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Trump Arch Will Need Red Lights, F.A.A. Says (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-arch-will-need-red-lights-faa-says.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p93#a260605p93

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Rose City Band:
🎵 Lights on the Way
#RoseCityBand
https://rosecityband.bandcamp.com/track/lights-on-the-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YgvmhjFVbktfVVPjVCBt7

these should be absolutely banned from #nyc & any other town/city with sidewalks & pedestrians. another fromt in the war on cars. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117031243158587006

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark Automotive lights are better than they've ever been, but there's a trade-off. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/how-headlights-got-brighter-whiter-and-more-blinding-after-dark/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

from my link log —
How we knew space is a vacuum.
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
saved 2023-03-12

Frank Turner at Cambridge Folk Festival. Captivating. #music #FrankTurner #folk

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A Day Or Two At The Museum I🏛️
博物馆的一两天 I🏛️
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
lucky break:
🎵 City Lights
#luckybreak
https://luckybreakofficial.bandcamp.com/track/city-lights
https://open.spotify.com/track/68HniuMyr1tEvbW9fd9J9D

A reminder to support @… on @… to keep the lights on!
https://

Mastodon.ie - Open Collective

The office on Saturday

TransLink adding extra service for Summer Lights fireworks
#Vancouver #Transit
Downtown reroutes also in place for the event on July 31
TransLink is boosting transit service and adjusting some bus routes to help customers get to and from the Summer Lights in English Bay fireworks night in downtow…

goodnight
#night

If you lifted #Gaza up, turned it through 90°, and dropped it down in Galloway, it would fit between the Nith and the Water of Fleet, between the main A75 road and the sea. I've cycled more than half that distance this afternoon.
I've cycled through green woods and fields under a grey sky, to the sound of birds when there were no passing cars; the same journey in Gaza would be through r…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Santigold:
🎵 Lights Out
#Santigold
https://djmehdi.bandcamp.com/track/santigold-lights-out-dj-mehdi-remix

The #raccoon and its #pizza.

Any recommendations for a radio/ music player that can read audio files from a USB stick or sd card or even just its own hard drive?
(oh also it would need to have a rechargeable battery because it's going in the bathroom..)
Edit: I found this

Psycho killer at ITHACON -- the lights in the scene were colored but i set the white balance to make the mask white which got the colors about right for the subject but made the background strange
#photo #photography

While I'm definitely against AI art, I can appreciate the difficulties of the directors here. Perhaps they could have recreated it with diaspora actors or something, but I do recognize that it gets tricky.
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-enter…

Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival
Iranian director Ash Koosha said, ‘I would have preferred to make this film with a crew, with actors, with the dignity of a full production’

Traffic in Seattle is so bad i just outran an ambulance with lights and sirens on.
On a bicycle.

When you are a game developer, every Godot release feels like Xmas!
https://godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Godot 4.7 Release: Lights, Camera, Action!
Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. This brings us to Godot 4.7. With 3 years under its belt, the 4.7 _Director’s Cut_ offers colors of never-before-reached intensity.

The Conditional Button
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The system responds visibly, with no covert work happening underneath. The button does what it claims. But the same system also fails, often, in ways that have nothing to do with the button itself and everything to do with what is wired several layers behind…

The Conditional Button | David Boles, Blogs
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The sy…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jorja Smith:
🎵 Blue Lights
#NowPlaying #JorjaSmith
https://open.spotify.com/track/1It1TxBK3xIQAB4xJkPevn

A diurnal firefly on my parsley - #wildlife #gardening

Do you know that Mastodon 4.6 allows posting poll and media together?
Related PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39203

Ay PAPI

@… We finally got to watch Blue Lights and we enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendation. #TVShows

This article by @moultano.bsky.social is one the best articles/posts I have read in a while.
It made me look at traffic lights (and colours in general) in a completely new way.
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colo…

The office last night

Once upon a time, there was a Central Electricity Generating Board, responsible for keeping the lights on. Now there is a UK government-designed energy "market". This market is not well designed.
"Electricity ‘reselling’ adds £99mn to consumer bills"
FT: https://www.ft.com/content…

WELCOME TO SOCIAL MEDIA ! WOULD THE LAST ONE OUT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS

"These 3 small changes to your next beach trip could save endangered sea turtles"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.…

Knock down your sandcastles. Sea turtles will thank you
Plastic litter, bright lights, and abandoned sancastles can pose threats to sea turtles. Here’s how to help.

As programming gets easier (and more fun) via claude code etc...
Will there be less programming or more? If there is latent demand for computer programs and ones that works, then the demand for programming, and therefore the number of programmers might increase not decrease.
When lighting got cheaper with electric lights, people lit more things. maybe this will happen with coding and coders?
What an interesting time to be alive.

“Thomas, that’s a great question! ✨Stars used to be twinkly little lights in the night sky that inspired thousands of generations of humans! But you can’t see them anymore because we launched millions of 🛰️ data center satellites to make AIs like me work! 😇 How else can I help you?”

#whatImReading is Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Take Me To Your Leader. It’s all his take on the old UFO/ET business. Mildly amusing. He covers the history and all the ins and outs of UFOlogy. But what I’ve never seen an answer to is, why do UFOs have running lights at all? Why would they need them? If they were hiding they wouldn’t have them for sure.
If you like Tyson you’ll like this book.

I've noticed in the last five years or so a marked increase in drivers running red lights in my town (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) and that many of the vehicles have illegal levels of window tinting. I'm wondering, is it that aggressive (male) drivers are likely to get illegal tinting ... or is it that the tinting induces lawlessness via the anonymity it provides? Or are both factors? And then there's the boring explanation, that people simply can't see the lights through the tinting. #cars #driving #tint #tinting #windows #safety #traffic #pennsylvania #vehicles #trucks #psychology

Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his birthday is expected to cost taxpayers $45 million.
The rally and march are organized by a coalition of civic and activist groups, including 50501 SoCal, the American Federation of Teachers, the Black Deported Veterans of America, Third Act, Lights Out, and the Long Beach Peace Action Network.
Organizers say the event seeks to unite a broad cross-section of Angelenos in opposition to what they view as autocratic overre…

50501 SoCal - Flag Day March · Mobilize
# The flag belongs to US and no one else. Let's celebrate our flag, not our dictator. ## Join us for a rally and march on June 14 in DTLA. ### Brought to you by 50501 SoCal: bringing the power back to the people, peacefully. #### _Support our cause or join our movement, either way, you can get involved here: www.50501socal.org._ _A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Katy B:
🎵 Lights On (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
#KatyB
https://slingo.bandcamp.com/track/katy-b-lights-on-dub

Wowzer… quite the dramatic thunderstorm early this morning here in northwest #Vermont ! We have 2 skylights in our bedroom and around 1:00am they were as bright as those large fluorescent lights you see in office buildings. And even brighter at times!
I hope folks are okay throughout the state!

Same Place ⛪️
同一個地方 ⛪️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400
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Nice anniversary party at my old alma mater in the #NikolaTesla lab.
(Yes, Tesla was once a student here but he "may have been expelled for gambling and womanizing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_T

400m/200m run/walk intervals again. I suppose this is the second trial balloon. So far, no pain. Cautiously optimistic.
Humid and thick air. Started raining the moment I crossed 5 km. Wish it would have been sooner.
#Running

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ivor Gurney, Susie Allan & Roderick Williams:
🎵 Lights Out
#IvorGurney #SusieAllan #RoderickWilliams

I plugged in one of my bike lights that has been sitting unused for 6 months it started smoking! The USB-C cable is actually charred a bit.
I am tempted to plug it in again to see what happens.

Roy DeCarava
Dancers, New York 1956, Photogravure
Capturing moments from life in New York City's Black neighbourhoods, DeCarava shows ordinary people in dance halls, on the street and in the home, bringing subtle details from a black tonality.
The images were etched onto metal plates using light-sensitive chemicals and acid. The plates were then coated with ink and hand-printed onto paper.
#Tate

Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (Scott Calvert/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…

The Honest Button
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says "Wait!" when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. No wire runs from the button to the signal timer. The LED is connected only to the button itself, and it does the single job of telling the pedestrian to wait.

The Honest Button | David Boles, Blogs
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says “Wait!” when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. …

Dusk on the Fourth of July at my neighborhood before the fireworks went off.

80% of German cyclists ignore traffic lights when turning right, and 97% do so if they don't need to leave the cycle lane. 💀
S https://www.spiegel.de/mobilitaet/fahrrad/deutschland-ruecksichtslose…

Rücksichtslose Radfahrer: Rote Ampel? Mir egal!
Viele Fahrradfahrer missachten selbst einfachste Regeln – auch deshalb passieren viele Unfälle. Das Bild vom »besseren Verkehrsteilnehmer« weisen jüngere Forschungsergebnisse jedenfalls zurück.

1. All cities in car comercials
2. Many (most?) cities in real life…

Am I the only one who looks at a nightclub party in a show/movie with flashing lights, full dance floor and loud music and wish to be as far away as possible? Sensory overload and my worst nightmare.

Gee. If only we had more local/home/business based solar and wind to spread the generating capacity eh?
I think I noticed one of these surges/interruptions last night around 9PM. All the lights flashed all of a sudden.
#bcwildfire #electricity

AFAIK this is authentic #BCI

Air Ambulance for Neuralink | GiveSendGo
My husband has been my hero for years—quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent, yet still greeting every morning with quiet courage and a love that lights up ou…

Looking down #photography

The office last night

#ListeningClub Enjoying the didgeridoo. The only album I have with didgeridoo is by a band called Lights in a Fat City which this is definitely not because reasons.

AT2019ijn, A Fast-rising, Slow-decaying Blue Optical Transient with Exceptionally Bright Radio Emission: #BlackHole Lights Up the Radio Sky: https://public.nrao.edu/news/vla-at2019ijn-relativistic-jet/

Another One Lights The Dusk
#ThunderStormASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The White Stripes:
🎵 City Lights
#NowPlaying #TheWhiteStripes
https://open.spotify.com/track/40yDK5dtwoxe7HM60Mwreh

I watched the entire first season of Stargate SG1 and the conclusion is: it's quite boring. Not terrible yet very mellow, shallow and trivial all the time.
It's an attempt to grasp at the star treck success without any of the philosophical deep shit going on there. It's only the sparkling space new thing and very boring and never challenging stories.
No "robots have rights" moment, nor "there are four lights" moment, nor anything remotely as deep.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Santigold:
🎵 Lights Out
#Santigold
https://djmehdi.bandcamp.com/track/santigold-lights-out-dj-mehdi-remix

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sorry:
🎵 Let The Lights On
#Sorry
https://sorrybanduk.bandcamp.com/track/let-the-lights-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/6TvB13NuTM2PE8XDGf0W4n

The Corner Store at the End of the World
Every local prepper carries the same private film in his head. He is the survivor. The neighbors who laughed at the Costco pallets and the propane tanks and the blue tarp over the generator are huddled in their cold houses while his basement lights still burn through week three of the outage. He sits on the front porch with a rifle across his knees, finally vindicated, the man on the block who saw it coming.

The Corner Store at the End of the World | David Boles, Blogs
Every local prepper carries the same private film in his head. He is the survivor. The neighbors who laughed at the Costco pallets and the propane tanks and the blue tarp over the generator are hud…

Pretty much perfect spring weather, so I’m working on the back deck. Noticed movement in my peripheral vision and spied this tiny jumping spider furtively sneaking closer for a peek at my setup.
Paraphidippus aurantius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphidippus_aurantius…

Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights
#ThunderStormASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
#noeffort

One thing I like about photographing fireworks is that they are so outside normal sensory experience and have so much range in brightness that you can get interesting photos with different exposures and even when the autofocus "fails" you can get a pretty image
#photo #photography …

Red City 🌆
红色城市 🌆
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
James Adrian Brown:
🎵 Forever Neon Lights
#JamesAdrianBrown
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mltw08JGkDvIVOeTcw1XR
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Bishops:
🎵 City Lights
#NowPlaying #TheBishops

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pretty Lights:
🎵 Rainbows & Waterfalls
#PrettyLights
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FLnHMQ1gWhEdAn2yqp2uo

Firework with red white and blue streaks that are a little irregular, maybe because the exposure was long and the camera didn't quite cancel out the motion of my hands
#photo #photography #fireworks

The Placebo Button
The elevator in my building has a door-close button that does nothing. I learned this the way everyone learns it, which is to say I pressed it for years under the impression that it was speeding up my departure. The button lights up. It makes a small click when pressed. It provides every sensory signal of function. What it does not do is close the door any faster than the door was going to close on its own.

The Placebo Button | David Boles, Blogs
The elevator in my building has a door-close button that does nothing. I learned this the way everyone learns it, which is to say I pressed it for years under the impression that it was speeding up…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra:
🎵 Disco Wich Aa (Peaking Lights remix)
#MohinderKaurBhamra
https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/track/disco-wich-aa-baalti-remix-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RXa3yVJ0MZKSTD0lWe6sW

Civic Museums II 🏛️
民间博物馆 II 🏛️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ LUCKY SHD 400 (FF)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Katy B:
🎵 Lights On (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
#KatyB
https://slingo.bandcamp.com/track/katy-b-lights-on-dub

The Substance V 🧪
某种物质 V 🧪
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure (FF)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Another Taste:
🎵 Party Lights
#AnotherTaste
https://open.spotify.com/track/75f3jzANZ5zRoQWowVGm7q

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fenne Lily:
🎵 Lights Light Up (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #FenneLily
https://open.spotify.com/track/5CIQGFQK7o6MJka8OVH1Ve

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Tom Vek:
🎵 Nothing But Green Lights
#TomVek
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tGTDhx7sImWRv3hrR5MLw

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Santigold:
🎵 Lights Out
#Santigold
https://djmehdi.bandcamp.com/track/santigold-lights-out-dj-mehdi-remix

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kollektiv Turmstrasse feat. Joel Stewart:
🎵 When The Lights Go Lower
#NowPlaying #KollektivTurmstrasse #JoelStewart
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KuVHr9kyw0Z2gBv5gwNH1

Speaker at Juneteenth Celebration at Southside Community Center
#photo #photography #ithaca #downtown

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRemixWithChrisHawkins
Cut Copy:
🎵 Lights & Music (Moulinex Remix)
#CutCopy
https://djprimeministermixtapes.bandcamp.com/track/lights-and-music-cut-copy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FezhHZVmDYXvk8jAr2fpU

The Substance 🧪
某种物质 🧪
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure (FF)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ultra Lights:
🎵 Good Enough
#UltraLights
https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/track/good-enough
https://open.spotify.com/track/1B1By24uRkI2EH3UNrcBK8

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Weeknd:
🎵 Blinding Lights
#NowPlaying #TheWeeknd
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qYkmqFsXbj8CQjAdbYz07

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Fourth Wall:
🎵 City Lights Receding
#TheFourthWall
https://music.thefourthwallband.com/track/city-lights-receding
https://open.spotify.com/track/0pRK61uKTK6t9CVAYbSdLe

A Day Or Two At The Museum III🏛️
博物馆的一两天 III🏛️
📷 Pentax MX
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Undertheskin:
🎵 Freezing | Lights
#Undertheskin
https://underskin.bandcamp.com/track/freezing-lights
https://open.spotify.com/track/27RzsI2vLU1aM6ky5Yn5gL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Gerry Mulligan Sextet:
🎵 Night Lights
#GerryMulliganSextet
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eVERkVvJKBgV2FziCoLDE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ultra Lights:
🎵 Good Enough
#UltraLights
https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/track/good-enough
https://open.spotify.com/track/1B1By24uRkI2EH3UNrcBK8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
PawPaw Rod & Sherwyn:
🎵 Lights Down Low
#PawPawRod #Sherwyn
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DGgV7mQOLQz0Gx1GKb3Jb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Kraftwerk:
🎵 Neon Lights
#Kraftwerk
https://open.spotify.com/track/1krBKWusytTAT2jNWJGA7m

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ultra Lights:
🎵 Diamond Dreams
#UltraLights
https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/track/diamond-dreams
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lb4Xs6yXjyMdYp3qO04rs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Weeknd:
🎵 Blinding Lights
#TheWeeknd
https://rodrics.bandcamp.com/track/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-remix-rodrics
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Smoke DZA, Statik Selectah, Lord Sko, B‐Real:
🎵 NORTHERN LIGHTS
#SmokeDZA #StatikSelectah #LordSko #BReal

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
PawPaw Rod & Sherwyn:
🎵 Lights Down Low
#PawPawRod #Sherwyn
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KvrTPdVKFP9UWz3aOHMv0