@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue2025-12-30 23:32:43
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-01 10:36:10
Very saddened to learn that Bill Schwab died a month ago. He was one of my favorite landscape photographers and sharers of knowledge. Heartbreaking news & such a loss!
https://randomphoto.blogspot.com/2025/10/bill-schwabs-left-us.html
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2025-12-31 17:18:08
~13 years ago I knocked on thousands of doors locally to get ~40 homes to install free loft insulation before a government scheme (CERT) ended:
https://www.earth.org.uk/mass-loft-insulation.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-01 01:10:43
Chargers QB Justin Herbert to undergo surgery to fix break in left hand suffered in win over Raiders https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-qb-herbert-to-undergo-procedure-to-fix-break-in-left-hand
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2026-01-01 20:09:22
ride hailing trips in SF (helped by chatgpt).
Uber: ~54%
Lyft: ~26%
Waymo: ~8%
Taxis: ~11%
so while waymo's seem to be everyhere, they are only 10% of lyft/uber
total/day ~150k
Uber (ride-hail). ~82k-90k/day
Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k
Waymo (robotaxi) ~13k
Taxis (traditional) ~15k–20k
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-01 17:55:40
Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.h…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-01 16:42:45
This is the old Shia v. Sunni conflict. MBS got Bibi and Donny to do his dirty work...
Saudi Prince Privately Lobbied Trump To Launch Attack - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/saudi-prince-privately-lobbied-trump-to-launch-attack/
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-28 09:59:20
Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-12-01 19:19:33
Ionization Sources of the Local #Interstellar Clouds - Two B Stars, Three White Dwarfs, and the Local Hot Bubble: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae10a6 -> Close brush with 2 hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/12/01/close-brush-2-hot-stars-millions-years-ago-left-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-01 02:24:37
Herbert injures hand, doesn't expect to miss time https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47158915/justin-herbert-suffers-break-left-hand-chargers-win