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Anyone else experiencing problems (again) with link previews (including thumbnail images) when posting from #Mastodon via #Bridgy to #Bluesky?
Have reported the issue to the team, hopefully it can be sorted b…

Fediverse => Bluesky: auto-generate embeds (with thumbnail images) for links? · Issue #1411 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
I do not know if this is a general problem between platforms or if it is strictly an issue between Mastodon -> Bluesky, but whenever I post an article (or other external link) on Mastodon the thumb...

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
ALTA TWO: Sustained. Level five. [Guard uses prod on Blake again] Release. You were warned. A third time and I will command destruction level. Move.
[Exterior shot of Spaceworld]
[Jenna and Avon in a cell]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/386

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Silver Bluff Blues Band:
🎵 Extra Slinky
#SilverBluffBluesBand
https://silverbluffbluesband.bandcamp.com/track/extra-slinky
https://open.spotify.com/track/19dOGnIH1Ug6Il7odlGLBQ

A neutrino data analysis of extra-dimensional theories with massive bulk fields
Philipp Eller, Manuel Ettengruber, Alan Zander
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04274 https://

A neutrino data analysis of extra-dimensional theories with massive bulk fields
We present a global neutrino oscillation analysis of models with a single large extra dimension in which right-handed neutrinos possess bulk Dirac masses. Two scenarios are considered: Large Extra Dimensions with bulk masses and the Dark Dimension framework, both predicting a tower of sterile Kaluza-Klein states that mix with active neutrinos. Using data from MINOS/MINOS+, KamLAND, and Daya Bay, we perform a joint likelihood analysis. No signatures of these theories were found. Therefore, we co…

I have "legacy" blocks of IPv4 addresses - straight from Jon Postel, granted circa 1990-1995.
These have *never* been subject to ARIN or any other RIR.
Now that I want to transfer them to someone else ARIN wants me to pay ARIN $500 to "evaluate" the transfer.
Huh?
$500? That's extortionate and bears no relation to the work that ARIN will do (almost none) to move the whois entry from my name to my intended transferee.
I've seen ICANN …

When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park,
it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
And it was in character for a country that was first to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution
and is home to parts of the Amazon rain forest and the Galšpagos Islands.
❌ But recent moves by President Daniel Noboa have alarmed environmentalists and Indigenous leaders
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Some in Ecuador worry about Noboa moves unwinding nation's green reputation
Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis for its green reputation. President Daniel Noboa has eliminated the Environment Ministry as an independent institution, folding it into the Energy and Mines Ministry. Activists and Indigenous leaders say the move weakens protections for some of the world’s most biodiverse areas and paves the way for expanded oil and mining projects. They also warn that a proposed law os…

Grenscontroles Faber leveren weinig op: 'Alsof je met een kanon op een mug schiet'
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/economie/artikel/5512657/grenscontroles-faber-leveren-weinig-op-hoge-symbolische-waarde-maar…

Probing the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Novel Aschenbach Signatures in Superextremal Non-Linear Charged AdS Black Holes
Mohammad Reza Alipour, Mohammad Ali S Afshar, Saeed Noori Gashti, Behnam Pourhassan, Jafar Sadeghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03185

Probing the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Novel Aschenbach Signatures in Superextremal Non-Linear Charged AdS Black Holes
This study investigates the nonlinear charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole solution within the framework of massive gravity, motivated by recent advancements linking the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to phenomena such as Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) and photon sphere dynamics. Building on these foundations, we focus on the Aschenbach effect-a relativistic phenomenon intricately tied to the geometry of photon spheres and known to occur in some special sub-extremal non rotating bla…

Two more blog posts on the #Tricycle project over the last few days: firstly, I have found a CAD tool that works for me:
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/20…

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
CHEVNER: Well, I think we should be well inside the main Centre now. Let's give it a go.
BLAKE: Vila, you're in business again.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/248 B7B3