sajith @sajith@mastodon.social

Royal catchfly is pretty rare, due to habitat loss; there isn't a lot of rocky prairie or scrubby barren left. Red is an unusual color for a wildflower, since bees can't see it, but hummingbirds and butterflies can, and they l o v e i t! It gets its name from its habit of getting flies stuck to its sticky stem. It has enzymes to digest them, but doesn't get any nutrients from that, so maybe it kills for FUN.

Probably one of the saddest parts of leaving birdsite was that I’d spent a pretty decent amount of time trying to add and follow a lot more women in tech, and I miss hearing from them.

Help me balance my follows out and suggest some awesome #WomenInTech to follow (cis/trans, it’s all good). Boost this, maybe even reply with yourself, maybe we can get a good list of voices.

Mastodon is an anagram for "not so mad"

Hi everyone, this is Kushal Das, a privacy advocate and FOSS developer working on #SecureDrop at https://freedom.press #Introduction

A female monarch on butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) in the prairie garden. #butterflies #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #photography #photo #SaveTheMonarch

Let's make the first upload a classic! I worked on this Dimensions #cat #crossstitch off and on for years, slapped a caption on, and it's the highlight of my kitchen

loudly going "harrumph, typical bourgeois democracy" whenever anything happens

I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories.

This one (retold by my ex-Linden-Lab-colleague Mark Ferlatte) happened in the mid-2000s.

The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing.

But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs.

My son spent a few hours chasing lizards on some dunes not to far from sainshand #mongolia , anyone reading this knowing the specie? ( Boost if you think it will help me get an answer)

Tax havens are destroying the earth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45172671

<<Deforestation in the Amazon and widespread illegal fishing have both been linked to tax havens, according to a new study.

Some 68% of the investments tracked in the Amazon came from companies based in countries where no tax is paid.

When it comes to illegal fishing, around 70% of known vessels are registered in tax havens.

Tax avoidance schemes say the authors, are essentially subsidising the destruction of the environment. >>

Hey, I need some recommendation for some software. I need to prototype an implementation of an idiosyncratic #spline #algorithm. At each control node of the spline, I would like to easily have a slider that can adjust one of the spline parameters and redraw the spline dynamically.

What's the fastest way to implement this? I need to demo it next week. D3.js? Qt? Matplotlib?