Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@shriramk @steve it’s weird actually. We had basically the same wild temperature variance (all the mean was a bit higher) just before Christmas and lost 15 trees to the wind, but the air is pretty much still this time around.

@fakegreekgrill @arossp you’re welcome!

@shriramk @steve yeah, basically halfway between Middlebury + Burlington

@Popehat Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

@steve @shriramk I'm listening to our vinyl siding shrinking as background to all my meetings today

@steve @shriramk -5F here, dropping to -20F over the next day or so. I think I read ~-35F with windchill. Last week I would have described it as "unseasonably warm for late January" and shaken my fist at global warming, but this is definitely on the nippy side for our February weather patterns.

@foonathan As a C++ user, I *wish* it were a legacy language, but Rust has no answer for critical library ecosystems like CGAL…

@FinalOverdrive @mekkaokereke the south during Reconstruction had more black representation in the federal government than they do today…

@FinalOverdrive @mekkaokereke also imagine we didn’t give up on Reconstruction and instead occupied and re-educated the Confederacy the way we did Japan and Germany after WW-2…

@socrates1024 why_not_both.gif

TFW polar vortex

#cats #catstodon

@charliejane i haven’t seen any fake checks yet, but it’s certainly lacking that joie de vivre

“Why won’t slack loa…..ohhhhh”

Only took 4 or 5 cycles to update

@Sunfishstanford anyway, highly recommend the Valiant paper I linked earlier in the thread. He’s a fantastic communicator.