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An interesting write up of an interview with the Edinburgh Spokes cycle campaign.
"Spokes also started producing cycle maps at that point [in the 80s]. Partly you produce a cycle map to show people where the nice places are, whether it's off road routes, quiet streets or whatever, to just show them that it is possible."
"But it's also a campaigning tool, because the map shows you the gaps."

"If your campaigning doesn't generate a response, you're not being radical enough": Active travel campaigners Spokes on making spaces bike friendly
road.cc chat with the organisation as they release their new cycle map of West Lothian and discuss meaningful cycle campaigning after nearly 50 years

Off-cycle elections send Republicans a clear midterms warning (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/republicans-warnings-off-cycle-elections-chart
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p2#a251217p2

Magnetic activity and differential rotation of HIP12653
Amina Boulkaboul, Lotfi Yelles Chaouche, Alessandro Carmelo Lanzafame, Yassine Damerdji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14902 …

Magnetic activity and differential rotation of HIP12653
We present a spectroscopic and photometric study of HIP12653 to investigate its magnetic cycle and differential rotation. Using HARPS archival spectra matched with MARCS-AMBER theoretical templates, we derive the stellar parameters (Teff, logg, FeH, and vsini) of the target. The S-index, an activity indicator based on the emission of the CaII H&K lines, is fitted to determine the magnetic cycle and rotation periods. We refine the magnetic cycle period to 5799.20 \pm 0.88 d and suggest the exist…

And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

Yesterday, I cycled a normal bike to the office. Half the @… team came to have a look because they could not believe it. 🤣 🤷

“Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT”
And it is called the CLT?
They’ll have to find it first.
Hey oh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/military-academies-clt-standardized-test-00564290…

"#crypto leverage — whether through borrowing programs, margin trading, or perpetual futures — creates a cycle of risk that can rapidly snowball"
Again, of course. Leverage was one of the main drivers of the great crash of 1929. People then mortgaged their houses to buy stocks; now, to buy #Bitcoin

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

Cool! I got it to last a full 24-hour cycle!
#TimeLapse #Snow

Interesting little animation of the "life cycle" of a SARS-COV-2 particle!
(not really the right term I think, because viruses aren't "alive", but does convey the timespan depicted)
#covid #video #animation

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)