Notices by Imogen (hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social)

Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it. Who knew its origins were so lurid?

For that we can indirectly thank none other than Grigori Rasputin, the famously hard-to-assassinate Russian mystic and intimate of the last, doomed Romanovs.

@feld

I didn’t pay money for my IP blocks or domain names in the early 1990’s.

I wonder why that was.

@feld

Or because the National Science Foundation / Internic did a fine job without a profit motive.

3M Novec 649 cooling liquid.

https://youtu.be/ysc8qycFd44

@kilroy_was_here

I learned this evening that 3M discontinued production last year.

I should have purchased some for cleaning radio equipment.

@brouhaha @kilroy_was_here

I used to wash dirty motherboards and computer cased in TCE as part of servicing them when they had cigarette residue on them. Of course you can’t purchase TCE anymore.

<Marty> Doc, you built a Time Machine?!

<Doc Brown> Yes Marty. Get in we need to make sure Google is never created, Elon Musk is never born, and Sam Altman is eaten by a shark.

@k8vsy

Are you getting in this VHF / UHF / microwave ducting action?

@k8vsy

I wouldn’t be too concerned with height. Using a 5 watt HT people are seeing 100 mile paths.

#Minnesota #Weather

Remember how I said flooding was occurring in St. Cloud yesterday afternoon.

This is what I mean when I say be weather aware.

A 12 year old child in the United States or Canada and arguably in many other countries can get the highest level of a ham radio license and theoretically build or service a 1500 watt tube amplifier. This exposes them to lethal voltages. They are however forbidden from participating in “social media”.

The problem isn’t the children, it’s the tech bro billionaires and their non stop harvesting of your data.

#Minnesota #History #Pride

Pine City plants its marker as home to the first rural Pride in the U.S.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/01/pine-city-minnesota-honored-with-a-marker-for-hosting-first-rural-pride-event-in-the-us

@Lazarou @rasmus91 @newsguyusa

“The Scottish Parliament rightly and explicitly chose to permit everyone with the right to live here to stand in elections, including new Scots on visa.”

#Electronics

A 555 timer made with vacuum tubes.

(I did not create this. Simply sharing it.)

Hmm, someone we know was on 144.175 running FT8

#Radio

Lightning Protection for Radio Station Transmitters

https://www.nautel.com/content/user_files/2018/03/Lightning-Protection-Radio-Stations-Oct-1998.pdf

#hamradio

Let me take this time to say, insist on using only using ceramic dog bone insulators. Throw those plastic insulators in the trash.

#News

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, his son said. He was 84.

Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., had been hospitalized in recent months and was under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy. He died Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, according to a statement from his nonprofit social justice organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Let me fix it for you

It didn't work in 1940 and it doesn't work now. Do better.

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A Home Depot spokesperson told the BBC that the home improvement retailer "cannot legally interfere with Nazi Germany Gestapo agents, including preventing them from coming into our stores and parking lots".

#GenX #GenerationX

The psychology of Generation X.

https://youtu.be/G5YmIqYSqA0?si=lCfiCu3Q2LZXF7lu