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Patterns left behind by kelp holdfast on driftwood logs. At Second Beach by La Push, Washington State for today’s King tide. (Patterns are as found — I did not pull kelp off the logs.) #SeaweedSaturday

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Soldering.
I'm trying to fix a small LED, battery-pack Christmas light set by cannibalizing a different one. But I can't make any solder "stick" to a metal contact. It's attaching to the wires fine. I've had this issue before.
What is the trick? Different solder? Flux (and how does that work?)?
in reply to Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

yes flux. You're probably using solder with flux. You may need to just melt a heap onto the terminal (it will roll off) to get enough flux on it for the solder to stick. You can try a fine wire brush or steel wool too.

If it's sitting in a plastic holder you may have trouble getting enough heat into it before melting plasic, Taki it out if you can.



@rasterweb asks:

Tomorrow is the "Santa Rampage" bike ride in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last year we had over 2,000 people riding (most dressed as Santa!)

Q6. What is the largest group ride you've ever done?

wisconsinbikefed.org/santa-cyc…

#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite

in reply to Phil (ascentale)

A6. Not the only mass protest on bikes I attended, but this one in 2022 must have been around 10000 cyclists riding over the Autobahn at Frankfurt, Germany. They said it was the longest cycle path ever. To get an impression:
#bikenite
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Here's a time-laps recording. (I must have been one dot in the crowd, but am not able to point the right.)
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Mehr Kombinationsgabe als Wissen 🫣

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strukturiertes raten bringt einem öfters weiter auch wenn nur auf den letzten punkt 😉

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Today: pain. Tomorrow: hopefully less pain. Whatever this junk is, it’s got me feeling like I’ve been kicked in the guts by a mule. Ouch.


New trailer (#1) for soon to be released film on Julian Assange: The Six Billion Dollar Man. The film is an independent, high-stakes documentary tracing WikiLeaks' revelations, the attempts to censor them and the fight that freed Julian Assange. It won the L’Œil d’or at Cannes this year as well as the Golden Globe.

x.com/wikileaks/status/1997459…

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Don’t know I’d trust a tattoo studio to mark my body with ho can’t punctuate their ads correctly.



Fascisme...




they should make usb-c cables with resistor color band type markings on them to tell you about their power and data transmission characteristics

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Bernard Marks
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Spin this wheel and see where you land.


#SilentSunday – Venice style (again 😉)


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Nurses association welcomes mediation as Legacy Health returns to negotiation table


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Sen. Ron Wyden: There won’t be an ‘Airport Alcatraz’ at PDX – KOIN.com


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After reading many posts on mastodon from fellow designers I'm very afraid to upgrade to Tahoe. This is not helppping! 😭