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• Post #4124081

  Finally finished writing up the making of my #emfcamp scale solar system. https://spod.cx/blog/emf_2026_scale_solar_system/

• Post #3938462

  Impressed with the other scale solar system at #emfcamp over by the planetarium - they’ve gone bigger on planet diameter and compressed the distance scale but the effect of putting them closer together is delightful. Their painting is better than mine! I love that they’ve included the moon too.

• Post #3870962

  So my plan to put the remaining 2 #emfcamp scale solar system planets on the way to the Eastnor Obelisk path has been foiled by access to the track being closed. As a result I am staging an EMF takeover of the IAU and cancelling Neptune’s status as a planet too. If Pluto has to be a “dwarf planet” even though it sometimes orbits closer than Neptune does then I think Neptune can also be cut off for not trying hard enough.

• Post #1964774

  There is something delightful about working on something fiddly that’s intended to be maintained / repaired, and for which a detailed service manual is available. Overtightened screw at a previous (professional) service had left sewing machine needle threader broken. Just enough clearance to replace with M2.5 nut and bolt bypassing ruined threads in the plastic clamp. The newer version replaces this plastic fitting with a metal one, but you have to buy and swap the whole needle assembly.

• Post #755291

  Closest I could find to a lemon pound cake but it will do.

• Post #356260

  Generic sharing text below but I stopped some scrotes nicking my bike in London a couple of years ago with the application of small amount of violence and the Met didn’t give a fuck. Didn’t even bother to review the CCTV that I know was there because I have a copy of it. 40,000 bikes are stolen every year in London. This has to change. Join me in calling for action: https://action.lcc.org.uk/theft