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Moody Urbanity - Relations VI 🧬
情绪化城市 - 关系 VI 🧬
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

MockK: Under the cover
#Kotlin

Astroclimes -- measuring the abundance of CO$_2$ and CH$_4$ in the Earth's atmosphere using astronomical observations
Marcelo Aron Fetzner Keniger, David Armstrong, Matteo Brogi, Siddharth Gandhi, Marina Lafarga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10258

Astroclimes -- measuring the abundance of CO$_2$ and CH$_4$ in the Earth's atmosphere using astronomical observations
Monitoring the abundance of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) and methane (CH$_4$) is necessary to quantify their impact on global warming and climate change. Although a number of satellites and ground-based networks measure the total column volume mixing ratio (VMR) of these gases, they rely on sunlight, and column measurements at night are comparatively scarce. We present a new algorithm, Astroclimes, that hopes to complement and extend nighttime CO$_2$ and CH4 column me…

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the H{\alpha} filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Adrien Picquenot, Fabio Acero, Valeria Olivares, Michela Negro, Gabriel W. Pratt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09559

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the Hα filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Deep Chandra observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster have allowed for the discovery of X-ray counterparts to the Hα filamentary structures and of a sloshing spiral. However, both components are extremely faint, and their study is largely hindered by the volume-filling hot intracluster medium (ICM). Using the Poisson General Morphological Component Analysis (pGMCA) algorithm, a blind source separation method adapted for Poissonian statistics, we were able to extract detailed, clean morpholog…

Monte Carlo quasi-interpolation of spherical data
Zhengjie Sun, Mengyuan Lv, Xingping Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12027…

Monte Carlo quasi-interpolation of spherical data
We establish a deterministic and stochastic spherical quasi-interpolation framework featuring scaled zonal kernels derived from radial basis functions on the ambient Euclidean space. The method incorporates both quasi-Monte Carlo and Monte Carlo quadrature rules to construct easily computable quasi-interpolants, which provide efficient approximation to Sobolev-space functions for both clean and noisy data. To enhance the approximation power and robustness of our quasi-interpolants, we develop a…

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain

A few months ago a video about the Knight and the Snail popped up in my timeline. I had bookmarked that adorable project to see where it went. There is a behind-the-scenes video on Youtube now that shows the artist working on a shot. The movie is actually NOT stop motion but puppeteering!
Clean plates are filmed, rigs get removed in post, mouth animation will get tracked onto the puppets later.

Moody Urbanity - Oracles 🈳
情绪化城市 - 谕 🈳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Did you know?
Russia was originally called Muscovy, and it was a colony of Kyev!
Kyev was was one of the largest cities in Europe around 900-1000 AD, and they sent their worst nobility to Muscovy.
Then Russia was the bitch of the Mongols for several centuries.
They are nothing but second-hand toxic waste in human form - personal opinion.
Dylan shares all sorts of history and perspective of the modern situation, as a retired military analyst and Russian linguist.…

Ukraine Update November 6
2025 — Electrical Grids, Not Knowing Where Father Is