Martin Moene

"Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?" ~ Alice Liddel.

Wouldn't call it messed-up, it's neatly backward(s) ;)

The real reason for Friday's meeting between Putin & Mr Orange is to undo the historical travesty that was the Alaska Purchase.

As Putin said, everywhere a Russian soldier steps is Russia. Ergo Alaska has been and will forever be part of the Russian Empire.

Met uitsterven bedreigde okapi geboren in Safaripark Beekse Bergen "Het is een groot jong, dus het was best een pittige bevalling voor de moeder", zegt Lars Versteege van het park.

Met uitsterven bedreigde okapi geboren in Safaripark Beekse Bergen

Exploring the TRS-80’s Color BASIC’s Random Number Function Hackaday Article

Exploring the TRS-80’s Color BASIC’s Random Number Function

Teardown of a Persil Smartwash Smart Laundry Detergent Ball Hackaday Article

Teardown of a Persil Smartwash Smart Laundry Detergent Ball

Microsoft’s New Agentic Web Protocol Stumbles With Path Traversal Exploit If the term ‘NLWeb’ first brought to mind an image of a Dutch internet service provider, you’re probably not alone. What it actually is – or tries to become – …read more

Microsoft’s New Agentic Web Protocol Stumbles With Path Traversal Exploit

Books that made History - Mainzer Beobachter Op de expositie "Books that made History" in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden schittert Simon Stevin door afwezigheid.

Simon Stevin is totaal vergeten! Hoe totaal? Een tijdje geleden schitterde hij door afwezigheid op een expositie over belangrijke Leidse wetenschappelijke publicaties. Hij woonde in Leiden, nog wel in het blok waarin het betreffende museum zijn kantoor heeft.

mainzerbeobachter.com/2022/06/24/b...

A USB-powered tiny vacuum cleaner to undust one's keyboard. A child's birthday present to me in another era.

Wonder in the eyes of a young beholder.

Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap? Hackaday Article

Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap?

VRML and the Dream of Bringing 3D to the World Wide Web Hackaday Article

VRML and the Dream of Bringing 3D to the World Wide Web

Gerrymandering is one of the many reasons why the US is a kleptocratic banana republic.

They're literally fudging the numbers by moving boundaries to get the results they want. Of course, it's been ongoing since the bleedin' 19th century at least.

Because the US never was serious about democracy.

A Portable 12 VDC Water Chiller for the Chemistry Lab Hackaday Article

A Portable 12 VDC Water Chiller for the Chemistry Lab

The stem of an undetermined faded flower crossing through the flat umbel (like an umbrella) of another plant, possibly a wild carot.

Flowers fooling around :)

"Radical evangelical Christians in the US want to speed up the return of Jesus through either converting or exterminating Jews"

An interesting conversation (in Dutch) on what Christian Zionism is all about. Explains a lot of the staunch US support for Israel, especially its Zionist government.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

@kevlin.bsky.social

'Radicaal evangelische christenen in de VS willen wederkomst Jezus versnellen door Joden te bekeren of uit te roeien' Trumps regering doet er alles aan om het pro-Palestijnse geluid in te dammen, bijvoorbeeld op Amerikaanse universiteiten. Dit is geen toeval of spontane tegenreactie op het nieuws. Bij het tegenwerken...

'Radicaal evangelische christenen in de VS willen wederkomst Jezus versnellen door Joden te bekeren of uit te roeien'

Promovenda Manon Portos Minetti @leidenhumanities.bsky.social, vertelt
@denieuwsbv.bsky.social wat dit ‘christenzionisme’ betekent.

@polscileiden.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

I spoke with a designer of the world's first Facebook Museum for this @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social article. With the site's best days over and its parent company engaged in questionable business practices, the museum hopes to convince users to move on.

#Facebook #Meta

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/worl...

How to Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance in Mind One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that should fit together actually do. While adding significant tolerance between parts is an option, often you …read more

How to Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance in Mind

A Gentle Introduction to Fortran

🚨Reminder: MT is proposing wolf hunting regulations that could allow up to 500 wolves to be killed in one season.
Hunters could take 30 wolves each. This plan ignores science, ethics, and the ecological value of wolves.
Public comments are open through today. Speak up now: fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/com...

A 'home-grown' pocket FM radio featuring a May 1983 Philips TDA7000 receiver IC. Actually one of the 'home-grown' projects following fast-lunches at work :)

Tada, another TDA7000 thingy.

The Scourge of Fake Retro Unijunction Transistors Hackaday Article

The Scourge of Fake Retro Unijunction Transistors

Reverse-Engineering the TDA7000 FM Radio Receiver IC During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor technology took off. This included radios, with Philips’ TDA7000 FM radio receiver …read more

Reverse-Engineering the TDA7000 FM Radio Receiver IC

Why Cheap Digital Microscopes are Pretty Terrible We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics …read more

Why Cheap Digital Microscopes are Pretty Terrible

A 3M Disk Radio, an FM radio for use with wired earbuds, housed in a yellow 3½-inch, 1.44 MByte floppy disk. A promotional item. Wouldn't be surprised if it contains a Philips TDA7000 FM receiver from 1983.

Manual of Disk Radio.

Silver coloured box featuring '3M' and 'Disk Radio' in red.

Yellow thing that surfaces :)

Tentoonstelling War Stories. Ukraine up close - Nationaal Militair Museum De tentoonstelling War Stories. Ukraine Up Close met beelden van fotograaf Eddy van Wessel is vanaf begin oktober te zien in het museum.

Zie ook, Van Wessels (@eddyvanwessel.bsky.social) tentoonstelling 'War Stories. Ukraine up close', in het Nationaal Militair Museum in Soesterberg:

Exploring VersaLOGIC pre-LSI Logic Cards With the Data/620 Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common diode-transistor logic (DTL) were still necessary and available in a format that was modular and …read more

Exploring VersaLOGIC pre-LSI Logic Cards With the Data/620

Why is Trump attacking science? Karl Rove explained it all Why this attack on science? It’s just politics. Which means scientists can’t avoid taking political sides: the sides have been taken for us.

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Why this attack on science? It's just politics. Karl Rove explained it all in 2003.

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