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"Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem."

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem

#BlackMastodon #WomenInStem #BlackandStem #GoodNews

Basing this on these receipts (warning, besides the sexism there's mentions and discussions of CSA). Wei personally verified the first two—trivially; fetch the comments from kovarex's Reddit account, sorted by controversial. /Be warned/ if you do this, there's a bunch of sexist, ““apolitical””, freeze peach, and the like.

The third screenshot wei could not verify, but just in scrolling more of the comments wei'd seen enough.

#Factorio

News is circulating of ballot box arson in Clark County, Washington over the weekend, affecting voters in WA-3.

If you have reason to believe that you are one of the voters affected, contact the county auditor's office immediately.

- I'm muting this immediately after posting it.

You may already be familiar with the terms "Friend of Dorothy" and more recently "Friend of Blåhaj". How about a new one, "Friend of Xenia", for Linux enthusiasts?

An added bonus is that it abbreviates to FOX.

#Xenia #Linux

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#Pokemon #Gluedex

I spent the last 30 minutes furiously photoshopping this, badly.

#DisabledCrowdFund time. I'm Rae, disabled enby with kid and animals, back to beg for food, electric bill & household essentials. Am photographer, prints of my work available

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/LunarRise.Photography

Cashapp/Venmo: spooniewolf

#MutualAidRequest #HelpPeopleLive

Goal is 100/450. 200 for food, 50 for animals, 50 for dry goods (toilet paper, paper towels, soap, etc) and 100 for electric bill. Updating goal bcuz kiddo is running low on masks

Hot art tip for saving money:

You can refill your Micron (or similar) pens when they dry up. There are several YouTube videos, but basically pop the end off, shake out the sponge-tube, drip whatever ink you like into the sponge slowly until it's wet through, then re-assemble. Voila! Like new!

I think I originally discovered this through a post on Mastodon, but I’ve long since lost the original post, so if you’re out there, thanks OP!