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I am still getting posts in my timeline about people being unsure whether the mastodon "verification" scam is a genuine message.

I have just used the announcement function on my server to notify my user in addition to a post to hopefully reach and warn more users about these fakes.

#MastoAdmin

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This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic


The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people. [Changliang Li] is apparently one of those people, because he’s using soviet-era cold-cathode tubes as the logic for his “Soviet-Era Style Clock”

Aside from the nixies for display, the key component you see working in this beautiful machine are the MTX-90 cold cathode thyratrons, which look rather like neon tubes in action. That’s because they essentially are, just with an extra trigger electrode (that this circuit doesn’t use). The neon tubes are combined into a loop counter, which translates the 50 Hz mains circuit in to seconds, minutes, and hours. The circuit is not original to this project, and indeed was once common to electronics books. The version used in this project is credited to [PA3FWM].

The Nixie tubes are new-made by [Sadudu] of iNixie labs, and we get a fascinating look in how they are made. (Tubemaking starts at around 1:37 in the video below.) It looks like a fiber laser is used to cut out glow elements for the tube, which is then encapsulated on a device which appears to be based around a lathe.

The cold-cathode tubes used as logic rely on ambient light or background radiation to start reliably, since the trigger electrode is left floating. In order to ensure reliable switching from the thyratrons, [Changliang Li] includes a surplus smoke detector source to ensure sufficient ionization. (The video seems to imply the MTX-90 was seeded with radioisotopes that have since decayed, but we could find no evidence for this claim. Comment if you know more.)

The end result is attractive and rather hypnotic. (Jump to 3:37 to see the clock in action.) If you want to know more about this sort of use for neon lamps (and the Soviet MTX-90) we featured a deeper dive a while back.

Thanks to [Changliang Li] for the incandescent tip. If one of your bright ideas has had a glow up into a project, don’t hesitate to share it on our tips line.

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Nonostante le promesse e il cosiddetto “Piano Italia” per gli operai non è cambiato nulla. I contratti di solidarietà estesi fino a gennaio 2026. E anche negli altri stabilimenti si soffre

editorialedomani.it/politica/i…

(il mio articolo per @DomaniGiornale)




#Ucraina #Russia #Usa #vittoria
Anne #Applebaum: «#Trump ha convinto #Putin che può vincere sul campo. Ora l'Europa è sola» | Corriere.it

«Trump aveva steso il tappeto rosso per Putin il 15 agosto in Alaska. Gli aveva prospettato trattati economici bilaterali molto convenienti. Ma in verità è stato un completo disastro: ha convinto Putin che gli conviene continuare la sua offensiva militare e ha rafforzato la sua certezza che può vincere sul campo».

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“The unhinging of politics” 👏

Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’

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Gordon Ramsay: «Ho sconfitto un cancro della pelle, non dimenticate la crema solare»
https://www.open.online/2025/08/30/gordon-ramsay-cancro-pelle-crema-solare/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cultura e spettacolo @cultura-e-spettacolo-OpenGiornale



@markhurst weighs in on the "Youtube AI'ing the shit out of users' videos without their knowledge or consent" thing first brought to the public's attention by - for some reason - two guitar youtubers, Rick Beato & Rhett Shull, adding important perspective: Why do you think they're doing it & what will be next...?

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#AI #tech #Youtube #Google #LateStageCapitalism

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«Nascere maschi è nella natura, è diventare uomini che è molto complicato»: l'intervento della conduttrice Mediaset diventa virale - Il video
https://www.open.online/2025/08/30/nascere-maschi-diventare-uomini-discorso-virale-giornalista-mediaset-video/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cultura e spettacolo @cultura-e-spettacolo-OpenGiornale



Gaza, ucciso Abu Obeida. Greta Thunberg in flottiglia per rompere l’assedio liberoreporter.it/2025/08/prim…



Mostra del cinema di Venezia, dal corteo pro Palestina tentano il blitz sul red carpet ma vengono respinti. Almeno 5mila i manifestanti
https://www.open.online/2025/08/30/festival-di-venezia-corteo-pro-palestina-video/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Le speciali microsfere sviluppate dalla Sichuan University intercettano i grassi direttamente nell'intestino prima che il corpo possa assorbirli. I ricercatori sono così fiduciosi dei risultati che hanno già avviato i primi test clinici sugli esseri umani: questa tecnologia (di origine naturale) può trasformare per sempre il modo in cui affrontiamo l'obesità, offrendo una soluzione senza farmaci e senza effetti collaterali.

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#microsfere #dimagrimento #obesità #cibo

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così possiamo dire addio ad una alimentazione sana: tanto ci sono le microsfere
in reply to AV

@L_Alberto ho pensato la stessa cosa. Poi c'è il metadone, vai tranquillo di eroina.😆
@AV
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@L_Alberto
Come già successo negli USA (strano...) con i farmaci anti colesterolo.

Consumare, consumare, consumare...

@AV


Cinque buoni MOTIVI per cui stiamo amando i look del red carpet della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2025
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/it/moda/tendenze/a65898033/cinque-buoni-motivi-look-red-carpet-mostra-del-cinema-di-venezia-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Großes 💗 an all die Menschen, die hier mit uns durchhalten, ununterbrochen Parolen rufen und Stimmung machen sowie Solidarität zeigen bis der/die Letzte aus dem Kölner Kessel kommt.

Das unrechtmäßige Vorgehen der Kölner Polizei wird Folgen für diese haben.

Es ist jetzt 4:38 morgens am 31.8.2025

#RheinmetallEntwaffnen
#k3008 #k3108

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Asistimos a una inversión conceptual que revela el vaciamiento moral de las instituciones europeas: aplicar el derecho internacional es un “activismo político” inadmisible, pero violarlo sistemáticamente implica “neutralidad institucional”.

Máriam M.Bascuñán

elpais.com/opinion/2025-08-31/…

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After seeing how many petty options typescript has, I will feel silly for ever thinking haskell had a lot of language extensions



Today is Pungenday, the 24th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3191

Our Discordian #Tarot Reading:

True : Onomatopoeia of Sweets - A moment of MMMMMM

False : Cow of Prickles - Someone in the midst of, but not affected by Touch, Earth, Conformity

Meaningless : Flower - Sex, Drugs, Hedonistic persuits

Seek : Day of Prickles - Prickle-Prickle - A physical afternoon, a siesta, a non-thinking time.

Avoid : 2 of Prickles - Shared Touch, Earth, Conformity

get a private reading at dh.elsewhere.org/ddeck/

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Media, 18 morti a Gaza dall'alba, 13 in fila per gli aiuti - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/08/31/media-18-morti-a-gaza-dallalba-13-in-fila-per-gli-aiuti_c2e056a7-9c83-4aef-bde0-0ad599201366.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa





I agree with Dr. Faust…RFK Jr either needs to resign or be removed. He is a danger to the health of all Americans. #BlueCrew


Hungary refuses to allow the opening of the first cluster of EU accession talks for Ukraine, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó asserted after an informal EU foreign ministers meeting in Copenhagen. He argued that fast‑tracking Ukraine into the EU would devastate Hungarian farmers, jeopardize food security, and allow Ukrainian mafia infiltration.



"We just like, lied to ourselves, that security and economic issues were decoupled -- and that markets were about efficiency -- and not power." #EconomicSecurityState #WeaponisedInterdependence #StrategicAutonomy #GeoPolitics

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Archdaily : Memorial Exhibition Hall Design for the "Mianmao Road" / Atelier Haode archdaily.com/1033499/memorial… #Museum&ExhibitionInteriors #CulturalInteriors #InteriorDesign

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The image depicts a large, futuristic spacecraft hovering above a vast, icy landscape. The spacecraft has a distinctive triangular shape with a reddish-orange hue, featuring a prominent pointed top and a rounded section at the bottom. It is set against a backdrop of a large, pale moon and a sky transitioning from blue to orange, suggesting either sunrise or sunset. The icy terrain below is dotted with a few silhouetted figures, emphasizing the scale of the spacecraft. In the distance, a cityscape with numerous spires is visible, adding to the futuristic atmosphere. Birds are seen flying in the sky, adding a sense of life to the scene.

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Journal du Nord-Est de la Syrie : Comprendre la réalité de la guerre à Kobanê anarchistfederation.net/journa…



Le squallide semplificazioni di Azzurra Barbuto sulla tossicodipendenza gayburg.com/2025/08/le-squalli…




Beating fascism is the task ahead taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0… Beating fascism now is essential. Once fascists get into power, they do not give us the option of voting them out again.

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A vehicle representing five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family, who were killed during an Israeli army attack in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza in January 2024, has been exhibited in the Netherlands.

Cemal Arican, a Dutch resident, organized the exhibition with the help of volunteers and held it at Utrecht's Stadhuis Square.

It also remembers the other Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks.

aa.com.tr/en/europe/dutch-exhi…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News



🎮 Rivivi le emozionanti esplosioni e coraggiose gesta con World of Tanks alla Gamescom 2025! #WoTExplosion #Gamescom2025

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