So rabb.it (the thing I have been using to share a screen and text chat with a room of ppl so we can watch things together) is shutting down at some point soon.

What do y'all use for this purpose? I like watching things with ppl who aren't physically nearby, and having a text chat means commentary (or other chatter) isn't disruptive. Is there an alternative to rabb.it yet?

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 06, 2019, 02:57

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**undyne** @undyne@trollian.space · Jul 06, 2019, 02:57

Jul 06, 2019, 02:57

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HANDMADE BY YOURS TRULY. THANKS TO JANE DORK FOR THE TRANSPARENT L. LOVE IT USE IT HAND YOUR FRIENDS AND FOES THE L

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 06, 2019, 02:56

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**undyne** @undyne@trollian.space · Jul 06, 2019, 02:56

Jul 06, 2019, 02:56

undyne @undyne@trollian.space

I HAND OUT THE L OF MY OWN DESIGN
THEY SAID I WAS MAD I PROVED IT
I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 06, 2019, 01:21

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**undyne** @undyne@trollian.space · Jul 06, 2019, 01:21

Jul 06, 2019, 01:21

undyne @undyne@trollian.space

MY FRIEND AND I ARE ENJOYING A CONVERSATION

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 05, 2019, 18:09

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 05, 2019, 18:09

Jul 05, 2019, 18:09

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

ok could someone give me good reasons why it would be a _bad_ idea to have a sort of Habitrail-like modular snake tank, built from smaller units connected with tubes for the snake to go through

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 05, 2019, 18:02

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**Joe** @legendaryjoeb@computerfairi.es · Jul 05, 2019, 18:02

Jul 05, 2019, 18:02

Joe @legendaryjoeb@computerfairi.es

www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/lightsail-mission-control.html - I helped put a little spacecraft into orbit and you can follow it here, if you like.

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 05, 2019, 03:19

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**The Wireless Witch of the West** @diodelass@cybre.space · Jul 05, 2019, 03:19

Jul 05, 2019, 03:19

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honestly just got a lot more serious about switching to krita over this

do *not* need that mentality anywhere in our life, including software we use

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 05, 2019, 03:04

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**The Wireless Witch of the West** @diodelass@cybre.space · Jul 05, 2019, 03:04

Jul 05, 2019, 03:04

The Wireless Witch of the West @diodelass@cybre.space

[reading that GNU IMP issue thread full of vitriol about changing the name]
you know, Krita is really nice this time of year

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 04:10

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**polymerwitch** @polymerwitch@anarchism.online · Jul 04, 2019, 04:10

Jul 04, 2019, 04:10

polymerwitch @polymerwitch@anarchism.online

re: portland pol / alt-right / racist history

y'know, when Oregon was known as the KKK capital of the north no one passed a no mask law. in the 80s when white supremacist street gangs regularly attacked people on portland streets no one pushed for a no mask law

curious

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 18:33

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**packbats in existence** @packbat@dragon.style · Jul 04, 2019, 18:33

Jul 04, 2019, 18:33

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Gonna take a few minutes to prepare and then start the prestream for my "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" stream! Game itself will begin on the hour, in about twenty-five mintues.

https://twitch.tv/packbat #gameing #stream

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 18:02

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**packbats in existence** @packbat@dragon.style · Jul 04, 2019, 18:02

Jul 04, 2019, 18:02

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nineteenth-century oratory, slavery, us politics

The Root published the complete text of Frederick Douglass's 1852 July 4th oration - commonly entitled "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" - on its website today for anyone who wants to give it a read: https://www.theroot.com/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1836083536

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 11:07

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**Silver Spook Games** @silverspookgames@mastodon.social · Jul 04, 2019, 11:07

Jul 04, 2019, 11:07

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July 4, Hawaii, Independence

Imagine a Native American community who had a Disneyland-like resort built over their villages and ancestor's graves, the people made to do bastardizations of their sacred dances, wear mock 'sexy feather headresses' and entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hours a day 7 days a week, living sardine-packed 20-to-a-house. And then be arrested for speaking their own language. It'd be an outrage, right? But that is just everyday life, in US-colonized Hawaii

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 16:37

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**lord goth of doom 🥀** @guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe · Jul 04, 2019, 16:37

Jul 04, 2019, 16:37

lord goth of doom 🥀 @guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe

The most important 4th of July toot

Where the fuck are my reparations?

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

4 July

(and yeah, the real independence day was the second of July)

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

Jul 04, 2019, 15:33

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

4 July

hey how we all gonna celebrate the anniversary of two days after a bunch of colonial landowners formally declared that they were gonna go on plundering America without giving their king a cut of the proceeds

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 05:09

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 05:09

Jul 04, 2019, 05:09

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

hm, kinda wonder if other related compounds would also work. like, naphthoquinones (make one out of menadione, haha--the Vitamin K3 electrode!)

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**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 05:04

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 05:04

Jul 04, 2019, 05:04

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

wanna try to make some p-benzoquinone, and some chloranil (that's tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone, and it's the end result of vigorous active chlorine oxidation of a lot of aromatic precursors)

you can make pH electrodes that exploit the redox couple between quinones and their corresponding hydroquinone, q.v. "quinhydrone electrode". the parent quinhydrone electrode starts degrading in high pHs because hydroquinone is soluble in alkali, but the chloranil counterpart should be better

#chemistry

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** · Jul 04, 2019, 01:42

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**Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku** @JigmeDatse@social.datsemultimedia.com · Jul 04, 2019, 01:42

Jul 04, 2019, 01:42

Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku @JigmeDatse@social.datsemultimedia.com

spectroscopy, open science

@Alyx we got:

https://publiclab.org/wiki/papercraft-spectrometer

and:

https://spectralworkbench.org/

Shared with us.

I think that a dedicated scanner probably gives "better" results. And the question is whether the results you are looking for justify it.

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 01:03

**Alyx Woodward (obsolete)** @Alyx@computerfairi.es · Jul 04, 2019, 01:03

Jul 04, 2019, 01:03

Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

has anyone ever tried ring-opening olefin metathesis polymerization with terpenes? there's some work on making useful polymers from limonenes etc. that I've seen but going through the radical polymerization route with, like, aluminum alkyls and stuff like that

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