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2026-Mar-03 19:46:27 Walked past the sphere today.
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2026-Mar-03 00:09:29 It looks like NY state agree with me on my tax refund, which is always a relief since I fill in the PDF tax returns myself. |
2026-Feb-28 23:29:06 RT https://x.com/ChihiroMacavity/status/2027765522054672834 |
2026-Feb-28 23:28:53 It reached about 50F today and the snow was melting in the sun, so I went out for a walk and had my first ice cream cone of the year. |
2026-Feb-27 03:32:05 I think the snow is melting a lot faster now than it did in January. |
2026-Feb-26 01:23:56 The youtube waiting-for-stream animations are gradually getting more interesting. They risk becoming more interesting than the stream. |
2026-Feb-24 22:57:35 #KDE connect works well for transferring files between #Debian 13.2 and my #Android phone. #Linux |
2026-Feb-24 18:25:27 I can see three trails of footprints in the snow that all converge on this one tree that's a source of squrrels. |
2026-Feb-24 18:21:15 If you zoom in, the tree has small icicles too.
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2026-Feb-24 17:55:09 |
2026-Feb-23 23:32:01 The snow plough came this afternoon, so I went out again to dig holes in the 3ft high wall of snow it made. Will do the other half of the car parking space tomorrow though, that was a lot to move. |
2026-Feb-23 20:00:36 Cleaned up the snow at the back. It looked so clear I opened the door without thinking and got surprised when some snow fell down.
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2026-Feb-23 19:28:28 The snow this morning.
I had to wade through 2ft of it to get near the car. Your feet go vertically down and make holes, but I fell over backwards at one point and it was quite difficult to get up again!
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2026-Feb-23 18:51:21 Dug some paths and removed 18" of snow from on the car too. No plough since last night so can't get out any further!
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2026-Feb-23 01:52:22 2030AD. All content on the internet has been made safe for children, although children are not allowed on the internet any more. So the internet is just adults watching children's programmes. |
2026-Feb-23 01:51:16 A CAT CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A CAT MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION |
2026-Feb-22 18:50:43 Our 15" predicted snow has started to come down (will become blizzard overnight). Here are some squirrels. |
2026-Feb-21 23:57:47 Considering it's going to start snowing tomorrow afternoon, I took my last chance to go out for lunch and went on a nice walk this afternoon. |
2026-Feb-21 19:07:36 First hydrogen, now helium. #NASA #space
RT https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2025239727259943256 Longer longpost rocket explanation: RT https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2025249086908125630 This time, instead of hydrogen leaking, it was helium refusing to flow. #cryo #plumbing #ArtemisII |
2026-Feb-20 23:52:25 What a winter we've had so far: another foot of snow is coming down Sunday/Monday, the laboratory might be closed on Monday. |
2026-Feb-20 18:13:43 Artemis II could launch in 2 weeks. #NASA #space
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86y1g6wde3o https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ |
2026-Feb-20 01:56:09 Falcon 9 did its 2nd landing off the Bahamas just now: [video] #SpaceX
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2024663255675813955 |
2026-Feb-19 23:36:35 {🦆} |
2026-Feb-19 23:23:55 I like how they illustrate the article about a dark matter galaxy with photos of a patch of sky where you can't see a galaxy.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/candidate-dark-galaxy-2 #space #astronomy #astrophysics |
2026-Feb-19 22:57:52 Starliner status webcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geneWmI9ZMY Isaacman's conclusions on the Starliner Crew Flight Test Investigation. https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2024558806135689354 #NASA #space |
2026-Feb-18 18:12:18 Walked through the melting snow and it became foggy on the way back.
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2026-Feb-17 23:14:02 These galaxies are really close together. #space #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hickson-compact-group-40/ |
2026-Feb-17 22:40:24 Football was illegal in Scotland until 1906.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Act_1424 |
2026-Feb-16 18:18:53 X is broken and Mastodon is still up. If anything, the commercial systems are LESS reliable than the amateur ones at this point. |
2026-Feb-15 20:36:56 Possible direct collapse black hole in Andromeda Galaxy seen in NEOWISE data. #astronomy #space
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/m31-2014-ds1-black-hole |
2026-Feb-15 20:05:37 Eggs almost fell out of the container at the checkout. |
2026-Feb-14 00:23:21 I have two parts that are theoretically distinct but in reality look like mirror images of each other because 111/64 is very close to sqrt(3). I have a 30 degree angle, tan(30°)=1/sqrt(3), things are positioned at 3-1/32" and 4-1/32", half their average is 111/64. |
2026-Feb-14 00:23:10 More than half of China's #electricity produced from low-CO2 sources: #energy
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-epic-renewables-boom-lifts-it-into-rare-clean-capacity-club-2026-02-13/ |
2026-Feb-14 00:22:35 Time lapse of the Milky Way from Long Island that also shows the Crew-12 launch. [video] #NASA #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/NycStormChaser/status/2022334112866955679 |
2026-Feb-13 20:43:47 The electrons will go through the left hole and the calcium atoms will go through the right hole. Then they should converge in the centre of the ion trap. #physics
We weren't quite sure if the calcium vapour at ~300C would act as a gas or more like a "beam" of atoms which would condense on the first cold surface, so I've made a design that works for both. I'll probably add another metal barrier to stop the Ca getting onto the MCP diagnostic (currently represented by the turquoise 3D printed plastic on the left).
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2026-Feb-13 01:24:18 You know what bothers me? Bovril. What psychopath looked at Marmite (which is great btw) and thought "ah yes, salty, the ideal flavour for a hot drink"? |
2026-Feb-12 23:37:12 X just reduced the number of page background colour options from 3 to 2. This is not the AI future I was promised. |
2026-Feb-11 23:54:23 Today I have been exploring along the eigenvectors of a local minimum. |
2026-Feb-10 22:37:00 #Turkeys in the #snow. |
2026-Feb-07 18:57:13 I dug a path to my back door and the big pile of #snow is now gone. The 1ft snowfall is still on the ground everywhere else though.
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2026-Feb-07 00:11:18 Possible #Artemis II second wet dress rehearsal next Friday, earliest launch date March 3rd. #NASA #Moon
RT https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2019805496836767830 |
2026-Feb-07 00:10:16 Deimos seen before dawn on #Mars. #space #astronomy [photo]
RT https://x.com/NASAMars/status/2019808370031833463 |
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. |
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