Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/30/young-atlantic-salmon-english-rivers-mersey-bollin-goyt?CMP=share_btn_url…

Today was my first real attempt at using a split keyboard. I have two issues: first is getting used to a different style keyboard than I am used to, and the second is making this PC keyboard function properly on macOS. Karabiner-Elements and Keyboard Maestro got *almost* everything working right. (And some makeshift gaff tape labels.) Those keys on the left keep fucking me up! (1/2)

How the 2025 Season Got Away From Brady, Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-2025-season-got-away-from-tom-brady

I never got far from the wood stove today but a few days ago I spotted this snag covered with fungi near the high spot in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #forest

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

For a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity.
His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously,
and they provided real-time feedback.
Those who followed him closely could watch his positions take shape from one rally to the next
—an offhand comment that got a strong reaction would become a talking point at the next rally,
and then a core part of his pitch.
And he took notic…

The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.

And there you have it. It's been 4 months since the INT8 FSR 4 DLL leaked, and people are already starting to forget, or never knew, where the original link to download it is. Sooner or later someone will get cute, and the DLL will get tampered with, and it will get posted on a thousand shady websites. All courtesy to AMD, where, imo, the executives don't give a s about gaming or from where the next buck comes from.

Evening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

We recently switched to a different trash & recycle pickup company, one that was mandated by the town govt. They’re generally pretty good, but the bin we were given for trash is only just big enough to hold 1 week’s worth of trash. Usually that’s fine, but now I’ve got more stuff than will fit in it, like a Christmas wreath, and a large potted poinsettia that’s on its last legs, and more in that vein. I may be forced to toss these in someone’s yard after dark some night.

The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger: #AGN / Radio Black Hole Trio Lights Up in Rare Galaxy Merger: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/555300/unique-discovery-astronomers-identify-first-triple-radio-agn / https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-black-hole-trio-lights-up-in-rare-galaxy-merger/ - first confirmed system of three radio-bright active galactic nuclei reveals how supermassive black holes grow as galaxies collide.