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  This week's #AlternateFridayMusic theme is: #remix And there were a bunch of remixes of Binary Finary's original trance track from 1998, but this from 2000 is perhaps the most transcendental: Binary Finary - 2000 (JamX/De Leon, DuMonde remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOfvIzZviM

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  Alright, I'm having a clear-out in advance of moving house, and I have a bunch of books to give away to a good home; just pay shipping, or if you're in/near north #Manchester (England) we can arrange mutually convenient pickup. Available for your amusement and delectation, details in the alt text: - A partial #Discworld collection (16 books); - A partial Iain M Banks collection (6 books); - Not pictured: - A heavily worn 3-volume Lord of the Rings; - Project Hail Mary and The Martia...

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  This #AlternateFridayMusic the theme is #Liar; a famous one from Turkish rock: Mor ve Ötesi - Yardım Et (Dünya Yalan Söylüyor) "He tells lies to the world" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRqlMtIF4ho (The album of the same name was released around the time of Bush's invasion of Iraq, so you can guess who the person lying to the world is.)

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  Seeking beta testers for a new opt-in Fediverse service - FediAdhan https://fediadhan.org/ Have you ever felt your #Mastodon timeline was missing something? You get regular updates about the weather, the bongs of Big Ben on the hour; perhaps even that one account that toots like a chicken. But you've been missing timely updates about the Islamic call to prayer. No longer: with FediAdhan, simply pick your location on the map and you'll get an account you can follow from your #ActivityPu...

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  This week's theme for #AlternateFridayMusic is #BreakUp and this is the first thing that came to mind for me. Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrA-R5VHQs

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  Serendipity

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  It's #WorldBicycleDay and a good time to mention this graph from Scientific American, first published in 1973, and updated 2025. A person on a bike is the world's most energy-efficient mode of transport, and it's not even close. Salmon use three times as many joules/g/km to get around, and then it's jet aircraft at 5x. #BikeTooter #Climate

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  So where were you for timestamp 1777777777? Me, I was asleep because it was 04:09 local, and I've just landed back in England last night. Guess I'll wait and see what 1800000000 brings.

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  Of particular note, and the thing I forgot to mention: in this written phrase, the T in Shafqat (more dental, towards "th") and the T in Industry (more of a retroflex tap) are different. Isn't Linguistics Fun

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  The solar revolution, Pakistan: a classic example of the combination of unreliable infrastructure and access to cheap panels. This array is at a local doctor's office in rural Punjab, and covers all their diagnostic and dispensary needs for the office day, in conjunction with four tabletop-sized lead acid batteries.

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  RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116482333413258787 Something you may not know if you're a recent follower: I used to moderate /r/collapse back when I was an avid/addicted Redditor. My claim to fame, were such a thing to exist, is the following wording which is still in the sidebar: Overindulging in [material relating to the collapse of civilisation] may be detrimental to your mental health. Anxiety and depression are common reactions when studying collapse. Please remain conscio...

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@astronomerritt/116488019903713789 A short related note on asbestos: if you have or have seen anything with asbestos in it in the UK (cloth, roof tiles, engine heatshields, etc), chances are that it came out of Turner Brothers Asbestos of Manchester. My father was on the production line at TBA after his degree in textiles, and later moved to QA until the place shut down under the weight of asbestosis litigation. Dad was the only person on the line to wear a mask, as he...

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  Should've gone to sleep an hour ago, but I think I've got something that keeps the meter and retains the theme of the holepunch. It still loses some of the force of the chorus... To the tune of "Delgeç": https://youtu.be/1_69_oOWpfg --- Tear a piece off me, take a corner of my heart Take your pound of flesh, tear my bread and me apart Already down and out, the sidewalk as my place of rest Go 'head and kick me, while I'm down come and kick me Already down and out, fear...

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  I'd entirely forgotten that it's CSS Naked Day today, when participating websites remove their CSS entirely and allow the content to shine through like it's 1993. My blog is one of the sites participating: https://imrannazar.com #cssNakedDay #IndieWeb

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  It's late afternoon, and I only just realised it's I'm A Teapot Day (HTTP 418). As the writer of the tea-brewing extensions to Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol, I really should've picked up on that sooner... Happy 418 though, may there be much caffeine in your future.

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  So that's interesting: Mastodon's "Translate post" feature doesn't cache the translation result, so if you want to switch back and forth it makes fresh requests to DeepL each time. Wonder how much of a pain it'd be to cache that clientside? Unless it's already cached serverside, and /translate only calls out to DeepL if it hasn't already done so for this status?

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  @pheonix Appreciate how this full-planet view lets you see the angle of the day-night terminator; always found it cool how you can directly infer the time of year from that angle (straight up-and-down being an equinox). And yeah, I have family in that red zone west of India; they're actively melting right now.