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Okay, finally have iocaine (https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/) running on my web server. Was a bit of an uphill battle but I'll try to write about a few things tonight to make it easier for others and document a few of the roadblocks I ran into

We arrived home from Tennessee late last night. 🎉
Very noticeable, was a foul and mysterious odor outside, of which we reasoned that some poor critter had crawled under the deck and died.
There was a rotting board I'd missed last year when I replaced the others on the deck, so I pried it off and found a :possum:
The summer heat was doing it no favors and even wearing a mask, I still suffered from the stench. 🤢
Now I'm researching how to gather it up safely. T…

A while ago the media reported that most of the long-distance "suburban" trains between #Wrocław and #Poznań will be discontinued, and instead one will have to change trains midway. Irrespective of whether it's actually going to happen, let's consider it.
As you can probably tell by now, I'm not a stranger to changing trains. In fact, there are some direct connections that I do criticize. For example:
• Poznań — Szczecin — Świnoujście, where arriving at Szczecin Główny and turning back to leave the city is a waste of time. It's better to change trains at Szczecin Dąbie.
• Poznań — Krzyż — Kostrzyn, where instead of using a single railbus, you can use a larger EMU for the Poznań — Krzyż segment, and a smaller DMU for Krzyż — Kostrzyn (in fact, only recently the "direct" Poznań — Kostrzyn train involved just that, but it was supposed to be temporary).
However, good matches are the key. Say:
1. Max 10 minutes (when there are no delays) from one train to the other.
2. "Door-to-door" transfer — without having to carry all your luggage across platforms.
3. Reliable connection — if one train is delayed, the other train waits for it (or there are so many alternatives that it doesn't have to).
Can such a thing happen on Poznań — Wrocław route? I have my doubts.
I've been using these trains for years, and I can say this: there is no effort to match train from/to Poznań with other trains in Wrocław. Sometimes the trains depart 10 minutes before the first train from Poznań arrives, sometimes I need to transfer in 10 minutes, and sometimes I have to wait over an hour. And the same in the other direction.
Perhaps things would actually improve if the route is split. Perhaps people would actually care. Maybe even the trains would be fitted better to the timetable in Wrocław. But I find it hard to believe.
EDIT: One final thought — since there is no real reason to split these connections (except for profiteering), why make travellers' lives harder?
#rail

„My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.”
The PKM-movement never took off for me since it feels like building and bulding and building… Just one more note! It’s like productivity snake-oil.

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

An amazing read- 'You are both the poison and the antidote' (and huge thanks to @… for tipping me off to it): https://www.printmag.co…

A Broad View: You are both the poison and the antidote – PRINT Magazine
Monica Danielle on discovering wholeness in the American countryside.

Zum Nordic Walking passen ideal ein paar alte Mixes von sma (den, ahem, Seniorbloggern unter uns wahrscheinlich noch ein Begriff). Meinen Lieblingsmix "I Am Always Reminded Of You" finde ich nicht online, aber "Things Behind the Sun" eignet sich auch vortrefflich. #sound

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/french-mine-stocamine-waste-drinking-water-chemicals-alsace-aquifer-aoe

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: Extensive detection of acetamide in multiple high-mass star-forming regions
Chunguo Duan, Xuefang Xu, Qian Gou, Tie Liu, Laurent Pagani, Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Xunchuan Liu, Jun Kang, Mingwei He, Jiaxiang Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01904

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: Extensive detection of acetamide in multiple high-mass star-forming regions
Acetamide (CH$_{3}$CONH$_{2}$), a key interstellar amide and a methyl derivative of formamide (NH$_{2}$CHO), has been sparsely detected, limiting insights into its prebiotic relevance. We present the first systematic survey for acetamide toward 52 hot molecular cores using ALMA Band 6 data. Acetamide has been detected in 10 cores, markedly expanding the inventory of known emitters. The derived column densities of acetamide range from $(2.5\pm0.9)\times10^{14}$ to $(1.5\pm0.6)\times10^{16}$ cm$^…

Updated bounds on ultra-light dark matter from the tiniest galaxies
Simon May, Neal Dalal, Andrey Kravtsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02781 https://arxiv.o…

Updated bounds on ultra-light dark matter from the tiniest galaxies
The particle mass of dark matter (DM) was previously constrained using kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to $m > 3 \times 10^{-19}\,\mathrm{eV}$. This constraint, which excludes the "fuzzy" range of ultra-light dark matter from comprising all of the DM, relies on an estimate of the heating rate from fuzzy dark matter (FDM) wave interference using linear perturbation theory. Here, we compare the results of this perturbative calculation to full Schrödinger-Poisson simulations of the evolu…

Electrically reconfigurable nonvolatile transmissive metasurface in visible
Virat Tara, Romil Audhkhasi, Andrew Tang, Rui Chen, Johannes E. Fr\"och, Abhinav Kala, Juejun Hu, Arka Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02748

Electrically reconfigurable nonvolatile transmissive metasurface in visible
The synergy between metasurfaces and non-volatile phase change materials (PCMs) has created many reconfigurable photonic devices for applications in optical memory, optical computing and optical communications. But these advances have been limited to the infrared wavelengths due to the high loss of PCMs in the visible regime. Here we demonstrate a nonvolatile visible metasurface that is electrically reconfigurable using wide bandgap PCM Sb2S3. Our device supports a resonant mode at 610 nm, a wa…