#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/03/1 Primitive theme parks

"If companies like Sony and Microsoft want to take away our ownership of video games, to break our tangible connection with the classics we play and love, there's little we can do to stop them other than refusing to buy their games going forwards." (Original title: I Guess These Are The Games […]

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/01/4 “It’s a cute trick, Warren, but the Schuberts are here for dinner, so just ‘abracadabra’ this thing back to where it was.”

DC friends: if you’re in town on July 4th and live anywhere remotely near the Mall, keep your N95 masks handy for the smoke from the fireworks, which will be unusually heavy this year.

Scientists make the world’s most efficient solar panel. German researchers have built the most efficient solar panel ever, turning 34.4% of sunlight into electricity. That’s way higher than ordinary rooftop panels, which usually convert between 20-23%. This is a research breakthrough, not […]

The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]

One of the problems with the current AI mania is that products now eagerly claim to use “AI” whenever they can. But you have no way to tell whether this means it incorporates a few benign heuristics that might make it work a bit better or that it’s programmed to quietly learn as much as it can […]

Testing centre for telegraphy and wireless telegraph technology. I visited this one on my first Euro road trip, many years ago! Somewhere in Austria. #Photography #History #urbex #austria #Telegraph #Research #abandoned

Analisi della variabilità spettrale e temporale di una sorgente di raggi X ultraluminosa nella galassia della Balena #chandra @[email protected] @[email protected] Astronomi dalla Germania e dalla Turchia hanno analizzato i dati disponibili provenienti […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

#newbook 🐦 Oltre quindici anni di #indagini sull’#avifauna nidificante nella città di #Milano, realizzate grazie al contributo di decine di volontari, offrono un quadro esaustivo della #distribuzione di 80 #specie di #uccelli nel periodo 2009-2024, ottenuto […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

It's true. Hairlogists have proved it.

After the #CrossBorderRail launch event at Hbf there was a follow up at the Danish Embassy to which I wasn’t invited (I’d not known it was even happening) And I was then told by someone there my work was cited at the event 🤔 Folks, really. If my work is useful, invite me!

The Deutsches Museum Thermometer has an out of bounds exception

#RemoteSensing postdoc #joboffer at #esa: https://jobs.esa.int/job/Frascati-Internal-Research-Fellow-%28PostDoc%29-in-EO-for-Earth-System-Science-%282-posts%29/1406995133/ #FediHire

Meanwhile the new #CrossBorderRail Tornio 🇫🇮 - Haparanda 🇸🇪 IS HAPPENING! https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/72162680/suomesta-paasee-pian-junalla-ruotsiin-junaliikenne-oulun-tornion-ja-haaparannan-valilla-kaynnistyy-elokuussa?publisherId=69819374&lang=fi Bookings open next week, trains start 10 […]

Some process images for my cover for this week's New Yorker (2 of 2) 1 - final Ink drawing. 2 - Close-up of the finished image. 3. - A drawing from the show that inspired my image. 4 - New Yorker web page on the cover.

Sulle tracce di un neutrino fantasma verso una lontana galassia “Shadow Blaster” @[email protected] @[email protected] @astronomia Gemini North porta alla luce la prova più convincente che le lontane galassie in formazione stellare contribuiscano alla […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

finally (meekly) sounding the alarm, but even these highly critical articles below barely scratch the surface of the myriad of unfixable technical and physical dead-ends involved in space-based computing. The Economic Delusion. Do space-based AI data centers make economic sense? The hype […]

We made a comic about a first day on the job.

Before I start a day of trying to get a bunch of writing done (...maybe) in between listening to #DDA2026 science talks, please enjoy my goats actually listening to me* *This only happens under very specific circumstances, like they have happily eaten grass […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#newbook 💭 Ti sei mai ritrovato a cercare di spiegare in un'altra lingua il significato di #espressioni come "non piangere sul latte versato", "essere come il prezzemolo" o "cercare il pelo nell'uovo"? 💡 Le questioni della #traduzione, dell'#equivalenza e […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

A collection of beautiful turn-of-the 20th-century and Art Deco cinemas and theatres, England. Abandoned, but still their elegance and design shine through the decades of decay. #artdeco #History #architecture #Photography #heritage #cinema #Theatre #theatre #abandoned

Maybe one day an actually good LLM will come out and make me look like a fool for doubting that the newest model still generates garbage that needs to be checked just as thoroughly as all the previous ones did and a slight improvement to plausibility doesn’t actually make it suitable for any […]

My wife was doing her floral shots and Teddy helped. #caturday #bloomscrolling

Do you work for a public transport company in Europe (or anywhere else in the world for that matter)? The EU wants to hear from you! As part of a project to create a unified standard for public transport ticketing across Europe, allowing a single ticket to be sold from anywhere to anywhere […]

But not every circle is a square, obviously.

Yoga duckling is my hero.

I banchi di pomice si avvicinano alle Admiralty Islands #terra dallo spazio @ambiente @[email protected] @scienze @[email protected] L’8 maggio 2026, i satelliti hanno rilevato i segni di un’inaspettata eruzione vulcanica sottomarina nel Mare di Bismarck […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

C’est hyper stressant de contribuer à Wikipédia car tu sais que ta contribution faite avec amour à 9/10 d’être annulée dans es 24h parce que, au choix : - elle ne cadre pas avec l’interprétation personnelle qu’un contributeur de Wikipédia a du règlement. - iel n’a pas pris la peine de lire les […]

I love Greek mythology.

Happy to see my tax money well-spent 😊🥳 Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Public money funding public code benefitting us all, regardless of where you live or your nationality. Awesome! #OpenSource […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#newbook 🛂 Si propone una #nuovaedizione del volume a seguito dell’attivazione del corso “Diritto doganale e politica commerciale dell’Unione europea” e dei recenti mutamenti geopolitici internazionali. 🚢 Gli #scambicommerciali con l’estero hanno risentito di […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Andare molto forte in autostrada è pericoloso e inefficiente, e non fa "guadagnare tempo" https://www.ilpost.it/2026/06/16/superare-limite-autostrada-inutile/ Si tratta di una semplice questione matematica: a pari incremento di velocità, il tempo guadagnato diminuisce all'aumentare della […]

Bishop vs. fiddler. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 160r. #medieval #medievalart

At the airport now, tutting at the ridiculous food & bev prices. Good that I had a sandwich on the way. I know ppl are world-weary about this and just roll their eyes, but I think it's unethical to charge people more just because they're a captive audience. And it's unethical if it's because […]

Sammy (BC, Canada) has been having such a peaceful day, enjoying the summer weather, that he fell asleep and completely forgot to ask for dinner. Luckily his humans somehow were still able to remember without an hour of reminding. #cats #cat #CatNews #catsofmastodon#CatNews#cat#catsttps://cat-news.news/

Never had a cat so melodramatic. Shine smooshes his head against me and does this sort of prayer pose to beg for pets. Once or twice a day. And he doesn't leave until he gets enough. #sootandshine #cats #cat #catsofmastodon #catsky #caturday

CE SOIR (samedi 13), 22h-Minuit, l'équipe des @nouillesrampantes.bsky.social se réunit pour un épisode très spécial. Ce sera ici: twitch.tv/thomashercouet

Leg 5: Siracusa - Modica One of these new "hybrid" Hitachi sets. Pretty comfortable, quiet if you choose the middle part of the train away from the engines, but the seats aren't very forgiving in this hot weather. The scenery could have been more spectacular - […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Chandra individua un possibile residuo di supernova nel centro della nostra Galassia #chandra @[email protected] @astronomia @[email protected] Gli astronomi potrebbero aver individuato un nuovo residuo di supernova in una regione di formazione […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Nouveau Rogaton ! "Blind Test" À lire sur le blog: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2026/06/13

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/06/12/0 “So, Foster! That’s how you want it, huh? … Then take THIS!”

#newbooks 📣 La collana Tarchna torna con due volumi dedicati al pozzo sigillato del ‘complesso monumentale’ di Tarquinia, due sguardi complementari sullo stesso contesto archeologico. 📖TOMO I: Scavi sistematici nell'abitato. La memoria e il presente nel pozzo […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/06/11/4 “Your room is right in here, Maestro.”

Excellent news I: "ESA science missions get green light for new discoveries" The Science Programme Committee discussed & endorsed the extension of the 13 missions that are due to end their current science phase before the end of 2026. These missions are: BepiColombo, Cheops, Einstein Probe […]

Online il nuovo numero della rivista di studi letterari e culturali #AltreModernità Il numero 35 indaga, nelle #letterature di lingua spagnola, il rapporto fra la #scrittura e la #materialità nelle sue più diverse dimensioni: dagli oggetti, corpi e spazi che […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

oh…cool…

Soot lost Mr. Mouse, her previous favorite toy. After a couple of weeks, she has selected this one, which I dub Ms. Cherry, to be her favorite toy. I bought a half dozen of these because I knew she'd destroy/lose them. She only plays with her 'favorite' […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Whoooosh! It's really impressive (and scary) standing next to one. They are FAST. #leiden #netherlands #niederlande #windmill

An abandoned Miner's Sanatorium in the Soviet resort in Tskaltubo, Georgia. It was opened in 1952, primarily for manganese miners with state-funded health plans. The architectural style blends Stalinist Empire with mediaeval Georgian design. More photos and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]