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  1. Bit of an interesting breakdown this morning, the fuel hose retaining clip on my bike managed to work itself loose and disconnect just on approach to a roundabout. Luckily no fire or anything dramatic, just a small bit of spilt fuel and a very sweaty me after taking fairings off to access it #motorcycling #breakdown

  2. theguardian.com/environment/20. "Temperatures in the #Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the previous #winter #heat #record for the usually #frozen #region & raising concerns about the speed of #climate #breakdown. The new winter peak #temperature was logged by the #Argentinian Esperanza base on the #Trinity #peninsula on 6 June amid a protracted #heatwave, when the maximum daily temperature exceeded zero degrees for three consecutive weeks."

  3. “Science explains how things work, it doesn’t always answer why they exist”*…

    Still, it’s cool to know how things work. In a continuing series of “tear-downs,” Bryan Macomber obliges in the most elegant of ways…

    Are you curious why a clicky Pen… clicks? How a Zippo Lighter flips open? Or what lives inside a Pez Dispenser?

    I’ve illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted. Let’s take a look inside and understand how they work. Click around, have fun and maybe learn something new!…

    An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us: “Mechanical Pencil.”

    * (Paraphrase of) Isaac Newton

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    As we muse on the mechanical, we might recall that it was on this date (according to most sources, though a few cite the 12th or the 19th of June) in 1902 that Philadelphia restauranteurs Frank Hardart and Joe Horn opened the first Automat in the U.S. A cavernous, waiterless establishment that was a combination of fast (but fresh) food, vending, and a cafeteria. Customers put nickels into slots beside small glass-doored compartments in the Automats and turned a knob. In the compartment next to the slot, food revolved into place for the customer to receive through the glass door.

    Horn & Hardart Automats expanded into a chain reaching Manhattan in 1912. With their uniform recipes and centralized commissary system of supplying their restaurants, the Automats were America’s first major fast-food chain.

    For more on how they worked, see “Meet Me at the Automat” and the charming documentary “The Automat.”

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    #automat #breakDown #BryanMacomber #cafeteria #culture #dataVisualization #engineering #fastFood #FrankHardart #history #HornAndHardart #JoeHorn #mechanicalEngineering #mechanicalPencil #restaurant #tearDown
  4. A quotation from Shakespeare

    For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
    Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Sonnet 94, ll. 13-14 (pub. 1609)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #breakdown #corruption #degeneracy #depravity #downfall #festering #rot

  5. Fine-Tuning on My Own Commit History: The Model Now Writes Bugs in My Style

    Because when you fine-tune on your own history, you are not training a model to be better than you.

    cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/