Alpenglow supplies & fixtures & equipment closing garage sale this Sunday 04/19, 10-3! 3485 Sacramento Dr Ste F, San Luis Obispo, CA. It all needs to go, we've got a lot of good stuff! ESD benches, oscilloscopes, electronics parts, shelves shelves shelves, a bigger list with photos is on craigslist! Boosts are very much appreciated. #sanluisobispo #garagesale https://slo.craigslist.org/ele/d/san-luis-obispo-electronics-mfg/7928192606.html

This is the first piece from my Birthplace Series. The brick red tones come from #clay collected from a duck pond I used to visit when I was a toddler and the photo image is of me and my childhood best friend at that pond when we were probably three or four years old. It’s very bittersweet, realizing that my birthplace isn’t exactly home to me after my last visit. Also, many years ago, I found an obituary for my friend online. We’d lost touch after I moved away at age 5. #pottery

Men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. Study finds where protected bike lane coverage is higher, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. Where coverage is limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops more sharply.
https://momentummag.com/the-bike-lane-gender-gap-new-research-shows-women-ride-more-where-protected-infrastructure-exists/

I'm sorting some #electronic #components and found these. I'm not sure what they are, they seem very ancient. Nothing written on them, but they are color-coded (like modern resistors). Anyone has a clue?

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

Reposting this XKCD#3233 because the bots over here have horribly wrong alt text. #xkcd