A couple things I saw and thought "Mastodon will love this":

- Alias, a 3D-printed "parasite" that sits on top of your Amazon Echo or Google Home, feeding white noise into its mic until you say the wake word: http://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias

- The adminbook, a wonderfully ugly design for the ideal sysadmin notebook: https://m.habr.com/en/post/437912/

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One of the #Arachno19 talks is by Dr. Leanda Mason, presenting her work on the world's oldest spider, Gaius villosus No. 16, who you may remember from this lovely story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/01/the-extraordinary-life-and-death-of-the-worlds-oldest-known-spider/

Anyway, I learned that for $250, you can sponsor a North Bungulla trapdoor spider for life and get updates on the continuing research: https://leanda.life/sponsoring-spiders/

And it may be a very long life indeed 😊 🐘

So an international arachnological conference, #Arachno19, is under way in New Zealand, and I'm following the tweets here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/arachno19?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

I have learned so many new things!

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Meanwhile, in Canada: Saskatchewan man Dave Assman (pronounced OSS-men), denied a custom license plate with his surname, opts for a giant decal instead. https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/after-dave-assmans-license-plate-denied-sask-man-opts-for-giant-assman-decal/ #news #Canada #butts 🐘

Wasabi is now purring rapturously as we catch up on a day's worth of scritches

all the Grammy news I'm seeing is extremely meh

oh she's mad

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats

we have achieved the rare catloaf-on-chest

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memes are détournement?

v. powerful raccoon spotted in a tree this evening while I was on my way back from the grocery store

there's something reassuring about -20°C weather, like, you always know what to wear in the morning: the warmest stuff you have. there you go. #dlws

Might be time for a nap #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats

*David Attenborough voice* The wild Wasabi curls into a perfect ball, covering her nose with her tail. She must keep warm if she is to survive the winter.

#DailyCatPic #cats #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats

The bag is manifestly too small for her but she's trying anyway

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Wasabi: "Human isn't getting up and getting me food? I'll loaf on hir chest. That'll show hir"

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Wasabi can't resist sheets fresh out of the dryer. #caturday #dailycatpic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats