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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲

@llbroadwell.bsky.social

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PhD candidate. Bike nerd. Train enjoyer. Possibly BlueSky's leading expert on outrigger monorails. Nuclear power is pretty cool. Support my research: https://www.patreon.com/m/BroadwellElectrics - https://paypal.me/luusb 🇬🇧🇳🇱

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 14d

blessed be the henry

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 2h

Hello! Took another look: it's an Azor tweelingfiets!

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 5h

bought an inflatable sleeping mat and uh

the stuff sack it comes with is never going to fit it again. so I did a swap with a slightly bigger one so I don't have to get every last mL of air out

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 6h

It sometimes gets me staring for a long time into the middle distance, for sure.

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 6h

It doesn't. Like when I say "restorative" I mean "they can spend the rest of their lives digging the graves of those they killed" not "they somehow become good people"

I suppose the best-case outcome is a Puyi type of situation.

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 6h

I am just imagining this:

a cartoon character says it 's art in front of a red wall

ALT: a cartoon character says it 's art in front of a red wall

media.tenor.com

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 6h

They are severely challenging my believe in restorative justice in place of.... the alternative.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 6h

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 7h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 7h

*surgery fistbump*

gnarly. I hope it helps and you recover well!

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 7h

So the benefit of GLT/Translohr could have been "you can lay a simple single rail and use it as the electrical return circuit, simplifying overhead wiring, and massively reducing the road wear* by putting most of the vehicle weight on the rail" but nope!

*see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...

Fourth power law - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 7h

like Ewing (the horse and the steam locomotive) was on to something because his system *was* cheaper and could handle sharper turns, and because it put 90-95% of the weight on the rail, it wore the road a little but not nearly as much as the GLT or Translohr

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 7h

"cheaper than a tram" and "guided bus" apparently

but it wasn't and also because of the low force on the actual track it would derail all the time (especially the GLT).

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 7h

I mean.... I'm game?

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 20h

they are both so fascinatingly horrible aren't they.

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 20h

The first two are the Bombardier GLT and the Translohr respectively.

They use the central rail (or used, for the former, since Caen and Nancy have scrapped and replaced their systems) only for guidance - it bears negligible weight and so both systems tear up roads enormously.

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 20h

Correct! The horse-drawn line is a demonstration of the Ewing system in South Australia, which uses the rail to take 90-95% of the weight and provide guidance. It was a niche system that let a horse pull a far greater load across terrain unsuited to conventional rail.

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Mike Prior-Jones @drmikepj.bsky.social · 20h

Is it the horse?

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 20h

Here's a fun guessing game: of all these road-rail hybrids, which one of them actually has the best design?

📸1️⃣: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
📸2️⃣: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
📸3️⃣: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th...
📸4️⃣: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:So...

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

algorithmic content serving delanda est

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 1d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

I keep only a glancing eye on the literature since it's not my field, but what strikes me is we hit a lucky streak with broad-spectrum antibiotics of various types.

We're now at the point where theapies (if they even exist and are effective) need to be increasingly targeted.

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

honestly once you get past the idea that our body cells once ate tiny bacteria that then became an essential part of said cells, and that our blood is an internal ocean with various filters and feedbacks to keep it just right for all the various body bits.... biology is still fascinatingly weird

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

*cuts corncob in half*

why does it look like teeth

evolutionary biologist tired of these questions: "because it just does, lindsay"

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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

Damn Soft Linux

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

naakte molrat!

Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲 @llbroadwell.bsky.social · 1d

mentally I am here

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