A few chickadees at the feeder. Sorry friends, the squirrel stole the suet ball again.
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A few chickadees at the feeder. Sorry friends, the squirrel stole the suet ball again.
Picture of a foggy landscape through an iPhone camera UI indicating that the lens needs cleaned. It doesn’t. It’s just really foggy.
Yesterday’s snow fog made my camera think the lens needed cleaned.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Busy morning at the feeder.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Common raccoon standing in a frozen stream, hands cradling something (not sure what) it just caught to eat.
Raccoon fishing for some grub in the river. Must be good food to be worth the chilly water.
A pigeon on a ledge of a log home. The pigeon is mostly grey with an irridescent purple and green neck and red eyes. This one is looking off the ledge with head tilted.
A pigeon on a ledge of a log home. The pigeon is mostly grey with an irridescent purple and green neck and red eyes. This one is looking right at you.
A pigeon on a ledge of a log home. The pigeon is mostly grey with an irridescent purple and green neck and red eyes. This one is looking off the ledge but also maybe giving you some side-eye?
A pigeon on a ledge of a log home. The pigeon is mostly grey with an irridescent purple and green neck and red eyes. This one is kind of loafing in the corner looking broody. Like it wants to lay an egg.
More pigeon pics from yesterday that I took with the big camera.
I'm signing off for the night. This is clearly just the beginning.
Just a reminder, given how much shit comes out so quickly nowadays, that it's better to get the news slowly than to get it wrong.
Close up of a pigeon. Medium sized grey bird with an iridescent purple and green neck and red and yellow eye.
Had some new visitors today. We usually don’t get pigeons at our house, but a couple decided to hang out for a bit.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Was reminded of this video from 15 years ago with Tom Scott. The world turns upside down, and we turn upside down right along with it. youtu.be/JE3azAS2e9k?...
Zoom!
I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
New Penny Arcade for your Wednesday!
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/0...
Excited chickadee.
One of the Cottingley Fairies photos. A little girl is surrounded by what is very obviously paper cutouts of fairy pictures.
Another of the Cottingley Fairies photos. A little girl is looking at what is, again, very clearly a cutout drawing of a fairy.
Yet another of the Cottingley Fairies photos. Once again a little girl is looking at what is, again, very clearly a cutout drawing of a fairy.
The final Cottingley Fairy photo. This one is supposed to be maintained as real. Again, very clearly paper cutouts. If you go look at the wikipedia page about it you can even see the original drawing from the book they were from.
Whenever people gush over AI I'm going to think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced that he'd discovered real scientific evidence of real fairies because he saw these pictures
[Bracket City]
February 14, 2026 🔴 (Tough)
www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...
☠️ hard mode!
Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 73
🎯 Minimum Required: 73
Total Score: 100.0
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This one was tricky, even with two people working to solve it.
I really like the texture and pace of this one. I think it had a post I liked also but I haven't read it.
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/0...
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Authority is contextual. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Human rights groups across the country have condemned the portions of Bill C-12 that 'reform' Canada's immigration & refugee system. I rose in the Senate today, with my own words of warning. We can't undermine our system to appease MAGA - or Maple MAGA. #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #C12 #BillC12 #Canada
Weather divination by rodent augurs an early spring, but the witch of winter had a real nice day to gather her firewood.
The paragraph ending with this is my favourite: “I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.”
Having seen The Zone of Interest, that is an appropriately damning headline.
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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jan 30th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 16 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
I haven’t managed a perfect score in this game before today!
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
Breakfast.
