notsoloud

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Copenhagen, Denmark. He/him. I'm a guy and I reply. Yeah, I know...

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2026-05-07 08:50:40 UTC

DCI Barnaby yet again stumbles upon a murder case in a quaint village. Questions start piling up when he uncovers some of the locals linking up through an obscure computer network known as Mastodon:
Where is the mysterious John Mastodon? What exactly is bloomscrolling? And who is ready to murder for the perfect image of a clump of moss?
#microfiction

2026-04-12 20:54:41 UTC

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Ra- Ra- Rasputin
Writer, wizard, Santa's Djinn

2026-03-28 20:55:31 UTC

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Jeg har lister med de konti jeg meget gerne vil se.

2026-03-13 12:02:08 UTC

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So that's 3 years to scale up alternative supplies. Better than oil, but worse than solar and wind. It would probably be great to think about this now. Without involving Rosatom (hi Germany!)

2026-03-13 11:41:49 UTC

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The question is: In case of interruption of uranium supply, is it feasible to build or scale up an alternative supply chain before the the loss of nuclear power becomes critical?
(You can ask the same question for solar and wind, and I believe we Should keep enough home production that the answer is yes)

2026-03-07 07:42:35 UTC

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I think alt text should focus on what you want to communicate with the image, not some "objective" description of what's in it.
I like it when people do that even though I'm seeing, sometimes it helps me when I find it cryptic why people posted the image.
@npub16ww…3mwa @npub1lez…pgrw @npub156z…hx3t

2026-02-24 09:07:02 UTC

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What went through your mind at this point?

2026-01-19 07:43:48 UTC

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/115917878658791977
I want to see the one with the Amur tiger
#note1ljk…xu90

2026-01-18 08:57:23 UTC

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Corona was great that way

2026-01-07 09:14:18 UTC

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The word fascism has meaning. Here I link to Eco's definition, but others are similar enough to substantiate it.
Trumpism is a broad tent and he is pragmatic, but all the characteristics are in the movement. Silicon Valley is less traditionalist, the "plot" is more a feature of QAnon but in total it's there.
The word fascist still applies. The Nazis were also a broad tent of Odin-worshippers, Prussian militarists, big capital etc.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
@npub12pw…zvxn

2026-01-07 05:51:34 UTC

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Who and where are you?

2026-01-04 06:07:15 UTC

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Explain please, now I need to know!

2025-12-15 20:27:05 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.green/@akshatrathi/115722624050532593
This plot shows that every time electricity supply doubles, GDP goes up by about 80% (the power law exponent is 0.85).
Starting from the left on the plot, a couple of solar modules per household is enough to double power.
Many poor regions are rapidly deploying solar and batteries - it's cheap and doesn't need the government building grid.
So many people have good things coming soon: Light, phone charging, fans. Later on: Fridges, tv, no-smoke cooking, air conditioning.
#shareGoodNewsToo
#note104j…maur

2025-11-07 03:56:20 UTC

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Projector?

2025-10-19 11:32:18 UTC

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Dust to dust but please hurry up about it

2025-10-09 13:07:20 UTC

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If anyone wants to go deeper into this, the percentage of nominal power actually produced is known as the capacity factor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
@npub1zwe…98sn

2025-09-11 10:12:13 UTC

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The big question is whether a powerful reaction will make war more or less likely.
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2025-08-26 06:34:00 UTC

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The lighting is.....challenging

2025-08-11 21:45:36 UTC

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There should also be a move to zonal pricing. If energy were actually cheaper where there is a surplus, there would be lots more incentive to build out
transmission lines or put renewables where they are needed most.
@npub18qx…9a9r @npub12pw…zvxn

2025-08-09 14:12:19 UTC

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Do you think it would be hard for the opposition to form a workable coalition with this kind of result?

2025-07-02 06:33:40 UTC

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Can anyone explain me what this sudden gravy madness is about? I demand including for the memepaired!
@npub14qc…w5zn @npub1phd…vvzc @npub1kyd…jltj

2025-06-29 13:39:15 UTC

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One Kessler symdrome countermove I've seen is to shoot powder into reverse orbit, effectively being a "particle atmosphere". Since the smallest parts feel the drag the most, it would clear out paint specks and more or less leave GPS sats.
The powder suggested was confectioner's sugar.
@npub1nf4…nqe4 @npub1z8n…tqd9 @npub1usz…9e2r

2025-06-02 20:42:07 UTC

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Post a link.
Now I want to read it.

2025-04-28 14:24:32 UTC

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Men det er vel godt at Sverige er delt op?

2025-04-07 21:22:37 UTC

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Android without Google: @npub1kwa…e0nj or /e/os from @npub1hn8…g0mt
Either will keep unwanted AI out of your hair

2025-04-07 17:03:05 UTC

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Thanks for the app, it's great 👍
I have recurring problems with muted for home accounts showing up in the home timeline. Remuting but it gets a little bothersome. It's sporadic so I can't reproduce, but if you could take another look at the relevant code it would be nice.

2025-04-01 15:14:54 UTC

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There's still a lot of lithium around. Sodium batteries are available now and scaling up, they will take over for stationary storage.
Molten salt has the drawback that converting heat to work has 30-40% efficiency, max.
Gravity is simply out of the question. Storing 10 kWh requires lifting 100 tons 36 meter. We need that per person, just for daily solar storage. By comparison 10 kWh battery is less than $1000 and falling.
https://www.ess-news.com/2025/03/24/chinas-huadian-announces-winners-in-6-gwh-bess-tender-with-average-bid-at-65-kwh/

2025-04-01 13:40:04 UTC

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Luckily, storage systems make money out of this and are building out fast 😄

2025-02-12 19:36:38 UTC

Who is our nuclear umbrella?
Asking as a Dane.
Trump threatens invasion, France is going Le Pen, Starmer does his best to throw the UK to Farage.
Our best bet is probably a Nordic-Baltic-Poland-Ukraine alliance with nuclear deterrence. Ukraine and Poland have strong ground forces. Any of those governments might turn fascist, but all of them are close enough to Russia to still have a self-interest in a strong defense.
It's expensive, but a lot cheaper than war.
#nuclearWeapons #denmark

2025-02-04 07:13:03 UTC

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Danish municipalities are back to pen and paper (and that will NOT work well):
https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/113943772055121006
@npub19kr…pd8t

2025-01-18 06:45:44 UTC

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Giving how many tons of batteries we're churning out, it's unlikely we won't find a way to use a resource that has exactly the materials needed for batteries rather than digging up new materials. It's just new that we build them on this scale, so not much scope for recycling yet.
For stationary storage, sodium batteries are coming online.

2025-01-18 00:02:23 UTC

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Batteries are dropping in price fast, anything based on moving parts will lose.
Flywheels are especially unsuited for bicycles or any other thing that turns rapidly, they make it harder to turn and the forces on the bearings will be large. (Look up gyroscopes, or even better, try tilting a small one in your hand).

2025-01-16 10:20:44 UTC

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I'm not really qualified to comment, but before running with the conclusions of this study, check this thread:
https://gruene.social/@jon/113622107304281689
[@S_Frolich](https://expressional.social/@S_Frolich )

2024-12-29 20:28:04 UTC

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I might be missing something here? If everyone gets worse (or better) at chess by a similar amount at the same time, win probabilities would not shift, and everyone's rating would be stable.
The age effect can be seen because there's a continuous influx of younger players, if you select a cohort and rank only by internal games it would disappear. (That last experiment should actually be possible from existing data).

2024-12-29 19:39:01 UTC

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But it's a relative ranking. Of course you can compare them with computers, but even so there are training effects (humans get better over time) so could be tricky.

2024-12-29 18:13:04 UTC

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A great idea, but it would require seropositivity data on players. Data that might be hard to get.

2024-12-19 09:22:55 UTC

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Perhaps the Trump administration is pro-Russian? Would that be possible?

2024-11-16 09:12:05 UTC

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My guess is Putin would like a Belarus scenario. But liking and getting are two very different things here.
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2024-10-08 14:11:40 UTC

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I managed to download the full version, which the page has an issue handling
https://media.expressional.social/media_attachments/files/113/272/206/140/328/048/original/cf124bd0cfdbe153.jpg

2024-10-03 15:05:20 UTC

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I'm calling it: The sun WILL set on the British Empire!
There are 196 degrees of longitude between Pitcairn and the British Base Area in Cyprus. Also, the UK gov statement confirms that all of the Chagos will be under Mauritian sovereignty.
On the day following handover, as the Pitcairn Islanders watch the sun sink into the Pacific, this very select group of people will be witnessing the sun set on the empire for the first time in over 200 years.

2024-10-03 14:46:12 UTC

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OK, I've jumped around the video a little, but it's a really slow and unclear way of conveying arguments. Is there some kind of write-up of his main points somewhere?

2024-10-03 14:27:33 UTC

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So will the sun set on the empire? (Looking it up, it just might!)
https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

2024-09-23 20:55:05 UTC

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A partial switch from meat and dairy to plant based food would get the needed effect, I think.
@npub1sgj…vpjx

2024-09-19 05:25:54 UTC

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Does the graph show production per hour worked or something else?

2024-09-04 17:28:18 UTC

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The big overview
https://xkcd.com/radiation/

2024-09-01 05:04:47 UTC

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The goal was 1 million for 2023, no?
What was the goal for 24?

2024-09-01 01:48:11 UTC

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If the mushrooms eat humans, do they hallucinate?

2024-08-19 19:48:56 UTC

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What did you get in the end? (and which ones did you look at?)
[@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert )

2024-08-15 07:14:19 UTC

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Could you make a clickable link to the paper, please?

2024-08-11 11:20:48 UTC

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I'm very much a keyboard-first person. But if I want to get to the middle of a long text, or move the view while I'm typing in a dialog or something, scroll bars are nice.
@npub1nj9…jsvm

2024-08-11 10:33:17 UTC

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Scrollbars should be wide and visible, and the bar should contrast clearly with the background!

2024-08-06 14:10:46 UTC

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👆 @npub1par…c9c8 @npub1dj0…ta0g @npub1pnw…qhcz @npub1r54…9asx

2024-06-29 17:13:19 UTC

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But it's not really worth it to discuss individual factories, a kWh is a kWh, doesn't matter where it comes from or where it goes.
The questions are:
What's the cheapest energy in the daytime in the tropics? It's solar.
What's the cheapest energy in the tropics if you want 24/7 firming? If you have a reactor running now, it's cheaper to keep it running. If it's not built yet, it is quite likely to be undersold by the time it's done.
@npub1dj0…ta0g

2024-06-29 17:04:12 UTC

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1) You're overestimating cost per kWh a bit, see chart. Also, these are Li ion batteries, the most performant type, overkill for stationary storage. Mass produced sodium batteries just came online. The trend in the graph will continue. I don't see why we couldn't do 20$/kWh, a factor of five.
2) There is no two-day dunkelflaute. There's daytime and nighttime. That's another factor two.
Suddenly it's looking quite realistic compared to the cost of the rest of the plant.
@npub1dj0…ta0g
https://media.expressional.social/media_attachments/files/112/700/991/238/172/794/original/790b44a2e56b0c8f.png

2024-06-29 15:59:37 UTC

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OK, I'll try to take one thing at a time:
1) We're talking about Africa. They don't have dark danish winters.
2) Let's aim for 1 kW/person. It could be more, depending on what kinds of production you want, but it's a simple starting point. If you have reliable sunlight every day, you then need 20 kWh/person.
3) Battery grid storage does exist, but it's just started. It's moving crazy fast, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
4) It's absolutely possible to procure 20 kWh battery per person. I think Norway must be pretty close, just with what's in their cars.
Why can't Africa have the same, and then a lot of PV?
@npub1dj0…ta0g

2024-06-29 15:34:01 UTC

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I don't see why solar and batteries won't work for Africa?
Here in Denmark, solar lets us down during winter, but if you only need firming on a day to day basis, batteries are fine.

2024-06-29 15:26:55 UTC

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If only people in African countries had access to a better source of energy!
Like, it should be cheap. It should be easy to deploy with the local workforce and not require big centralized organizations. It should give a reliable output in all seasons, and preferably not depend on specific resources available to only a few nations.
If only such a thing existed!

2024-05-18 12:49:06 UTC

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Smallpox is extinct. But measles will make a comeback.