2026-02-22 16:22:37
If you have not been the the #newjersey falls they are worth the trip. Wild this is in nj.
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2026/02/
If you have not been the the #newjersey falls they are worth the trip. Wild this is in nj.
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2026/02/
From Translink
Westham Island Bridge Repair Update
January 22, 2026
Delta, BC – Earlier this week, a marine vessel hit the Westham Island Bridge, causing damage that required the bridge to be closed to vehicle traffic. TransLink owns and maintains the bridge, and crews moved quickly to assess the damage and pursue the fastest possible repair.
TransLink has now received an updated assessment from our structural engineer following today’s inspection work.
Sources: Bain Capital seeks to sell a stake of 40% in Bridge Data Centres in a deal that would value the Singapore-based data infrastructure builder at $5B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/bain-capital-sell-stake-b…
Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/trump-canada-bridge-maga-inc-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1A.4KG5.HBGmw-AuX3-V&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p140#a260220p140
How did the Urban Network Flow Adapt to the Collapse of the Carola Bridge?
Jyotirmaya Ijaradar, Ning Xie, Lei Wei, Sebastian Pape, Matthias K\"orner, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19947 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.19947
arXiv:2603.19947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The unexpected collapse of the Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany, provides a rare opportunity to characterise how urban network traffic adapts to an unexpected infrastructure disruption. This study develops a data-driven analytical framework using traffic data from the Dresden traffic management system to assess the short-term impacts of the disruption. By combining statistical comparisons of pre- and post-collapse motorised traffic distributions, peak-hour shifts, and Park-and-Ride data analyses, the framework reveals how traffic dynamics and traveller choices adjust under infrastructure disruption. Results reveal that the two closest bridges, the Albert and Marien Bridges, absorb the majority of the diverted motorised traffic. In particular, the daily traffic volume on the Albert bridge increases by up to 81%, which is equivalent to 3.5 hours of traffic operating with maximum flow. Peak hours on critical links are significantly prolonged, reaching up to 250 minutes. Besides redistribution, the overall daily motorised traffic crossing the Elbe river declines by approximately 8,000 vehicles, while Park-and-Ride usage increases by up to 188%, suggesting a potential travel mode shift after the disruption. The study reveals the patterns of traffic redistribution following an unexpected disruption and provides insights for resilience planning and emergency traffic management.
toXiv_bot_toot
Bay Light are back!
#SanFrancisco
This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist
Willkommen im Fediverse, @… !
Bock auf Shitposting?
Viel läuft hier unter dem Hastag "Netzfund" oder "Netzfundstück". (Bei "Caturday" platzt aber vermutlich dein Feed... 😬)
Wenn du magst, kannst du die Bluesky-Brücke an machen - das Zentrum für politische Schönheit ist leider nur da aktiv.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--White House opens backchannel to Anthropic as Pentagon fight simmers,
--Anthropic gave NSA access to Mythos Preview,
--Anthropic's donation to open source developers highlights how under-sourced they are,
--Asian regulators urge banks to use Mythos,
--LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge Kelp DAO lost $292m in DPRK exploit…
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
Great, I need a desktop computer and apparently it’s the worst time in years to buy a computer because AI hype.
Apple’s desktop stuff is basically unavailable (1-3 months lead time).
Anyway, does anyone in the US have maybe a M4 Mac mini lying around that I could buy so I can bridge the time to when Apple fixes their supply chain issue? DM me!
(Also, no, I won’t switch to Linux so no need to reply with that.)
We see how El Cheato has blocked the opening of the new bridge between Canada and the US in Detroit - apparently in an effort to maintain a flow of bridge toll revenue from a competing bridge owned by a Cheato-buddy.
If I were Canada I might consider retaliation by shutting down the older Cheato-buddy bridge.
U.S. lawmakers move to block interference in Gordie Howe bridge
https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/us-lawmakers-move-to-block-interference-in-gordie-howe-bridge-as-scrutiny-grows-over-ambassador-bridge-meeting/
Gig AI trainers
– who upload everything from scenes around them to photos, videos and audio of themselves
– are at the frontlines of a new global data gold rush.
As Silicon Valley’s hunger for high-quality, human-grade data outpaces what can be scraped from the open internet,
a thriving industry of data marketplaces has emerged to bridge the gap.
From Cape Town to Chicago, thousands of people are now
micro-licensing their biometric identities and intima…
Follow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…
Great news from Jisc 🎉
This month, Jisc has reengineered its connectivity between Janet and GÉANT, now delivered via a single 400Gbit/s port — strengthening the digital bridge connecting the UK's research and education community to the rest of the world.
👏 Congratulations to the Jisc team on this milestone!
🔗 Read more:
Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
https://archive.org/details/PaulBalorManualOfTheMercenarySoldier
A cool #bridge in the Ravine of #Mórkowo, near the village of Mórkowo, Greater Poland.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.914473&mlon=16.508610#map=18/51.914473/16.508610
from a couple of nights ago. i meant to post it a couple of nights ago but.. you know.
#trains
"The April Fools' posts have since been deleted."
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=hyperbridge-exploit
Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthro
Pittsburgh at the NFL combine: QB reset in store for Steelers? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47981589/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-combine-quarterback-reset-store-aaron-rodgers-2026-draft
I think that I saw them looking for these folks on a bridge in Kletzsch Park yesterday.
"North Shore Fire/Rescue said they responded to the river near the 6500 block of North Milwaukee River Parkway in Glendale at approximately 3:04 p.m. for a report of two people in the river.
After the adult and child were ejected from the kayak in the river they made their way to an island in the river. That's where crews found them standing when they arrived."
#Glendale
The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2026/01/public-media-bridge-fund-announ…
I'm kicking off reading week with some actual reading: Wickwire's highly regarded At the Bridge (2019). I'm looking forward to discussing it with the brilliant group of grad students I have in this year's seminar towards the end of the month.
#histodons #anthropology
A very frozen and snow covered Red River of the North, from January; looking south-ish from Grand Forks, #NorthDakota. Rail bridge in the distance. The plume in the far distance is from the Crystal Sugar beet processing plant on the #Minnesota side.
Museums don't build job skills. That's what many people think. But our newest experiential learning program is not only preparing these #UniversityOfGeorgia students for their next step, it's also building bridges between campus and community.
An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/397988/kelp-d
from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…
Life Runners 🪖
生活战士 🪖
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Multiple explosions reported across Russian-occupied Crimea, Crimean Bridge closed: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/041753.html
Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.
Klint Kubiak in favor of bridge QB as Raiders’ room shifts https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/02/klint-kubiak-in-favor-of-bridge-qb-as-raiders-room-shifts/89441693007/
The Dali crew is still in Baltimore 2 years after Key Bridge collapse - The Baltimore Banner https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/dali-crew-key-bridge-collapse-LB5XY2XQJVADLBQMBVYSB6OP7I/
Bridge(s) Over Troubled Water (2025)
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kyuss:
🎵 Apothecaries’ Weight
#Kyuss
https://witchingbuzz.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-bridge-ita-apothecaries-weight-kyuss-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZUsVj3kuS0LY2izJJcymE
[holds bridge of nose] "Again, you don't want to speed up atomic clocks."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trial-speeds-up-next-generation-of-atomic-clocks
Hints of Primordial Magnetic Fields at Recombination and Implications for the Hubble Tension: #HubbleTension and other cosmic mysteries: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-03-13-primordial-magnetic-fields-could-resolve-hubble-tension-and-other-cosmic-mysteries - an international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated rates of the universe’s expansion.
Follow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…
This is my occasional reminder to follow me without overtures if you've bridged your Bluesky account with the Fediverse.
Here's how to do it if you haven't already: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#get-started
“By the time #V2G is widely accepted as technically viable, the absence of bankable revenue frameworks may become the dominant constraint on scale. The challenge now is not to lock in a single national compensation model, but to begin the transition from temporary programs to durable market structures.”
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Frank Bridge & Kathryn Stott:
🎵 Capriccio No 2 in F sharp minor
#FrankBridge #KathrynStott #newRelease 🆕 album
#Spotify
From Translink
*UPDATE*
Due to weather conditions, and to ensure public safety, the Pattullo Bridge is now closed to pedestrians and cyclists.
Visit https://pattullobridgereplacement.ca for more information about the replacement project.
The Wellness Bridge- Bridging Between Western Science And Eastern Energy
A place where modern clinical science meets traditional Eastern movement practices such as Tai Chi and Qigong...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-welln…
Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260209/p112#a260209p112
I’ve lived here 42 years and this sight will never get old. Love you, #Memphis!
Cue the “a bridge too far” jokes.
#theAmericanFascist #subtoot
Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…
Sometimes I forget how old Xilinx 7 series is.
Like, they're 28 nm. Intel never had a 28 nm node but Sandy Bridge is 32 and Ivy Bridge is 22.
On a recent trip to Italy, my @… app provedt to be far superior to the Google maps app, especially in ancient medieval cities like Venice where the streets are narrow and mobile reception patchy.
https://functional.cafe/@arianvp/116295171993320229
arianvp@functional.cafe - Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters. It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.
I helped out at the Family Bike Ride this morning in Cambridge/Boston. Turns out probably the most helpful think I did, was to load all the cones onto the trailer on my bike, and haul them to the organizer's home -- for him, it is two trips, for me, just one (though it was darn heavy, but I have e-assist on that bike, and in a pinch, legs).
Visa and Stripe's Bridge plan to expand their partnership to issue stablecoin-linked cards in 100 countries; the cards are currently live in 18 countries (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/03/visa-stripe-bridge-stablecoin-backed-card…
💉 Men resort to buying underground testosterone to bridge access gap
#men
Man, I fucking love Amtrak
#TrainTooter
So it's really just Duel, but on the suspension bridge?
#Gladiators
Me: why does the nav tell me to zigzag here, when the road up front is obviously a shorter route?
Also me: what a fun #river!
(Photo taken from the bridge on the zigzag route.)
Welcome to San Francisco, where Oceanview has no ocean view, Golden Gate Avenue doesn't go to Golden Gate Bridge or Park, Front Street doesn't front anything, Main Street isn't a main street, and the Sunset is too foggy to see the sunset.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/116078846
More war crimes.
Trump Hails Strike on Iranian Bridge, Warning ‘More to Follow’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/middleeast/trump-iran-bridge-strike.html
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: You make me wonder if I didn't choose badly. You fear him. He and I, together we could have been invincible.
SERVALAN: Really?
CAPTAIN: [V.O., from comm] Commissioner.
SERVALAN: Yes, Captain?
Arc de Débâcle, perhaps?
Trump administration releases new renderings of so-called ‘Arc de Trump’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/arc-de-trump-renderings?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Arc de Débâcle, perhaps?
Trump administration releases new renderings of so-called ‘Arc de Trump’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/arc-de-trump-renderings?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ
Raiders Add Veteran Kirk Cousins to Bridge Gap to Mendoza https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-veteran-kirk-cousins-bridge-gap-fernando-mendoza
Otro de los lanzamientos de música de este año: «Somebody Tried To Sell Me A Bridge» de Van Morrison
#VanMorrison
I've started a little experiment.
I've erected an instance of Ghost 6 running on a Raspberry Pi and today it finally started talking across the Fediverse and the Bridge to Blue Sky.
In other words it's a Ghost Bloggy Magazine thing. The robot here is at @…
The website is at https:\\www.samizdat.uk
I added a Tier for anyone that wants t…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Paul_stilgar/116051536051801423
That’s basically the story of the past 25 years. Matty Moroun and his spawn have been calling billionaire buddies to argue for their permanent monopoly on bridge crossing between Detroit and…
The death toll from Thursday’s attack on the B1 bridge in Karaj, Iran, has risen to eight, up from two,
and 95 others were injured, Iranian state media reports.
Donald Trump earlier boasted about the attack,
warning Tehran there was “much more to follow”
and urged it to “make a deal before it is too late”.
⭐️Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the attack wouldn’t force Tehran to surrender.
“It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy…
How music kept NFL dream alive for Panthers' Jaelan Phillips https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48475698/nfl-carolina-panthers-jaelan-phillips-music-production
From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed in both directions for one week
Full closure needed to finish road connections on replacement bridge
Starting at 8pm on Friday February 6 there will be no vehicle access to the Pattullo Bridge for approximately one week because of ongoing construction and transition work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge. During the closure, the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge will also be fully closed.
The Pattullo Bridge’s sidewalk will remai…
Trump Hails Strike on Iranian Bridge, Warning 'More to Follow' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/middleeast/trump-iran-bridge-strike.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260402/p163#a260402p163
Why the Raiders don’t need a veteran QB bridge for Fernando Mendoza https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/27/why-the-raiders-dont-need-a-veteran-qb-bridge-for-fernando-mendoza/
Follie Follie II🍁
叶啊叶 II🍁
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
You know those orange space suits worn by the Artemis astronauts?
That is a special form of "International Orange". It is a US Federal Standard!
(There are other "international orange" colors - such as used on the Golden Gate Bridge - but they are different.)
Boeing requires that test equipment and tools be painted with a stripe of that particular International Orange. (Because apparently Boeing had troubles with construction and repair gear - such as …
New Louisiana bridge named after Trump passes state house - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-bridge-louisiana/
The Seahawks’ last bridge to the Legion of Boom, Jarran Reed remains the defense’s lead voice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7022923/2026/02/05/seahawks-super-bowl-60-jarran-reed/
From Translink
Westham Island Bridge closing to pedestrians for critical repair work
Bridge fully closed starting tomorrow morning, water taxi services available
To read the full release go to
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496
Raiders rumor reveals interest in Super Bowl-winning quarterback in free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-rumor-interest-super-bowl-winning-quarterback-fre…
Wanting ICE to follow the Constitution is a bridge too far,
I guess...
Sen. Johnson hardens opposition to Dem DHS demands as shutdown looms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/congress-ice-dhs-johnson-government-shutdown.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ
How Kirk Cousins maximized his value and Raiders found their bridge QB https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7167989/2026/04/03/kirk-cousins-raiders-free-agent-contract-offsets/
Although both parties have
“strong incentives” to maintain a ceasefire,
the deal is “extremely precarious,”
says Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
“We’re already seeing it being imperiled as we speak,
with ongoing attacks in Lebanon,
as well as reports of [Iranian] attacks in the Persian Gulf.”
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/softb…
From Translink
Westham Island Bridge Repair Update
🧵1/9
TransLink is moving urgently to restore the Westham Island Bridge following a marine vessel strike on January 20. Engineering inspections have confirmed significant structural damage and, while repairs are complex, work is starting to minimize disruptions and safely reopen the bridge to vehicles as soon as possible.
Detailed inspections show that Pier 5, one of the bridge’s primary support structures, was severely…
Iran shot down a US fighter jet
A search is under way for the crew of a US fighter jet that was shot down by Iran, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed.
Iran claimed that it had shot down a US fighter jet, with state media reporting it was an F-35 warplane.
The fate of the crew remains unclear.
It follows reports by Iranian state media that the US military is searching for an American pilot of a downed aircraft in Iran, following earlier reports that Tehran h…
From TransLink
Westham Island Bridge reopens following successful repair work
Access restored to Westham Island after temporary closure caused by marine vessel strike
Some critical repair work will continue in the coming weeks to stabilize piles with rock protection, remove the temporary pier, and add more steel reinforcements. The navigation channel remains closed to marine traffic while this is an active construction site.
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