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After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee

Stuibenfall, Tyrol's largest waterfall (October 2025)
A major landslide on the opposite side of the main Ötztal valley around 7000 years ago created a new 300-400 meter tall hill on this side, acting as a dam and causing a large lake to form in the higher up side valley. The water from that lake then slowly carved its way through the rocks, draining the lake and forming this amazing waterfall. The boundary of that ancient lake is still visible on the satellite view...
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This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

You know what they say about hitting the translate button on a tweet written in Hebrew:

I've had issues with Linux.Pizza's Matrix-server, mainly due to uncontrolled growth of the database. Even thou retention is set do one month, there is still an absurd amount of growth in the database.
I have never encountered this before, not even with thousands of active users.
I do know that other users had this issue before and have been vocal about it.
Is there any solution to this yet?

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI."
People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate change that is currently on track to make complex human society impossible. Meanwhile, cities that weren't destroyed for cars, or that have reversed most of the damage, are some of the most desirable places to live.
Maybe we could take the car analogy as a warning. Maybe it could be a reminder to think about how forcing technology on people against their will can reshape society in a profoundly negative way.
The answer for cities has been to right-size transit. Eliminate cars wherever possible, maintain emergency vehicles and mobility aids, and find more efficient alternatives (bikes, trams, metros, and trains) where possible. I feel as though we can extrapolate from the metaphor.
We do not have to repeat the mistake of reshaping society around a single, oversimplified, solution in order to benefit a tiny minority. Perhaps we can actually choose the right technologies based on use cases, rather than hype or dogma.
Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets.
"Cars replaced horses" to the benefit of a small group of elite men, at tremendous cost to literally everyone else. When people say, "AI is the new 'cars replacing horses'" they are saying something very specific about their privilege and intentions.

Microplastics reach even 2,000 meters below the ocean surface, study finds #ocean

Microplastics reach even 2,000 meters below the ocean surface, study finds
Plastic pollution has become a global environmental crisis, with an estimated 11 million tons of plastic entering the oceans each year. As larger plastic debris breaks down into microplastics, these tiny particles are transported throughout marine ecosystems by ocean currents, threatening marine life and ultimately entering the human food chain.

I can't imagine anyone is reading this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/595901/why-nvidia-s-result-matters-for-kiwisaver-investors and is seriously thinking 'damn, I should work to make myself more dependent on that slop!' l…

The last time code became “cheap,” we lost more than we realized — mentorship, craftsmanship, and the sense that engineering was a shared discipline.
I wrote about why that matters now more than ever:
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time…

Offensichtlich ist der Preis für fossile Kraftstoffe doch ein wirksames Mittel die Verschwendung einzudämmen:
Lufthansa streicht bis Oktober 20.000 Kurzstreckenflüge in ihrem gesamten Streckennetz, um „eine Einsparung von mehr als 40.000 Tonnen Kerosin“ zu erzielen. Auch andere Airlines ergreifen Maßnahmen.

Lufthansa axes 20,000 ‘unprofitable’ flights to save jet fuel
BRUSSELS — Lufthansa is ending 20,000 short-haul routes across its network through October to achieve “jet fuel savings of more than 40,000 metric tons,” the airline announced on Tuesday. Jet fuel …