2025-12-31 16:44:15
We need to stop this harmful practice. There are other ways to celebrate the new year which doesn't harm nature, environment or animals.
#NewYear #NewYear2026 #fireworks
We need to stop this harmful practice. There are other ways to celebrate the new year which doesn't harm nature, environment or animals.
#NewYear #NewYear2026 #fireworks
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
(above in the blog if you prefer it on one page: https://dalliance.net/blog/2025/ )
The last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Black Flag:
🎵 Rise Above
#BlackFlag
https://spittinbonespunk.bandcamp.com/track/black-flag-rise-above-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kFfFe38CRVnTsakUTL4E4
Have a great last day of the year and a wonderful start into 2026, everyone 🥳 🥂
#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026
Thanksgiving, Above All, Celebrates Our Escape From a Pre-Liberal World (Arthur Melzer/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/thanksgiving-above-all-celebrates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p28#a251127p28
It's a bit hard to read because my daughter's camera is pretty bad, but the section of the pantry that the cat is sleeping in is labeled "random". #CatsOfMastodon
We went for a walk. I saw a pelican gliding along on the lake. Wasn't fast enough to get close enough for a photo before he sailed around a corner. But took these on the way home. Just a short walk in suburbia. Canberra views really are delightful.
#LakeTuggeranong #Canberra
View of hills covered by forest canopy looking south from a high point along the Fingerlakes Trail in Caroline -- a rare place south of Cayuga lake where you can find a commanding view
#photo #photography #landscape
In further escalations against #Venezuela, King #DJT decreed that the airspace above the northern most country on the continent South America is closed... The threat against any air travel in the nation is immediate deadly attack by the US military which he controls with his Nazi tattooed tool Herr Hegseth.
As Presi…
Mack Brown: Why I think Drake Maye can become one of the best ever https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7004004/2026/01/31/drake-maye-super-bowl-patriots-mack-brown/
#macrumors forums is just as bad as #nostr
Filled with people who have APPL shares / Bitcoin wallets and let their opinions be ruled by their profits above all else.
Seagate reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.83B, vs. $2.73B est., forecasts Q3 results above estimates on strong data storage demand; STX jumps 8% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/seagate-f
"China switches on 1 GW of solar at 4,600 m above sea level"
#China #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
Moody Urbanity - Old & New III 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 III 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of
"Vandenberg Space Force Base",
— home to more than a dozen at-risk species,
easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve
— but that's an illusion.
The nearly 100,000-acre base was a testing ground in the 1960s for early-generation ballistic missiles,
and today it's a launch site for satellites, classified missions and other payloads key to a new type of war: one fought far above the Earth.
When I was a kid, I had a couple well-loved issues of G.I. Joe Special Missions, and this art from the cover of one of them was my absolute favorite. And I ran across it the other day again, and it still strikes me as extremely badass, even now. Just something about Snake Eyes scaling a wall in moonlight.
#art #comics …
For #MonochromeMonday and #Photomontag ... I visited this spot twice now and it looked SO different. Once with a lot of fog in the evening, the other time earlier with less fog.
Not just was it the fog that ws different. But once there were NO birds at all. And the other time it w…
Atheist? Yes!
If only the redditor who made this flag knew the phrase “no gods, no masters” lol.
#Atheism #Atheist #Religious
I've never seen this outside of my family in the wild (some research shows there are other people online who've made it/have recipes).
We make “turkey roll" with leftover turkey dinner. I chop turkey, veggies, and stuffing up into small pieces, fry up some fresh onions celery garlic, and stuff it into biscuit dough, then bake.
It gets a "sauce" of either leftover extra-thickened gravy or a béchamel-ish white sauce. It's pretty tasty and the fresh bi…
Ugh why is this always the way. I evaluated like 25 authentication servers for a small scale web project — I do want to support things like OIDC and Passkeys, so this is not something I really want to make myself like the old days of “use crypt() on the passwords and just make a simple database”.
5 of them are just dev mode garbage that will never see the light of day as a thing people use.
2 of them are home network nonsense for people who want enterprise login for their family, but where One Nerd controls the whole user-list.
15 of them are freemium "open source" where they withhold features for their enterprise tier and make them so unfortunately difficult to deploy, all requiring postgresql databases and a complex containerization setup and helm charts and oh so much.
and then there's kanidm, which is great except its opinions make it completely unusable for a community project, it's really more trying to fit the ‘enterprise unix authentication' space. Kudos to them for communicating it but it's the wrong tool, even if it is really good.
And then there's rauthy. Which is exactly what I want, well built and delightful, uses a lightweight embedded database, and even has a peer-to-peer sync for scalability. But customizing it is going to be a lesson in building it from source repeatedly, and its configuration is just a bit strange, and its frontend is extremely Backend Developer Wrote A Web UI. I guess I got a second project. And maybe a third to make debian packages of it.
Yet it really is the best of the options _by far_.
NLNet supported projects continue to punch above their weight class.
Jetty protecting the harbor immediately south of Portsmouth, NY seen from Odiorne State Park
#photo #photography #jetty
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…
1,500 Year-Old Reindeer Trap and Hunting Equipment Uncovered in the Ice of Norway’s Mountains https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/1500-year-old-reindeer-trap-and-hunting-equipment-uncovered-in-the-ice-of-norways-mountains/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
above me:
🎵 out of body out of mind
#aboveme
https://abovemee.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-body-out-of-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zXZce49L1jxoTI3CJFP4N
1. Put a display above seats stating "wolne / free".
2. Never bother actually integrating it with seat reservations.
#PKP #InterCity #rail
A chilly 36°F (2.2°C) but with sustained 19 mph (30.5 kph) winds gusting to 38 mph (61 kph) making it feel like 26°F (-3.3°C). Once or twice, I came around a corner and was nearly stopped in my tracks. I do love this chilly weather and saw several other runners also on #TeamShorts
Ran/walked 4/1 min intervals again, which feels mostly right at the minute — although I was fading to somethin…
Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9% after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/analog-chipmaker-tex…
Our local castle and park is illumated for some weeks in a special way, creating the "illuminated paths of dreams". We walked them this evening and got to listen to the wonderful music of Thomas J Curran https://youtu.be/ZsrIdq8LJ90
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mpjgregoire/115617463612803295
MG is our own Tory exemplar — a Royalist even — keeping his head above Mastodon’s progressive river somewhere near the right bank.
Hey MG, your tribe needs a hashtag,
❤️🖤 Rudolf Rocker had it right: from the ground up. 🖤❤️
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
tl;dr it’s essentially a patch for Windows 3.0 that prevents conflicts with MS-DOS when addressing memory above 1MB
i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy
Lots of flooding in #Dorset today and more to come. We are OK, on top of a small hill about 50ft above the river Wey but the road out of our place goes down to the river level and was flooded this morning… https://w…
Moody Urbanity - Paces 🏃♀️
情绪化城市 -配速 🏃♀️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
No Screens
#poetry #poetrycommunity Another morning poem that started as a half-waking image. Today, I am in core reality.No screens, just sunlight, air, and greeneryOn a hill above the reservoir.An ocean sparkles to the south. I amThe center of perspective. I command The view. I …
Woman running across one of the suspension bridges at Stewart Park for this year's Turkey Trot
#photo #photography #sports
Today, I buy this one passive USB-C cable that supports 240W/80Gbps to ensure it works for my displays & laptops. (The spec limits cable length to 3.3ft however, the above 4.9' cable has worked fine for me):
▫️Cable Matters 4.9' #USB 4 Cable https://a…
The Perp Walk Is The Point - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/01/the-perp-walk-is-the-point/
"Average global temperature to hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels in 2026, warns UK’s Met Office"
#Climate #ClimateChange
The latest in our climate chaos theatre: Arctic ice melting in January!
@… on Bluesky:
SUMMER IN WINTER IN GREENLAND
Crazy Temperatures tonight up to 9C (above summer average), persisting during the day.
24 stations at low elevations out of 31 above freezing today.
Kitsissorsuit is chasing the WORLD RECORD of the highest monthly…
Rhode's Law:
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance,
or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or
circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted,
estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose
of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or
personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the
above, be unilaterally and unequ…
№ 3 Dalen Davis from the Princeton Tigers tries to block № 7 Anthony Nimani of Cornell's Big Red in Newman Arena this Jan 30, 2026
#photo #photography #sports
Good morning from Brentford
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #London
What does money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864
Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…
We’ve lived here since 1989 and this is the worst snow to shovel I’ve encountered. We only got about 6 inches of snow, but it was followed by at least an inch of sleet. Temperatures are not supposed to get above freezing all week. My adult son came by (he lives elsewhere in DC and had to take his partner to the airport) and he and I managed to clear our steps and sidewalk. Had to use a gardening shovel with a square end to break the worst of the ice. Took us an hour. Then we helped a neighbo…
#SilentSunday
Geese. December 2025.
#today in at uni with various clashing events, and then off to see a friend's dance performance in the evening....
Bright, sunny, blue sky, just above freezing as I wait for my train.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115599035878316402
"Mastodon-ish instances". Wait, what? 👀👀👀
Shot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/27/gaza-israel-palestine-shot-killed-injured-destroyed-dangerous-drone-journalists-in-gaza/
None of the above is even proper neuroscience or psychology. It’s just a framing of the question, a way to avoid ridiculous assumptions and broken approaches, a way to avoid hurting people.
Variation is normal. Let’s expect it, design for it, work •with• it — in others, and in ourselves.
8/
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
"Average global temperature to hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels in 2026, warns UK’s Met Office"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
A couple of days of just layering varnish and painting which didn't change anything visibly enough to bother with photos. But today, the windowed doors are starting to be completed. Three of them up.
This is what really makes the difference and makes it suddenly reminiscent of the Tardis.
Hopefully it'll be finished next week, they say. But they have said that before. The windowed doors have to be finished, the detailing to make the doors look panelled, handles, holes for cables, there's a bit of coving I decided to add to help carry wires and lights across the gap above the desk. More painting. Mirrors to be glued to doors.
We shall see :fingers_crossed:
Good Morning at this #silentsunday .
Don't have a lot to say right now. I just fixed some configuration and am now back to my coffee ;)
Enjoy your day friends.
#photography #fog
Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
https://www.
LLMs never make mistakes or hallucinate, as this presupposes they actually know what they’re doing—they don’t: they have no concept of what words mean.
They don’t even deal with language, as they generate chains of big numbers based on statistical correlations.
The resulting transformation into human-readable text is always only a statistical approximation of what a real answer could maybe look like.
By sheer chance sometimes LLMs are even correct (usually for trivial things); however above a certain length of answer it is always wrong.
Broncos QB Bo Nix expects 'absolutely no issues' in recovery from ankle injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005065/2026/01/28/bo-nix-injury-update-broncos-qb-nfl/
"It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."
"The Empire has no moral boundaries, why should we not take hold of every chance we can? Let them see how an insurgency adapts."
"The surprise from above is never as shocking as the one from below."
- #KarisNemik
IBM reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $19.7B, vs. $19.2B est., and projects 2026 revenue growth and free cash flow above estimates; IBM jumps 8% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/ib…
Gillian Anderson photographed by David LaChapelle for Allure Magazine (the first three) and Mark Seliger for US Magazine (the last one), both 1997.
#90s #GillianAnderson #scifi
Disbar Them All: The Only Accountability Left For Trump’s Lawyers - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/01/disbar-them-all-the-only-accountability-left-for-trumps-lawyers/
On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Black Flag:
🎵 Rise Above
#BlackFlag
https://spittinbonespunk.bandcamp.com/track/black-flag-rise-above-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kFfFe38CRVnTsakUTL4E4
STMicro reports Q4 net revenue up 0.2% YoY to $3.33B, operating income down 66% YoY to $125M, and forecasts Q1 2026 net revenue of $3.04B, above $2.92B est. (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
After I got this photo with my Laowa 9mm I went looking for flower beds this deep around town to fill its frame 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 since they're always narrow enough to easily maintain
#photo #photography
Massabesic Lake East of Manchester, N.H. where I grew up -- I hiked here almost every day as a kit
#photo #photography #landscape
Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She’s Been In Trump’s Corner One Too Many Times - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/lawyers-try-to-bench-aileen-cannon-from-case-arguing-shes-been-in-trumps-corner-one-too-many-times/
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-smashes-…
Is The Comey Case Barred By The Statute Of Limitations? It's Complicated! (But Also Yes.) - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/is-the-comey-case-barred-by-the-statute-of-limitations-its-complicated-but-also-yes/
#SilentSunday
Willow trees.
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
In the Arctic (the 15 million km² area above the Arctic Circle), October was the warmest on record: 4.5°C above the 1981-2010 average, that's over 5°C above pre-industrial temperature!
https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115514465437344892
"Africa’s installed PV capacity estimated above 63 GW"
#Africa #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/bitgo-is-said-to-price-us…
Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/zoo…
Intersection near the summit of Hammond Hill State Forest in the Fall
#photo #photography #landscape #forest
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…
Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tencent-delivers-