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Schumer very badly needs to retire. Not just as minority leader, but from congress completely. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3mj5y6qi6pk2x

Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com)
My point is that congressional hearings and votes are news. Campaign messaging is not. Republicans figured this out years ago. Democrats keep treating official government functions like distractions from the "real" strategy instead of recognizing they ARE the strategy.

Another whining rant of a cranky senior citizen who takes the bus to get to work as they don't have enough parking for us...
If you are wearing a backpack when boarding a bus or train TAKE IT OFF! I suspect I am not the only person who doesn't like being swatted.
When you board, please don't congregate by the doors. Especially when there is seating available. If you do, then don't get pissed off when I push you out of my way. If I miss my stop then it is 15 minu…

Because no one in the US has any idea where it really is. Is it 10 stories down at Fordow? Could be… @… https://

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
Trump says he’s “nowhere near” deciding whether to send US troops into Iran to secure the stockpile of highly enriched uranium there. (This strong public denial could also mean that plans to do so are underway.)

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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PSA: the term for "spaceflight with a crew inside the spacecraft" is "crewed spaceflight", not "manned". This has been the official NASA terminology for ~30 years.
"Crewed" is a much better term because it describes what the people are actually doing (they're not on board for the sake of being on board), plus it also differentiates it from passenger/tourist flights.

Idly wondering how is it possible for my secondary monitor https://plesio.bg/monitori-c-69978102/turbo-x-monitor-21-5-ts2142rbb-p-361154.html to cost only €70, brought me to the possible manufacturer of its control board. Pretty cool and affordable fro…

nyt remains a 🗑️ 📰
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2eq3273yo4eq7xi7wxz2wqav/post/3mix2ygm73k2i

Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg.com)
When @masnick.com says this, woof. “As much as l've made fun of the NYT for its bad reporting over the years, this is (by far) the worst I've seen.” https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/07/the-new-york-times-got-played-by-a-telehealth-scam-and-called-it-the-future-of-ai/

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.

The French are still butthurt. @… https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social)
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms. [contains quote post or other embedded content]