Barbara Tomlinson

Hermit in the longleaf woods. Tiny house, tiny lab, and a big shed where I make things. Coping with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. she/her

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@ithayla I’m nominal, thanks for asking 😛 Apparently I’m at the age where one parent’s failing health and complex ecological maintenance can make an entire year go by with no art created. I got fiber internet in August though! I’ll be back one day! Will come find you.

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@RobertCMahon The ravioli didn’t deserve that

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@craigtimes @JesseScheckner Right now the Florida way to get out of property taxes is to put your land in a conservation easement. If there are no property taxes for anybody then will large landowners bother with conservation anymore?

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@FossilLocator They’re against linseed oil? That’s… different

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@AmbystoMax I have a pear tree in my yard that makes pears like that. It has been through fire and drought and keeps making pears! It’s called a pineapple pear for some unknown reason. Very crunchy and good for cooking. Try making a pear pie!

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@FSUMarineLab That’s a sea bunny! One of the dorid nudibranchs. And they’re smaller than you’d think, usually less than an inch long

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@Kim_Moynahan Aaaaaaaaah!!!

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@robcruickshank I have a 20% off coupon. I can’t think of anything I need to solder, but it will be fun to find it in the case with my soldering iron next time I get it out. Thanks for the recommendation!

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@robcruickshank I don’t have any cat food tins so I’m tempted to buy the one that includes the cute holder. Is there a tiny speaker around the back that makes droid babble noises?

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@robcruickshank I was putting together an order on Zoro so I searched “brass wool” and the first hit said “for cleaning lead free solder”. I’m still using rosin core tin/lead solder. Is the sponge better for that?

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@RojSmith I think resistance isn’t really our biggest problem anymore anyway. Solving energy storage would be a better breakthrough. Make lithium AA batteries cheaper for one thing. I need new ones in my trail cams!

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@RojSmith Looks like I was right about LK99. It is definitely not a superconductor. The contamination of copper sulfide in their sample made it behave like a diamagnet which they erroneously interpreted as the Meisner effect
https://t.co/zeDzOiUIDa

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@Wolf_six Tools

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@Hogan698 @MarsRoverMapper It would’ve made me less angry if he just put tap water in the jars and lied about the ice sculpture

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@RobertCMahon Anything over 25 years old is eligible for a special hobby antique vehicle plate in Georgia. My car is 27 years old 🧐 But it’s not a hobby, it’s my primary form of transportation!

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

@RojSmith Oh, I had not even thought of that! I have a full size spare in my car. I have used it many times in the 27 years of owning my car.

[Barbara Tomlinson @beachton]

This morning at Home Depot. Big trucks + bad drivers = lines in the parking lots need to be farther apart. I am glad I came out first so I could get in from my passenger side and skillfully back out of there because they for sure would have hit my car backing out.

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.

What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.

A summary 🧵