Anyone know of a LGBTQ friendly ham radio organization in Massachusetts? I, uh, might need that info.

#ESP32 users, what boards do you buy? I’ve purchased a bunch of these for lab use with a group of high school hackers. Nothing lots of problems. Bad boards, wonky pins. Common problems or bad batch? Which ESP32-S3 N16R8 vendor do you use? An expansion base is also needed. https://a.co/d/0ae5Ie0H

The coolest part? The grape flavor Jolly Rancher is phosphorescent, meaning that it continues to give off fluorescent light after I turn off the UV light. To see phosphorescence I had to switch out my big 395 nm flashlight for a shorter-wavelength 365 nanometer light.

#BostonWeekend Sat-Sun VEGGIES Reggie Lewis center hosts free veg food fest by #bostonVeg https://bostonveg.org/foodfest/ #vegan #vegetarian #boston

you know, I was planning to return the Neo after writing this blog post but I never did. I'm typing on it right now. I have a machine with 6x the memory in the other room but I just adore this anemic lil doodad 🥺 https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology 🧵
⁠ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/190530111
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci

On the current spam wave some of you experience on the Fediverse: I think @stux is right by suspecting it might be one or more 3rd party apps or services that got hacked or are leaking authentication tokens.

So. Go to your account settings and check the "Authorized Apps" part. Revoke the permissions of apps you don't use anymore. Consider it housekeeping and make it a regular Todo :)

A reminder that Crew Dragon was originally designed to propulsively land using its Super Draco escape rockets.

This was cancelled after the Super Dracos kept blowing up on the test stand. And because the toxic hypergolic exhaust completely contaminated the landing site.

Something I've noticed while on book tour for the past couple of weeks is that Mastodon is a really good way to let people know about bookstore events. So many people I've met on the road have told me that they found out about my book tour from me or other folks on the fedi. I think it's partly because so many book-loving people are on Mastodon. But also if you compare Mastodon to places like Bluesky or Insta, the community here has a higher percentage of actual humans vs. bots or operatives.

Apparently, I just got blocked for agreeing with someone. Yeesh.

"Owned by Axon, the company behind Tasers and body-worn cameras, Fusus enables police to link security cameras, automated license plate readers, doorbell cameras, police dash cameras, drones, and body-worn cameras to a central hub that can use AI, according to the company’s website"

Fusus surveillance spreads as resistance to Flock grows

https://prismreports.org/2026/10/15/fusus-axon-cameras-surveillance/

Do you think the iPhone Duo will be the most repairable foldable phone yet?

Click the link below to see the current high score.

https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/smartphone-repairability-scores

BREAKING: Mapquest now includes a layer showing known Flock and other surveillance cameras!

Worth your time.

Fredrik Backman

For the folks sliding into my DMs to say "he never published anything" and "there's nothing on his twitter now", I would like to say:

1. Do not turn Sauron's eye on you.

2: This screenshot from his own goddamn website.

3. Stop talking to me, you're wasting oxygen or data bits or something. Go away, you wretched, pathetic little renfields.

RE: https://mstdn.party/@reeltubes/116241964716707509

If you know a Doctor or Nurse or other Health Care Worker, please share this medical education video with them.

Sometimes a HCW needs to hear it from another HCW, formatted as medical education.

This Australian Doctor's presentation is nothing surprising to any airborne aware folks - in other words, all the broad information has been verified across dozens or hundreds of studies, nothing fringe, everything important.

Key messages summarized at 38:00.

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #publicHealth #healthCareWorkers #Doctor #Nursing

FYI, Firefox has enabled the "Donate your body to fuel data centers" option to true by default, so if you want to opt-out, make so set this hidden flag to false every browser update.

browser.ml.donateFlesh = false

If you’re Black in the Americas and tried to trace down your ancestry, you eventually hit the slavery wall, where it becomes impossible to go back any further. This release is going to useful for a lot of people, and me directly.

https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117434378397137445

FIVE DAYS UNTIL LAUNCH 🚀

My friends, it’s time we went to Phobos.

#MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST 🚀🛰️

(That is the Tanegashima launch pad behind me. It is indeed one of the most beautiful in the world. No notes.)

Antoinette Forbes is a friend of a friend of mine, a domestic violence survivor, and she's been missing from her home in DC since September. Please consider if you might know anything about her disappearance. Her abusive ex lives in PA. It's been too long https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/us/missing-dc-mother-antoinette-forbes