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London Overground under the underground

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

20.10.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1837    πŸ” 382    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 56

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

20.10.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3970    πŸ” 1325    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 55

If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.

17.10.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

I experience Soviet speculative fiction as dryly whimsical and refreshingly free from irrational optimism.

13.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more COβ‚‚ Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways.

Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the β€œMcG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca
#ShareGoodNewsToo

09.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Hell yeah

08.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're trained to crave and celebrate heroes, instead of changing the conditions that require them.

04.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"I suspect we need less individual heroes, and more stories of distributed heroism, where heroes are people who work with others in concert towards a greater goal." Vigorous agreement to everything from here to end of your post. It would make a difference if we all were steeped in community stories.

04.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules."
πŸ§ͺπŸͺπŸ”­
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

01.10.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 453    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

30.09.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6708    πŸ” 1521    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 81

Fuck yeah, buddy! Congratulations!

30.09.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the posted media is a stated eyewitness account of the poster, that might be citizen or pro journalism you can weigh into evidence as wellβ€”but look for confirmation from a separate reputable source. 2/2

29.09.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mental health tip in these trying times: Ignore emotionally charged content based on a screenshot, photo, or video unless it is accompanied by a link to a reputable, dated source that you verify. Even that isn't a guarantee of quality, but it will filter out most of the crap. 1/2

29.09.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.

28.09.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 504    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 12
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Timeline cleanser 🐈

26.09.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6740    πŸ” 3108    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 200

We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.

27.09.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8

highway may not be the infrastructure analogy you were looking for.

26.09.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department β€” at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

24.09.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1880    πŸ” 869    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 36
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Stay Safe, but Stay Connected Balancing data protection and online connection can be difficult. Nevertheless, it's an essential skill to be able to stay safe online while staying connected.

www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

19.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

D'oh

17.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

16.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12943    πŸ” 3846    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 366
Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 4, Limbo – Club Chicxulub

If you like selkie stories (and who doesn't?), I hope you'll enjoy my new story, "I Would Breathe Water," in Club Chicxulub vol. 4, "Limbo."

clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

15.09.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
20250912 Marching cadences | Val Delane β€” 20250912 Marching cadences | Val Delane β€”

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13.09.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now more than ever we need The Middleman!!

10.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Left Behind | The Order of the Good Death Author Beth Winegarner reveals the dead who still lie beneath some of San Francisco's most cherished destinations in her book,

If you've been wanting to read a chapter from "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," now's your chance.

"Historians aren’t certain how many graves remain at City Cemetery. Researcher Alex Ryder believes it’s at least 10,000 but is probably closer to 20,000 or more."

09.09.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Certainty is halfway round the world
before curiosity has got its boots on

08.09.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It has been suggested to me that these sound like band names.

07.09.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
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Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

07.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3228    πŸ” 483    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 32

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