European electricity prices are not immune to the gas price shock, since in many hours of the year, gas-fired power plants set the price, as the marginal producers.
The maps show the differences for baseload power to be delivered next quarter, between last Friday (left) and today (right). In the Netherlands, a jump from €70 to €100 per MWh!
Data/maps from EEX Group
Sickly Red II ⭕️
病态的红 II ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …
Let's hope this works. Then it would be an easy fix for the bloody IKEA Nävlinge LED Lamp that breaks too easily at the clamp.
Model: https://www.printables.com/model/321152-ikea-navlinge-lamp-clamp-repair
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy
Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…
Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian
Choose life over death. Choose compassion over suffering. Go vegan for the animals, environment and health! Choose life for the future!
#AnimalRights #GoVegan
Today’s run is dedicated to my friend @… with my best wishes for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. ✊
Ventured further down the greenway into Salem. This segment is pretty industrial, but I sometimes see a heron which, together with several bridge crossings over the Roanoke River, makes it interesting. The heron was not out, but this massive train running p…
…it’s a mistake to •stop• the analysis there. This is not the same old US imperialism as ever. The false wisdom of “They’re all the same” is as always a giant intellectual trap for the left. This is not Iraq again. This is not Chile again. This is not a rerun.
The salty anger of @… is appropriate here; see posts below.
US imperialism was and is a terrible thing with a long history. Also, we are now in uncharted waters. Both these things are true.
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832859270597712
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832871321693950
https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/115832717964769375
If Letchworth State Park is the Grand Canyon of New York, Monkey Run is the Letchworth State Park of Tompkins County -- here's a spot you can only get to if you're willing to walk the creek in water shoes
#photo #photography
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
CALLY: Seems quiet enough.
AVON: The village should be in that direction.
CALLY: If Zen got it right.
AVON: It's a pity we're not all as reliable as Zen.
CALLY: But I thought you were.
<…
Would you please welcome my dear colleague @… from New Delhi, who is #neuhier and seeks to discover a network of climate related accounts. So let's spread Mastodon to #India
You're gonna punch me?"
"Yeah"
"Then you're gonna in trouble for that”
"Okay"
#OkayPunch #Shitpost #Shitposting
Great Egret looking across the estuary. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14 #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #egret
As an added bonus, Apple calls the two ports on the left “USB-C” (which is a type of connector) and the two other ports “Thunderbolt 5” (which is a type of interface).
It’s not specified what protocols the USB-C ports support (presumably USB up to USB4 and maybe some alternate modes).
«Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.»
Hannah Arendt (1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crises_of_the_Repub…
The cruel beauty in the evolutionary mechanism that every time saves humanity:
Young people telling the old fools they suck, and the old fools crossing their arms to see how, if left on their own, the young'uns would definitely fail.
Often preceded by:
Old fools grumbling about "young people these days," which makes the young people even more irate.
A little pic from this morning’s Purbeck Dawn ride.
-3C when I left the house
#biketooter #dorset #purbecks
Randomly found 2 typos on @… Deploy today.
Something about the fonts used that makes them look more annoying somehow.
For context, "Deno Deploy is Generally Available" https://deno.com/blog/…
»Say what you like about the tenets of populism, it certainly seems to be, well, popular. But what are the tenets of populism? It’s easy enough to say what a centre-left party is likely to stand for, or a libertarian. But a populist? Maybe it is a mistake to describe populism as an ideology at all.«
Why populism became popular | Tim Harford
Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:
Next: The Alien Enemies Act will permit Trump to imprison & deport US CITIZENS as "threats to national security".
"As predicted... the US has begun its invasion of Venezuela. A US Navy & Air Force air armada started attacking strategic military objectives around the country."
~ Malcolm Nance
https://
Timeline cleanse: tonight’s moon and Jupiter and its moons
I have to wonder what Sam Hyde and types like him are thinking about this, types that hitched their humor to the gallows shit Trump and Co ultimately gave way to, out there making pointed jokes about dems being a sex pests while donating to the guys that (in the case of sam, actually happened, epic joke mr hyde updoots to the left) ended up being implicated too while in the end confirming the worst parts of the conspiracies that bubbled up at the time.
As we’re landing, crew asks everyone to stay seated so paramedics can get into the back of the plane. Seatbelt sign goes off, 5 people in my section promptly stand up and start yanking luggage from the overhead bins. Some bins left open when crew scolds people back to their seats.
My old state just realized I left 2.5 years ago. (Yes, I did the change of address, closed things out, and registered to vote in my new home state.)
I'm quite fond of the issue between the fifth option and the signature it requires, plus the fact that (aside from the zip code and other USPS requirements) this could have looked identical a hundred years ago. No website, email, or phone number. Also note the old convention of two spaces following each period.
my son, daughter, their spouses, and their kids dropped in and the place is lovely, noisy chaos
Hey friends of the #mountains - I almost didn't make it away from my couch today morning. But as you can see, I did!
I spent a couple of hours hiking into the snow. During the ascent I was happy that I left my snow shoes at home. Yet for half an hour or an hour, I really missed them when I sometimes sank in deeper than my knees.
But it was all well manageable and I regained so …
Different Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
📷 ZEISS IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Celebrate the new year by merging to main and push to prod!
Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
CALLY: Blake, listen to me.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Hurry down here and you'll see.
CALLY: Blake. Blake?
VILA: What now?
CALLY: Avon? Jenna?
[Asteroid]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/338 B7B2
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/116008860890592546
memories of the unheated bogs at school in the mid 1980s which iirc they demolished a year ish before i left, to make way for shiny new classrooms
they also got rid of the wwii anderson bomb s…
Not to mention, the U.S flag in the right-hand image appears to have the wrong number of stars and/or stripes [AI-generated?].
So y'all who complain about the democratic party: I've got a friend who works (very hard I might add!) as a consultant and campaigner for campaigns. There's a special election primary going on where he is, and he's trying to get the leftmost candidate elected. Guess who didn't show up to help get the candidate elected?
The progressives and leftists.
This is the problem. The party is whoever's left. It's not us, because we're not showing up.
Absolutely stunning moon halo tonight. The belt of Orion is visible in the lower left. The planet Jupiter, the top left. And Capella shines brightly to the right. Gorgeous! #Astronomy #tennessee #moon
Oh no... someone left the Jammy Dodgers out, and now there's only two left 🫢
Early morning in Ötztal
(A sleepy and peaceful Sunday morning in October 2025, the view south-west over Längenfeld towards Hoher Kogel, 3296m)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.
I'm thinking that people had it tough in medieval castles. Just imagine your phone falls into the WC… not much will be left of it all the way down.
#shitpost
Slides and recordings for our @… talks are up! Join an in-depth introduction into @… 's features and internals, or find out what's the latest in anti-anti-debugging techniques and HV transparency for malware reversing:
Got something to share at #TNC26?
There’s just 1 week left to submit your proposals for Lightning Talks, BoFs, and Community Hub.
This year, under the theme Digital Sisu, the TNC Programme Committee are especially looking for contributions that show courage and inner strength in our changing world.
🎤 Submit your idea before 10 March:
Trump is a simpleton, really. He admires autocrats on the right, and loathes them on the left.
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
GAN: It will repair before he gets here. [Blake takes aim with his gun.]
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/446
What’s in a name?
As I work through UI improvements on the alt Wordle, I would love to settle on a name so that it’s easy to tell which site you’re on and which game posted results came from.
Some ideas:
‣ OG Wordle: #OldGal & original gameplay
‣ OW Wordle: One World Wordle
‣ Left Wordle: For ppl who left NYT Wordle
‣ Alt Wordle: simple, direct. con: other games cou…
Next week, the grad students and I will be discussing Don Wright's biography of my forebear at the University of Toronto and English Canada's national historian, Donald Creighton. It's an expertly crafted book that, while sympathetic to the famously cantankerous Creighton, doesn't pull its punches. It tells us much about how the academic discipline of history developed alongside a certain strain of conservative nationalism through the middle decades of 20th-century Canada.
at 11:50 we put the big nyc ball drop livestream on, got bored quick, so mom put on some indian pastor who's accent turns "refuge" into "refuse". we switched back to the livestream with one minute left. when the ball dropped, the camera started showing couples kissing. the second/third one was two gay men. mom and brothers screamed and immediately changed back to the pastor. tone for 2026 immediately set, less than a minute in.
End Cover for Initial Value Problem: Complete Validated Algorithms with Complexity Analysis
Bingwei Zhang, Chee Yap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00162
arXiv:2602.00162v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the first-order autonomous ordinary differential equation \[ \mathbf{x}' = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}), \] where $\mathbf{f} : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ is locally Lipschitz. For a box $B_0 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ and $h > 0$, we denote by $\mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$ the set of solutions $\mathbf{x} : [0,h] \to \mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying \[ \mathbf{x}'(t) = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}(t)), \qquad \mathbf{x}(0) \in B_0 . \]
We present a complete validated algorithm for the following \emph{End Cover Problem}: given $(\mathbf{f}, B_0, \varepsilon, h)$, compute a finite set $\mathcal{C}$ of boxes such that \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \;\subseteq\; \bigcup_{B \in \mathcal{C}} B \;\subseteq\; \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \oplus [-\varepsilon,\varepsilon]^n , \] where \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) = \left\{ \mathbf{x}(h) : \mathbf{x} \in \mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \right\}. \]
Moreover, we provide a complexity analysis of our algorithm and introduce a novel technique for computing the end cover $\mathcal{C}$ based on covering the boundary of $\mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$. Finally, we present experimental results demonstrating the practicality of our approach.
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Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.
In today's Texas Senate primary election, Republicans are measuring the potency of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement against old-guard conservatism. Democrats, meanwhile, face a choice between two progressive “powerhouses” with different theories of how to fight – and how to win – in the Trump era.
The fiercely competitive races have left Democrats unusually hopeful about their chances in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide since 1994, while Republicans fret th…
Past and Sapiens 🉐
过去和智人 🉐
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Small waterfall in Six Mile Creek between the two big dams, two gorges South from Monkey Run (too bad the trail through Cascadilla Creek is closed!)
#photo #photography #waterfall
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: [Enters] Kommissar.
KOMMISSAR: Ro. It has been too long.
RO: An unlooked for pleasure. I welcome your return to my planet.
KOMMISSAR: I would've come sooner - pressure of office.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/244 B7B2
This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
Different Corners III ▶️
不同的角落 III ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I can’t stop thinking about
Nurul Shah Alam,
the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.
I think of loosestrife being a little more strident than this but I think this is still some kind of 𝐿𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑢𝑚 in the upper waters of Fall Creek
#photo #photography #flowers
They straight up gonna have to put a protection detail on Phil's ass
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: There were circuit faults. Slave must have given the wrong diagnosis.
VENA: So- So, he's alive?
AVON: And apparently still violent. [Door opens. Avon draws gun and turns towards door. Enter Tarrant and Vila.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/395
Different Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
A vow to end wars is left in the dust
For a decade, Trump promised to end what he calls forever wars,
casting himself as a leader opposed to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East and who would rather pursue peace in the world.
Now, early in his second term, Trump is taking military action against Iran that could expand well beyond a limited effort to halt the country’s nuclear program.
In a video posted on Truth Social, the commander-in-chief said American forces also…
№ 21 Kaspar Sepp towering at 6'7" a Junior from Tartu, Estonia has the ball
#photo #photography #basketball
Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars
by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months,
experiences that left them fearing for their lives.
The witnesses wept and spoke with emotion as they described violent encounters with federal agents at a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by two Democrats.
Withering Heights 🫥
消失的巨人 🫥
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: blast from the past 𝑁𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 1990 an exciting anime where the world seems to expand exponentially in each episode -- a Miyazaki × Gainax collaboration
#anime #television #watching
Donald #Trump threatened on Friday 💥to come to the aid of protesters in #Iran if security forces fire on them, days into unrest that has left several dead and posed the biggest internal threat to Iranian authorities in years.
"We are locked and loaded and ready to go," he said in a social media post.
Th…
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
CALLY: It would be quicker if we took Orac down with us.
AVON: It would be stupid to compound the risk.
CALLY: Risk! They're dying down there, dying by the thousands,.
TARRANT: Orac stays, Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/301…
Monumental III 🪦
纪念 III 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Cornell's № 14 Corbin Zentner from Alpine, Utah has № 23 Sebastian Whitfield from Virginia Beach of the Princeton Tigers on his tail
Find more shots from this game on my Bēhance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/243329557/Cornell-vs-Princeton-(…
Urban Mirage 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: Servalan.
SERVALAN: You don't sound surprised.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/143 B7B6
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: Please do. [Avon produces Orac's key and gives it to Egrorian, who laughs. This distracts Egrorian as Avon switches Orac off unseen. Avon grins and laughs.]
[On Servalan's monitor]
https://
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
C07 - Children of Auron
DAYNA: Relax! Orac did a grand therapy job on their traffic controller.
TARRANT: [Through door] Franton. Zelda. You'll have to evacuate with us. They'll be here soon, Zelda, and it won't just be bugs they're bringing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/559
Urban Demons VIII 👻
城市鬼魂 VIII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Cornell № 7 Abby Thibodeau -- more shots from the 2026-02-06 game with RPI on my Behance gallery:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/245026257/Womens-Hockey-Cornell-vs-RPI-2026-02-06
Bee hovers near small flower deep inside Mulholland Wildflower Preserve inside Sixmile Creek
#photo #photography #flowers
Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite