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Farms can install vertical solar panels without reducing crop yields.

Adding rows of upright panels on farmland generates green power in the morning and evening while acting as a windbreak for crops.

Placing panels vertically leaves maximum field space clear for farming, while allowing solar generation during the morning and evening if the panels face east and west. This orientation also avoids shading the plants when the sun is at its highest. “We know that solar PV is becoming cheaper and cheaper, so it makes sense to start thinking about new ways of using solar panels,” says Victoria. In Denmark, it is common for trees, wooden fences and even plastic sheets to act as windbreaks for crops. “We thought, if we are going to do this, why not make these wind shelters produce electricity?” says Victoria. Together with colleagues, she conducted a year-long pilot study involving a 44.4-kilowatt system of double-faced solar panels in a field of winter wheat and grass clover, to assess the effect on crop yield. The panels had a 50-centimetre gap above the ground and rose to 3 metres in height. The team found the vertical panels reduced average wind speeds over the crop field by around 50 per cent compared with a control field with no panels. The panels also helped to maintain humidity in the field, compared with the control field, and there was no reduction on crop yield overall, says Victoria. The panels generated much less electricity than a standard tilted array, but it was produced in mornings and evenings. “It matches better when there is high electricity demand in the system,” says Victoria.

21 January 2025

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“The story of torment itself is a very beautiful one. Because loving is wanting and being able to eat up and yet to stop at the boundary. And there, at the tiniest beat between springing and stopping, in rushes fear. The spring is already in mid-air. The heart stops. The heart takes off again. Everything in love is oriented towards this absorption.”

— Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts

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necrocard, 1999

Color print on card paper | Stewart Home, Neoist Alliance

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Ever since I was a little girl I dreamed of creating an account and verifying my email and enabling 2 step verification and downloading the app and opting out of targeted ads and signing up for promotional newsletters and unsubscribing and unsubscribing and opting out and opting out

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[“When I produced a small queer porn website in 2009, we came up against credit card companies threatening not to process our members’ payments when we posted fisting videos, and we posted a lot of fisting videos. The niche subgenre of “queer porn” emphasizes communication and safer sex as part of the action and tends to take a vérité/gonzo approach: the camera parks itself in the room and documents the way queers cum and adjust and gaze and writhe. In my experience, when you give queer porn stars carte blanche to do whatever they want on camera, they frequently want to put their hands inside each other. Thus, fisting has become closely associated with indie queer porn, which gives bans on the act a strong stink of homophobia.

Many of these constructions of what is considered legally obscene or in violation of a digital platform’s “community standards” are dictated not by actual communities but by tech plutocrats interested only in hoarding wealth and social control, or politicians and other lawmakers who do not understand or care about the confirmation biases that lead them to make arbitrary judgments on so-called morality. They also come from corporate credit card companies who want to make money off adult entertainment while still distancing themselves from perceptions of deviance. All of these entities are pretty clearly motivated by the notion that the erect penis should always be the focus of sex and by discomfort with the idea that pussies and asses can gape with pleasure if you treat them right.“]

tina horn, from why are people into that? a cultural investigation of kink, 2024

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theyre letting me crawl out of the grave tomorrow

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Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Scientists have studied the moon's surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark, flat areas on the moon filled with solidified lava) suggested that the moon experienced significant compression in its distant past. Researchers suspected that large, arching ridges on the moon's near side were formed by contractions that occurred billions of years ago—concluding that the moon's maria has remained dormant ever since. However, a new study reveals that what lies beneath the lunar surface may be more dynamic than previously believed. Two Smithsonian Institution scientists and a University of Maryland geologist discovered that small ridges located on the moon's far side were notably younger than previously studied ridges on the near side. Their findings were published in The Planetary Science Journal on January 21, 2025.

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Join me on my journey to finally unbalance my hormones, toxify my body, boost my inflammation, maximize my cortisol and absolutely destroy my gut health.

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Its so sad there isnt a jorking it equivilent for food

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the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek (trans. joachim neugroschel)

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“Life becomes difficult for him in Amsterdam. Perhaps following an assassination attempt by a fanatic, he goes to Leyden in order to continue his philosophical studies, and installs himself in the suburb of Rijnsburg. It is said that Spinoza kept his coat with a hole pierced by a knife thrust as a reminder that thought is not always loved by men.”

Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

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its kind of bonkers that the new yorker article on the decline of humanities enrollment and esp english majors acknowledges straight up that the democratisation of access to university (more first gen, more low income, more non white and even more intl students) means that they need jobs right after college and need college to serve its purpose as a socioeconomic ladder. so english is not a good choice for them. but half the tumblr comments on that post are all about how awful it is that beauty is being lost in world because college is being seen as instrumental instead of an intellectual journey or whatever the fuck.

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you want to make people care about like a grab bag of media skills (recognising inflammatory rhetoric, fearmongering, dogwhistling, who frame the agenda etc) because they essentially just expand your agency. not all that shit about how they're your duty or that they make you more cultured and human. they keep you from getting scammed.

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blackout sober