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50% of the way there on my brothers fund raiser, after his life insurance claim was denied — thanks to those who helped and spread the word. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-secure-my-familys-future-during-my-battle-with-stage-4?attribution_id=sl:344b7570-4e9d-4850-9689-08f015203bd9&ts=1750936594&utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_t2&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

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In the face of war and violence that disrupts and even extinguishes the lives of people, paradoxically I look for humanity in the birds I see every day. Sometimes it’s in the ingenuity of a jay, or in the apparent playfulness of a hummingbird. It’s easy to forget that to survive, a hummingbird needs to find food every ten to fifteen minutes. A reminder that while we’re trying our best just to survive, there’s still time to pay attention to other things, even a brief moment of relief.

An Anna’s hummingbird resting on green leaves, with droplets of water on the foliage. The bird’s wings are spread and its neck twisted so the maximum amount of surface area of its body is pressed against the cool water of the leaves.

Able to play the first 10 measures of moto perpetuo guitar at like 60 bpm 😅. is very slow but proud of it :-P wonder if I will be able to memorize up to measure 50 which is where a first pause happens :thisisfine:

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#Berlin #Carcass :) new pick catch, I was able to catch 2 😅, second one given of course to best friend next to me, #Master #Raze and #Piece were also incredible. lovely night.

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It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014.

The silence of the Royal Society in the face of Elon Musk's rampage (a member of the RS since 2018) across US science is incomprehensible to me.

We must all draw the line somewhere in the face of authoritarian attacks and this is mine.
https://www.ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4d1f-940b-9eefc0cf69c0?accessToken=zwAAAZdYtYr2kdOHeFPfFodNH9OUC57vwM9pwA.MEUCIQDNG6kcQyHa-g6Kx4G9NHE2ofD36kR8OX0yEu-KfXlV0QIgcmMFKTaT90y42QfwQTWb05khk6thpQPe-JvIGkaZzQY&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=5fbecded-0dc9-419a-b064-cda0dee0d73a

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Alan Turing died by suicide on 7 June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.

#AlanTuring #GayRights #OnThisDay

Ich hab gerade die Einladung zur deutschen Einbürgerung bekommen :rainbow_heart: :rainbow_heart_eyes:❤️🥳

Email in German addressed to me with a confirmation, invitacion for the German citizenchip

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Pride month means I get to post the gay oscilloscope

Oscilloscope displaying a rainbow sinusoid

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If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.

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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup.
"By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything).
The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"

Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol.
Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil.
The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow."
In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"

Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc.
"We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel.

"What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia."
In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back.

"Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."

Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!"
"The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!"
"How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

Ich denke die erste Deutsch Song den ich auswengig lernen muss, ist von #Antrisch Fcking fantastisch Band. und anscheinend dieses Jahr sie kommen nicht nach Berlin 😭 #SchlechtDeutsch

Cryptopsy Berlin :)

Guitar pick catch at #Decapitated tonight :) . wanted harder one from #Cryptopsy 😅, but still lovely. Although i like more Cryptopsy, Decapitated energy was insane what a night. Now they use ticker picks than im actually using for practicing, im not practicing electric guitar yet tho, only acoustic for the moment. feels like a bass pick to me

Black guitar pick, with a demonized D written on it. been hold by hand.

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Finally had the time to take some of the topics from my blog post about design for #3Dprinting and make them into a proper #FreeCAD addon!

You can download "FusedFilamentDesign" from the FreeCAD addon manager.

Also check it out here: https://github.com/rahix/FusedFilamentDesign

(This addon also integrates the macros I mentioned here a few weeks ago)

#dfm #DesignForManufacturing

A screenshot of the Hole Wizard tool and a part with all of the features of this addon on it.

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Fused Filament Design Addon
A short while ago we posted here about an excellent article by @rahix describing some really interesting and useful design approaches for fused filament style 3D printing. If you haven't checked out that article it's really worth a read.

Brilliantly Rahix has worked on some macros which make it trivial to apply some of the excellent design techniques to your FreeCAD project.

https://blog.freecad.org/2025/05/23/fused-filament-design-addon/
#Addon

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At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

8 topless women with black masking tape over their mouths, in front of a building. A police officer is monitoring behind them. The photograph has been censored to obscure breasts and/ or nipples.

Took me long time to get this one right😊, dataout from DDR: 2 dma 512 bits controllers in parallel->mem_interconnect per dma-> HP port per dma-> PS-> DDR, each PDM microphone data comes after a simple cic filter with 32bits precision 64 dec factor(48Khz) and 5 stages, recording a couple of seconds its 'a lot' of data. those are only 28 microphones, missing 32, for that will reduce the precision of the filters to 16, add fir, hafbands. and just use the same 2 dma controllers.. lets see.

Python plot showing a couple of seconds of a sine wave at 2khz from 28 microphones. each sine displays a diff color.

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Wow. It's amazing that the proposal to ban conversion therapy in the EU has, over the recent days, received more votes per day than it did over a years time. Really did not expect that.

The total is 597466 right now.

It would be aweseome to see it pass the 1000K threshold tomorrow. IT IS STILL POSSIBLE

🤞 🤞

I'm sure anyone that could, has already shared this, the link has been going around for a while now on this platform, but here it is anyway:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

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