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This also means we can leave dirty dishes in the sink. There's an unwritten rule here that when firefighters come to save your life they first look in your sink and if there are any dirty dishes in it they have the right to refuse to put out the fire.

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Tonight there's a meeting of volunteer firefighters in a nearby village. This means we have to take utmost care not to have a fire tonight.

Carl Bergstrom wrote a simple, clear guide, explaining how to invite crows into your daily life. post.news/article/2JO6fdl6txYB

More cheese, Gromit? This came from a properly peer-reviewed scientific article, but I'm still amazed anyone could publish it with a straight face. It's a "texture map" of different cheeses, comparing their fracture stress and fracture strain. Jolly useful for the cheese enthusiasts out there, I'd say. #Cheese #Physics

A few days ago, I tweeted a flyer about a protest against Jordan Peterson in Seattle. I was subsequently screenshotted by Andy Ngo and mass reported by his goons, resulting in my permanent suspension from twitter.

SO! Please help spread the news: Jordan Peterson is coming to town, and Twitter is censoring the opposition! The original flyers from my tweets are attached. These are autonomous actions.

#Seattle #LGBTQ

Usługa dedykowana wszystkim solenizantom, którzy w tym roku obchodzą urodziny.

Pozdrawiam serdecznie firmę ADP, która ma dwa wzory kopert, jednen z napisem "POUFNE. Do rąk własnych odbiorcy" na froncie, a drugi z tym samym napisem, ale z tyłu. Dzięki temu jedna (ta z napisem z tyłu) przyszła do skrzynki, a po drugą (tą z napisem z przodu) musiałam odstać z jebanym awizo godzinę na poczcie.

Jakby kurwa naprawdę tego zestawienia składek zdrowotnych i emerytalnych nie można było wysłać razem z PITem W JEDNEJ KOPERCIE. Ugh.

The Onion nails it.

' We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. '

#trans #journalism #TheOnion

theonion.com/it-is-journalism-

Successfully flashed a Tuya-type smart plug to Tasmota! The most difficult part was soldering on to the connections for the chip, but it was pretty straightforward. Got a couple more of these I can do too. Now added and working in #HomeAssistant :)

Vielleicht könnte man das noch weiter verbessern und auf diesem Gehsteig einen mittig platzierten Radweg aufmalen.

Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/ho OpenMapTiles for building tiles, Maputnik for style editing, PMTiles for tile hosting, Maplibre-gl-js for client-side rendering

swearing about satellites 

Oh god I redid the math on re-entries:

Each Starlink v2 sat weighs 1250kg. They plan to have 42,000 of them in orbit.

Each satellite has a planned lifetime of 5 years. That means they'll be de-orbiting and replacing ALL of them every 5 years.

That comes to 23 sats per day, which is 29 TONS OF SATELLITE every day.

It doesn't go away, it gets added to the upper atmosphere. Most of the mass is aluminum. What the hell is that going to do?

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS OK?!

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Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003, and replaced it with a restored stream and 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life and economic success, but the vehicle traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

#cars #cities #urbanism #Seoul #traffic #car

Six years ago, I helped the BAS press office craft a statement regarding a new record minima in #Antarctic #SeaIce. I remember because it was copied by a load of websites word for word bar on one where I was "Japes Pope".

Today that record has been broken for a second time, 2017 is now third lowest in the record. Amazingly I was employed on a grant investigating the increasing extent of the Antarctic sea ice at the time!

I have noticed and incredible number of #MoleHills in the UK while I've been on holiday this week: I'm unsure if this indicates a population explosion in #EuropeanMoles #TalpaEuropea (perhaps due to the mild winter?) Or if I've just not really noticed them before.
Anyway, on searching the scholar archive I came across this delightful paper mapping urban moles + which deserves an award for the title alone..

#Science #scienceCuriosity

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

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