Oscar helpfully telling me that I’ve put the furniture back wrong. #cats

Deborah Pickett

The littlest dog watches Hudson & Rex. #cats

Deborah Pickett

Sophie has fluffed up quite a bit this winter. She’s a small cat; that’s mostly fur. #cats

Deborah Pickett

We wanted to play Underwater Cities. Sophie wanted to play The Isle of Cats. So we did. #cats #boardgames

Deborah Pickett

Oscar’s next soulful solo album (with a cameo from one of the Dog Princesses). #cats #dogs #ukulele #AlbumCovers

Deborah Pickett

Looking forward to trying this new board game, Pick All The White Fur Off The Black Neoprene Mat, later today.

#boardgames #cats

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Stephen Collins

@futzle absolutely pissing down here. Not a hope...

Andy Alderwick

@futzle yay, you got to see aurorae too! Last night's was my first aurora ever :flan_hurrah:

Deborah Pickett

Shadow found where the cat toys were kept. #cats

Deborah Pickett

Ragdollweed in the flower beds again, GDI. #cats

Deborah Pickett

Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.

Deborah Pickett

If you live in a city with tall buildings, take a look at the night skyline. The buildings probably have flashing lights on them to help aircraft pilots to identify the shapes of buildings and not fly into them.

You might notice that the buildings flash in synchrony, even though they are hundreds of metres apart. What's going on?

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Deborah Pickett

The idea is that all the lights on a given building should flash together. That way, an aviator can visualize the solid space between lights that blink the same way. Blink same? Don't fly. Blink different? That's a gap.

And that's how it worked for a while. A building's owner would wire all the lights together and feed them with a centralized oscillator signal.

Later on, when wire got expensive and buildings got taller, they switched to short-range radio, with one transmitter sending the blink signal, and each light having a receiver in it.

This worked fine, because all oscillators will drift eventually, so every building gets a different blinking pattern.

Then GPS happened.

The idea is that all the lights on a given building should flash together. That way, an aviator can visualize the solid space between lights that blink the same way. Blink same? Don't fly. Blink different? That's a gap.

And that's how it worked for a while. A building's owner would wire all the lights together and feed them with a centralized oscillator signal.

Cyber Yuki

@futzle Liked for the wallpaper (sorry 😅), boosted for the explanation.

Full Metal Archaeopteryx

@futzle
Wind turbines have the same problem... as I drive home at night, I get to watch an entire hillside blink in perfect synchrony

Deborah Pickett

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

Deborah Pickett

This reminds me of something I posted on a previous social media account.

“You’ve Got Mail”: a romantic comedy about a little bookstore being overrun by a huge bookstore/DVD store

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a dark comedy about a huge bookstore/DVD store being overrun by an online mail-order megastore.

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got “You’ve Got Mail”’”: a tragedy about an online mail-order megastore being supplanted by streaming services. ← YOU ARE HERE

“No One’s Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a farce about how all movies have become unavailable because companies withhold them for the tax write-offs.

“You’ve Got Mail-full-1080p.mkv”: a documentary about the valuable role that pirates are performing as librarians and archivists.

This reminds me of something I posted on a previous social media account.

“You’ve Got Mail”: a romantic comedy about a little bookstore being overrun by a huge bookstore/DVD store

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a dark comedy about a huge bookstore/DVD store being overrun by an online mail-order megastore.

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