"An area the size of Wales" and other weird units from the @aperiodical #math #podcast: https://aperiodical.com/2024/10/mathematical-objects-an-area-the-size-of-wales/
Of course, "An area the size of Wales" was replaced by the metric unit of "An area the size of Belgium"
https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A1066484
RT by @CarolineLucas: the £3 billion annual cost of extending the 5p fuel duty cut is roughly equivalent to the annual fare take of every bus in England — £3.1 billion in 2023. so you could nearly make every bus free for the same cost https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables#government-support-for-the-bus-industry-and-concessionary-travel-england-bus05
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Tales of how regeneration didn't work in UK towns and cities back in the 50s and 60s (and sadly how we're not learning anything new)
Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Boom Cities by Otto Saumarez Smith
Diamond Geezer does a whizz around toilet facilities at #London tube stations
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/11/taking-piss.html
Write on your books!
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024/10/29/please-deface-my-books/ #books
Reminder: Repeated fuel-duty freezes since 2011 have cost the govt at least £80bn and raised UK CO2 emissions by as much as 7%
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fuel-duty-freezes-have-increased-uk-co2-emissions-by-up-to-7/
A commenter at Citation Needed suggested I have not adequately explained why I support Kamala Harris, and why I believe it is absolutely critical that everyone who can vote comes out to vote for her. In case I have indeed not been clear, here is my response.
PLEASE vote.
The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record/
botsin.space PSA
Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.
I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone
on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2024-10-22-tmp.html
against /tmp
remember all those insecure temporary file vulnerabilities that used to be so common? apparently some people don't!
but did we really have to suffer all those bugs and complications?
Turns out rhinos like eating pumpkins. Especially giant pumpkins. Especially when they get to gore and toss them first.
https://petapixel.com/2024/10/17/rhinos-get-in-the-halloween-spirit-by-adorably-goring-pumpkins/
Sixty symbols and the physics Nobel
https://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2024/10/18/when-is-a-physicist-not-a-physicist/ #ai #physics
TIL that platinum hexaflouride is such a powerful oxidant that it oxidizes oxygen. It is a bit worse than chlorine triflouride which can merely make sand and asbestos burn.
Hello! I post something interesting every few days.