2025-12-22 22:08:27
Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr
You dont like the default color palett of #ggplot? You can change it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10504724/change-the-default-colour-palette-in-ggplot
RE: https://front-end.social/@css/115933259166796491
Ok, apparently there are dueling implementations.
This one handles internationalization better than the one I shared last night, but this one works less well in forced-colors mode.
Qualifier: I …
i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords
The USA shows it's true colors,
"Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say"
The US is clearly not an ally/friend of Europe.
#usa #ukraine #extortion
NASA’s #SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spherex-observatory-completes-first-cosmic-map-like-no-other/ - the space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.
RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115924685821817809
See also: Car colors.
Calico flowers.
#caturday #photography
@… beautiful colors!
Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains
Jerry Jones once again shows true colors with recent comments https://insidethestar.com/jerry-jones-once-again-shows-true-colors-with-recent-comments
Botched Execution in Alabama Reveals Nitrogen Hypoxia’s True Colors, and It Is Not a Pretty Picture | Austin Sarat | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/11/03/botched-execution-in-alabama-reveals-nitrogen-hypoxias-true-colors-and-it-is-not-a-pretty-picture
For several reasons I didn't do mountains this weekend. But I enjoyed a nice cozy loop in the vicinity to the #kirchsee.
At this spot I made a quick stop and thought: #silentsunday! Not even wind. Just a lake, view, mountains in the distance and me and my bike.
Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #10!! 💖🌊✨ #climatesolutions
Autumn colors in the Japanese garden at the Seattle Arboretum this past weekend
#naturalist #photography
Animated #TextMode area plots with additive blending in ANSI16 format...
Source code for a static version of this example (made with http://thi.ng/ramp,
Just finished "Dream On" written by Shannon Hale and illustrated by Marcela Cespedes with colors by Lark Pien. It's a wonderful book about grade-school friendships and dealing with unhealthy social pressures.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
“I watch others from afar—chasing dreams I cannot reach, climbing ladders I cannot touch, celebrating victories that sound like whispers from another life. They wake without fear. They plan without hesitation. They move through a world that no longer belongs to me. And I… I measure my days by the tremor of explosions, by the moments when the sky feels ready to collapse.
War steals more than homes—it swallows the ordinary: quiet mornings, free laughter, hands meeting without trembling. …
Großwärmepumpen are heating up Germany: capacity is expected to increase 6x by 2030.
Rivers and sea are increasingly being used as a heat source. The cost of heat pumps appears to be proportional to their size.
These and other findings from a new study:
https://www.
The #Kilauea #volcano on #Hawaii has calmed down, but the stream on https://www.
Colors of Life in the Clouds - Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect #Life on Planets like Earth: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae129a -> How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/how-spot-life-clouds-other-worlds
Restarting #Running, take 37 🎬
Busyness and niggling knee pain derailed me from my last efforts. Then inertia set in and everything becomes harder.
But, here we start anew. One foot in front of the other.
Excellent Scrappy Hour Group Ride today. Weather was nice and warm, fall colors were awesome. Small group from Tosa (just four this time) but me, Michael, Nick, and James had a blast!
#ScrappyHour #cycling
Went for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.
#Photography #Vancouver
Contrast-Finder — Find correct color contrasts for web accessibility.
Opensource software and online tool for web accessibility.
There are lot of tools to find a good contrast on the web, but no one to suggest valid contrasts. Contrast-Finder is a tool which computes the contrast between two colors (background, foreground) and checks if the contrast is valid.
🎨
@… draw for me A surreal concept art of a human brain transforming into a digital archive, with neural pathways turning into glowing fiber-optic cables, and tiny floating folders and documents orbiting around it, vibrant colors, sci-fi style, hyper-realistic.
NASA's SPHEREx has completed its first multispectral map of the infrared sky.
It sees the sky in 102 infrared "colors," which lets it do things like this: One image highlights mature stars; the other focuses on carbon soot & gas clouds where new stars form. 🧪🔭
https://www.jpl.…
🗜️ A Review of the Research and Development of Brayton Cycle Technology in Nuclear Power Applications with a Focus on Compressor Technology
#energy
Is there any chance that you could make the colors of the buttons under each post configurable?
I have a hard time to recognize if a post is already boosted or not.
#icecubesapp
@…
Buy this to be cool #redbubble
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…
Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…
❤️🖤 Rudolf Rocker had it right: from the ground up. 🖤❤️
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
Manche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.
Someone took the "Genderwurfstern" creature card from the @… game at #39C3 next to C3 Awareness. The person who created it is very sad and would like to have it back. Please return it or DM me!
Boosts welcome :BoostOK:
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: Would he do that?
SERVALAN: Oh, yes. He thought it through very carefully. He wouldn't even reveal the location of the laboratory until I'd agreed to all his terms.
TRAVIS: Which were?
Felt cute. Might delete later. #tmbg
if you look in the footer of https://blog.fontawesome.com/ and tap on the Font Awesome flag you’ll see a variant of this component made to work with Font Awesome icons (and reusing the colors from the header image of the blog post too:
Alone into the rocks: Tunnel walk and traces of glacial plucking at 2200m
(And yes, the colors really were that stunning...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Why NFL uniform rules have players feeling like a 'mannequin' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47420076/nfl-uniform-violations-players-feeling-mannequin
Yesterday they've released SOLO Leveling: Arise Overdrive.
I kinda liked anime and game looked good, so I've tried it.
I was surprised, when in the middle of the fight everything stoped and I couldn't move / use any skills / attacks.
My surprise was even bigger when outisde of the battle I stopped moving for about 10(maybe 20) seconds.
Fights are perfect🤌, if it wasn't "always online" "feature" it would be really good game with great c…
Colors of Life in the Clouds - Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect #Life on Planets like Earth: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae129a -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIhjh8ApH0
Today on #Mastodon - fall colors and an unidentified bird.
#PurdueFortWayne 🐘 🐦 #Autumn
After undergoing the ritual debate of Coopers Hawk or Sharp Shinned Hawk, we’ve unanimously decided this is a Coopers Hawk that swooped down in pursuit of a small bird hiding in a holly bush.
After playing it cool in this nearby tree, the hawk tried diving into the bush (ouch!), landing & coming up from underneath, but could not reach nor flush out its prey.
It then landed on the railing & became aware of us gaping at it from our front window. Rightfully spooked, it flew …
Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats
Good morning on this #siletSunday - it's windy and rainy outside. Maybe I'll just have a walk later. I'm quite happy that we did a hike yesterday!
And just now I used the time to write about a hike I did this May:
„Nicole“ by Prowler
Platform: Amiga
Released: 7 February 2010
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Datastorm 2010 Amiga Graphics competition
#GFX_Prowler #YR_2010 #PF_Amiga
The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Of course we do.
VILA: Old friend.
VILA: Oh, uh, [Atlan grabs the front of his tunic] way back.
DAYNA: We were students of the doctor once.
ATLAN: Studying what?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/343 B7B5
Favorite landscape and time of year.
(Upper glacial valleys are often so colorful and especially in autumn, when the colors of the many different types of rocks are complemented by those of the tundra vegetation up there... it's a harsh climate/environment, at the same time so peaceful/friendly [if the weather is right] — a feast for the eyes and good for the soul... yet, each time also a bittersweet experience, seeing how fast glaciers are disappearing)
My new business cards finally came in the mail!
#photo #photography #foxwork #fox
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Laying it out the 15 tracks for mastering.
#guitar #mandolin #steelguitar #mastomusuc
„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Well, there's always rodents of one sort or another.
TARRANT: I'm a growing lad, Vila. Rats are not the answer to my diet-
DAYNA: [Makes a gesture to cut them off] Yes, but Orac, can you get a fix on him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/27<…
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
So glad about this particular road taken, on that particular day...
(Apologies for the intense lens flares, it was a very bright October day and almost too much for my phone... That hike was such a touching experience, I had to repeat it literally a week later...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography
„Ready for the Byte Fight“ by Vasyl
Platform: Atari ST/E
Released: 22 November 2025
Specification: 320x200px, 9 colors
Note: 1st in the Silly Venture 2025 WE Atari ST/STE Graphics competition
#GFX_Vasyl #YR_2025
Frozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5
H₂O & Licht
#photography #colors #winter #frozen
One of our fave local places to go to for a walk in autumn. This year the colors were especially exquisite...
(Beech forests like these covered two thirds of Germany, but by now they've been dramatically reduced, not just due to logging. Also rising temperatures have been increasing their mortality and general vulnerability...)
#SilentSunday
Fall Color Scene by the Pond in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #trees #fall
🤚 Free Saturday
👉 Saturday spent working on Free Software
Highlights from #Gentoo:
• #Gemato is now compatible with #FreePG and mostly compatible with #SequoiaPGP chameleon.
• Prepared patches to support FreePG and SequoiaPGP chameleon as "gpg" symlink providers.
• #FlexiBLAS is now enabled by default on ~arch.
• Finally finished working on #PkgCheck check for missing #PyPI provenance checks.
• gpy-list-pkg-impls now includes "does this package have tests?" state, can optionally include PythonCompatUpdate results from PkgCheck and output mIRC colors. In other words, our IRC bot will now tell us when dependencies let us port new packages to #Python 3.14, and whether these packages have tests.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
LYMA:
🎵 Colors
#LYMA
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WqG4yMCX2QbjQc8SBaDyt
the muted colors of snow
#photography #almostmonochrome #snow #Semmering #TrainPhotography
Intersection near the summit of Hammond Hill State Forest in the Fall
#photo #photography #landscape #forest
Colorful collection of trees on the arts quad
#photo #photography #cornell #trees