Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. Daly was also part of the team that established the primary nucleic acid bases.
She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.
Image: National Institutes of Health
Orion says put down the camera and give scratchies. That's me told. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #DailyOrionSpam
Being pedantic at length is easy.
Real pros are pedantic at width.
True pedantic connoisseurs are pedantic at height.
I carry an epi-pen in case of bee sting, but I've learned I can get very close and watch them, as long as I'm not wearing certain colors, and don't do anything threatening. We've got lots of bee-friendly plants in our yard, and a fountain they like to drink from.
Adventures in #beekeeping. Now that Wednesday afternoonβs swarm is settled, itβs time to start moving the #bees a few feet at a time towards the other hives. This is my first experience dealing with a swarm, so learning something new every day.
Done.
Please give a warm welcome to my employer, Ars Technica, for joining us here at Mastodon by following them. :) @arstechnica
Four years ago, on this day, I wrote the most important thing I've ever written.
It became the basis for the entire Starship Gender project: https://starshipgender.com/sunday-april-28-2019
I knew I was trans, but there was still so much more I didn't know, yet, about who I am.
The closing words have never lost their magic, for me:
"I love you because you deserve to be loved, and you deserve to have something that can always be trusted β something from inside. You can always trust that you deserve to be loved. And you can always trust that I love you."
May it be so for all of us.
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I'd want to go to every tire and auto repair shop in town, turn the wheels, then go in and tell them I think my tires are out of alignment.
This is pretty cool
Kate McKinnon was in a little known 1985 movie called Gotcha. She turns 58 next year.
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I was on Twitter for five years and I ended up with 8,000 followers.
I've been on Mastodon for five months, and I already have 16,000 on here.
I think the biggest difference is that Mastodon just leaves me alone to do whatever I feel like doing, whereas Twitter would go out of its way to punch me in the head anytime I tried to enjoy the platform.
Part of it is less tangible than just a features list. I drive a 2016 Lincoln that I bought because it had features that, at the time, were only available on luxury cars. Now that I'm looking at a replacement, those features are also available on the Ford Escape - not a luxury car. But the Escape doesn't have the sound damping, the isolation, the ride isn't as smooth...
I like my Lincoln better, even as it's older.
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.