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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2h

So in theory, it's a bit niche, but this could eliminate the not-impossible-to-imagine need to keep a small light powered in a screw socket fixture without a separate adapter and usb brick...

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2h

So on film sets we regularly keep screw socket to ungrounded outlet adapters on hand because in many locations we need to stick a light somewhere with only a screw fixture. Also, lots of cheaper small battery lights now charge over usb, so usb chargers for longer run times are common.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2h

Don't worry, she tested this theory already and showed it to me, an electrician, and I think it must have been done by an engineer. Very sound reasoning.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

Very disappointing of Mubi, which has links to the Israeli occupation

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

No Other Land to be self-released on US platforms after ‘unethical’ Mubi deal rejected

Oscar-winning documentary, about displaced Palestinians in West Bank, will not be heading to Mubi due to links with Sequoia Capital, which has ties to Israeli military

www.theguardian.com

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 4h

New @techconnectify.bsky.social video! Excited to learn about Alec's very large pet robo-spider.

Still from a Technology Connections video, Alec sits on the usual TC set with a very large, beige, three-lensed projector beside him.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 9h

Could always be worse, those departures could be the other way around!

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 10h

As if Brookline or Arlington or any of the other towns that love to claim they're not actually Boston would be anything like they are without a direct connection to the greater metro area.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 10h

Yeah, goes without saying, but town distinctions in the metro are really so minor. Boston is too weirdly-shaped (and small) a city to pretend that living in a part of Quincy or Camberville closer to the common than where I lived in "Boston proper" (outer edges of Brighton) is "not in Boston".

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 10h

I'm having to recalibrate to seeing unmodified US flags everywhere at protests these days...

It works symbolically, but my entire "non-patriotic" upbringing of protesting against the people flying the flags clashes with this new norm.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 10h

Over six years since I moved away and I still refer to how "we" are in Boston a lot. Not that I don't have strong associations with the other less urban places I have lived or do currently live, but Boston is my urban identity for sure!

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 1d

No, Redfin, I don't think that's why the Miller house is getting so many views.

Screenshot of the Redfin page for Steven Miller's house. At the bottom a banner reads "This home is popular. 13,923 views. Tour it before it's gone!"

Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2d

Ghostty. Supposedly does some ML stuff to suggest command autocomplete but nothing gross AI.

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 2d

MassDOT secretary Tibbits-Nutt steps down.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...

MassDOT secretary Tibbits-Nutt steps down, MBTA chief Eng announced as interim replacement - The Boston Globe

Massachusetts Department of Transportation secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt announced Thursday that she would be stepping down from the position.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2d

Both are way more powerful than just stand-alone charisma while still sounding like an over-rehearsed politician with talking points. Not to mention a team around him that can do the same as an organization representing a single person.

Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 2d

We talk a lot about a politician's charisma, but he also has some of the skill sets for standup comedy and improv needed to take things said about him or groups he wants to reach and to turn those into funny and engaging responses in a fairly short time frame.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 3d

Instead they just have FRED and if you're patient you get to say Hi to FRED.

End-of-train device - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 3d

Spotted Boston fire officials in hard hats at South Station (up on rail platforms) earlier today, they might be doing system-wide testing and certification stuff this week?

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 3d

I always say that I'm not the sort to care about rollingstock liveries, but the CTrail locos are one of my favorite trains to look at.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 3d

The New Haven Union Station crossover tunnel between platforms, a rounded tunnel with reflective slats on the walls/ceiling lit from below.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 3d

I miss the express dunks at Back Bay in Boston, where when the security grill was closed during non-commute hours a sign pointed customers to the dunks on the other side of the room.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 4d

Unfortunately I don't travel with my full tools since I have to carry my own luggage across a bunch of busses and trains before I get to the truck I'm driving. If I had a tour box with me I'd definitely have the hammock in there! Downsides of corporate one-offs includes packing "light".

Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 4d

Fun fact, this is a problem in theater and film too: we work with a lot of fabrics that are fire treated and lose their fire rating when wet.

Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 5d

Finnair is canceling some flights and performing inspections on 8 of its A321s because the seat covers on those aircraft were cleaned using water. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

The cabin of a Finnair A321 looking aft.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 6d

Didn't bring my hammock this week, this gig on a sprawling woods property has been so slow and I could have spent the past two days napping in the boneyard...

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 6d

Others have told me that some Sony units have ANC that can be turned off, but I haven't tested this myself yet. Already bought and returned Bose because of the always-on ANC.

Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 6d

I have the same sensation from noise cancelation but I also don't use earbuds and need good over-ears. I still use Sennheiser PXC-550IIs, of which I've bought several pairs over the years, but they've been discontinued for a while so I'm trying to figure out what my next pair will be.

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