Apparently the “basic biology” nut jobs on Twitter, when they’re able to post, are going on about how it’s biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.
Meanwhile, I’ve literally had tea made with my own milk.
For someone who lives in the Algarve and routinely goes out without sunscreen (I know, I know), it's astonishing how much sunburn I got from 2 hours on the solent on a mostly overcast day yesterday. I guess the sea really bounces that UV around.
I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.
Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. 😆
@ajlanes Here are solar cells built into a sail (as well as liquid crystal panels for steering), but this might not be what you had in mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
There’s a new alternative to Twitter that I’ve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And it’s free!
Here’s how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a “thread”.
Then delete the whole lot.
Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.
I'd like to propose an add-on to this service for people who would like to buy bitcoin. They can send me all their money and I'll deposit it all in my bank account which perfectly replicates the user experience without harming the environment.
That is in fact the experience I had with the Twitter "algorithm" and my attempts to tweet. That it also destroys the garbage that white supremacists and Nazis are attempting to post seems like a feature to me!
@Friendica Support A problem I’m noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers.
I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? I’ve got stuff that’s days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away.
@FeralRobots I don't have open reg. It's a Mac mini sitting in my living room. The deferred queue is full of attempted communication with servers that are down for days at a time, or maybe permanently?
@Sarah Brown Please don’t worry about the deferred queue, there’s an increased delay for each failure which means you can have days/months old stuff that should have a minimal impact on performances.
@A_C_McGregor Update for the fediverse: Coffee has been supplied. Next task: attempt to figure out how to induce water hammer in a digestive tract using coffee as the liquid. I’m sure there’s a Practical Engineering YouTube video on this.
Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s sex drive.
I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone.
They act like we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible.
@Adam @Alexandra Lanes @Richard Gadsden yeah. AIUI, histamine used to be considered a hormone until its mechanism of action was better understood and it was realised that it is actually a neurotransmitter
or TERFs who say that testosterone in trans men a) kills libido and b) it makes it impossible to orgasm. Tell me you've never spoken to any trans men without explicitly saying so 😂
To make it even funnier: Hormones act thru "hormones receptors" which are proteins - coded in our genes as all proteins. The testosterone receptor is actually coded on the X chromosome ( check at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen… ) - the female chromosome - which means that women have 2 copies of it while men only one !
About 100 employees of russian nuclear monopoly rosatom have left Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, the town's mayor, said on July 2
The report comes amid warnings by the Ukrainian authorities that russia may be planning a terrorist attack at the plant
Some of the Ukrainian collaborators who signed contracts with rosatom have also left Enerhodar, Orlov said
About 100 employees of Russian nuclear monopoly Rosatom have left Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, the town's mayor, said on July 2.
@EugeneMcParland Doesn't it usually blow South? My guess is they'll irradiate Crimea, the Black Sea, everything down to Sochi. Erdogan should be up in Putin's grille.
@Pyroéaon 🏳️⚧️ I think it’s because there are a silly number of junctions on the south side that keep adding and dropping lanes, and then people dick about changing their mind about which tunnel to go through at the last minute.
It’s actually quicker for us to go round via Heathrow, but as loathsome as Dartford can be, that stretch between the M3 and M40 is just pure evil, and I can’t stand it.
interessting thing though that within a generation one pic if gif can transport many messages. Like in the old pictures where a vase stand for faith etc. Aa always humans like to group together and invent social codes and secret handshakes (but with a 10 times cropped cat pic from 2009)
But yeah my S/O is of the ‘If I fits, I sits’ school of plugging cables where they don’t belong. I ended up #3Dprinting ‘child-proof covers’ that same day.
I think the masthead wind transducer is nearing the end of its life. That means that: A. I need a new one and they’re quite pricy (like 400 euros), and B. I need to go up there with a screwdriver. FML
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes The bit I hate most is how you get cramp in your arms from trying to undo a rusted bolt above your head while your legs go numb from sitting in the harness.
I am not scared of heights (used to be, cured myself), and my mast climbing technique is solid, but I just find working up there unpleasant and uncomfortable.
@ajlanes I haven't climbed my mast; before the refit I was too sketched out by the state of the bearings. But I rock climb so not toooooo fussed about sitting high up while tied in. Ofc, rock walls don't usually sway.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes I'm a climber too, although I can't do it much any more because I have Dupuytrens.
Climbing the mast is easy. Friction knot with a mooring line round the mast, make a foot loop, main halyard tied to belay loop, have someone on the winch. You lift yourself up, they take in the slack. Repeat.
The issue is that you're not standing on anything, so even in the comfiest of harnesses, I find my legs go unpleasantly numb quite quickly. If you were hanging on a rock face, unless it was severely overhanging, you can usually take SOME weight on your legs, but try with the mast and you'll just pirouette around it.
The swaying you get used to. Worst bit is when some prick in a gas guzzler does a close pass and kicks up a load of wake. Then it gets interesting.
@ajlanes yeah, fair. Hard to justify a bosun's chair when you already own climbing gear I guess. Bummer about the dupuytrens. I've only been climbing for about 18mo but I enjoy it well enough. I have to take a couple months off for recovery starting in (omg) a week, but that's very temporary.
@tricia @Alexandra Lanes It’s annoying. Started when I was 38. Held it at bay for ten years with radiation, but it’s now very aggressive. I can do stuff that doesn’t involve fiddly finger work, so via ferrata and suchlike.
400 quid? You own a yacht. You're super rich. Just kidding. I so agree to what you said about the average yacht owner the other day. And which these complacent idiots being happy about orcas attacking sailing yaczts just don't want to see. Keep it up!
And the message queue is empty! Check out that little Mac Mini there, taking friendica-cron in its stride!
(Ok, I have the contact directory discovery thingie turned off because that is a destroyer of worlds, and disk space, and doesn’t actually seem all that useful for a small instance, but still)
Dear god, the number of follow requests I’m getting. Tempted to set to auto approve. I may be a miserable cynic so expect most will go back to the shouty Nazi site if he pays his server bill, but my, it’s busy!
Seriously though, if the fediverse doesn’t work out for you, there’s always Bluesky, where all posts are the same 12 people telling obscure in-jokes that you won’t get if you don’t have Bluesky piped directly into your cerebral cortex 23.9 hours a day.
Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.
Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.
@supercharv Sure. I wasn’t suggesting that all users should be interacting on all of the issues that come their way, even if they had the energy. However, there are many who limit their interractions to retweeting/boosting, and I think social media is a better place if they do more than that.
Thanks for posting this @Sarah Brown I couldn't agree more. Makes perfect sense but then I'm sure you already knew that, just I'm not sure about "liking the way people look" 😂😂 Beginning to wonder if I need a whole new wardrobe or maybe a new range of make-up 💅💄🪞 #newtomastodon #newtofediverse
There were two things I liked about Twitter. People could be very very funny and the immediacy of the news (from reputable people) was great. Can someone direct me to some suggested follows to find similar? I seem to have a lot of deep tech connections and I’m just an ordinary Joe who knows how to click on things.
@Tomsprints2 I'm not sure it's a twitter thing, I think it's always been a little bit like that in online networks. Even just "likes" are a great step forward from the olden days when you made something and was received with deafening silence, and then six months later multiple people come up to you saying: "I really liked that thing you did".
@Alisdair Calder McGregor Thing is, we're here doing our own thing. Plenty of us will carry on doing that, and it can't really be killed. Anyone with enough tech knowledge can spin up their own instance in half an hour and jump in.
It fails to catch on for a certain group. If you look at where they are coming from they, I would say, see that they will lose any influence that they previously enjoyed. Their only recourse is to undermine what they perceive as a threat to their ethereal influence.
He used a carbon fibre pressure vessel. Carbon fibre is a material that’s good in tension. Is has no strength in compression at all: it’s just woven cloth.
It works as an aircraft pressure vessel because the pressure inside is higher than the pressure outside, hence the carbon fibre works as a balloon and is in tension.
But for a submersible, the pressure outside is higher. The pressure vessel is getting compressed.
So the carbon fibre will give it a bit of stiffness, but the actual crush resistance is being provided by the epoxy resin that holds the carbon fibre weave together.
Am I missing something? Why the hell did they build a compression pressure vessel out of string glued together? It doesn’t matter how strong the string is: it will still fold up if you scrunch it into a ball. The structural strength came not from the string, but from the glue.
I’m amazed it took as long to fail as it did. I must be missing something here, right?
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Am I missing something about the Titan sub?
He used a carbon fibre pressure vessel. Carbon fibre is a material that’s good in tension. Is has no strength in compression at all: it’s just woven cloth.
It works as an aircraft pressure vessel because the pressure inside is higher than the pressure outside, hence the carbon fibre works as a balloon and is in tension.
But for a submersible, the pressure outside is higher. The pressure vessel is getting compressed.
So the carbon fibre will give it a bit of stiffness, but the actual crush resistance is being provided by the epoxy resin that holds the carbon fibre weave together.
Am I missing something? Why the hell did they build a compression pressure vessel out of string glued together? It doesn’t matter how strong the string is: it will still fold up if you scrunch it into a ball. The structural strength came not from the string, but from the glue.
I’m amazed it took as long to fail as it did. I must be missing something here, right?
Why, for the love of all that’s holy, did they use carbon fibre?
If you have many many layers of T-shirt tightly bonded together (see gambeson), it might manage to be self-supporting. Maybe. The US Navy experimented with this for *shallow* water. But it's a really stupid way of doing it at any depth for all the reasons you say.
@Sion [main] I mean, that’s how my boat is built except s/carbon/glass/ but it doesn’t have to withstand a gazillion atmospheres. It just has to take its own weight and stay watertight.
Still, glass reinforced plastic boats delaminate if they take too many big waves. It’s not like delamination is a novel unknown failure method in these materials. It’s what they do.
The other obvious flaw, besides being made of a material that is notable for being strong in tension, not compression, is the use of a cylinder for a vessel that is going to experience pressure from the outside, not the inside.
Just suck the air out of an empty lemonade bottle, and you'll see how little of a pressure differential is needed for the cylindrical center section to squash flat, while the spherical ends keep their shape. Thicker walls are only going to do so much to prevent that.
That's why cylindrical submarines used down to hundreds of feet have bulkheads at intervals along their length to support the cylinder from the inside.
And submarines that are used at thousands of feet of depth are made up of spherical pressure vessels, because additional bulkheads and thicker walls cease to reinforce cylinders sufficiently at depths where the slightest imperfection can result in deformation, that /will/ progress further under those forces. Even submarines that look cylindrical from the outside, like the DSRV:
The boat is filthy. We need to go outside to clean it. We have brought materiais to clean it. We cannot be forced to clean it. Once we are outside the hatch, we are outside the law.
Ok, they ended that a minute or two before I thought they were going to.
In the book, she worked out it was a lie before she went outside. They discovered the code for the display and noted that it was only 8192 * 2048 pixels: enough for a helmet, but not enough for the cafeteria view screen.
How they choose to do season 3 is going to be interesting. The second book, “Shift”, takes place partially in flashback to our near future, and partly contemporaneously with the events of Wool.
The books are Wool, Shift, and Dust. Dust unites the storylines of Wool and Shift and continues immediately afterwards.
@Ozzy I think what happens at the end of Wool works better with Simms’ motivation. The way he does it with Lucas in the book is a bit 2 dimensional.
The question I’m wondering now is if S2 will end at the end of Wool, or about a chapter from the end. That would give them a nice cliffhanger, but if S3 is the first half of Shift, then none of it involves the characters we know (a lot of it happens pre-silo and we find out why they were built, who built them, and what it is that kills them when they go outside).
First time @Zoë O'Connell and I have got to the boat in months.
A new lifeform has evolved, created from some sort of capillary action resulting in months old sewage working its way back into the toilet bowl. Dealing with it was more disgusting than I care to think about. I am now having a beer.
@Simon Waldman Billionaires live in London and this is in London. so must be the same people. They should flood the tunnels, or something. #OrcaPeoplePosting
Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.
A shit tonne of British people living in the EU have had their UK bank accounts closed because of you, so consider it karma, you nasty piece of shit. independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…
Should you see one of those “schoolchild identifies as cat” stories, note that at least one UK journalist has been spotted on social media offering money for stories from parents whose children “identify as cats”.
Which is, of course, going to result in totally accurate stories.
*sigh* The transphobia spreads and the Right never has new ideas.
The "schoolchild identifies as a cat" probably won't catch on here because in the US it was confabulated because of the prescence of buckets of "kitty litter" in the classrooms.
They were there, of course, because of mass-shootings. Can't let kids go to the toilets when armed gunmen are roaming the halls.
@Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦 @CrazyMyra Like Tony Blair’s “hello nurses”; he made a target that everyone going to accident and emergency departments had to speak to a nurse with X minutes.
So hospitals just hired a nurse to stand at the door and greet people.
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