@ianturton @robinlovelace I've just met Dave...it is a small world...

It was great to bump into @ianturton and @robinlovelace in real life (IRL).

Shout if you're here, and would like to meet up. I am around for the rest of the day.

#foss4g #foss4guk #foss4guk2026

Look at the stones on that...I ran out of time but the slides and animation is here...

https://github.com/anisotropi4/shed/releases/tag/1.0.3

I've made it to #FOSS4G in Leeds today. My talk is "A Fully Automated Luxury Global Public Transport Network" at 10:45.

https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2026/talk/MLXEFE/

I really appreciate all the great advice and suggestions. I'm just... so disappointed and know I have to approach all my interactions with this person differently in the future. I've written up a long email, but I'm realizing that won't work as well as having a conversation with the person. Especially because I'm likely to start crying during the conversation. So. That's going to be FUN.

But maybe it will help one person be less addicted to the forest-burning plagiarism machine? Maybe?

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Released 47 years ago today

"Smash It Up" by The Damned
and
Happy 70th Birthday today Dave Vanian 🖤

The Damned - Smash it Up - Old Grey Whistle Test, Stage wrecked!

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #smashitup #thedamned #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Hussein Bicar. Misr Al-Salaam - Egypt Peace (1995)

The data used to generate these visualizations are available here https://github.com/anisotropi4/shed/releases/tag/v1.0.1

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For those interested in such things, using the passenger consist data from the #RailDatamarketPlace here are aggregated counts of #RailPassenger #services, #carriages and #seats by operator for the week 17-08-2026 in 20 minute bins.

I have attempted to identify and group operators for London services, highlighting the aggregated variation between service, carriage and seat count.

The last shows the approximate variation between carriage and timetabled services.

#DataVisualization

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@wnd
Yes. It took on a whole different dynamic that I wasn't expecting.

The kids are good.

Another time that stands out as realizing the generational gap was when my son and I watched Breakfast Club together, which is a fantastic movie, and at the end he said "this was a highly inappropriate movie"

I never introduced him to Animal House as a result.

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

"Post no signs" 🙃

A favourite trope of the small-state crowd is to attack taxes by saying 'make work pay' as if taxes had prompted a low-wage economy.

The *real* issue is the share of national Gross Value Added that accrues to capital & to labour (in aggregated terms).

In 1975 workers' share of GVA was 71.9%.. fifty years later that has dropped to 59.7%.

So, while the UK's economy has largely stagnated, capital has increased its capture of value from economic activity.

#economics #inequality
h/t Prem Sikka

New #Shapely 2.2.0 feature release! 🎉

Shapely is a Python package to work with geometry objects (wrapping GEOS).

The new release comes with:
- Python 3.15 support
- performance improvements for scalar attribute and method calls
- new `minimum_width`, `coverage_clean`, `split`, `transform_coordseq`, and `get_segments` top-level functions

For a full overview, see https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/release/2.x.html#version-2-2-0

#python #geopython #geospatial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox

This is a "paradox" that I just stumbled across on wikipedia.

It says, basically, that traffic gets better when public transit gets better and gets worse when public transit gets worse, and is otherwise essentially unaffected or only negatively impacted by improvements (or degradation) in the quality of roads.

If you want traffic to get better, build trains.

Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize

Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/neutrino-physicist-wins-2026-nobel-physics-prize/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

You just met someone professionally. They make it perfectly clear that they have an MBA. You know nothing else about them.

What would be your first assumptions about this person? (Multiple choice.)

#poll