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dev, ex maths nerd, interested in things, probably not the cool things you're into

A photo taken during the first mission to the moon, with text, a quote by Carl Sagan, added. “For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: ‘We came in peace for all mankind.’ As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
Image by Denis Beauvais of the face hugger alien from Alien doing its thing, used as the cover art for a Dark Horse Comic in 1997
Jim Downey with a speech bubble saying "Kanye West? The acclaimed rapper and record producer?" [West recently said some things on twitter that made it clear he had abused underage girls and was unrepentent, Jim Downey notoriously did a bit on a podcast with Conan where he acted like Jeffrey Epstein, known serial child sex abuser, was just a new york financier.]
Graph showing reduction in cost of solar panels in a $US vs Kilowatt. Priced above $100 in 1975, much less than 50c now.
Text from part 1 of the amended Online Safety Act 2021, detailing the definition of a social media service, reading: (a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions: (i) the sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end‑users; (ii) the service allows end‑users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end‑users; (iii) the service allows end‑users to post material on the service; (iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or