Notices by Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)

The grotesque cover illustration of this 1944 Swedish edition of "Huckleberry Finn" was incomprehensible to the target audience. Tarring and feathering is completely unknown to Swedes except in the context of this exact book. What are we really seeing here!?

#books

@elphez Oh right, I'd forgotten about those! Lucky Luke premiered in Swedish in 1953. So maybe children did know.

You know there's something wrong with US politics when NASA is forced to communicate in Imperial measurements.

"Orion’s main engine provides up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, enough to accelerate a car from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. At the time of the burn, Orion’s mass was 58,000 pounds and burned approximately 1,000 pounds of fuel during the firing."

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/

#space #artemis #nasa

OFFS "On the station, crews rely on more than 4,000 pounds of exercise hardware spread across roughly 850 cubic feet." 🙄

#science #nasa #artemis

NASA's use of Imperial measurements is similar to if US biologists started using species names in the Texas dialect instead of in Latin.

#science #nasa #artemis #space

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

#science #nasa #artemis #space

Sweden has a lot of nominal Muslims. The majority population believes that they are mostly quite religious. Actually, only about 10% of Swedish Muslims visit mosques.

I talked to an Iraqi refugee who settled here in 2016. "You people don't understand. Secularism is a really big reason that we come here!"

#islam #religion #atheism #secularism

Went cycling in the woods again in another failed bid to hear randy owls. Instead I saw like 50 little male toads, all sitting frozen in place on the dirt roads with straight forelegs and their faces towards the sky, apparently waiting for a female to show up.

#frogs

I kind of like this picture I took by mistake of the gaming table at the mini-convention last Saturday.

#ttrpg #pnpde

Can't wait to vote the catastrophic Kristersson government out of office. Imagine the party of big capital being dependent for every single decision on the party of racist small-town working men. Ineffectual, corrupt and anti-humanistic.

#svpol

Where does a programmer need to work today if they want to spend time optimising code for speed?

#programming

Reading about celebrities who mix the strongest uppers with the strongest downers, a.k.a. speedballing, and have heart attacks. This does not seem like a good idea to me. I am instead going to continue to mix tea and milk.

#drugs #tea

Saw a Playstation 5 for the first time at my daughter's house. I didn't even realise that it was a gaming console. That thing is the size and shape of a space heater. The computing power inside must be tremendous when they haven't been able to miniaturise it further.

#gaming #ps5 #playstation

The UN's migration authority IOM reports a record-breaking number of drowned and missing on the Mediterranean so far in 2026.

#immigration

Hörni mina sosse-kompisar. Ni vet varför partiledningen har gjort så många främlingsfientliga utspel de senaste åren. Det är för att de försöker få tillbaka arbetarmännens röster på småorter från SD.

Men ärligt talat -- vill ni verkligen vara med i samma parti som främlingsfientliga arbetarmän på småorter? Har ni någon stark intressegemenskap med dem?

Gör som jag. Byt till anständiga Vänsterpartiet och bidra till dess fortsatta avkommunistifiering.

#svpol #socialdemokraterna

Staffan var en stalledräng
Vem kan ro utan åror?
Han vattnade sina fålar fem
Utan att fälla tårar

Vem kan segla förutan vind?
Vi tackom nu så gärna
Vem kan skiljas från vännen sin?
Allt för den ljusa stjärna

@dalias
That's a separate issue. A publication should never ask people to contribute image files at a certain dpi number. As long as the image has not been printed, it has no physical dimensions, no inches, and thus cannot have any dpi.

When you're dealing with digital images, dpi (Dots Per Inch) is a completely meaningless metric. Because you can imagine that your digital 500 by 500 pixel image is an inch wide, or a mile wide. It's still exactly 500 by 500 pixels.

When talking about image file resolution for printing purposes, the number you need is never dpi. It's width in pixels.

#graphics #design #typography

@NellytheWillow
Your digital image is no particular dpi.

@mekkaokereke
Who was the woman who described watching Star Trek in the 60s, and seeing Lt. Uhura for the first time? "MOMMA! THERE'S A BLACK LADY ON TV, AND SHE'S NOT THE MAID!!!"

#startrek