hecko @sobsz@vulpine.club

i made one

wimgs.....

(https://picrew.me/image_maker/574511)

"Who sent you?"
The intruder froze.
"You haven't come to seek gold or glory for yourself," the dragon said.
It was a short, sad, familiar story.
"Do you want to stay," the dragon asked, "with the others?"
"Others?"
The dragon called for his adopted children.
"I hoard family."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

https://medium.com/mindsets/gifted-kid-burnout-breaking-free-of-smartness-2c29e71a6cd0

oh.

my.

fucking.

god.

"Research done by Professor Carol Dweck (author of Mindsets: The New Psychology of Success) shows that giving kids positive labels such as “gifted”, “talented”, or “smart” in their formative years pushes them into what she calls a “fixed mindset”: believing that qualities are “set in stone”, “fearing challenge and devaluing effort” — with a fixed mindset, people “[don’t] want to do anything that could expose their flaws and call into question their talent”."

😭

it me

or was me, for the longest time

and kinda still is, but i'm trying to shake it off

Hey! We're running a game jam on Itch that focuses on making an audio game. Audio games are games that are played completely by ear and don't have eyes as a minimum requirement! I'd absolutely love for you to join and give it a try!
And if you know someone that might find this interesting, maybe tell them? <3
We start on April 9th, and submissions close on April 26th.
More info here: https://itch.io/jam/no-video-jam-2

UK PEOPLE CHANGING NAMES
•
you do NOT need a "proper" deed poll to change your name. you can do it online for free, just print it off & do all the signing stuff

if ANYONE give you shit, they can not. this is legal & perfectly fine

SO ANYONE IN UK WANNA CHANGE NAME, GO HERE

https://www.freedeedpoll.org.uk

#namechange #trans #LGBTQIA #change #beingme

"KMonad is an advanced tool that lets you infinitely customize and extend the functionalities of almost any keyboard [and] offers advanced customization features such as layers, multi-tap, tap-hold, and much more."

Which sounds awesome, however;

"The core maintainer is currently chronically (but not terminally) ill, and is unable to give KMonad the attention it deserves. We are currently looking for maintainers. Please see this issue for more information."

https://github.com/david-janssen/kmonad/issues/142

Looks like there's already some traction, but if you know you some Haskell and love keyboard wizardry (and somehow aren't already aware of this!) then you might wanna take a a look.

Boosts appreciated.

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard and the first woman to head a science department at Harvard. She also inspired entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

who are you

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1366542243797086209