InternalCakeEngine

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Tech professional. Occasional runner, frequent cyclist.
Moss on knarley apple, from Powys Castle garden. #mosstodon #appledon #powys
At Tyntsfield. #mossterdon
#mosstodon Muppet mosset
This is how they keep the tops of puddles so flat. They must be so busy with all this rain.
Is this button on the BBC website a trap? Can I make it a bit brighter?

I attached what appear to be LEDs (photodiodes?) to a pair of headphones and now I can hear lights that blink in the hearing range of frequencies 🤔 No power source needed

I’m not claiming that it’s ear-safe, and the sound is headache-inducing albeit quiet, but it’s pretty interesting.

For example, dimmable LED lighting flickers at around 1000 Hz. All my lamps make a different sound. Moving the “light microphone” through sunlight makes a wind-like sound.

The medium is the message
Today's Entomological Halloween costume review is "Sexy Bumblebee." The single pair of wings and lack of dense body hair reveal the truth: this is clearly a fly, likely a Syrphid. I'm assuming the strange things dangling from the wings are her halteres. Watch out for mimics!
Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Edge of a footbridge over an unnamed tributary on the Frome Valley Walkway. #mosstodon