The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

I loved the book series, this would be a really fun RPG to play.

Pretty much print will work, color or black and white. You should be able to find a local lab to process it for you. Bravo on your find and enjoy the old school cool.

Yay for social squirrels.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

More of this, less of bombing other countries

(From @acyn.bsky.social )

That’s Mia, my brother’s cat. She’s a playful ball of energy and a devout purring machine.

The people that could wack him on the nose see him as a means to an end and really don’t care about the consequences. As long as they keep the power they have and gain more it’s a win. Sucks for the rest of the world.

Indeed—Elect more women!

even stacks of issues of Review of International Broadcasting, a small-format newsletter edited and published by Glenn Hauser, fanned out on a wooden table. Visible covers span from 1978 to 1984 and feature a variety of designs including a Radio Beijing illustration, a Radio Australia kangaroo logo, a Radio Peking tower graphic, and black and white photographs. Issue numbers range from 14 to 95.

Stylized DLARC (Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications) logo on a red mosaic background, featuring a white radio tower emitting concentric signal waves with lightning bolt shapes, above the bold letters “DLARC.”

🧵 Today is World Amateur Radio Day 📻 and Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is marking it with new collections 📡

Full announcement ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/18/d...

#DLARC #WorldAmateurRadioDay #HamRadio #Shortwave

Well not this one, I’ve worked for TV but not setting up radios. If I had the radio would have been set to transmit in the voice part of the 20m band, not in CW land. I’d set up a bunch of wires and cables off the back to show that an antennas was connected too.

Oh that’s weird, that’s looks just like my radio and power supply that I use at home.

People asked how we got here, check out the drawing...

www.project2025.observer/en?agencies=... in case you like to monitor the downfall of civilization in real time.

GERMANY JUST INTRODUCED “DOG PARKING” OUTSIDE STORES

Supermarkets are now installing climate-controlled, ventilated pods where you can leave your dog safely while you shop.

Locked by app. Temperature regulated. Stress-free design.

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

An oddly toned image of a man wearing what looks like huge glasses over smaller ones on black and white. The image was taken in infrared.

Wearing bloody huge sunglasses loses its effect when you see by invisible light. #infrared

Japanese advertising in the #1980s.
Here’s what I made…

“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona's Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona's swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — after the state implemented changes called for in Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

A small tabby cat (standard issue type) looking intently at you as if to say ‘so, about those leftovers…’ She’s wearing a red collar.

A small tabby cat (standard issue type) looking intently at you as if to say ‘so, about those leftovers…’
#cats #pixelthecat

Come on, don’t defund NASA!

NASA’s Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard is seen under parachutes as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at , NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the crewmembers and Orion spacecraft aboard USS John P. Murtha. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Artemis II Recovery

Orion Integrity spacecraft is seen under parachutes as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

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#Artemis 🔭🧪

UPDATE - SSTV Series 31
After 11:00 UTC (7 AM EDT) on April 10
Ends 14:00 UTC (10 AM EDT) on April 14
Freq: 437.550 MHz and adjust for +/- Doppler
Mode: Robot 36 (36-sec "On", then 2-mins break
www.ariss.org/upcoming-sst...
@arissintl.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down off the coast of San Diego after a history-making journey around the moon. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4voPKEg

Jon Postel was instrumental in the development of packet radio and digital experimentation, which were crucial for the evolution of the Internet. In 1981, Postel made a remarkable decision: he assigned the entire 44.0.0.0/8 Class A network to amateur radio.

Photo of an antenna link between 12 meter and 15 meter segments, shown above a metric scale. The entire link is between 17 and 18 cm long. Dacron cord carries the load between the two segments, which are connected by banana plugs insulated by more heat shrink.

The same link as in the first picture, this time disconnected.

Linked dipole form showing one leg of a dipole with many links in it wound up for storage. The wire is wound in a figure eight to avoid twists. Several of the links are partially visible in it.

I keep seeing #HamRadio antennas using all sort of huge devices to create links between band segments. Alligator clips. Wago blocks. Mueller clips. Mostly with the antenna wire tied to something stiff that makes it hard to roll up neatly, rather than […]

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I’m going to try this for my 20w G90 radio.

Final details on the upcoming ISS SSTV event.

A Pound of Ground Beef Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage The typical American consumes nearly 60 pounds of beef each year. Widely available and easy to prepare, ground beef serves as a grocery mainstay for many families — which means skyrocketing prices mat...

At the time the $7.25 national minimum wage was set, a pound of ground beef cost about $2.20 per pound, meaning one hour of work could purchase more than three pounds of beef — enough to make a dinner or two for a family of four.

Now, it can barely cover one.