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This is Queen Marmalade

An imposing and regal cat. She has different shades of ginger swirled fur, and a white bib.

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Talking to my parents about when we went sailing around the South Pacific in the 80's and how you kept in touch pre-Internet. They had a ham radio, they did a check-in with a friend once a week.

But then there was Pacific Net. This was one guy, a hobbyist with a big antenna somewhere in Hawaii. He did a broad cast daily at a set time. Gave weather updates and did check-ins. You'd ask to be added to his check-in list. He would ask for your check-in and you would give your location and your heading. Tell about weather conditions and any other news you had. He would give you information about your location he'd gathered from everyone else he talked with. Like "this is what to expect at the port you are headed for" etc.

If you heard someone on the check-in that you wanted to talk to, you'd ask them to switch to another channel for a private chat.

Absolute early Internet vibes.

#sailing #HamRadio #PreInternet

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space age lodge sign, gila bend, arizona, 2003

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Welcome to China, baby. 😎
First thing I've noticed is the sheer scale of everything. Even the humble TARDIS is huge here.

#MeerMittwoch

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Escalator - Farringdon

It might be because I don't use it very often, but I still get very excited when I travel on the Elizabeth line. The architecture is just stunning, and I always spot new details that I've overlooked.

#railway

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Thorough analysis of satellite reentries over the last 5 years, and how they were affected by the May 2024 solar storm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13752

Personally, I think the paper has way too much of a tone of "wow look at all this great reentry data! We can learn so much about satellite drag!" and not nearly enough "Holy shit guys, that's a lot of metal burning up in the atmosphere, maybe this is a bad idea?"