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  1. January morning: the cold bites first, everyone’s tea is already on. ⚡️☕️

    1月の早朝。先に刺すのは寒さ、湯を沸かすのは送電線。電気と想像力のあいだで、誰かのお茶はもう準備万端。🫖❄️

    #streetphotography #griiix #ricoh_gr #ricohgr #ricohgr3 #nagoya #japan #monochrome #powerlines #wintermorning

  2. Monday, January 19, 2026

    Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as collapse of alliance -- Russian attacks kill 5 across Ukraine; Moscow seeks to disconnect Ukraine's nuclear power -- Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations -- Interview: Commander of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces' resistance movement ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  3. Monday, January 19, 2026

    Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as collapse of alliance -- Russian attacks kill 5 across Ukraine; Moscow seeks to disconnect Ukraine's nuclear power -- Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations -- Interview: Commander of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces' resistance movement ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  4. Monday, January 19, 2026

    Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as collapse of alliance -- Russian attacks kill 5 across Ukraine; Moscow seeks to disconnect Ukraine's nuclear power -- Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations -- Interview: Commander of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces' resistance movement ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  5. Monday, January 19, 2026

    Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as collapse of alliance -- Russian attacks kill 5 across Ukraine; Moscow seeks to disconnect Ukraine's nuclear power -- Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations -- Interview: Commander of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces' resistance movement ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  6. Monday, January 19, 2026

    Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as collapse of alliance -- Russian attacks kill 5 across Ukraine; Moscow seeks to disconnect Ukraine's nuclear power -- Italy detains vessel carrying metal for suspected Russia sanctions violations -- Interview: Commander of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces' resistance movement ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  7. Wednesday, October 1, 2025

    As US mulls Tomahawks for Ukraine, here's how they could be used against Russia -- Classic false-flag operation: Kyiv denounces Russian allegations of Ukrainian provocations in Poland -- Zelensky warns of 'critical' situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after week long outage -- We asked 5 young Ukrainians why they chose to go to war ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  8. Wednesday, October 1, 2025

    As US mulls Tomahawks for Ukraine, here's how they could be used against Russia -- Classic false-flag operation: Kyiv denounces Russian allegations of Ukrainian provocations in Poland -- Zelensky warns of 'critical' situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after week long outage -- We asked 5 young Ukrainians why they chose to go to war ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  9. winchester, massachusetts
    september 1959

    fire at the beggs and cobb tannery

    flickr.com/photos/dboo/5186244
    flickr.com/photos/dboo/1709168

    part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

    © the Nick DeWolf Foundation
    Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

    #photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #winchester #massachusetts #tannery #fire #firefighters #firemen #fire #powerlines #watertank #1950s

  10. southern new hampshire
    september 1959

    lineman

    flickr.com/photos/dboo/5186068
    flickr.com/photos/dboo/1638177

    part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

    © the Nick DeWolf Foundation
    Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

    #photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #newhampshire #newengland #people #lineman #powerlines #wires #utilitypole #1950s

  11. Culturally modified trees in New South Wales

    "In NSW, scarred, marked and ring trees are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, but trees-in-trees are not recognised as "culturally modified trees". Trees-in-trees" are tree species growing out of another tree species, often with stone-axe cut marks visible around the guest tree's graft. All trees have an identity, they have roles and responsibilities in the family unit, like people...They have their own spirit, like people...What makes them unusual is that neither species is an epiphyte: the type of plant that grows on another plant but is sustained by airborne nutrients...These are living cultural memory embodied in trees. All over Australia, trees have been modified by Aboriginal people but are vanishing due to logging, agricultural expansion and urban sprawl. Land clearing is a really big concern."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2024-11-09/cul

    Culturally modified trees by settler society:
    Trees are regularly butchered to make way for power lines.
    abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/tre
    abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/pru
    #trees #FirstNationsPeoples #water #NSW #entanglement #relationality #IntraAction #IndigenousKnowledge #SettlerSociety #culture #sprawl #logging #energy #PowerLines

  12. [Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem

    #Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.

    By Zoë Schlanger
    August 14, 2024

    "A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.

    "Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.

    "Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWaves #HeatStress

  13. [Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem

    #Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.

    By Zoë Schlanger
    August 14, 2024

    "A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.

    "Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.

    "Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWaves #HeatStress

  14. [Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem

    #Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.

    By Zoë Schlanger
    August 14, 2024

    "A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.

    "Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.

    "Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWaves #HeatStress

  15. [Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem

    #Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.

    By Zoë Schlanger
    August 14, 2024

    "A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.

    "Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.

    "Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWaves #HeatStress

  16. [Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem

    #Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.

    By Zoë Schlanger
    August 14, 2024

    "A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.

    "Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.

    "Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #HeatWaves #HeatStress

  17. Futons bask in the not-too-cold day, while a tangle of wires above hums with the unseen currents of conversation and connection. 🏘️🛏️

    名古屋の清涼な空気の中で、布団がそれほど寒くない日差しを楽しんでいます。その上を行く電線は、見えない会話と繋がりの電流でブンブンと鳴っています。🏢🔌

    #futon #monochrome #streetphotography #powerlines #ricohgr #aichi #nagoya #japan

  18. Futons bask in the not-too-cold day, while a tangle of wires above hums with the unseen currents of conversation and connection. 🏘️🛏️

    名古屋の清涼な空気の中で、布団がそれほど寒くない日差しを楽しんでいます。その上を行く電線は、見えない会話と繋がりの電流でブンブンと鳴っています。🏢🔌

    #futon #monochrome #streetphotography #powerlines #ricohgr #aichi #nagoya #japan

  19. Futons bask in the not-too-cold day, while a tangle of wires above hums with the unseen currents of conversation and connection. 🏘️🛏️

    名古屋の清涼な空気の中で、布団がそれほど寒くない日差しを楽しんでいます。その上を行く電線は、見えない会話と繋がりの電流でブンブンと鳴っています。🏢🔌

    #futon #monochrome #streetphotography #powerlines #ricohgr #aichi #nagoya #japan

  20. Futons bask in the not-too-cold day, while a tangle of wires above hums with the unseen currents of conversation and connection. 🏘️🛏️

    名古屋の清涼な空気の中で、布団がそれほど寒くない日差しを楽しんでいます。その上を行く電線は、見えない会話と繋がりの電流でブンブンと鳴っています。🏢🔌

    #futon #monochrome #streetphotography #powerlines #ricohgr #aichi #nagoya #japan

  21. Futons bask in the not-too-cold day, while a tangle of wires above hums with the unseen currents of conversation and connection. 🏘️🛏️

    名古屋の清涼な空気の中で、布団がそれほど寒くない日差しを楽しんでいます。その上を行く電線は、見えない会話と繋がりの電流でブンブンと鳴っています。🏢🔌

    #futon #monochrome #streetphotography #powerlines #ricohgr #aichi #nagoya #japan