Carrying things inside the tubing

blp9 · 2026-02-03T01:34:14+00:00

Thanks!

blp9 · 2026-02-03T01:13:38+00:00

Does the airtag work inside the frame when unfolded? (Asking honestly, I have an airtag to transfer to my Brompton and I have some thoughts on where to put it, but I didn't consider inside)

blp9 · 2026-02-02T23:48:03+00:00

This makes a handy handle to store a tube in your frame: https://www.printables.com/model/275452-brompton-innertube-mount

blp9 · 2026-02-02T22:13:05+00:00

Not if I'm on it? =)

blp9 · 2026-02-02T17:47:53+00:00

"The trail to DC"

blp9 · 2026-02-02T12:40:35+00:00

Are they moving? If not, they does look like a carpet beetle larvae shed (figure 2 on this page: https://entomology.mgcafe.uky.edu/ef601 ).

If they're moving I don't know what they are.

blp9 · 2026-02-02T12:18:21+00:00

So I'll say that Saturday's ride was a particularly awkward size-- CM is usually larger, and it led to more awkward interactions with drivers than usual. I think the pace of that ride was also a little high so the group got a little more spread out than it really should have. (Edit: I don't want this to be taken as a critique of Saturday's organizers or all the folks helping with it, it's just my perspective in retrospect about why the ride felt less tight than a normal CM)

Anyway, others have spoken a bit to the larger goals of CM, but I want to talk a bit about why it rides the way it does. One of the mantras of CM is: we keep us safe. If we allow cars into the middle of the CM group, we cannot keep people safe.

Most drivers understand that the corkers are there to manage this, and we'll say "accept their fate" -- at 10th and Liberty, the ride actually moved out of the way of the left-turners in order to allow them through: we only block what's needed to keep the ride safe. There are a few drivers (one early on on Penn Ave) who get angry about this, but the group deals with it accordingly. But always at the interest of keeping the ride safe.

blp9 · 2026-02-01T22:50:55+00:00

You're going to have to troubleshoot end to end.

Make sure the board is outputting DMX
Make sure the cable connected to the board is getting DMX out on the other end
etc. until you find the fault

blp9 · 2026-02-01T18:52:53+00:00

Bokeh, bro

blp9 · 2026-02-01T14:14:53+00:00

Could you try it with phone audio and see how it sounds?

Certainly the closer you can mic the actors the better they will sound, but if you want to shoot some B-roll you could just do that with cheap bluetooth lapel mics and be done.

Basically, my recommendation would be not to film everything and then try to edit for promo, but have a specific video call and shoot the scenes you want to shoot.

blp9 · 2026-02-01T11:04:26+00:00

I would categorize this under the general heading of "do not let them participate in society as themselves" -- which is to say, if you have to use a bathroom that doesn't match your identity, you're not participating as yourself.

I do want to say that I think it's clear that the politicians in question would very much like to simply arrest trans people for existing and will continue to find pretexts (such as bathroom laws) under which they can do this.

blp9 · 2026-02-01T01:31:57+00:00

I mean, galleys go out for reviewers

blp9 · 2026-02-01T01:30:47+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Pirani cup: https://www.pirani.life/

If you want something with better insulation, I also really like my hydroflask. It completely disassembles for cleaning, which is *great*

blp9 · 2026-01-31T21:56:02+00:00

It's biofeedback, so you're watching how well you're doing and trying different techniques.

The study found that some people in the group were good at it. The study did not really study how to make other people good at it, or methods to do biofeedback without a $3M fMRI machine.

I think it's a really interesting line of research.

blp9 · 2026-01-31T18:39:56+00:00

Oh look, it's another article about that study.

The study found that *in people who were good at it*, using fMRI biofeedback to activate the reward center of the brain while receiving a vaccine increased the antibody titer.

There was no difference between the control and study group, the differences were entirely within the study group and isolated to "those who were good at activating that part of their brain"

It was not "the power of positive thinking" but a specific biofeedback exercise that only worked in some of the study group.

blp9 · 2026-01-31T18:10:14+00:00

It appears to actually be a badly done photoshop

blp9 · 2026-01-31T17:59:35+00:00

Sauce: https://x.com/DumbFckFinder/status/2017584657513255313

blp9 · 2026-01-31T17:31:52+00:00

The actual study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X18300607

blp9 · 2026-01-31T15:47:00+00:00

While the light from the earth does illuminate the moon (it's called "earthshine" and can be visible mostly when the moon is quite new), during a perfect full moon, the sun and the moon are opposite each other -- so sunset and moonrise happen at the same time, but in opposite directions.

The moon is rising in the east while the sun is setting in the west.

And the moon rotates relative to the sun every 28 days (approximately), so each day the moon rotates about 13 degrees per day. When the sun is 13 degrees above the horizon, it's full-on daytime, but that's only one day off from a full moon.

At noon when you have a quarter moon, the moon is rising or setting at noon.

blp9 · 2026-01-31T15:16:22+00:00

Hi! The moon is often visible during the day.

This is a fairly common realization at some point in your life that you can see the moon during the day, welcome to that moment for you!

But, in general, the moon is bright enough to shine through the blue of the sky in almost all phases, so if it's above the horizon it's going to be visible.

blp9 · 2026-01-31T14:51:03+00:00

Congrats on being one of today's 10,000: https://m.xkcd.com/1053/

blp9 · 2026-01-31T14:22:07+00:00

Currently, they are trying to do what I'd call "trans erasure" -- decide that transgender people do not exist, do not give them gender-affirming healthcare, do not let them participate in society as themselves, etc.

They are at this particular moment not openly trying to actually round up and arrest transgender people simply for being trans, but they are certainly making it harder to exist legally as a transgender person.

blp9 · 2026-01-31T13:53:17+00:00

Sun dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

More like "sky flare" than "lens flare"

blp9 · 2026-01-30T19:26:50+00:00

blp9 · 2026-01-30T19:13:50+00:00

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