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I guess being rather introverted, I have a hard time internalizing the feeling that some have where they think that they should or could catcall women or girls. I wonder what responses are best for it to make it safer for them to use pub transport + walking + bikes.
I guess being rather introverted, I have a hard time internalizing the feeling that some have where they think that they should or could catcall women or girls. I wonder what responses are best for it to make it safer for them to use pub transport + walking + bikes.
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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I guess being rather introverted, I have a hard time internalizing the feeling that some have where they think that they should or could catcall women or girls. I wonder what responses are best for it to make it safer for them to use pub transport + walking + bikes.
I guess being rather introverted, I have a hard time internalizing the feeling that some have where they think that they should or could catcall women or girls. I wonder what responses are best for it to make it safer for them to use pub transport + walking + bikes.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Get yourself 2 coins of the same size from your wallet. Doesn't have to be anything specific, just that it might work better if they are circles and not the 11 gons I think the 2 pound is (or the triangles that the Cook Islands have).
Roll one coin around the edge of
Roll one coin around the edge of
January 2, 2026 at 4:25 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Get yourself 2 coins of the same size from your wallet. Doesn't have to be anything specific, just that it might work better if they are circles and not the 11 gons I think the 2 pound is (or the triangles that the Cook Islands have).
Roll one coin around the edge of
Roll one coin around the edge of
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Every time I see some brain-dead ultranationalist xenophobe complaining about Africa, I like to just go google streetviewing, seeing new places like in Nairobi, Rabat, and Dakar. Much more interesting than the farages of this planet make them out to be.
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Every time I see some brain-dead ultranationalist xenophobe complaining about Africa, I like to just go google streetviewing, seeing new places like in Nairobi, Rabat, and Dakar. Much more interesting than the farages of this planet make them out to be.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social 1940: German chancellor announces plan to raid Britain. "We cannot live without blackboards. Seize the chalk cliffs of Dover!"
December 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social 1940: German chancellor announces plan to raid Britain. "We cannot live without blackboards. Seize the chalk cliffs of Dover!"
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Something that might be somewhat unsettling. In your brain evidently, the receptors that take in things are oriented in a particular direction. Not all molecules can be mirrored and still work the same. In fact if you mirrored methamphetamine, it would be harmless to you
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Something that might be somewhat unsettling. In your brain evidently, the receptors that take in things are oriented in a particular direction. Not all molecules can be mirrored and still work the same. In fact if you mirrored methamphetamine, it would be harmless to you
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social People are quite happy to eat lobsters. They'd in fact be ecstatic if someone paid for them to go to a dinner.
They rarely seem to be so interested in an all expenses paid meal featuring the same mass of beetles or dragonflies though, despite the same kind of body plan.
They rarely seem to be so interested in an all expenses paid meal featuring the same mass of beetles or dragonflies though, despite the same kind of body plan.
December 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social People are quite happy to eat lobsters. They'd in fact be ecstatic if someone paid for them to go to a dinner.
They rarely seem to be so interested in an all expenses paid meal featuring the same mass of beetles or dragonflies though, despite the same kind of body plan.
They rarely seem to be so interested in an all expenses paid meal featuring the same mass of beetles or dragonflies though, despite the same kind of body plan.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2qs... An example of why I get so irritated when People bring up pounds. They rarely remember pound-force or pound mass. Simpler with newtons and kilograms. Dynes are cursed though (1 pound-mass on Earth weighs as much as 440 thousand dynes)
How did the Lunar Roving Vehicle work? (NASA)
YouTube video by Jared Owen
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December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2qs... An example of why I get so irritated when People bring up pounds. They rarely remember pound-force or pound mass. Simpler with newtons and kilograms. Dynes are cursed though (1 pound-mass on Earth weighs as much as 440 thousand dynes)
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social If you roll two 6 sided standard dice, you get a distribution table for how likely any sum is. There is exactly one other arrangement where two 6 sided dice produce the same distribution using whole numbers >0. What does the second pair look like? Discovered 1978
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social If you roll two 6 sided standard dice, you get a distribution table for how likely any sum is. There is exactly one other arrangement where two 6 sided dice produce the same distribution using whole numbers >0. What does the second pair look like? Discovered 1978
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Also, yesterday, my parents and siblings decreased the chocolate ration from 0 grammes per week to 500 grammes per week.
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Also, yesterday, my parents and siblings decreased the chocolate ration from 0 grammes per week to 500 grammes per week.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I know that it is often advised to cyclists to not go parallel or at a shallow angle to tram tracks. How dangerous is it actually the case to do so, like riding parallel to the tracks on this street? Ideally there would be a bike lane/cycle track, but that won't fit here
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social I know that it is often advised to cyclists to not go parallel or at a shallow angle to tram tracks. How dangerous is it actually the case to do so, like riding parallel to the tracks on this street? Ideally there would be a bike lane/cycle track, but that won't fit here
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Fun fact: Canadian Supreme Court judges do Pro Bono work for the North Pole & Santas workshops, arbitrating strikes, deciding whether Santa's naughty list surveillance has proper warrants, rest for reindeer, & occupational health & safety rules for elves getting coal.
Fun fact: Canadian Supreme Court judges do Pro Bono work for the North Pole & Santas workshops, arbitrating strikes, deciding whether Santa's naughty list surveillance has proper warrants, rest for reindeer, & occupational health & safety rules for elves getting coal.
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Fun fact: Canadian Supreme Court judges do Pro Bono work for the North Pole & Santas workshops, arbitrating strikes, deciding whether Santa's naughty list surveillance has proper warrants, rest for reindeer, & occupational health & safety rules for elves getting coal.
Fun fact: Canadian Supreme Court judges do Pro Bono work for the North Pole & Santas workshops, arbitrating strikes, deciding whether Santa's naughty list surveillance has proper warrants, rest for reindeer, & occupational health & safety rules for elves getting coal.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social In France, children on the naught list of Santa are chastised by slapping them on the back with a baguette. It's a real pain in the arse. Ou pain de dos.
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social In France, children on the naught list of Santa are chastised by slapping them on the back with a baguette. It's a real pain in the arse. Ou pain de dos.
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Time for a wholesome Christmas tradition of juvenile delinquency, credit card fraud, long distance phone calls to Paris France, ordering hotel employees to declare their love for me, asking Donald Trump where the elevator is, and firing a submachine gun at them
Time for a wholesome Christmas tradition of juvenile delinquency, credit card fraud, long distance phone calls to Paris France, ordering hotel employees to declare their love for me, asking Donald Trump where the elevator is, and firing a submachine gun at them
Bluesky
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December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Time for a wholesome Christmas tradition of juvenile delinquency, credit card fraud, long distance phone calls to Paris France, ordering hotel employees to declare their love for me, asking Donald Trump where the elevator is, and firing a submachine gun at them
Time for a wholesome Christmas tradition of juvenile delinquency, credit card fraud, long distance phone calls to Paris France, ordering hotel employees to declare their love for me, asking Donald Trump where the elevator is, and firing a submachine gun at them
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Speaker: And here today, is a man who needs no introduction: The provost of Cambridge University.
Anyway, you will be able to find the banquet in hall 2-B where piano music will be playing until 19:20 today, followed by a calculus lecture at 20:10 and bio at 21:00.
Anyway, you will be able to find the banquet in hall 2-B where piano music will be playing until 19:20 today, followed by a calculus lecture at 20:10 and bio at 21:00.
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Speaker: And here today, is a man who needs no introduction: The provost of Cambridge University.
Anyway, you will be able to find the banquet in hall 2-B where piano music will be playing until 19:20 today, followed by a calculus lecture at 20:10 and bio at 21:00.
Anyway, you will be able to find the banquet in hall 2-B where piano music will be playing until 19:20 today, followed by a calculus lecture at 20:10 and bio at 21:00.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social This was a poorly chosen ad campaign. Think about how one sharpens pencils.
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social This was a poorly chosen ad campaign. Think about how one sharpens pencils.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Don't forget about celebrating Christmas when you go to Bucharest next week. Or Timosaora
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Don't forget about celebrating Christmas when you go to Bucharest next week. Or Timosaora
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social If Revenge of the Sith was set in London...
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social If Revenge of the Sith was set in London...
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3e...
Video about climate, short too. You might find it fun.
Video about climate, short too. You might find it fun.
The Awesome Nullschool Wind Map
YouTube video by EmperorTigerstar
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December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs3e...
Video about climate, short too. You might find it fun.
Video about climate, short too. You might find it fun.
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Bizarrely, this is actually within about 13% of being the correct number and they have the same dimension as Pi does (dimensionless, IE all the units cancel).
Bizarrely, this is actually within about 13% of being the correct number and they have the same dimension as Pi does (dimensionless, IE all the units cancel).
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Bizarrely, this is actually within about 13% of being the correct number and they have the same dimension as Pi does (dimensionless, IE all the units cancel).
Bizarrely, this is actually within about 13% of being the correct number and they have the same dimension as Pi does (dimensionless, IE all the units cancel).
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Not the most important reason, but a reason I suppose.
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Not the most important reason, but a reason I suppose.
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6... I was rarely thinking that much about water in this context, I was mostly ever thinking about electricity. Although there are some issues with that given I live in a country with lots of hydroelectric dams & nuclear energy. Not US though..
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??
YouTube video by Hank Green
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December 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6... I was rarely thinking that much about water in this context, I was mostly ever thinking about electricity. Although there are some issues with that given I live in a country with lots of hydroelectric dams & nuclear energy. Not US though..
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Funny, I distinctly remember Scotland letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in the 2014 referendum...
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Funny, I distinctly remember Scotland letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in the 2014 referendum...
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Alright, who approved of this as a unit for gas permeability through a membrane? cubic centimetres at standard temperature and pressure, and cm of mercury?
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Alright, who approved of this as a unit for gas permeability through a membrane? cubic centimetres at standard temperature and pressure, and cm of mercury?
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Have you ever been told why momentum is conserved?
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Have you ever been told why momentum is conserved?
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A group of Christians were trying to talk about Silent Night, in preparation for December 25, on their email server. Their doctor interrupted the email chain and told them to go to the otolaryngologist.
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A group of Christians were trying to talk about Silent Night, in preparation for December 25, on their email server. Their doctor interrupted the email chain and told them to go to the otolaryngologist.