2025-12-20 12:42:01
from my link log —
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
saved 2019-10-21
from my link log —
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
saved 2019-10-21
@… @… it’s beautiful!! 😍😍😍
you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite] and the Horae."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5
🏛 #Aphrodite, Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Prax…
Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
RE: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/5848/
I wrote about the photo walk I did last sunday. I guess I'll post the photos in the next couple of days separately as well.
On location I didn't expect too much, but I came back with a couple of beautiful
John Candy: I Like Me is a beautiful documentary.
What a wonderful human being.
p.s. bring tissues
#JohnCandy #ILikeMe #GoodCanadianKid
We put out a new Studioworks website yesterday.
It does a much better job of highlighting our product, team, and ethos. Really happy with how it turned out.
(Free trial if you use my link, below.)
Tell your friends!
https://studioworks.app/join/sean
I got to see HAMNET early as part of the IFFBoston Screening Series. It is a beautiful film with excellent performances. Before tonight, I couldn't tell you the last time a movie had me crying....
Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ka:
🎵 Beautiful
#Ka
https://ikristel.bandcamp.com/track/knowing-is-beautiful
Jazzaria – Slow, and Beautiful
https://www.archive.org/details/slow-and-beautiful
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJUl4zyugzIdf6y71n
Good morning! . Sneakers aren't the right footwear any more at -5°C. That's what my toes tell me.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #bayern
GOP unveils plan to cut deficit by $1 trillion with second 'big, beautiful bill' (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-unveils-plan-cut-deficit-1-trillion-second-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p104#a260113p104
I think the sheer existence of particularly https://yaml-multiline.info/ just shows how beautiful YAML is. :D
Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
Beautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
My youngest got me the most amazing Christmas present! A session handling some items from the V&A East storehouse. Yes, actual touching allowed! (Gloves provided) So I touched two ancient mandolins, a watercolour by Beatrix Potter, an original sketch for a Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back costume design, and a four-track tape recorder and mixer desk owned by David Bowie. She knows me so well. ❤️❤️❤️ #art <…
The tv at this tire Shoppe is set to local network affiliate.
Holy crap is tv Morning Show insipid meaningless crap. Like my brain wants to escape. Beautiful perky hosts, with big dad joke rizz, showing tiktok videos in between massively distilled news pieces that are so meatless they're vegan.
The meteorologist is the least flake, they actually have a post-sec degree.
Ok thank for mobile devices, I can choose my own brain rot.
Jackery is making solar power actually beautiful. At CES, they unveiled solar roof tiles, a home battery system, and even a Solar Gazebo with 2 kW of panels that generates 10 kWh daily.
The gazebo runs $12-15K and pairs with battery storage for backup power. It's not utility-scale, but it's the kind of creative design that could make clean energy irresistible to everyday consumers.
One of my colleagues has some beautiful pictures from the snow days in northern Germany on her blog: https://stories-of-nature.de/blog/wintermagie/
Attached two examples from the post to get your interest, but definitely check out the full set 😍
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
🎵 Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://thedjboutique.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-beautiful-people-the-dj-boutique-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S37ilrmjAKT7hq63NSylw
from my link log —
Maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/07/27/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities/
saved 2019-10-21 …
I’m in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Beautiful because nature can be wonderful.
Horrifying because humans are too often not.
Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight.
We each have our challenges, all are real.
May God’s mercy visit and comfort them.
And may His wrath visit their captors.
#USpol
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Charlatans:
🎵 My beautiful friend
#NowPlaying #TheCharlatans
https://open.spotify.com/track/1K8oLX9ti5UwAb6MRuuuwL
For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…
Food stamps are back, but millions will soon lose benefits permanently (Marcia Brown/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/food-stamps-snap-trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-impact-00653447
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p49#a251115p49
This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…
Following @… on Mastodon keeps my feed filled with a bunch of beautiful #genuary2026 entries. Thank you. :)
Finished "Life, and Death, and Giants" by Ron Rindo.
Gabriel, 18 lbs at birth, his unwed Amish mother shunned for refusing to name the father, dies in labor. Gabriel lives w/ family & friends, liminally between English & Amish communities.
Exceptionally kind, incredibly athletic (a giant at over 8' tall), Gabriel attracts a lot of attention from the world. His exceptional kindness is life-altering for so many.
Tragic, but beautiful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…
A few impressions from the Weihnachtsmarkt #Klagenfurt in #Carinthia we could visit today using the brand new train connection from #Graz 🤩
India’s Beautiful and Historic Stepwells Restored to Working Order for the Thirsty Nation https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indias-beautiful-and-historic-stepwells-restored-to-working-order-for-the-thirsty-nation/
A cacophony of colors, textures, temperatures and climate zones
(That rubble actually is a tiny section of the side moraine of a glacier, with a several hundred meters drop down to the ice flow directly behind and its vast carved out valley opening up... Boulders and rubble which have been piled up for millions of years and life slowly spreading its thin fragile carpet over it... True borderlands experience and sheer wonder about the forces actively shaping this planet... Sometimes I d…
I did not expect Apple to release a Borat mankini for your iPhone today, and I definitely didn’t expect it to be $230. What in the world is going on over there?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beaut…
läser om vad som måste vara en av decenniets mest välslipade kulturessäer https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
„not bad“ is just average with a broader bell curve? Interesting. https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115887892366419223
Creepy Donald does what creepy Donald does.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sleazy-donald-trump-79-lusted-over-beautiful-ukraine-women-during-russia-putin-peace-talks-with-zelensky/
Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…
"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful.
#linguistics #translation #engdeu
Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday
"Odin and Frigg sat in Hliðskjšlf and looked over all the worlds. Odin said: "You see Agnar, your fosterling, how he begets children with a giantess in the cave? But Geirröth, my fosterling, is a king & now rules over his land." Frigg said: "He's so miserly he tortures his guests if…
Uber discontinues monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives (Ben Elgin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-1…
I do have something of a soft spot for sweet little pop songs with razor sharp lyrics.
And The Beautiful South are one of the masters of the art. #TOTP
Really feeling the slowness of #fsharp compilation process. I am surprised they haven't made more progress in this area but I am sure I am not understanding the full complexities involved - or perhaps it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much attention. Either way. The only thing that's missing for this beautiful ecosystem of f#/.net world in my book.
When your work 3-year laptop refresh is this week, but your 3 year-old M1 MBP is still a beautiful beast, you know you have found a great laptop
#Apple
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115890020177162654
Imagine having one of those beautiful old houses, in what appears to be a very nice neighbourhood, and having the federal government ruin everything by sending in their goon brigade.
people are continuing to grace grebedoc with beautiful uploads https://lunar.reisen/
@… beautiful colors!
I've recently asked me again if beautiful means powerful.
#minimalism
"Projects like the Living Village at YDS are not only possible now—they are better than conventional construction, healthier to be in, less expensive to operate, more beautiful to behold."
—Architecture visionary Jason F. McLennan writing in the new issue of the YDS journal, Reflections, focused this season on faith that builds hope for a living planet
Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.
You out there have no idea how beautiful it is outside at -40 degrees. #Winter #ViveLHiver
Beautiful poem by Amanda Gorman for Renee Nicole Good.
#reneenicolegood #minneapolis #amandagorman
Happy New Year! May this coming year offer you liberation.
I’m thrilled to have two excerpts from a manuscript, You Must be an Image to Survive, You Must be a Text to Be Found,in the new issue of Works & Days from out now from Beautiful Days Press.
I’ll also be reading at the launch on January 15 in Brooklyn.
I gotta be more publicly annoying abt music. im addicted to these two Nourished By Time songs in particular rn, singing so beautiful I forgive retro throwback shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGVf1r-FYc
It was a beautiful day and night in San Francisco today!
#SanFrancisco
🎶 Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
#language …
I watched a wonderful movie last night with @….
"Nonnas" - Really is a beautiful story with a great cast.
Check out the Synopsis and if it sounds like your kind of thing, do watch it. I don't think you would be disappointed.
#Movie #Recommendation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnas
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3HDDiz113encEpIbYsecZl
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mandalay:
🎵 Beautiful
#NowPlaying #Mandalay
https://sunsetchill.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful
Today’s Icelandic word of the day for the DC area is “gluggaveður”.
It’s a beautiful looking day outside, but don’t be fooled: if you venture out, it’s like being in a blast chiller.
Best to stay indoors and look at the weather through your windows.
from my link log —
paged.js: beautiful PDFs from HTML.
https://pdf.math.dev/
saved 2021-04-04 https://dotat.at/:/6EZ7A.html<…
A judge has ruled that, for now,
asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP.)
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025,
instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system,
including asylum seekers.
The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual A…
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186
🏛 #Venus statuette from
It's been quite a day today. Quite ... challenging. But with a good end.
The mood of this photo is now exactly what I needed: a calm, chill hike in low hanging clouds. Just a few people - no stress, no expectations, no talking, no phone ...
#landscape #photo
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Saphileaum:
🎵 Beautiful Lagoons
#Saphileaum
https://saphileaum.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-lagoons
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Vic Godard:
🎵 It's A Beautiful Thing
#VicGodard
" You ARE The Culture, and dontchu forget it!! " a beautiful woman exclaimed to me yesterday. Then 3 philosophical zombies climbed out of her pussy and I was all alone
Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive
from my link log —
An entomologist rates emoji ants.
https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
saved 2020-01-03
(An overdue) super chill Friday night #Music4Coding night... Next up Scottish artist Petrichor with my fave track from their Cloud Chamber EP (2017), just all-round beautiful and very fitting to what "petrichor" describes... the smell/feeling after a summer rain...
Koh-Rah
'An Unprecedented Hunger and Health Crisis': How the Big Beautiful Bill Could Devastate Vermont (India Nye Wenner/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-snap-crisis-vermont-1235455593/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p66#a251029p66
Billionaires are spending massive sums on politics. A backlash brews.
Christina Persson,
a 55-year-old English teacher in a small town of just over 2,600 people,
is fed up with billionaires.
In May, during the debate over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”
she spearheaded a move to erect a billboard reading,
“Tax breaks for billionaires. CUTS for everyone else.”
Two months later, she set up shop at the county fair and sold
“Eat the Rich” ice c…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Belle & Sebastian:
🎵 We Were Beautiful
#NowPlaying #Belle #Sebastian
https://belleandsebastian.bandcamp.com/track/we-were-beautiful
https://open.spotify.com/track/3F361WUtUwN7ZX8DlpK4Lz
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus
🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya
When I was walking down from the mountains recently I noticed the frost on the trees and branches -- and some single leafs that were still around.
I really liked this extra touch of color in the grey surrounding. And that it's just a little detail on the huge mountain.
#photography #winter
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ka:
🎵 Beautiful
#Ka
https://ikristel.bandcamp.com/track/knowing-is-beautiful
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Beautiful Strangers
#NowPlaying #MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-strangers
https://open.spotify.com/track/3HDDiz113encEpIbYsecZl
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday.
"Frigg, I believe,
knows all that happens,
although she says it not."
Freyja in Lokasenna
🏛 Frigg or Valkyrie, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden
#DayOfAphrodite
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump's megabill (Eva McKend/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/30/politics/trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-rural-healthcare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p31#a251130p31
The Land of Via Claudia Augusta
(Pre-sunset light on New Year's eve, overlooking a small part of the northern Alps, a view which I imagine was already enjoyed by the Romans who had built a settlement on this hill in 13AD...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
from my link log —
Icons in menus everywhere! Send help!
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
saved 2025-12-08 https://
Do you remember when I once feared that having my photos as background in video conferences might be unprofessional?
Just yesterday I went into a workshop with strangers and a pretty well known investor - and guess what the first topic was in the call? The beautiful background and that I took it in sub -10°C.
I think it was profess enough
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"The one who strengthens someone in pain,
Who comforts a young one in love,
Who makes the dancer beautiful over drinks,
That god has descended to the ground,
Offering a calming lovespell for mortals,
A medicine against grief,
The vine’s child, wine."
Anacreonta 56
🏛 #Aphrodite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jimmy Cliff:
🎵 Wonderful World, Beautiful People
#JimmyCliff
https://djade.bandcamp.com/track/jimmy-cliff-wonderful-world-beautiful-people-ade-edit-1969