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Stacey Cornelius

Stacey Cornelius 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

When you're 14 you get to lounge around as much as you want.

#DailyCat #Caturday #GingerCat #TabbyCat #CatsOfMastodon

Ginger and white cat stretched out on a white faux fur throw. A tabby cat is curled up in a nest of cushions behind her.

Ginger and white cat curled up on a white faux fur throw. A tabby cat is curled up in a nest of cushions behind her.

#caturday #tabbycat #catsOfMastodon #gingercat #DailyCat

liferstate

liferstate 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dear fedi, who is this Unknown Bird! On a rock! Doesn't look like a common gull to me, but I could be wrong?

[Update: it is most likely a juvenile herring gull. Thanks everybody for the learning!]

Spotted yesterday on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan. #birdCallOut #nameThatBird

Bird standing on a rock above water.

Bird has a whitish head, mixed grayish-brown and white wings & body with dark gray tail feathers, a black beak and pinkish webbed feet.

#birdcallout #namethatbird

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overflo

overflo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Every time I turn on the air condition it plays the first few notes of the Terminator theme.
Can this be an Incident?

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VanillaSkunk

VanillaSkunk 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

LOL

We have one of those units in our server room to keep it 50 F in that room at all times.

That AC lasted 2 years, and now it's CONSTANTLY SCREAMING just to operate.

so... it's definitely a warning.

pty

pty 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😂

Steve Schwinghamer

Steve Schwinghamer 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dozer says to use your weekend wisely, friends.

#Caturday

A grey tabby covers his face while lying by the armrest of a brown couch. Pink toe beans are visible.

#caturday

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libramoon

libramoon 4 months ago • diaspora

KARMIC STREAM #poem

Ripples
along a lazy stream of time
crossing whirlwind space.
Rippling into etched contours,
teasing tricks of mind.
Expecting miracles.
One day precedes the next.
Reflective pooling, a
faultless, serene slip of spring.
Next I know I am hauling logs
through winter
cold, ice-tinged hands and toes
dripping nose,
exhausted, wilting.
Life brings no promises.
None to hold them to.
There are no changelings of the night;
not even prescient aliens to awe us.
There is energy.
There is form.
There is shadow bleeding
into substance.
There is here and now receding
into there and then.
There are the promises we keep
never knowing we have made them.
Ripples
shining in the sun
colours of a thousand worlds’ rainbows.
Ripples quietly expressing,
infinitely regressing,
first cause
last effect.

#poem

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

As the Olympics start in Paris, we are highlighting the almost 500 Ukrainian athletes who won’t be able to watch them.

Athletes like Ivan, a soccer player, killed in Kharkiv after going back to help his employees.

Nataliya Skakun, a former Olympic weightlifter, stopped talking mid-sentence, abruptly looking up at a spot in the sky not visible over our video call.

“Hang on,” she said with her neck craned back, “I just saw a missile.”

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Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Nataliya, now 42, trains Ukrainian Olympians at a sports center in Kyiv, and speaks urgently about how hard it now is to train athletes in wartime, amidst constant air raids and explosions.

Even the gym where she became an Olympian has been completely destroyed.

In response, many athletes have had to flee so they can keep training and represent #Ukraine on the international stage, she explains.

#Ukraine

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Before Nataliya could continue speaking, an explosion went off not far from The Counteroffensive’s office in Kyiv.

In the last few months, as Ukrainian athletes approach the Olympics, Russia has launched a renewed invasion on the Kharkiv front.

It has decimated Ukrainian civil infrastructure, leaving Ukrainians with only a few hours of power a day – and terrible fears about what winter will bring.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

On top of all of this, the absence of the 479 Ukrainian athletes who have been killed by Russia looms over those with the Olympics on their minds:

a reminder that Russia’s invasion continues to not only take Ukrainian territory, but also Ukraine’s strongest and bravest.

Nataliya, who took the Gold medal for weightlifting in 2004, starts to list off stories of the athletes she knows personally who have become victims of Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine.

#Ukraine

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The missile she had just witnessed was part of a larger attack on July 8th which hit Okhmadit Children’s hospital and other residential buildings in Kyiv.

The attacks killed ten year old athlete and karate star Maksym Symaniuk and his family.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Although she is lucky enough to be alive and well, Nataliya still feels the weight of Russia’s full-scale invasion as she trains over 100 athletes on Ukraine’s National Weightlifting Team for the games, which come around only once every four years.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“The day the invasion started my husband had joined the army before I even woke up,” she said with an affectionate smile.

“He has still not come back… I have two kids. I am also a real person, you know? I haven’t seen my husband for basically three years,” she added.

It is the similarities between sport and war that partially explain the 3,000 Ukrainian athletes who have joined the Armed Forces.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“They [athletes] are physically fit, they are used to training, they like discipline, they understand a team naturally,” said Svitlana Kharchenko, whose son, Ivan Kharchenko, is one of the Ukrainian athletes who have died during the full-scale war.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

After the start of the full-scale war, Ivan and his girlfriend left Kharkiv for Poltava in central Ukraine, but six months later he was determined to come back to Kharkiv.

He had his own car repair business, and he said he couldn’t abandon the people who worked for him, as they needed to make a living too.

Aiming to fix some military cars that needed repairs, Ivan bought a generator and went back to work, Svitlana explained.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

But one night Svitlana received a call from Ivan’s girlfriend, who told her that his house had been hit.

“He didn’t have a bomb shelter, so he would go into the bathroom…whenever there was an attack in Kharkiv I would call him to make sure he was in the bathroom, so when the rescuers arrived I knew what to tell them and where they would find him.”

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The rescuers found Ivan in the bathroom, which survived the attack mostly intact, but the force of the blast had launched the heavy bathroom radiator at Ivan.

He was 29 years old.

“It was an instant death,” his mother adds.

“Yesterday was the forty-day anniversary of Ivan’s death,” Svitlana said, before ending her story.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

His friends didn’t just talk about Ivan, they talked about the war, the past, the other friends they had lost to the war, but also their future plans.

Many of them are, as Ivan was, considering joining the army.

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

News of the Day:

The first Ukrainian victory at the 2024 Olympic Games comes in the judo competition’s 60 kg category.

Ukrainian Dilshot Khalmatov defeated Uzbekistan's Doston Ruziev in the round of 32 finalists, reports the New Voice of Ukraine.

https://sport.nv.ua/ukr/olimpiada-2024/olimpiada-2024-onlayn-translyaciya-zmagann-u-parizhi-27-lipnya-50437955.html

Tim Mak

Tim Mak 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko, himself a former champion boxer, praised the Paris opening ceremony as "beautiful and successful."

But he drew attention to the 487 Ukrainian athletes who have been killed due to the war.

https://x.com/Klitschko/status/1816900072644415912

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

vamptits Follow • •• they want you to make fried rice memser Follow •• • who is "they" vamptits the wok left 包 solongandthanksforallthefish42 Follow how am I supposed to make fried rice if the wok left ..•

OtownKim

OtownKim 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😂😂😂

Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸

Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Remember #CatsOfMastodon don't forget to stay hydrated!

#Caturday

Five kittens drinking from a water fountain

#caturday #catsOfMastodon

OtownKim

OtownKim 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😻😻

⸸ commander ░ nova ⸸ :~$

⸸ commander ░ nova ⸸ :~$ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Nova Prime, Initiated! :: https://nova-prime.net/2024/07/27/prime-initiated.html , What do you do when you have a day off from work? Do you play some viddygames? Do you go outside and roll around in the grass, praying you don’t accidentally slob around in some poopoo? Well, that’s not what I do. Today, I sat down in front of my computer screen, chugged an energy drink as my heart screamed at me “Please, for the love of pizza and beer, stop the caffeine!” and I said, “What if I f

Kindness is thankful

Kindness is thankful 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

JD Vance is to Appalachia as Olive Garden is to Italy.

Holeintheheadesign

Holeintheheadesign 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Prof Kemi FG

Prof Kemi FG 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Anyone who thinks cars bring "freedom" has never driven on I-95.

#cars #WarOnCars #DrivingSucks

#cars #waroncars #drivingsucks

JustAFrog

JustAFrog 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Cars are burdens.

You have to pay a lot to keep them going, and also you have to work at driving them because nobody else seems to be trying very hard.

I'm very glad I don't need to use one.

PsychoMiko

PsychoMiko 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

...und nun zum #Spocht

#spocht

Charlie

Charlie 4 months ago • pixelfed (AP)

Highlighted #smartphonepic

A wooden bench on a promenade along a lake. Heavy, dark clouds are rolling in over the lake and the hills towards the bench. But they haven't reached the sun behind the bench jet and so the back of the bench is being illuminated, creating quite a contrast to the clouds

#smartphonepic

Bubba Harrison

Bubba Harrison 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Sharks are already terrifying. Now they're high on cocaine? I'm never going in the ocean again. I'll stick to the pool, where the only danger is getting a wedgie.

#BabySharkDooDoo
https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-sharks-found-waters-brazil

#babysharkdoodoo

Mastodon Migration

Mastodon Migration 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Trump hates being out of the limelight and is a master media manipultor. Harris has captured the nation's attention and it's driving him crazy. His outrageous comments yesterday about ending voting where calculated to grab back attention. He wants people parsing his words, so long as they are talking about him. And, of course like always, he leaves just enough ambiguity to wriggle out of the obvious interpretation. Believe him. If elected he will end democracy. Harris will protect our freedom.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🌴🥥

News article titled "Kim Petras Grants Kamala Harris Permission to Use Her Song 'Coconuts'" and subtitled "JD Vance says he'll use 'Throat Goat' at campaign stops remarking, 'Like Petras, I'm tough and I can take it all and as a religious man I too make the boys say Hallelujah.'" It has a photo of Petras with big blonde hair, a purple velvet bra top, velvet skirt, and chain belt that says "love".

AaronDavid

AaronDavid 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Bahn #ÖV #News

#Bahn #ÖV #News 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

„Menschen, die gar nichts mit dem ÖPNV am Hut haben, sollen zur Kasse gebeten werden“

Baden-Württembergs grün-schwarze Regierung will für den Klimaschutz die Nutzung öffentlicher Verkehrsmittel forcieren: Kreise und manche Städte können eine „Mobilitätsabgabe“ erheben – wenn sie wollen, nur von Autofahrern. Die Kritik reicht von „Zwangsabgabe“ bis zum „zahnlosen grünen Bettvorleger“.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus252676996/Menschen-die-gar-nichts-mit-dem-OEPNV-am-Hut-haben-sollen-zur-Kasse-gebeten-werden.html

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Fplus252676996%2FMenschen-die-gar-nichts-mit-dem-OEPNV-am-Hut-haben-sollen-zur-Kasse-gebeten-werden.html

„Menschen, die gar nichts mit dem ÖPNV am Hut haben, sollen zur Kasse gebeten werden“

^{Tim Daldrup (WELT)}

Stephan Matthiesen

Stephan Matthiesen 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Was für eine Logik in der Überschrift.

Ich werde doch auch z.B. für Schulen zur Kasse gebeten (mit meinen Steuern) obwohl ich mit Schulen gar nichs am Hut habe.

Wenn wir nur noch für das zahlen, was wir jeweils selbst brauchen, dann bleibt von der Gesellschaft nicht mehr viel übrig.

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Marc Haber

Marc Haber 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Gibt es eigentlich eine Karte wo man sehen kann wo (in Mitteleuropa) man seinen Lebensabend verbringen kann ohne Gefahr zu laufen dass es einem das Haus wegspült? Berge ist doof, wegen Unwettern, Küste wegen Meeresspiegel.

Kris (Backup Account)

Kris (Backup Account) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In der Klimakatastrophe gibt es keine sicheren Orte.

Dort wo sie Dich nicht direkt bedroht sind Nahrungsversorgung und Energieversorgung schwierig. Es ist eine planetare Krise die die Grundlagen unser aller Existenz bedroht.

Das ist ja dieselbe Fehleinschätzung der ganzen Milliardäre mit ihren Bunkern. Es egal wie reich Du bist, wir sind mit 3 ppm mehr pro Jahr auf einem +4 Grad Kurs, also 99% Mortalität.

Von 10 Mrd auf unter 100 Mio in 30 Jahren.

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Kris (Backup Account)

Kris (Backup Account) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Die einzigen Personen, die derzeit rational and korrekt auf die Klimakatastrophe reagieren, sind LG/XR.

- Millardäre enteignen
- sofortige Einstellung allen Flugverkehrs
- Verbot von MIV bis 2030, auch Bestand, Stop vom Autobahnausbau, alle Mittel in den ÖPNV und auf die Schiene
- Gütertransport nur noch auf der Schiene und vom Bahnhof zum Empfänger elektrisch
- radikaler Ausbau des ÖPNV

- Betonverwendung stoppen bis 2030
- Entsiegelung der Städte
...

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Karma Sahne - R.I.P @natenom

Karma Sahne - R.I.P @natenom 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@fasnix @better_tomorrow @isotopp Schau Dir an, wie es aktuell mit alten Fabriken, verlassenen Häusern usw. läuft, z.B. in den neuen Bundesländern. Die werden sich selbst überlassen, teils zu großflächigen Lost Places, direkt daneben baut man den neuen Kram. An der Ostseeküste verfallen alte DDR-Ferienobjekte und direkt daneben stehen Neubauten.

@Kris (Backup Account) @flo @Deacon Jericho

Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.

This should not be legal.

It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.

And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.

https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

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Mx. Luna Corbden

Mx. Luna Corbden 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@impactology We also will have the power to regulate when Harris is elected. Imagine, say a version of “fairness doctrine” applied to any internet business that gets its content from unpaid creators, restricting how they can use that content and determining who owns it. For instance, that it must be searchable by anyone unless the content is marked private or limited by its creator.

We could also build a public option search engine, social media. We can mandate that social media content and profiles be portable and compatible. We can set legal standards for terms of service. We can permaban harassers and misinfo mines.

We can get creative. The world doesn’t have to operate the way it does now. Technology isn’t stopping any of these things. Companies are.

@Raghav Agrawal

Tau 🏳️‍🌈

Tau 🏳️‍🌈 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Are they doing it with robots.txt or useragent? Because then we are probably going to see robots.txt start to not be respected and the same with the useragent

ïng Frank THM van den Heuvel

ïng Frank THM van den Heuvel 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Tau That is already happening.

@Tau 🏳️‍🌈

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

What antitrust people you are talking about? In the United States, there are still any?

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@starbreaker @antimnguyen
Actually, why? What #NNTP has which #Email hasn't?

#email #nntp @An-Tim Nguyen :unreal:

Kevin Leecaster

Kevin Leecaster 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So, in case you weren't already doing all you can to support Democrats because you support Democracy, last night Trump told American Christians that if they all would vote for him in 2024 just this time they'll never have to vote again because he'll "fix it" so that they don't have to bother doing that again.

You may think that would harm his election chances in the world's oldest democracy, but that means you're unaware that the NY Times and WaPo entirely ignored that statement.

Thomas

Thomas 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

At least the NY-Times covers it...

Tyler K. Nothing

Tyler K. Nothing 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So gross. I'm glad #JDVance is dragging #Trump down in the polls (or poles, if you’re using TrumpSpeak). Combine that with the flood of support for #Harris which will continue to shift early polling in her favor and out of his, that we might just see a statistical landslide in November. More peeps need to see and hear what these people are saying out loud, the lies they are telling, and more importantly, the truths they are telling. #politics https://boingboing.net/2024/07/26/audio-of-jd-vance-being-racist-and-attacking-womens-rights.html

#Trump #Politics #Harris #JDVance

Katherine Bond

Katherine Bond 4 months ago • diaspora

Memories of vacations past

#myphotos

#myphotos

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Shonie Hutter

Shonie Hutter 4 months ago • diaspora

There's quite a few swimming here right now @Katherine Bond As a child I couldn't wait to get into the water. Now each days there's notices about water quality. Scary!

@Katherine Bond

Katherine Bond

Katherine Bond 4 months ago • diaspora

Yes, we have them too @Shonie Hutter. We were truly lucky. If there was a body of body nearby when I was young, I was swimming in it.

@Shonie Hutter

katharine

katharine 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Captioning in a Portlandia sketch about a hipster boutique hotel said “bad costumer service” and, like, what even is the joke anymore

why_o_why

why_o_why 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ich hab echt keine Worte mehr für das unfassbare Versagen der US Leitmedien. Hier wie die #NYT über Trumps glasklar zu verstehende Ankündigung, Wahlen abzuschaffen, berichtet.
Und für diesen Entschuldigungs- bullshit haben sie fast 24 Std gebraucht🥴. Und die Nicht-Antwort von Trumps Sprecher geht offenbar OK. 🙄

#Trump #project2025 #Dictator #election2024
Sorry für fehlenden #AltTxt aber ich sitze im Schrebergarten und hab so 20kb/s...🙈

#Trump #dictator #NYT #Election2024 #AltTxt #project2025

why_o_why

why_o_why 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Allein das "deporting millions of people annually". Keine Alarmglocken, kein Aufschrei. Mir haben diese "mass deportations now" Schilder auf dem #Rnc kalte Schauer über den Rücken gejagt...sind die 6 Millionen Vergasten egal, die tausende Gestorbenen GIs beim Kampf gegen Hitler, die Camps in die damals Japaner in den USA gepfercht wurden? 😳

#rnc

Today I learned

Today I learned 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL that before he was famous Hugh Jackman made money performing as a clown for childrens' birthday parties. Jackman wasn't a good clown, and recalled being heckled by a six-year-old for not knowing any magic tricks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2015/08/20/hugh-jackman-used-to-be-a-clown-and-shared-a-tbt-on-instagram/77540488/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edoy8c/til_that_before_he_was_famous_hugh_jackman_made/

Not to clown Hugh Jackman, but this epic #TBT proves his pre-acting job kinda sucked

This pic is definitely a must-see!

^{Erin Jensen (USA TODAY)}

#TIL #todayilearned

JdeB

JdeB 6 months ago (Received 4 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

#USpolitics #Principles

Principles are the hardest when they cost money.

"Standing up to Kanye West" [2:58 min]
by Steve Hofstetter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPhTxnvYys

Quote by SH:
"26 mei 2024
This was a heartbreaking decision but one I had to make. I wish my agent and the folks at 33 and West the best, but I can’t be a part of this. As Whitesnake once sang, “here I go again on my own.”
Thank you to those who come to shows; I hope there are enough shows to come to in the future. I guess we will find out together.
Did I make the right decision?"

Standing up to Kanye West

This was a heartbreaking decision but one I had to make. I wish my agent and the folks at 33 and West the best, but I can’t be a part of this. As Whitesnake ...

^YouTube

#USPolitics #principles

Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY

Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hard YES!!!

JdeB

JdeB 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wow... that's from a while ago. Kudos for finding this one. And I agree: hard yes !

unusual_whales

unusual_whales 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Shiba Every Hour

Shiba Every Hour 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

a random shiba from shibes.lol

Today I learned

Today I learned 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL that Henry Ford is responsible for the 5 day work week. And you should thank him for it.

https://www.morningbrew.com/sidekick/stories/history-five-day-work-week
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edospm/til_that_henry_ford_is_responsible_for_the_5_day/

#TIL #todayilearned

What's it to you?

What's it to you? 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A gentle reminder that one never need thank an actual Nazi for anything.

Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#CatLadiesForHarris #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfHachyderm

Woman lying in bed with her cat cuddling

#caturday #catsOfMastodon #catladiesforharris #CatsOfHachyderm

Lady Wicket

Lady Wicket 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.”
Terry Pratchett; Raising Steam
#Discworld #GreatBritishEnergy #LabourHasAPlan

#Discworld #greatbritishenergy #labourhasaplan

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Paul 💙

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That's the thinking I applied to scrapping the two child policy

The problem in finding solutions to the worlds problems is lack of imagination and creativity

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I disagree, the world is split between those who say it cannot be done, and those who are already doing it.

Lady Wicket

Lady Wicket 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Thebratdragon 😄or..
“There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: ‘What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!”
Terry Pratchett; The Truth 🥃

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Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

engineers answer, glass is too big for the volume of liquid...

Lady Wicket

Lady Wicket 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Thebratdragon 🥃🍷🥂

@Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

Adam Trickett :debian: :kde:

Adam Trickett :debian: :kde: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Watching Dix pour Cent again, amazing how small the smartphones look compared to now, only a few years and things have changed.

It's still funny, in a highly silly way.

Peter Cohen

Peter Cohen 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Here's how to stop X from using your posts to train its AI:

Stop posting on X

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https://mookiesplace.com/users/mookie

https://mookiesplace.com/users/mookie 4 months ago • gotosocial (AP)

Or keep using X, but only post things like "Elon is an idiot", "X is a Nazi bar", "Teslas explode", an other fun things so that their AI is trained well.

Nazani

Nazani 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@mookie
I want AI to train on all the scientific articles I quoted & linked to. Perhaps it would learn that pre-natal hormones have a massive effect on how the brain develops gender identity & orientation.

@mookie

Flipboard Tech Desk

Flipboard Tech Desk 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As the 2024 Olympic Games commence, a number of new AI tools – covering things like game optimization, talent detection and “reduction of human bias” – are getting ready to be tested at a Games for the very first time.

@Mashable speaks to the companies behind the technology and considers the impact these tools will have on the competition, the athletes and the fan experience — whether attending or watching from home. Here’s more.

https://flip.it/i1M59W

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Olympics #Olympics2024 #ParisOlympics #Tech

Paris 2024 is bringing AI to the Olympic starting line

The Paris Olympics brings a clean Seine, fierce competition, and a lot of AI.

^{Chase DiBenedetto (Mashable)}

#tech #ai #olympics #artificialintelligence #olympics2024 #parisolympics @Mashable

YetAnotherGeekGuy :verified:

YetAnotherGeekGuy :verified: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Mashable article on AI at the Paris Olympics is an interesting read.

It’s still a hodgepodge of solutions in search of a problem. But a necessary precursor to getting AI over the Hype Curve to actually useful applications without ugly downsides. (Kinda’ like everyone suffering through Preparations A-G until they got it right

Shelia Hunt Fine Art

Shelia Hunt Fine Art 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐇 𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑” ... See it on Fine Art America---> https://buff.ly/4fhWegr

#SheliaHuntPhotography #Savannah #SavannahRiver #SavannahGA #BuyIntoArt

Large cargo vessel gliding through the waters of the Savannah River near dusk with storm clouds looming ahead. There is a stunning reflection in the river in this scene. at Savannah, Georgia. Black and white image from the Fine Art Gallery of Shelia Hunt.

#savannah #BuyIntoArt #savannahga #savannahriver #sheliahuntphotography

Cat Every Hour

Cat Every Hour 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

#cats #catsOfMastodon #mastocats

jamais+37 phil

jamais+37 phil 4 months ago • diaspora

Peter Lindelauf

2024-07-20 20:02:18

Glad about gladiolus

Learning all the time. Up until this year, I had no idea perennial gladiolus existed. What beauties. These are planted in the delphinium beds. Hardy in zones 3 to 9 and we're in 5.5. Otherwise, tender gladiolus corms have to be dug up and kept indoors over the winter. Just like dahlias. I like perennials that just go to sleep under the snow and pop back up in the spring. It's enough work taking our cacti, succulents, and epiphyllums out for the summer and back in the plant room for the winter.

Gladiolus ramosus 'Vulcano.'

Peter Lindelauf

Peter Lindelauf 4 months ago • diaspora

Glad about gladiolus

Learning all the time. Up until this year, I had no idea perennial gladiolus existed. What beauties. These are planted in the delphinium beds. Hardy in zones 3 to 9 and we're in 5.5. Otherwise, tender gladiolus corms have to be dug up and kept indoors over the winter. Just like dahlias. I like perennials that just go to sleep under the snow and pop back up in the spring. It's enough work taking our cacti, succulents, and epiphyllums out for the summer and back in the plant room for the winter.

Gladiolus ramosus 'Vulcano.'

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Brian Ó

Brian Ó 4 months ago • diaspora

5.5 == 5b?

Peter Lindelauf

Peter Lindelauf 4 months ago • diaspora

More or less. Depending on microsites. Usually 5b but we had spring like weather followed by a -30C cold snap last winter. Major damage to the Okanagan Valley vineyard and tree fruit crops. We lost an old grapevine, a wisteria, and our apricot only has about half of its leaves. That was about zone 4.

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