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“A returns deal with France that makes access to safety in the UK — even for those with close family or connections here — dependent on someone else risking their life to cross the Channel only cements the role of smugglers in how people fleeing war and persecution must seek asylum in the UK."
'A grubby trade in human lives' | Morning Star
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This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

Coronal Cells in Coronal Holes: Systematic Analysis and Implications for Coronal Evolution
Nathalia Alzate, Simone Di Matteo, Aleida Higginson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03607 h…

Coronal Cells in Coronal Holes: Systematic Analysis and Implications for Coronal Evolution
Using advanced processing techniques, we analyze high-cadence, high-resolution extreme ultraviolet images and show that, throughout the solar cycle, mid-latitude coronal holes (CHs) are made up of ubiquitous and space-filling funnel-shaped structures (or cells) anchored to unipolar magnetic flux concentrations in network lanes. We demonstrate that the coronal cells, previously documented in the magnetically closed regions, as well as coronal plumes, inside CHs, are a particular manifestation of…

Ambidextrous Degree Sequence Bounds for Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation
Yu-Ting Lin, Hsin-Po Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04249 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Ambidextrous Degree Sequence Bounds for Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation
In a large database system, upper-bounding the cardinality of a join query is a crucial task called $\textit{pessimistic cardinality estimation}$. Recently, Abo Khamis, Nakos, Olteanu, and Suciu unified related works into the following dexterous framework. Step 1: Let $(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ be a random row of the join, equating $H(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ to the log of the join cardinality. Step 2: Upper-bound $H(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ using Shannon-type inequalities such as $H(X, Y, Z) \le H(X) + H(Y|…

Sources: ESPN cuts ties with Shannon Sharpe after he settled a lawsuit accusing him of rape; Sharpe had said he'd return to ESPN at the start of NFL preseason (Andrew Marchand/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525499/2

ESPN parts ways with Shannon Sharpe following settlement of rape lawsuit: Sources
Sharpe has not been on ESPN since late April, when the suit was first filed.

ESPN parts ways with Shannon Sharpe following settlement of rape lawsuit: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525499/2025/07/30/shannon-sharpe-lawsuit-settlement-espn-first-take/

If anyone's been following my progress on the #tricycle project, I'm currently drooling over the very adjustable recumbent ergonomic rig shown in this video. I'm wondering whether I can make myself something even nearly this adjustable!
#BikeTooter