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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-19 08:48:43
Content warning: BiCon coming up, Fri 25 to Sun 27 July 2025, Nottingham and online

BiCon comes to Nottingham this Friday!
It's a masking-friendly, though not mask-required, event, in a venue which is said to be pretty good for air quality.
There's also an online-only option, which I went to myself last year when the in-person side wasn't in Nottingham. We had a nice little group being companionable on the Zoom, with some of the in-person sessions running as hybrid.
You don't have to be bi to go - just bi-friendly and trans-inclusive. Typically it does include some non-bi people who just like the vibes :-)
Sliding-scale admission prices:
- in-person weekend tickets £65 down to £20
- in-person day tickets £40 down to £10
- online weekend tickets £20 down to £4.
Venue this year is two of the buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. Nearest tram stop is High School. Nearest bus lines are brown, green, yellow, and purple.
There's usually a variety of session options in the day: some talky and some not; some bi-themed, some unrelated. In the evenings there'll be social space. Some people will go and march as a group in Notts Pride on the Saturday. I'm going to host an online pre-meet on the Wednesday evening.
Myself I've booked for the weekend, but in reality I might only make it to the online-Wednesday-pre-meet and the Friday, esp if I do go to Notts Pride on the Saturday. I might be all used up by Saturday night. (Even pre-covid I might've run out of steam by then :-) ) But if I didn't come in on the Sunday, I probably would still join in at least a little bit online.
More below on what I'm planning to contribute!
Feel free to ping me if you have questions :-)
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-13 01:54:17

Barton Hall like you've never seen it -- since they haven't finished the new field hockey field they rolled out turf inside Barton! They had a game today but I missed it, not least because i didn't pack the right lens, but given that the bus broke down on the way home I should have been there!
en.wikiped…

A wide-angle shot of the inside of a large clear span structure with an indoor running track that is interrupted by a short plywood barrier and past that a field of green artificial turf with a yellow goal structure with a black net, and to the left a building inside the building with a blue first story and white second story.
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social
2025-07-09 19:43:33

@… I don't buy this argument. It assumes the means-tested service is used involuntarily. You can't equivalently tax eg a library user fee or a bus fare because use is unpredictable & even depends on the fee.
The political argument (which goes back way before 1998) is the real one. It also guides you in cases like bus fares where it's not …

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-09-04 11:08:46

Just wasted like an hour trying to get a simple bidirectional bus to work on a Trion. ILA was reading garbage on a design that had previously been working.
Eventually I gave up. Blew away the Efinity project, recreated it from scratch on the same RTL and constraints. Now it works.
I have no idea what happened.
In general the unified flow seems to be *very* buggy wrt making any changes to the RTL and not propagating properly to the interface constraints.

@chrysn@chaos.social
2025-07-10 10:28:39

Are there any established easily electrical connectors that can be 3D printed cheaply (like, <0.10€ each)? I'm thinking of 0.3mm bare copper wire threaded through the parts and making contact with each other backed by plastic springs, but designing them from scratch would take many iterations.
Ideally, I'd like to make connections in up to 10 places, each with 4 pins, from a single FDM part, wire them to a single small PCB (3 bus pins plus one per place) for <1€ in parts.…

@joe@toot.works
2025-06-27 22:30:55

I really like this idea.
"Originally a faded turquoise, the bus is now vibrant orange with a cream-colored roof, the color scheme used by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. Its windows and doors have been repaired, with two awning-style service windows installed to give waitstaff easy access."
#Milwaukee #MCTS #Bus

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-30 21:02:03

So if Mamdani's already Mayor, we can assume the Bedford Ave bike lanes will not be ripped out and we're about to get a whole shitload of new bike & bus lanes, right? Like, starting immediately?
Oh hang on, I'm being told that formerly indicted corrupt-af Eric Adams is still Mayor.

Mamdani is facing his first full-blown crisis on his way to the general election, which is just four months away. He is now contending with a timeworn tradition in New York City politics — the recriminations that almost inevitably follow a civic trauma and the expectation that elected leaders be present when such a rupture occurs.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-23 06:30:21

Couldn’t tell if this was where I turn to catch the bus, because the sign is blank on this side. City was like, “it’s a one-way street!” and didn’t think about pedestrians at all.

An intersection with the blank gray back of a sign mounted high
The other side of the sign. It says Fillmore and is green