Elon's hell will absolutely be an X where only Joyce posts, and all she talks about is about how he is a complete cultural failure and he keeps responding to her posts but she never directly addresses him

Incidentally this area factor is also why lungs are fractal and have a very large surface area contained within a comparatively small volume - same trick as eg the Koch snowflake (finite area but infinite perimeter).

I wonder if we could make fractal masks?

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This is a really good point (made in the alt text but worth repeating) - surface area of the mask is a crucial parameter because the larger it is, the more air flows across it for a given pressure differential, making it that much easier to breathe.

The BBC should countersue Leavitt for slander. Should be fairly easy to prove that they aren't '100% fake news'.

Sounds mad but Trump only respects those who have the guts to stand up to him. If you give an inch, he will come back for more (see Columbia etc).

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Etc etc

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Lots of companies that Trump has sued have folded now that he's president because paying a few million to be in his good books is worth it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder what such a platform would have produced in the UK eg in 2017 (out but close?), and what it would say today.

Incidentally I suspect Labour could get out of the corner they've boxed themselves into on Brexit by running a Citizens' Assembly on what to do next (cf Ireland and abortion).

This, about the Polis platform used in Taiwan, might be of interest. Rather than merely attempting to be representative, it goes a step further and tries to build consensus.

(Disclaimer: I have no personal experience / don't know anyone who uses it.)

democracy-technologies.org/participatio...

Fork-bombing death since 3.7e9 BCE

... and good luck running a US research lab without PhD students

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I've just come across these in a random archaeology video I'm watching. From 6th century BC, found in East Yorkshire in 1836 and immediately buried in the deepest museum vault by the Victorians, so no one's ever heard of them... which is a pity, I think?

www.hullmuseums.co.uk/homepage/110...

That's pretty bad. In Andalusia (southern Spain), the solar noon is around 2.20 pm during the summer, which really confuses all the tourists and can be a problem if you're trying to avoid sunburn - you'd think that 3pm was reasonably safe, but it's the opposite.

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Not in the UK - summer time over, we're now back on the astronomically correct GMT. (Well, correct-ish... solar noon currently at 11:44 am in London.)

In Europe the clocks go back a week earlier.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayligh...

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@aphclarkson.bsky.social Beautiful shot of a technical (presumably acting as air defence) near the Beklemishevskaya Tower, which if I remember correctly was the spot where Nemtsov was killed back in 2015. The SVO has come full circle...

En Irlanda la izquierda generalmente gana la presidencia; eso no fue una sorpresa. El presidente anterior, Michael D. Higgins, también era izquierdista.

Labour urgently need to change the electoral system, eg back to Supplementary Vote as promised. FPTP over such a wide area with entrenched local parties is lunacy. SV is far from ideal but infinitely preferable to FPTP.

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And came far too close for comfort given that the two major cities in the region are Bristol and Bath (Lab 25.0%, Banks/RefUK 22.1%, Greens 20.0%).