The moon is so bright it is generating .21V on one of my solar panels! #moon

AP: Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-09-07/red-sea-internet-cables-cut-19004255.html

A new ham radio amateur got an antenna I gave for him for free a couple of years ago on the air (recently got General Class). Hooray! 17m dipole. Cost a whopping nothing (SO-259 connector removed off a non-working CB radio, soldered to a couple of pieces of salvaged wire, LOL). New radio amateurs always ask what brand of HF antenna to buy, and how much to spend, and I always tell them to NOT pay money for antennas and just build a dipole to start. #hamradio

LA Times:People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trump

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-05/covid-vaccines-are-harder-to-get-under-trump-and-people-are-angry-about-it

#politics #vaccines #covid

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8. I bought an extremely cheap, thrashed e-bike to dissect the other week... and look what I got with it (MASSIVE SPICY PILLOW BATTERY)

It was quite the excitement to get rid of it. Including a trip to a panicked battery shop which told me to leave post haste for the fire station, a fire station that shooed me off the property telling me to take that battery to the panicked battery shop, LOL. Instead, it stayed in an ammo can in my yard for a week until I could dispose of it.

TLDR: the only place that will accept these is the local municipal hazmat disposal site.

(Lessons here: should have made them pay ME to get rid of it, LOL)