Brian Vastag
@brianvastag@mas.to
Occasional science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai #Hawaii. Sometimes SCUBA diver.
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Brian Vastag
@brianvastag@mas.to
Occasional science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai #Hawaii. Sometimes SCUBA diver.
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@brianvastag@mas.to
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1d ago
One aspect of driving an EV that doesn't get enough attention is regenerative braking. The Kia app has started showing how much power is fed back to the battery for each of my trips and it's typically around 40%. I'm surprised how high it is. ICE vehicles in contrast waste all of their forward momentum when braking.
I've heard of people with 10-year-old EVs in Hawaii who have had to replace rotors and other parts of the brake assembly while the pads look almost new.
#EV #driving
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Cornelius Flynn
@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk
Author, always writing. Fantasy, dark/epic/urban (12 published novels) Crime and Thriller Fiction too. (Unpublished… yet. Coming soon.) My Novels: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornelius-Flynn/e/B08VC9GQT6/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Play GW games, (Quest, Bloodbowl, 40K, Warcry, Underworlds, etc.) paint miniatures, as a hobby. Also have a 3D printer. XBox and PS gaming too. Politically, central. Always AntiFascist. One world, one race, let’s all get along.
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Cornelius Flynn
@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk
Author, always writing. Fantasy, dark/epic/urban (12 published novels) Crime and Thriller Fiction too. (Unpublished… yet. Coming soon.) My Novels: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornelius-Flynn/e/B08VC9GQT6/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Play GW games, (Quest, Bloodbowl, 40K, Warcry, Underworlds, etc.) paint miniatures, as a hobby. Also have a 3D printer. XBox and PS gaming too. Politically, central. Always AntiFascist. One world, one race, let’s all get along.
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@cflynnbooks@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 18, 2026
I noticed around twenty years ago that insects in Europe were in serious decline. It didn’t even need a ‘scientific study’ and I use the same methodology today.
In the 1980s, in summer, when I drove in Europe, the windscreen of my car was covered in dead insects after only 100km of driving.
By the early 2000s this was no longer true. Many fewer bug-splats on the glass.
Now? Hardly any at all.
You cannot blame Climate Change for this. This is down to excessive pesticides and farming techniques.
Now studies show bird populations in serious decline. Ever wonder what they used to eat?
We learnt nothing from the DDT fiasco, apparently.
#insects #flies #driving #Climate #ClimateChange #pesticides #farming #environment #Birds #bioaccumulation #systemcollapse
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hbrpgm
@hbrpgm@adalta.social
adalta.social
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/vguuTGVSGozFTtRTkZqYBP 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
A 1974 French comedy becomes a case study in copyright’s clash with cultural preservation.
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hbrpgm
@hbrpgm@adalta.social
adalta.social
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/cmVAZBcurr7raYXEbVRwem 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️
Ein scheinbar harmloser Post offenbart die fragile Infrastruktur kultureller Erhaltung im digitalen Zeitalter.
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Canvases By Peter 🇵🇸
@CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social
Retired IT Consultant & Graphic Designer, Art/Nature/Photography/Rights Adelaide SA - Supporting Gaza - Pro-Greens Posting nature, my art & photography and important news people should know. You may not agree with everything but I hope it makes you think. Any Man-Hate, Woman-Hate, LGBTQI+-Hate, Far-Right, Genocide-Enabling, Random Ranters, Baiting/Trolling/Scamming/Follow-Farming, Green Energy Denial, Requests for Cash etc. = Blocked (*I do what I can for causes but can't offer $)
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Canvases By Peter 🇵🇸
@CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social
Retired IT Consultant & Graphic Designer, Art/Nature/Photography/Rights Adelaide SA - Supporting Gaza - Pro-Greens Posting nature, my art & photography and important news people should know. You may not agree with everything but I hope it makes you think. Any Man-Hate, Woman-Hate, LGBTQI+-Hate, Far-Right, Genocide-Enabling, Random Ranters, Baiting/Trolling/Scamming/Follow-Farming, Green Energy Denial, Requests for Cash etc. = Blocked (*I do what I can for causes but can't offer $)
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@CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social
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Mar 03, 2026
“We’re not gonna make it are we, people I mean.”
- John Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itQyxWaH6Kc
#SelfDestructive #DashCamOwnersAustralia #Driving #Australia
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Silversnapples
@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk
Biophile. Interests in the environment, nature and social equality. Part of a little left wing bird exodus. #diversity #lgbtqia+ally #ProEurope infj-t Avatar: gender inversion of medusa statue "girls will be girls" across her bare chest. Header alt text: dusk view across a riverbank
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Silversnapples
@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk
Biophile. Interests in the environment, nature and social equality. Part of a little left wing bird exodus. #diversity #lgbtqia+ally #ProEurope infj-t Avatar: gender inversion of medusa statue "girls will be girls" across her bare chest. Header alt text: dusk view across a riverbank
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@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 18, 2026
February is cub season for badgers.
Mums with babies only ever go a 500metre distance from their cubs.
If you see a badger newly dead by the roadside please check for lactation (bare area around swollen teats on her underside). *
Her cubs have 24 hours before they leave the set in search of mum, and they will die of hypothermia.
*https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/report if you find one as described. Link added thanks to a quote reply. 🙏
Please please share, or post your own toot. Xx
#badgers #roadkill #nature #cars #driving #environment
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Handheld Steering Wheel Controller Gets Force-Feedback https://hackaday.com/2026/01/29/handheld-steering-wheel-controller-gets-force-feedback/
#Games #Arduino #Controller #Driving #Forcefeedback #Racing #Simulator #Steering #Videogames #Wheel
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