Simon TathamSauron
Has only got One Ring
Three others
Are on the Elven-kings
Find them
In darkness bind them
Along with mortals,
And Dwarf-lords,
And things
(Mordor Army marching song, Third Age, apocryphal)
Jonathan Addleman
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I do historical keyboard instruments: performing on, tuning and repairing harpsichords, fortepianos, chamber organs and clavichords. Based in Montreal.
Daisy LeighUnlike the culture war bullshit playing out in US and UK courts, there is now a fairly solid legal precedent in Australia that sex can be changed according to the law and gender identity discrimination is recognised as such.
However the case establishing this precedent is “Giggle v Tickle” and I don’t know how I feel about that.
Cameron MacLeodFrom @sjamieit.bsky.social:
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened.
This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
The data: https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/52f34797978c44c1820b8b2d7a4ae3ed
❤️ It's Gonna Be Maystodon 💚If you were curious about how much websites can gleam about you, check this out:
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Edit: glean, not gleam 
Everyone I've talked to has said some variation of "oh yeah, it took years before I could get a tuning to hold stably", or "you just have to tune a few hundred pianos, and you'll figure it out eventually".
I think I'm getting there, bit by bit, but a lot more work to do! Harpsichords are a breeze in comparison!
For the past few months, I've been working on #tuning modern #pianos. It's quite a stretch from my usual historical fare! I have decades of experience with harpsichords, but this really is a new thing entirely, with a lot of very new skills to learn.
It's fascinating, and frustrating, how difficult it is just to turn the pin and get it to stay where you want it to, and even more fascinating how every tuner seems to use different, and completely incompatible strategies for doing this.
Mr. Scam Likely@researchfairy shout out to the funniest data poising attack I've seen, a dude with a red wagon full of phones and tablets creating fake traffic jams on google maps: https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-man-created-traffic-jams-on-google-maps-using-a-red-wagon-full-of-phones/
Heliomass📖 “Why Japan has such good railways”
Interesting analysis into why privatising railways has worked so well in Japan, whereas almost everywhere else it’s resulted in higher fares and poorer services.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
@iFixit
Many years ago I replaced the power switch on a little Sansa clip mp3 player (running lockbox of course). I took out the old broken button, ran wires out through the hole to a (much bigger) button that I hot glued to the outside of the case. It kept working for many years, until I made a mess of things trying to replace the battery when that finally gave out.
Many years ago I replaced the power switch on a little Sansa clip mp3 player (running lockbox of course). I took out the old broken button, ran wires out through the hole to a (much bigger) button that I hot glued to the outside of the case. It kept working for many years, until I made a mess of things trying to replace the battery when that finally gave out.