Stephen Brooks 🦆

Some of my pistachio nuts wouldn't come out of their shells. I give these to the squirrels.

The corm guys are back again!

New York subway rule: Dogs must be "carried in a bag" when boarding. [video]
RT https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/2031695195012751671

#Fox travels from Southampton to New York by boarding cargo #ferry.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2xynjzdzo

The #NASA DART #asteroid redirect mission didn't just change the orbit of one asteroid around another, it was the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun. #space
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/dart/nasas-dart-mission-changed-orbit-of-asteroid-didymos-around-sun/

Our collaboration with Stony Brook Radiation Oncology on Dejan Trbojevic's medical FFA accelerator design has now produced a paper: "Developing Bragg-peak FLASH proton irradiator using permanent magnet synchrotron" in the Journal of Radiosurgery & SBRT. The link is provided below, although not everyone outside medicine has a subscription to this! #physics #accelerators

https://www.oldcitypublishing.com/journals/jrsbrt-home/jrsbrt-issue-contents/journal-of-radiosurgery-sbrt-volume-10-number-1-2-2026/journal-of-radiosurgery-sbrt-p-123-129/

They've put some cryogens in the new V3 booster! #SpaceX #Starship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vRyvnreIRI

It was a sunny morning but suddenly dense fog appeared surrounding the laboratory.

I think the snow is melting a lot faster now than it did in January.

The Fediverse (short for Federated Universe) is a long text file hosted on the internet, which anyone can append to. As the speed of additions makes it impractical to browse them all in realtime, most people view filtered grep output of the file, referred to as a "fediverse client".

The youtube waiting-for-stream animations are gradually getting more interesting. They risk becoming more interesting than the stream.

Discord delays age verification plans after user outcry
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv0yg4n9lo

Just saw a bitcoin enthusiast on Twitter blaming "the Jews" for selling bitcoin and making the price go down.

RE: @mawkler@fosstodon.org

Yeah, KDE connect works well for Debian 13.2 and $99 Android phone.