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Hopefully, it's more of a midlife incident than a crisis, but this weekend I dumpster dived for 1,587 pounds of photovoltaics. Feeling a little sore. I hope 7.6W/lb isn't a bad deal. I'm still dismayed that the school district is just throwing them out.
#DIY #solar

Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…

i can see why some fans might be miffed by artists pressing not-quite-finished albums to LP, but if i was a fan of these artists, i feel like i'd also be at least a little stoked? alternate takes/mixes/edits/drafts/outtakes/rarities! things to collect! https://www.

A pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?
They’re expensive, elaborate – and may not contain all the music. After Olivia Rodrigo, Charli xcx and more sent out incomplete or unfinished vinyl versions, fans are feeling shortchanged

"Blanche also claimed there was "very little corroboration" for the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's convicted co-conspirator, an assertion the attendee called "patently false." Four women testified against Maxwell at her 2021 trial, and one of them, Annie Farmer, was reportedly in the room."
​Five words from 'abrasive' Todd Blanche left Epstein survivors 'feeling betrayed': report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/blanche-gaslights-epstein-survivors/

Early firework at Little York when there is little smoke to be illuminated by pyrotechnics
#photo #photography #fireworks

"""
[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

BallotBox Scotland: "It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens"
Some reflections from BBS, and a little pointer into what we should expect for the next parliament.
"The belief that right wing voters have to be courted and coddled, and left wing voters uncomfortable with that will just have to suck it up because they don’t have other options. It turns out they do, in fact, have other options"

Summer Special: It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens
A long read on a bugbear: few folk seem to care about understanding the Greens, and that failure has cost them over and over again. Following a record result, will that change, or will people just…

Hey folks, can you help me out with a little something: trying to come up with a good number of files limit for a file scan (for Kitten so you don’t hit heap memory limits if you run it from the wrong directory by mistake) and I’d love some statistics from real JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js projects of the number of files in them (excluding .git and node_modules).
Would you be kind enough to run the following command in Terminal in your largest projects and let me know what number your…

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I just worked my way through possibly several years' stale paperwork that I was able to recycle / shred / etc. I liberated floor and filing space! But also ran across little treasures such as a payslip from #JohnLewis (the departm…