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I think I understand it now. Take a droplet of black polymer goop and put it in oil. Turn on an electric field. If the field is strong enough, the droplet will start to spin!

Here's why. Though the oil doesn't conduct electricity well, a few electrons will move through the oil, pushed by the electric field. They'll land on top of the droplet and stick there - because we've chosen a kind of goop that's *very* hard for electrons to move through.

More electrons will land on one side than the other, by chance. The electric field will keep pushing them down, so they will start to turn the droplet. When they reach the bottom of the droplet, some will fall off and continue moving through the oil. And this process will continue, making the droplet turn faster and faster.

This effect is called Quincke rotation. This theory of why it works is called the Taylor-Melcher model.

@nickzoicnick helped me think of a nice analogy. Suppose you have a waterwheel in a torrential rain. If a bit more rain lands on one side than another, it will start to turn the waterwheel. And once the wheel starts turning, the rain can make it turn faster!

Hmm, I'm still confused by why the droplet spins faster and faster. If we imagine electrons coming down from above, we need more electrons to stick to the side of the droplet that's moving down. Why does that happen? I guess I should learn more about the Taylor-Melcher model.

youtube.com/watch?v=Z6rGIfDujd

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Panhandle / (of Mexico) Coast

Not carnivorous but very poisonous plant that seems to colocate with pitchers...

I finally identified these beautiful flowering racemes that remind me of skyrockets going up. Stenanthium densum known as "Osceola's Plume" or "Crowpoison" (because they are actually very poisonous). The flowers bloom from the base upward. As they age they turn pink and finally maroon. This is a very nice visual effect!

Many more photos in the attached gallery...

mdpaths.com/rrr/nature/plants/

Update from this year's expedition with some interesting surprises...

mdpaths.com/rrr/nature/plants/

Stenanthium densum known as "Osceola's Plume" or "Crowpoison" (because they are actually very poisonous). The flowers bloom from the base upward. As they age they turn pink and finally maroon.
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Hey y'all..

Happy Monday.. This is to announce my return to YouTube next month (if all goes well) finally !

But before I do, I need as many of you to let me know if I should keep the same thumbnail style or change it up ?

Content will be primarily focused around (Derivatives too) and with other stuff sprinkled around it from time to time.

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在小黨的政治人物的粉專下方常常會看到「只是為了私利」,「只是想要選舉」這類的留言。

請問一個人出來當政治人物,不是為了選舉,不然呢?難道只是想當網紅還是什麼?

既然想當政治人物,那當然就是對公共議題會有想法,有意見,無論是針對執政還是在野黨,也一定要發表自己的看法,讓公民去判斷這個政治人物是否符合自己心中對該職位的期待。

難道其他大黨的政治人物就都不是「為了私利」或是「只是想選舉」???

抑或是,對這些留言的人來說,只有那些大黨的政治人物可以「為了私利」或是「只是想選舉」???

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Who still writes Python 2.7 code in the year of the Lord 2025? Well, I did, to help a client remove obstacles for upgrading to Python 3.

This was a journey backward in time - in reverse order performing the steps you'd make, to upgrade from Python 2 to Python 3.

How do you create a modern add-on for Plone 6, that is also backward compatible with Plone 4.3 on 2.7 with Archetypes?

In this blog post, I’ll explain the technical details of creating collective.collabora, making it work in many versions, while also providing continuous integration and 100% test coverage.

cosent.nl/blog/plone-addon-bac

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Your Site, Your Rules: Filtering Fediverse Activity

ActivityPub for WordPress @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog

When running a WordPress site with the ActivityPub plugin, you're not just managing a website—you're also operating a node in the Fediverse. This means you need effective tools to block unwanted activities, users, servers, and content from other instances across the network. How Blocking Works in ActivityPub for WordPress The ActivityPub plugin takes a pragmatic approach to blocking unwanted content by building on WordPress’s existing “Disallowed Comment Keys” feature. While this […]

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現状のMisskeyに関して、
・欲しい機能
・改善して欲しい部分
・他サービスと比較する等で、利用され方などについて思うこと
…など、何かあれば、ここに適当にぶら下げておいてもらえると、後で巡回出来るので助かります

ある程度issueしてるものもあると思うので、対応/関連するものがあれば引用やリプライで繋げます

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Who still writes Python 2.7 code in the year of the Lord 2025? Well, I did, to help a client remove obstacles for upgrading to Python 3.

This was a journey backward in time - in reverse order performing the steps you'd make, to upgrade from Python 2 to Python 3.

How do you create a modern add-on for Plone 6, that is also backward compatible with Plone 4.3 on 2.7 with Archetypes?

In this blog post, I’ll explain the technical details of creating collective.collabora, making it work in many versions, while also providing continuous integration and 100% test coverage.

cosent.nl/blog/plone-addon-bac

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One thing I really love about this, is that the very first picture of a human is not of a king or any other oligarch, but of an anonymous person and there is absolutely no way to every find out who he was.

(sure, he was getting his shoes polished, so he probably was from the bourgeoisie, but still...)

RE:
https://mastodon.ie/users/sk76/statuses/112430192369536759

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英國工黨政府公佈入境政策白皮書,未有獨立提及BNO簽證人士申請定居權(ILR)及入籍的規定有何或會否改變, Hong Kong Watch 要求政府盡快釐清,究竟申請 ILR 的時期由住滿英國5年延長至10年的建議是否同樣適用於 Visa

較明確的是,BNO 簽證持有人申請定居時,英語要求會由現時B1提升至B2

europechinese.blogspot.com/202

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