On 17 June the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, #LISA: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA/Construction_of_ESA_s_ambitious_LISA_mission_begins - a bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves.
Just read Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith, yet another semi-random venture into the currently-popular novels section of my library, rather than my recent YA staples. It's excellent. Fascinating and well-written just as fiction, but also empowering and perspective-upgrading (and I'm a married white cis man who is only beer-belly fat, plus already well into #BodyPositive thinking).
It bridges really well with Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, and with Does My Body Offend You by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt, both of which I went through recently. Yet another home fucking run for #OwnVoices, which felt extra good to read after Dream State was so disappointing. It really digs into and helps the reader explore body positivity just like Does My Body Offend You does with feminism.
#AmReading
New Texans WR Christian Kirk: C.J. Stroud will ‘take this team as far as we want to go’ https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-wr-christian-kirk-c-j-stroud-will-take-this-team-as-far-as-we-want-to-go
So there's this new "#eDoręczenia" (~ "eDelivery") system that's supposed to replace the previous "ePUAP" system for exchanging signed messages between citizens and offices. I've finally had the opportunity of testing it today, and I have to say, it's magic.
So I wrote the message, attached the ~300 KiB attachment and clicked "Send". Now a status bar appeared on top, saying (in translation):
> Sending message, it can take up to 20 minutes!
Roughly two minutes later the status bar disappeared and I got a blank new message form. So I go into "sent", nothing there. I go into "drafts", there's my message, apparently listed with "delivery data". I click it, click "send" again — the same bar appears, but after a few seconds I'm back to the list. I click "sent", it's finally sent. Magic!
#Poland
Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling
Helix-Vim – A Vim-like configuration for Helix
I like Helix, also because I'm a Rust fanboy, but I'm used to Vim use and only now discover this configuration. Let me delve deeper into the configuration of the editor again.
🧑💻 https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim
I'm glad to see this - I think #GeorgeHornedo nailed it:
"In one phrase: how do we align the scale of our solutions to the scale of our challenges?” Hornedo said. “I don’t care if a solution is up into the left, up into the center, up into the right. I just care that we’re moving up and actually doing a better job of trying to meet people’s needs in solving these challenges.”
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Lemonheads:
🎵 Into Your Arms
#TheLemonheads
https://thelemonheadsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/into-your-arms
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Rx10OuH1VsLgvJbfJAt9M
Imagine that there's a combined walking and cycling path that splits into separate path for pedestrians and bikes. Now, imagine that they're marked "PEDESTRIANS" and "BICYCLES" in large lettering. Now, imagine that there are also barriers on the entry to the pedestrian path.
Of course there's also an arc of destroyed grass showing how cyclists keep riding around the barrier and into the pedestrian path.
#Września, #Poland.
#cycling