2026-11-10 16:27 UTC
Replies (10)
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@Gargron@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 16:29
LEDs are a wild west and I feel like with street lamps nobody cares about picking the right color temperature or high CRI.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca 2026-11-10 16:30
@Gargron@mastodon.social How about Hunt-for-Red-October Red LED? ;-)
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@juandesant@mathstodon.xyz 2026-11-10 16:31
@Gargron@mastodon.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social sodium lamps are also VERY bad for astronomy. We can do better.
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@bea@glitch.social 2026-11-10 16:33
@Gargron@mastodon.social they are still gradually being replaced here, and every one that gets replaced with a bright white LED lamp pisses me off all over again. i walk at night a lot and there's such a difference
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@grishka@friends.grishka.me 2026-11-10 16:41
I don't really notice LED street lamps any more, but what does annoy me a little bit is all those single-color LED strips that so many stores use to make signs out of to put into their windows. These colors are very unnatural while also being obnoxiously bright at night.
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@DonnaG@mastodon.scot 2026-11-10 16:41
@Gargron@mastodon.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social At the risk of sounding whiny, sodium lights are really noisy in quiet environments. I am not at all a proponent of violence, even towards objects but some nights I wish bad things on the neighbors light. I had ours disconnected. Fortunately, good lighting that is economical, considers, people, animals and dark sky is possible—if people care enough…
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@nancywisser@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 17:35
@Gargron@mastodon.social In the town I just moved from they still had them and the way they lit trees and streets at night was just gorgeous, especially the ginkgoes in autumn when they turn gold.
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@BackFromTheDud@mas.to 2026-11-10 19:57
@Gargron@mastodon.social At least you could see with Sodium lamps! All the LED street lamps do is make more shadow!!
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@admin@socel.net 2026-11-10 21:25
@Gargron@mastodon.social I wear sunglasses while driving at night. Not to be 80s. But to dull the brightness of some of the newer headlights. I can't look away as the driver. But can't see the road thru the headlights intensity. Which I believe the newer ones are LEDs.
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@Scofisticated@socel.net 2026-11-10 22:13
@Gargron@mastodon.social I wear sunglasses while driving at night. Not to be 80s. But to dull the brightness of some of the newer headlights. I can't look away as the driver. But can't see the road thru the headlights intensity. Which I believe the newer ones are LEDs.