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#SilentSunday

Outside the Institut för Rymdfysik (IRF, Institute of space physics), there is a bird feeder/house which is also the Institut för Rymdfysik. Inside there are small people looking at their own IRF feeder. Its Institutes all the way down...
#kiruna

The new stuff is really going for it today. "I'M GREEN! I'M NEW! JUST LOOK AT ME!"

Yomped the Wrekin yesterday for the first time this mileniwm, and the bluebells were amazing.

I'm actually going to solder up a 555 for the first time in nearly forever because the waveform generator ordered a month ago with 7 day delivery time won't be here for another month. I've had the numbers 0.693 and 1.44 in my head rent-free since secondary school in the 1980s, now to put them in the right places... thanks Mr L. I remember being excited about using half a 556 to trigger the other half. Such a nerd.
#electronics

There are people out there who choose to be dentists.
Amongst the endless litany of Things That Baffle Me, this is up there.

These are very pleased with themselves, but they won't tell me who they are. They seem tulipy.

Just finished The Future Of Another Timeline by the excellent @annaleen@wandering.shop and apart from Nabatean cropping up in the newspaper weekend quiz, and me now knowing where Raqmu is, and apart from learning a bunch, it's kinda shocking how close different realities could be just because people are cruel and/or stupid and/or narrow-minded or selfish or...
and then I see the news.

Do i know anyone who understands how to model a patch antenna pattern when its partially obscured by a conductive panel? Asking for a friend. Obviously not a real friend, because who needs friends like that. Maybe this friend is a demon on my shoulder. For example.

Most years I do something to support the RNLI in addition to being a regular donor. This year's shenanigans is "Mayday Mile"... a mile of _something_ every day in May. Not the hardest thing, but still.
Please consider supporting! I've roped my crew in so we all have to do it. Or - join in yourself? #rnli #MayDayMile
https://fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/hochco

So today on 'Capitalism Is And Always Was A Stupid Idea'...

mae hi'n wyntog iawn, felly deffro eto :(

just thought i'd share the excellent white noise page from loop. you don't have to have to use their earplugs to enjoy building your own whitenoise soundscape:
(i am constantly on a mix of rain+forest+thunderstorm+pink noise).
its a rare example of something really well implemented, no fuss.
#whitenoise #sleep

https://www.loopearplugs.com/pages/white-noise-generator

I now have to interact often with oracle's netsuite. i simply cannot understand how software can be so utterly appallingly designed. especially from a company that once upon a time understood databases. It might be built on 'Oracle v2', circa 1980. it has no redeeming qualities. slow, bad, ui also still based in the 80s, inflexible flow.
I can do better than this and I'm not a software engineer.

second day of #MaydayMile is child on hike, rest of team on paddleboards doing a loop. #rnli
so far its easy to an additional mile each day... tomorrow it will be raining, so probably running or biking rather than walking.

https://fundraise.rnli.org/s/25502/27266

#MaydayMile
my rules - at least 1 mile i wouldn't otherwise do

The rise in fuel costs because of their war must be horrendous for Americans. Cost is almost as much as a full half what they are in places that tax it appropriately to disincentivise and replace fossil fuel.

So, I've never owned a car, but I do sometimes drive when necessary, mostly when cycling or public transport are impractical or impossible. I know little about vehicles of any kind, and find it weird that anyone cares about them at all. I think private vehicle ownership is capitalist insanity.

Anyway, long story short, I understand BYD are doing great things. Every time i see one though I think "Boil Your Dog". I can't make it stop.

Tomorrow's one of those #orienteering events whereat I'll look at the map just after starting and wonder what the point is. It's a grim area, and i only have a few races left before my knees actually stop working. Still, if you want this cheery fellow to help you park neatly, I'll be there at stupid o'clock in a hi vis...