Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

Hmm, I have not previously heard of this battery technology, ever.

Wikipedia: FROG BATTERY

"...A frog battery is an electrochemical battery consisting of a number of dead frogs (or sometimes live ones), which form the cells of the battery connected in a series arrangement...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_battery

#battery #electronics #frogs

Fifth hive failure this week. Three completely abandoned and no brood or dead bees.. we think queen failed. One had bees and no queen. Combined with another small hive. This one they abandoned brood... had food and honey. Dewy bees still hatching out, dozens and dozens of queen cells started but only 1 sealed, but they abandoned it before it hatched. We are thinking the strange tropical heatwave partly to blame. All of these Carniolan-Russian hybrids from Mann Lake. #beekeeping

This mural comes to mind often.

https://inspiringcity.com/2014/05/19/louis-masai-and-jim-vision-mural-campaign-to-save-the-bees/

#beekeeping

Rash of complete and mysterious beehive failures the last 2 weeks. 😬 #beekeeping

@EugestShirley Not here... everywhere else around town.

These typewriters have so many radical ideas. 🤔

@douglasvb Per report..."...he was struck by a moped while trying to make a left turn from Geneva Avenue onto Olney Street in Dorchester.

“I could feel the bump, the impact when he collided into me,”..."

"...all five suspects were wearing ski masks, making it difficult for him to identify them...."

(apparently the masked moped and dirt bike folks in Boston not idiots)

Hmm, apparently y'all have masked moped and dirt bike vigilantes in Boston?

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/unreal-man-says-masked-moped-riders-chased-him-smashed-his-tesla-violent-road-rage-attack/6BSUID6SC5EB3JTQJMNP3A3GGM/

#tesla

North Carolina: Star Meat Delivery Inc. Recalls Raw Pork, Beef, and Goat Products Produced Without the Benefit of Inspection

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/star-meat-delivery-inc--recalls-raw-pork-beef-and-goat-products-produced-without

#recall #meat #foodsupply

***WHO NEEDS meat inspection, anyway. BRAINWORMS FOR EVERYONE! TRICHINOSIS IS A TREAT!

Successful foray scavenging post-consumer waste products for the garden. (direct) Fossil fuels consumed: zero. Temperature: 85F

(bicycled 20 lbs more of used coffee grounds from Starbucks back home to the garden. A little warm, and humid, but bicycling is SO MUCH BETTER than driving around in a glass box for keeping cool)

#BikeTooter

👀 (bomb threat in som eairplane terminal in the US)

https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117322294747200066

#aviation

NPR: Is Nepal's flood a harbinger of what's to come in the Himalayas?

https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/09/23/is-nepals-flood-a-harbinger-of-whats-to-come-in-the-himalayas

#climateemergency #disasters

Mercury News: He was allegedly asleep as his Tesla drove on a Bay Area freeway. Turns out there’s not a law against that.

"...The car, in self-driving mode, was reportedly going 60 mph when an officer spotted it on Sept. 2. The driver was wearing dark glasses and slumped in his seat, the CHP said...."
(Sept 19, 2026)

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/09/19/asleep-in-tesla-bay-area-freeway/

#tesla #nap

County of Los Angeles Public Health: "
Public Health Reports Outbreak of Flea-Borne Typhus - People Urged to Take Precautions to Protect Themselves and Their Pets 

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating a localized outbreak of flea-borne typhus in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, as cases continue to rise across the County. Seven symptomatic cases linked to this outbreak have been identified. Six of the seven people were hospitalized, and all have recovered. " (9/22/26)

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=5454

#fleas #typhus #publichealth #LosAngelesCounty

Hmm, wonder if this will work. (Answer: no) #typewriter

Way out there, but if this is that intense and still well formed pushing into the AZ/NM border in a week, that would be quite... interesting. (won't help the whole flooding situation) #Polo #HurricanePolo

Lunch break success:

✅ bicycled to Starbucks and picked up coffee (free coffee, used, for the garden).
✅ squashed an Aedes Egyptii mosquito that landed on my arm

Only issues:
❌ Did not pick up third bag of coffee, didn't think I could haul that much weight on a road bike
❌ Saw someone with handicap plates delivering pizza et al, felt kind of terrible someone with mobility issues is forced to scramble from day to day on a gig app to survive.

(sure seems like they saw someone who was the wrong ethnicity, beat him up, intended to haul him away, checked and he was a citizen, freaked out and ran)