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• Adjektivsamlare som läsa lite svenska men skriva det dåligt
• Collector of adjectives
• She/hon/hen…
• is ⌥8 (EN) or ⌥q (SV) on a Mac
My bike is back and road legal again. I was thinking I should go for a ride at the weekend to break in the new brake before replacing the tyre, as that will then need to be broken in too. But it is at the 1mm limit in the centre and it feels the wrong time of year to take risks with that.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My bike is back and road legal again. I was thinking I should go for a ride at the weekend to break in the new brake before replacing the tyre, as that will then need to be broken in too. But it is at the 1mm limit in the centre and it feels the wrong time of year to take risks with that.
Harmlessly geo guessing in Sweden when I am affronted by this!
It turns out to be a 19th century method for forging iron by metallurgist Gustaf Ekman who had visited forges in England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancash...
www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel...
sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presenta...
It turns out to be a 19th century method for forging iron by metallurgist Gustaf Ekman who had visited forges in England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancash...
www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel...
sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presenta...
![A web browser screenshot of Geoguessr showing a Google streetview with a tourist sign for Lancashiresmedja [Lancashire forge]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2exi6hztyodnm4tixzt7mnak/bafkreibvlchvgpka2oh4fei6zodjt5nwblhpzoedxq3iadwwqf3g5tw5ki@jpeg)
![A web browser screenshot of Geoguessr showing a Google streetview with a road sign sign for Lancashirev. [Lancashire Road]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2exi6hztyodnm4tixzt7mnak/bafkreiea77yf6hiyixfjjdzihwmpndl7mskbgjxek6uzesh7c4hcs2bipa@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Harmlessly geo guessing in Sweden when I am affronted by this!
It turns out to be a 19th century method for forging iron by metallurgist Gustaf Ekman who had visited forges in England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancash...
www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel...
sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presenta...
It turns out to be a 19th century method for forging iron by metallurgist Gustaf Ekman who had visited forges in England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancash...
www.jernkontoret.se/en/the-steel...
sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presenta...
A good thing about the power cut was I was up early enough to be able to go to the chemists first thing. So I also got to see the cable hole. I guess that café will not be open today as it now has no pavement in front of it. I could not take a photo of that, so here is a windy High Road pavement.
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A good thing about the power cut was I was up early enough to be able to go to the chemists first thing. So I also got to see the cable hole. I guess that café will not be open today as it now has no pavement in front of it. I could not take a photo of that, so here is a windy High Road pavement.
On a whim I added one of the USB "old fashioned LED filament light bulbs" to an order of more exciting things, and it arrived last week. And I am so glad I did as it illuminates do perfectly compared to a torch.
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
On a whim I added one of the USB "old fashioned LED filament light bulbs" to an order of more exciting things, and it arrived last week. And I am so glad I did as it illuminates do perfectly compared to a torch.
I sometimes play the Geoguessr Sweden map for free, taking as long as it takes to keep a perfect score because exploring is fun, but today I messed up by one unnamed way on the Mittuniversitet campus and lost a point. Also I broke a tooth eating falafel so that is gone too. Not the best of days.
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I sometimes play the Geoguessr Sweden map for free, taking as long as it takes to keep a perfect score because exploring is fun, but today I messed up by one unnamed way on the Mittuniversitet campus and lost a point. Also I broke a tooth eating falafel so that is gone too. Not the best of days.
A while ago I bought a simple and cheap oscilloscope I had never used because it was cheap and may be useful one day. And for fun I built a simple and wave generator from a kit I had never turned on. So time to switch projects temporarily and learn how to use the scope to probe for signals.
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A while ago I bought a simple and cheap oscilloscope I had never used because it was cheap and may be useful one day. And for fun I built a simple and wave generator from a kit I had never turned on. So time to switch projects temporarily and learn how to use the scope to probe for signals.
With the service manual I located all the capacitors on the output side, but then thought "what if the there is no thing going to the amp?"
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
With the service manual I located all the capacitors on the output side, but then thought "what if the there is no thing going to the amp?"
YouTube had not helped yet, and I got this far working out a diagram when I had to look up what some of the components are, which I think are just old fashioned inducters. Instead I discovered there is a whole community of people who mod old keyboards, so I could just download the service manual.
September 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
YouTube had not helped yet, and I got this far working out a diagram when I had to look up what some of the components are, which I think are just old fashioned inducters. Instead I discovered there is a whole community of people who mod old keyboards, so I could just download the service manual.
I am this many years old. Plus the years I had lived before getting this for Christmas, whenever that was.
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I am this many years old. Plus the years I had lived before getting this for Christmas, whenever that was.
Tesco is advertising it being 30 years of its Clubcard without mentioning that an extortionist forced its introduction and was entrapped by it, before another attempt five years later, in what Wikipedia calls "incidents".
The second attempt is quite a story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_b...
The second attempt is quite a story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_b...
![A Wikipedia screenshot that reads:
Incidents
In January 1995, Frank Riolfo, a former lance-corporal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, extorted Tesco, forcing the introduction of the previously trialled discount card. After first contaminating food with (what turned out to be fake[4]) HIV-infected blood in a store in Kettering, Riolfo demanded payment via Tesco's new loyalty card system.
He specified that the cards were to contain magnetic strips, allowing them to function secretly as ATM cash withdrawal cards. Coded copies of the PIN code were published under his instruction in national newspapers. Clubcard was subsequently launched nationally with a Direct Marketing campaign by Evans Hunt Scott, Terry Hunt's advertising agency.
Customers, including Riolfo's wife, signed up to the scheme and collected a card. Riolfo and his wife then toured the country withdrawing a total of £7,500 cash on 73 occasions until they were eventually caught on 22 April 1995. Frank Riolfo pleaded guilty and was jailed for six years, after appeal. The loyalty card scheme was not discontinued, with Tesco already planning to roll out the trial before the incident.
In the end of 2000, Robert Edward Dyer made a similar attempt at extortion involving Clubcards with a magnetic strip for ATM withdrawals. Dyer sent several letter bombs, one of which exploded when the recipient opened it, before being arrested in February 2001.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2exi6hztyodnm4tixzt7mnak/bafkreid6gea5k7noj5dc4evqyee5iza2cj3plgmvtfjylimgpnxqguzwvu@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Tesco is advertising it being 30 years of its Clubcard without mentioning that an extortionist forced its introduction and was entrapped by it, before another attempt five years later, in what Wikipedia calls "incidents".
The second attempt is quite a story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_b...
The second attempt is quite a story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_b...
I thought the church would be positioned today as they laid down tracks amongst the foundations, but the church will stop where it is having successfully completed its cross-city journey.
That was quite something to have watched.
That was quite something to have watched.
August 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I thought the church would be positioned today as they laid down tracks amongst the foundations, but the church will stop where it is having successfully completed its cross-city journey.
That was quite something to have watched.
That was quite something to have watched.
When the church reverses it beeps like a delivery van, just in case anyone forgets to pay attention to the direction of 1,252 tonnes of church and machinery.
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
When the church reverses it beeps like a delivery van, just in case anyone forgets to pay attention to the direction of 1,252 tonnes of church and machinery.
The church just needs to reverse onto the new foundations now.
August 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The church just needs to reverse onto the new foundations now.
On the left vicar Lena Tjärnberg is holding a service as the church crosses Malmvägen. King Carl XVI Gustaf is in attendance in the front row.
August 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
On the left vicar Lena Tjärnberg is holding a service as the church crosses Malmvägen. King Carl XVI Gustaf is in attendance in the front row.
A better view.
I think it may be the lunch break now.
I think it may be the lunch break now.
August 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A better view.
I think it may be the lunch break now.
I think it may be the lunch break now.
So close now, the final location is on the right.
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
So close now, the final location is on the right.
It is back moving, and even after that pause still ahead of LKAB's schedule.
August 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It is back moving, and even after that pause still ahead of LKAB's schedule.
The move has been paused as the equipment installed inside the church to measure its stability has triggered something. But that equipment also slightly delayed the start of the move this morning.
August 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The move has been paused as the equipment installed inside the church to measure its stability has triggered something. But that equipment also slightly delayed the start of the move this morning.
Now begins the twisty bit.
August 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Now begins the twisty bit.
Lovely image on the right of the two people watching the church go by.
(They did show that camera full screen after the interview ended, but the people had gone.)
(They did show that camera full screen after the interview ended, but the people had gone.)
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Lovely image on the right of the two people watching the church go by.
(They did show that camera full screen after the interview ended, but the people had gone.)
(They did show that camera full screen after the interview ended, but the people had gone.)
I like that LKAB (the state owned mining company responsible for the church move) is calling it Den stora kyrkvandringen [The great church migration] after älgvandringen (the one with the elk and the river) while SVT is boringly calling it Den stora kyrkflytten [The great church relocation].
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I like that LKAB (the state owned mining company responsible for the church move) is calling it Den stora kyrkvandringen [The great church migration] after älgvandringen (the one with the elk and the river) while SVT is boringly calling it Den stora kyrkflytten [The great church relocation].
Here is a map showing the mine next to the city for scale, and illustrating why its centre and the church are moving east.
August 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Here is a map showing the mine next to the city for scale, and illustrating why its centre and the church are moving east.
No nice drone shot from SVT, but the church is settled in for the night just after the roundabout. LKAB will resume its own feed soon so maybe it will have a nicer shot. But all back tomorrow at 6:55am again for the conclusion.
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
No nice drone shot from SVT, but the church is settled in for the night just after the roundabout. LKAB will resume its own feed soon so maybe it will have a nicer shot. But all back tomorrow at 6:55am again for the conclusion.
The church is at the supermarket.
August 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The church is at the supermarket.