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Shoutout to a company I last did business with in 2019, yes that’s *6* years ago for those of you following along at home, just sending me a “Welcome to [company name]” email.

Yes, you can follow me on #Pixelfed:
#Fediverse

For any of my comrades who are using SNAP, I wish I had something better to say than "if you crush 4 buckeyes with a hammer and tie the pulp in a sock you can wash a good sized load of laundry." English Ivy also has saponins, but I've never been able to make soap from it myself.
Ivy is everywhere. Buckeyes (Horse Chestnuts) are common in city parks (there are a ton in Seattle).
Yucca is also a good source of saponins, but it also has silica. That makes it a good scrubby soap. You can find these plants all over they're pretty common to find in yards.
If you can find acorns still (it's a bit late, but who knows), acorn grits are great and something you can survive on for a bit. Acorns need processing (it's easy to look up, but feel free to ask or check out one or Black Forager's videos on it).
If you've been following me for a bit, you probably already know all this. But if you don't, I hope it helps.
Any other forager folks are welcome to drop hints here that might be useful to folks in the city.
#Foraging

Since St George was born in Turkey, died in Palestine and never set foot on Britain I find all of his flags going up around the UK a bit strange but am fine with it really. A nice international symbol of unity with all the other countries with him as their patron saint (Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice).
My worry is that in a year there will be really tatty flags everywhere, filling the air with microplastic…

Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Yash Bhargava (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), Maurizio Falanga (ISSI, Switzerland,University of Bern, Switzerland)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01207

Probing the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the evolution of its spectral and aperiodic timing properties
Understanding accretion components in neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems is important to probe fundamental aspects of accretion mechanism and evolution of the system constraining its physical properties. Here, we present spectral and aperiodic timing analyses of the NICER and AstroSat data from the accretion powered millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2022 outburst. We find that emissions from a softer accretion disk and a harder, centrally located, c…

Femtosecond Laser Crystallization of Ultrathin a-Ge Films in Multilayer Stacks with Silicon Layers
Yuzhu Cheng, Alexander V. Bulgakov, Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Ji\v{r}\'i Ber\'anek, Aleksey V. Kacyuba, Vladimir A. Volodin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26303

Femtosecond Laser Crystallization of Ultrathin a-Ge Films in Multilayer Stacks with Silicon Layers
Ultrashort pulsed laser annealing is an efficient technique for crystallizing amorphous semiconductors with the possibility to obtain polycrystalline films at low temperatures, below the melting point, through non-thermal processes. Here, a multilayer structure consisting of alternating amorphous silicon and germanium films was annealed by mid-infrared (1500 nm) ultrashort (70 fs) laser pulses under single-shot and multi-shot irradiation conditions. We investigate selective crystallization of u…

Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

UniAPL: A Unified Adversarial Preference Learning Framework for Instruct-Following
FaQiang Qian, WeiKun Zhang, Ziliang Wang, Kang An, Xuhui Zheng, Liangjian Wen, Mengya Gao, Yong Dai, Yichao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25148

UniAPL: A Unified Adversarial Preference Learning Framework for Instruct-Following
Shaping powerful LLMs to be beneficial and safe is central to AI alignment. We argue that post-training alignment is fundamentally a unified Preference Learning problem, involving two modalities: demonstrated preferences (e.g., Supervised Fine-Tuning, SFT) and comparative preferences (e.g., Reinforcement Learning, RL).The standard sequential pipeline-SFT followed by RL-is flawed due to a critical distributional mismatch: SFT uses static expert data, but as the policy evolves, its generation dis…

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Agneet Chatterjee, Rahim Entezari, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Maksim Lapin, Reshinth Adithyan, Amit Raj, Chitta Baral, Yezhou Yang, Varun Jampani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26555

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Recent advances in video generation have enabled high-fidelity video synthesis from user provided prompts. However, existing models and benchmarks fail to capture the complexity and requirements of professional video generation. Towards that goal, we introduce Stable Cinemetrics, a structured evaluation framework that formalizes filmmaking controls into four disentangled, hierarchical taxonomies: Setup, Event, Lighting, and Camera. Together, these taxonomies define 76 fine-grained control nodes…

Structural, optical, and electrical properties of Cu-doped NiO films synthesized by spray pyrolysis for potential gas sensing applications
Eka Nurfani, Grace Grace, Mahardika Yoga Darmawan, Resti Marlina, Jumaeda Jatmika, Asnan Rinovian, Aditya Rianjanu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24197

Structural, optical, and electrical properties of Cu-doped NiO films synthesized by spray pyrolysis for potential gas sensing applications
Cu-doped NiO thin films were deposited on ITO substrates via spray pyrolysis at 450 °C for 1.5 minutes. XRD confirmed a cubic NiO structure, with Cu incorporation reducing crystallite size, increasing interplanar spacing, and expanding the lattice parameter, indicating successful substitution of Cu ions. Optical analysis showed a slight bandgap reduction from 3.70 to 3.65 eV, while PL revealed lower emission intensity, suggesting enhanced defect states and suppressed carrier recombination. Ram…