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I’m 100% positive they’re doing this endless back and forth to manipulate markets to personally cash in

The hole in the neighbor's roof - I've told him about it more than once - has brought forth it's annual bounty once again this year. Happy baby raccoon season, everyone!

Make the Decision Right: A 1987 Aphorism Against the Age of the Open Tab
An old professor of mine, holding forth in 1987, handed his students one sentence to carry out the door: don't make the right decision; make the decision right....
https://bolesblog…

from the Paradise of God
Without remorse drive out the sinful Pair
From hallowd ground th' unholie, and denounce
To them and to thir Progenie from thence
Perpetual banishment. [...]
If patiently thy bidding they obey,
Dismiss them not disconsolate; reveale
To Adam what shall come in future dayes,
As I shall thee enlighten, intermix
My Cov'nant in the womans seed renewd;
So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace.
-- John…

@… I'm a little surprised how different some parts of the PICO images are. In the sample image of the lady with a red hat (kodak_kodim04), the eyebrow on the right side of the image is slightly higher than in the reference image. Flipping back and forth between them makes it look like she's subtly hinting something

The Sega Genesis implies the existence of a Sega Revelations:
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a blue hedgehog; and golden rings were given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, the beast that came out was red: and power was given to him to take peace from the earth: and there was given unto him gre…

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Squash Bug War Report: 4 bugs, 0 Eggs
Hearken, cowards of the cucumber! We, the Shield-Pair of the Raised Bed, walked the battlefield at dawn and four of thy foul kin now feast in the void.
We lifted the leaves and found thy warriors hiding beneath like thralls afraid of the frost. Come forth and face us in open combat! Do not skulk in the leaf darkness!
The Jarl-Wife crushed two with the calm of a seasoned berserker. I dispatched two more into the Bucket of Soapy Doom.

I feel like using QQ, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, etc. would be an effective means of subverting this Western push toward mandatory online ID and all its attendant baggage. I don't personally care if the Chinese spy on my inane conversations, and I don't really spend much time talking about Tiananmen Square. The enemy of my enemy, and so forth.

TIL the Carmina Burana (11th/12th century) had a poem about generative AI use at universities
Florebat olim studium,
nunc vertitur in tedium;
iam scire diu viguit,
sed ludere prevaluit.
iam pueris astutia
contingit ante tempora,
qui per malivolentiam
excludunt sapientiam.
sed retro actis seculis
vix licuit discipulis
tandem nonagenarium
quiescere post studium.
at nunc decennes pueri
decusso iugo liberi
se nunc magistros iactitant,
ceci cecos precipitant,
implumes aves volitant,
brunelli chordas incitant,
boves in aula salitant,
stive precones militant.
Translation:
Once learning flourished. Now it's come
to be condemned as tedium:
the days of thirsting after truth
are now the idle days of youth.
For students hardly in their prime
find themselves wise before their time:
they know it all — impertinence
replaces plain intelligence.
In days gone by we were required
to stick with study: none retired,
or wished himself to be released,
till ninety years of age at least.
Now lads of barely a decade
can graduate — get themselves made
professors too! And who's to mind
how blind the blind who lead the blind?
So fledgelings soar upon the wing,
so donkeys play the lute and sing:
bulls dance about at court like sprites
and ploughboys sally forth as knights.

Some nice birds from #Glasgow (seen along the Kelvin river and the Forth & Clyde canal)
photos: @…
#NatureIsBeautiful

Trump's back-and-forth on troops in Europe potentially cost millions, US officials say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/troop-deployments-europe-costs-trump-bb43a4fd108a663e69ba4bc9b9f6e6ce
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p71#a260605p71

It's a good technique, but it only work well up to the forth or fifth rum and coke

The VMC survey LV - The coherent expansion of the SMC: #SmallMagellanicCloud

Went back and forth a few times before it popped into my head. #Wordle
Wordle 1 752 4/6
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Sonnet 034 - XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak,
That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though th…

Dreamt I was watching a damaged scientific satellite from a nearby viewpoint floating in space.
The bus was a rectangular shape about 2:1 aspect ratio with no visible solar arrays, perhaps not yet extended.
Its reaction wheels and one large annular ion thruster were working but the other ion thruster on the far side of the centerline had fallen silent for some reason causing off center thrust. It was twitching back and forth, firing the one good thruster for a short time then rot…

The rain has brought forth beauty #Bloomscrolling

Fish. Lips.
https://vimeo.com/1180173970?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
alt video: from a camera on a stick in the water behind a boat, three interested fish, swimming back and forth and quite close to the camera.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/116664133468323564
This whole back-and-forth has been so wild.

It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues, 12 May) at 20:00 NZST we will be having our monthly Libre/FOSS Meeting. Anyone is welcome to participate. Questions and demos at any level both welcome and appreciated. We'll be holding forth on our BigBlueButton (thanks, as usual, to https://Prodigi.nz for sponsored infrastruc…

Do you think puppygirls do this when you turn on the garden hose?

I am so fucking tired of working on this circus wagon, and I would estimate my level of completion to be a generous 30%
We plow forth nonetheless

Bessent, Wyden get in heated back and forth over Jeffrey Epstein (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/trump-primary-elections-midterm-ca-nj-sd-iowa-iran-war-live-updates-rcna348166/rcrd110957?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p61#a260603p61

#Euclid Early Release Observations – Internal kinematics and the convective-transition gap of NGC 6397, High-precision multiple-pass photometry and astrometry: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa60441-26.pdf -> Scientists Surprised to Find Brightness ‘Gap’ in Ancient Star Cluster: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-405

Crocuses burst forth
Through last year's leaves I am told.
But not here, not yet.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

Listening to Anthony Healy (?) head of APRA holding forth on RNZ. I'm reminded of how badly broken the concept of Copyright is. Their whole model is driven by corporate 'rights holders' who want to extract maximum $ from the market, and not the interests of individual creators who desperately need the income. The model rewards those who're already successful. New & small creators get nuthin', especially if they haven't sold out to the big evil streaming providers.…

Raiders HC Klint Kubiak Makes Feelings Clear on Tom Brady https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/klint-kubiak-feelings-clear-tom-brady/

I couldn't care less about a bunch of rich people in Brooklyn, I just read the article for the delicious drama. However, about halfway through the article, I started to see so many #FreeSoftware parallels.
1) Volunteers spend countless unpaid hours creating/maintaining something to better their community.
2) For-profit business packages it up as part of their offering.

Destructuring the #disk of AB Aurigae - Dynamics and accretion: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa59736-26.pdf -> First ever live observation of the rotation of a planetary nursery / The spinning origins of a planetary system: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/first-ever-live-observation-rotation-planetary-nursery / https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brandy, Camper:
🎵 BACK AND FORTH
#Brandy #Camper
https://open.spotify.com/track/5bRd2dXJSjAPRMTiNN4UEa

id Software: Let's make a pioneering 2.5D shooter. (#Doom)
Raven Software: Oh, cool engine. But what if we added the ability to look up and down, and sometimes fly? Oh, and let's add inventory. And maybe some randomized ambient sounds. And interactive environments. (#Heretic)
Also Raven Software: You know what? Let's also add character classes. And make the gameplay more nonlinear, with going back and forth between maps. And let's add jumping. And let's add some hacks to enable doors and walls to move horizontally, and add scripting. And monsters spawning randomly. (#Hexen)
EDIT: Oh, and animated backgrounds, and thunderstorms, and falling leaves!
#games