Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts

@michaelroberts.bsky.social

UCL Astrophysics alumnus. Amateur Astronomer. Lead Software Engineer @LumiSpace. Previously @LoftOrbital. Go / Vue3 / Typescript / Nuxt / Python. Amateur Astrophotographer. Building https://observerly.com. GitHub: https://github.com/michealroberts

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So I have been building (and almost finished for launch 🚀) observerly. An all in one astronomical observation platform, with the ability to live control telescopes around the world. Including your own! Drop me a DM or message if you’re interested in beta testing!

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Join us on August 13 for Localhost! 🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena. RSVP below ⬇️

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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comHow does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George MonbiotWhether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

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Across the entire planet, from Ireland to Costa Rica, livestock farming has been an utter catastrophe for forests and other natural habitats, replacing unimaginably species-rich ecosystems with sterile cattle or sheep pastures. How we eat is killing life on Earth 🌎

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It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

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From now on, we'll use our @bsky.app account as our main feed for Vitest updates. vitest.dev and GitHub have been updated; you won't find any X links there. Let's do Open Source in an Open Source social network 🦋

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