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2026-Feb-06 00:56:56 Got some dry vermouth and I think my first attempt at a vodka Martini was pretty good. |
2026-Feb-06 00:28:56 Hyperaccumulator #tree with sap that can be up to 25% #nickel citrate. 🌳
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pycnandra_acuminata |
2026-Feb-06 00:27:23 Frosty #Starship Booster 19 shedding some snowflakes. #SpaceX #space [video]
RT https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2019258880614977725 |
2026-Feb-04 23:37:45 Going to add https://www.qwant.com as a search engine option in Firefox. Apparently it's French. |
2026-Feb-04 23:00:35 Florida iguanas are 'cold stunned' and falling from trees. [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c23rd925knxo |
2026-Feb-03 23:47:20 Eschew Silicon Valley.
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/ |
2026-Feb-03 22:38:10 Leaky orange rocket news: #Moon launch pushed back to March. #space
#NASA news release: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ Isaacman tweet: https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2018578937115271660 |
2026-Feb-02 22:00:37 They are currently doing a wet dress rehearsal (fuelling test) for the Artemis II rocket. [live] [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDlM8d4Q7g |
2026-Feb-02 21:59:47 View of the orange Artemis rocket from the space station. #Moon #space #NASA
RT https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 |
2026-Feb-02 21:59:06 It's #Groundhog Day. (Poor groundhog!)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62vjxyken2o |
2026-Feb-01 22:27:51 Puffins shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. |
2026-Feb-01 21:15:05 Archimedean screw vehicle. [video]
RT https://x.com/HumanoidHistory/status/2017285850682339446 |
2026-Feb-01 20:55:44 The cat is using public transport. [video]
https://x.com/TurkishArc/status/2017980109819437272 |
2026-Feb-01 20:55:00 The first intact #Starship V3 booster comes out of its house for testing. #space #SpaceX
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2018055511468311030 |
2026-Feb-01 00:26:36 My website has been slow because I seem to have persuaded AI scrapers to play Connect 4 with each other rather than scanning the rest of the internet. |
2026-Jan-31 00:16:16 #NASA #Moon mission earliest possible launch date pushed back to Feb 8th. #space
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/30/nasa-updates-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-launch-opportunities/ |
2026-Jan-31 00:15:29 Starlink satellites being used to track other orbital debris: #space #SpaceX
https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze |
2026-Jan-30 03:47:49 The NFT index since 2022.
https://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/nft-index
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2026-Jan-29 03:17:27 This works so well because while 22/7 is a well-known approximation for pi, 19/7 does a pretty good job with e.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_continued_fraction#/media/File:Diophantine_approximation_graph.svg |
2026-Jan-28 23:59:07 You've heard of e^ipi=-1 but have you heard of e+2pi=9? #maths |
2026-Jan-28 23:26:28 UK asylum hotels controversy - always be careful when there's money circulating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgvn4rr03vo |
2026-Jan-28 23:15:05 Recent improvements in geothermal #energy well #drilling technology.
RT https://x.com/IEA/status/2015833377270530329 |
2026-Jan-26 23:51:21 There's a room that usually has the door shut, but I've realised it has more radiators per unit area than the rest of the house, so I've been creating a warm room and not using it. |
2026-Jan-26 19:32:33 Big pile of #snow outside the kitchen.
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2026-Jan-26 19:24:03 Cleared snow from the path and behind the car. Can move the car back and forth but won't go on the road until the proper plough has been down there. |
2026-Jan-24 20:54:15 BitLocker isn't really secure. Of course. You shouldn't have ever thought it was.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/ |
2026-Jan-22 22:10:57 I threw a rotten apple into the garden and it disappeared. I was assuming a creature ate it but then realised my house is on a hill so it might just have rolled away. |
2026-Jan-22 19:45:25 Ocean Cleanup are intercepting an increasing amount of plastic, maybe 2-5% of the total flow by their estimate:
RT https://x.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/2014353390952686010 https://x.com/BoyanSlat/status/2014380838142529685 |
2026-Jan-22 00:47:36 Saw some silicon valley types freaking out about the "slow uptake of AI" but it's not at all surprising considering the mechanisation, computerisation and network...isation(?) revolutions are not at all complete. Manual processes everywhere, particularly in the physical world. |
2026-Jan-21 23:52:50 Fast spinning #asteroid discovered, 710 meters long and rotating every 1.88 minutes (19.8m/s surface speed). #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/asteroid-2025-mn45 |
2026-Jan-21 23:44:54 Proposal for laser submitted. |
2026-Jan-21 10:54:21 Mission to Moon could be delayed by the Sun.
Also - why three planets in the background of the SOHO animation? It's because Mercury, Venus and Mars are all very close to opposite us behind the Sun. #space #astronomy https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/solar-flare-18-january-2026 |
2026-Jan-20 23:06:47 Hilbert's cat (one dimensional)
https://chaos.social/@blinry/115927010136024303 |
2026-Jan-20 23:02:23 You should automatically dislike online-only installation.
In some cases you want ONE file, ONE version that installs exactly as-is, deterministically. No updates. And definitely no "remote server decided you aren't allowed to use software any more". |
2026-Jan-20 20:15:26 Cow using a broom as a back scratcher.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0n127y74go |
2026-Jan-19 18:22:33 Monus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monus #maths |
2026-Jan-18 19:40:52 https://www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/ |
2026-Jan-18 19:17:38 Hmm #KDE #Plasma seems pretty leaky with file and clipboard history data.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/797205/how-can-i-completely-disable-and-clear-kde-dolphin-history-features Pay particular attention to deleting ~/.local/share/klipper and the recent documents folder in ~/.local/share/ #Linux |
2026-Jan-17 21:56:57 Change of plan: went to the beach before it got dark. Was low tide and it had only snowed slightly.
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2026-Jan-17 20:08:40 Artemis II rocket being rolled out to the launch pad: [video] [live] #NASA #space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rdew |
2026-Jan-16 19:57:25 Duucks
RT https://x.com/tsutsu111111/status/2011641999238320435 |
2026-Jan-15 18:07:49 Hubble images of protoplanetary disks. #space #astronomy
RT https://x.com/NASAHubble/status/2011829356243349732 |
2026-Jan-15 16:48:58 The Crew-11 capsule has splashed down from the ISS off California. [video]
RT https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2011727067172520047 |
2026-Jan-14 23:52:16 There were a LOT of turkeys near the linear accelerator today. |
2026-Jan-14 16:02:28 Coastal erosion in Yorkshire of 2m per year reveals nuclear bunker constructed in 1959.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0dp65v77o |
2026-Jan-13 23:55:12 #NASA tweets today: Moon mission could be as early as Feb 6th; Dept of Energy will make a lunar #nuclear reactor by 2030. #space
https://x.com/NASA/status/2011156303930945683 https://x.com/NASA/status/2011194084191306137 |
2026-Jan-12 23:30:53 Betelgeuse is now believed to have a normal-sized star orbiting inside it. #astronomy #space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Possible_companion_star |
2026-Jan-12 22:58:00 Shrimp shedding its exoskeleton. [video]
RT https://x.com/aquaristEBICHAN/status/2010650234947510549 |
2026-Jan-12 19:44:30 Last week I looked inside Brookhaven National Laboratory's tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The platform in the middle is called the terminal and can be raised to 15 million volts while surrounded by insulating SF6 gas (unusual to see an accelerator large enough to climb inside!) I wanted to see if there was room for an ultra-cold ion source, which could create nanometre-scale ion beams once accelerated by the Tandem. #physics #accelerators
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2026-Jan-12 00:44:22 Problem: Steam window keeps disappearing and reappearing repeatedly (Debian 13.2/KDE)
Go to Steam launch icon in KDE menu > right click > Edit Application... > Advanced tab > untick "Run using dedicated graphics card" |
2026-Jan-09 18:25:37 Basin-hopping optimisation of a particle beam transfer line with six different energies in it. #physics #accelerators Something like this might be required for the 22GeV CEBAF energy upgrade at Jefferson Lab, to join the arcs to the linac where all the beams are in the same pipe. |
2026-Jan-08 22:54:06 RT https://x.com/ULTRAKAERL/status/2008646981829488895 |
2026-Jan-08 22:52:58 The Space Force's planetarium show has some pretty nice computer graphics and use of 3D (you can pan the Youtube video with the mouse). #space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3RlZGDk0w |
2026-Jan-08 16:24:08 Nice article on the amino acids and sugars found in the Bennu #asteroid sample. (Can't seem to find an English article that is this detailed, so you'll have to translate from Japanese with the browser) #space #astronomy
https://sorae.info/astronomy/20260107-bennu-sample-1.html |
2026-Jan-08 01:18:18 The oil majors:
🐚 🪺 🔛 ^ 🐝 🫛 |
2026-Jan-08 01:01:46 Cloud of >99.9% dark matter found 14 million light years away. #astronomy #physics
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/cloud-9-hubble |
2026-Jan-08 00:46:22 https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/ |
2026-Jan-07 00:05:04 There seems to be a senile phase where companies can't make products good enough to sell to the public any more so they try to foist them on other companies via the "committee IQ is less than any of its members" effect. |
2026-Jan-06 01:25:24 If I go away for a week, the shower head becomes clogged, but then gets better after a few days if I keep using it. (One of the many things I don't understand) |
2026-Jan-06 01:25:16 Made the window longer than the screen award. |
2026-Jan-06 00:12:45 Planetesimal collision seen around Fomalhaut. #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/fomalhaut-cs1-cs2 |
2026-Jan-03 15:23:29 Saw this obelisk with heiroglyphics on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_obelisk
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2026-Jan-02 16:59:53 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75x6ew929po #politics #UK |
2026-Jan-02 16:45:36 #UK #electricity now produces 4x less CO2 per kWh than in 2012. #energy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz947djd3d3o |
2026-Jan-02 15:10:49 Lots of swans 🦢🦢🦢
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2026-Jan-02 14:21:23 Hatchet Pond, The New Forest.
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2026-Jan-01 19:14:19 #Starlink upper shells are being lowered so that satellites will de-orbit more quickly once inactive. #SpaceX #space
RT https://x.com/michaelnicollsx/status/2006790372681220530 |
2026-Jan-01 15:59:57 Went on a walk opposite the Isle of Wight and the needles. Also paddled 6" in the sea.
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2026-Jan-01 00:16:05 Happy New Year! 🎇 |
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