Alyssa Crawford

computer science BS, in progress MS. 24. cat mom, epic gamer, tech educator, home chef, data hound, info sponge, mega nerd. 🏜️🐈🌎🧑‍💻🏳️‍🌈🌻💉☕️

[julian @juliancd38]

last nights firefly haul under hazy wildfire skies

[bumblebike @bumblebike]

@SwiftOnSecurity This is from a 1979 presentation. We are v slow learners, it seems.

[nova🌟⏳ @pc_98s]

removing ram from a computer while it’s on

[Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 @forecaster25]

Exceptionally rare supernumerary rainbow - captured just now east of Charlottesville, VA.

Never seen one like this before!! #vawx

[kiera @kiera_b_]

do you think the dinosaurs thought, "how pretty"?

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

The Iñupiat of Alaska traditionally use a base-20 number system. In 1994, students at Kaktovik middle school worked with their teacher to invent a way to write this, since they found our base-10 unfamiliar. After the invention of Kaktovik numerals, test scores rose significantly

[renren! @twtnirenren]

I pray you're born with gills, a comic from 2021 (1/6)

[Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian]

(a) this is fascinating

(b) I hate to think how messed up science is going to get as people use LLMs for things they really shouldn’t, which evidently includes any kind of random sampling.

[Alyssa Crawford @ALY55AJC]

so close to totality… but not close enough :( iceland 2026 i am coming for you

[cyriak harris @cyriakharris]

My brother put a bunch of dirty old lego bricks in the washing machine and they came out assembled. I guess a few million years of this might produce some kind of lego life form, perhaps?

[Xeno @XenoPanther]

Did you know that the spinner seen in modern Windows boot screens is stored as a font?

[★Nate D Hernandez★ @NateDHernandez]

My favorite compliment that my paintings get is that they give people psychic damage after zooming in

[Wenting @zephray_wenting]

Bought a prison laptop on eBay. Thought it should be just some generic laptop with a clear shell, turns out it's actually a bit more than that.

[Alyssa Crawford @ALY55AJC]

upgraded from decrepit 2017 macbook to a gorgeous new custom pc running dual boot windows and [redacted linux distro] with separate ssds

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀

Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!

Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀
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[Hey Bud @Gudetube]

My grandfather-in-law just dropped off a load of books because he's retiring. Check out THIS gem

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

With a long indigenous history in Mexico, the roots of the Cuetlaxochitl plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima) go much deeper than Christmas.