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🚻 Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/19/bog-standard-tokyos-spectacular-public-toilets-in-pictures

A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats

sonify: Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound
Sonification (or audification) is the process of representing data by sounds in the audible range. This package provides the R function sonify() that transforms univariate data, sampled at regular or irregular intervals, into a continuous sound with time-varying frequency. The ups and downs in frequency represent the ups and downs in the data. Sonify provides a substitute for R's plot function to simplify data analysis for the visually impaired.

Here are some more pictures I took today on my OnePlus 6T running #postmarketOS :)
Yes, these were taken in 2025.
#Linux #MobileLinux

from my link log —
cdimage: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc.
https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
saved 2025-06-07

GitHub - arduinocelentano/cdimage: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surfase
A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surfase - arduinocelentano/cdimage

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Beyond Pretty Pictures: Combined Single- and Multi-Image Super-resolution for Sentinel-2 Images
Super-resolution aims to increase the resolution of satellite images by reconstructing high-frequency details, which go beyond naïve upsampling. This has particular relevance for Earth observation missions like Sentinel-2, which offer frequent, regular coverage at no cost; but at coarse resolution. Its pixel footprint is too large to capture small features like houses, streets, or hedge rows. To address this, we present SEN4X, a hybrid super-resolution architecture that combines the advantages…

In pictures: Reclaim the Streets rides again #ReclaimTheStreets

TFW You lose 60 lbs (and 4 inches around the waist) in 18 months, and literally not one person can even tell the difference. Even when shown pictures for a side-by-side...

adopted because no alttext
#Ukraine

Old source code statements in uppercase are the computing equivalent of black and white pictures.

Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/jun/02/indonesia-micro-libraries-photos

After long presenting heatwaves as fun episodes, with pictures of young people in fountains and swimming pools, European media are now realizing it's not funny anymore.
French TV talked about the worst day instead of the warmest day, and Le Parisien had "Torture" as headline. https://nos.nl/l/2573263

Zweten in Frankrijk, Spanje en Italië, Franse krant noemt hittegolf 'marteling'
In zuidelijk Europa worden temperaturen van 40 graden en meer bereikt. Onze correspondenten doen verslag.

FBI may have pictures of Trump and Epstein with young girls: biographer - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/2672359300/

Fun fact: people with "Nazi tendencies" are known as "Nazis."
the-more-you-know.gif
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114775416325488889

Kennt jemand dieses tool https://www.photopea.com/

I'm going on a 4 day vacation to the north sea tomorrow and I think I'm taking the @… phone.
The 25.06 release is the one where finally everything clicks into place for me. It's super stable. I can even take pictures! Not the prettiest, but good enough to capture memories.

Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors

CL XLVI: Happy Colors

Beyond Pretty Pictures: Combined Single- and Multi-Image Super-resolution for Sentinel-2 Images
Aditya Retnanto (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Son Le (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Sebastian Mueller (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Armin Leitner (GeoVille Information Systems and Data Processing GmbH, Austria), Konrad Schindler (ETH Z\"urich, Switzerland), Yohan Iddawela (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Michael Riffler (GeoVille Information Systems and D…

Beyond Pretty Pictures: Combined Single- and Multi-Image Super-resolution for Sentinel-2 Images
Super-resolution aims to increase the resolution of satellite images by reconstructing high-frequency details, which go beyond naïve upsampling. This has particular relevance for Earth observation missions like Sentinel-2, which offer frequent, regular coverage at no cost; but at coarse resolution. Its pixel footprint is too large to capture small features like houses, streets, or hedge rows. To address this, we present SEN4X, a hybrid super-resolution architecture that combines the advantages…

The Daily Star drops its page three with pictures of scantily dressed women as part of a print and online redesign, with a new strapline "News with a wink" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Daily Star drops page three pictures of scantily dressed women in redesign
The Daily Star has ditched page three models amid a wider redesign which includes a new masthead, new website/app platforms and new strapline

So HP is buying Juniper.
Reminds me of this old t-shirt:
https://www.cavebear.com/old_cbblog/pictures/juniperwheel.jpg

this is very cool! you can embed UV glow powder into your body and have it glow in the dark after light exposure
[cw: blood, pictures of wounds] https://bioduck.me/2025/06/03/glow-powder-cuttings/
(via @…

Glow Powder Cuttings!
Glowing cuttings have been around for a while. Spyfoxls tried it many years ago. Now more people in the Biohackers Digital Discord have picked it up again and started sharing results. Several folks…

TRI-STAR Pictures!
#Monsterdon

I recently relaxed WhatsApp’s permissions on my camera roll so it has “limited” access (it can see the pictures I choose to send).
Just undid that. Thanks for the heads-up, @…!
On iOS, if you remove a messaging app’s permission to access photos, you can still send them through the Share button in the Photos app.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Modest Mussorgsky & Daniel Ciobanu:
🎵 Pictures at an Exhibition
#ModestMussorgsky #DanielCiobanu #newRelease 🆕 album

from my link log —
10 years of pomological watercolors.
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
saved 2025-04-13

10 years of pomological watercolors
A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s. Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had been meticulously digitized and put online for purchase, but that less than 100 pictures had been sold that way �…

Please note that the photo below, which is making the rounds, is from 1987 and not 2025; Golden Gate anniversary not a protest. See this page:
https://www.vintag.es/2013/09/pictures-of-golden-gate-bridge-50th.html

So my mother-in-law is making some Ukrainian "potatoes" (they're basically cocoa and rum and some kind of binder.. crackers? balled up) for the 7yo's bday party. My wife made these amazing signs for the attendees in case of allergies. 😂

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

Advanced Purrsistent Threat (APT)

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures
Vaibhav Vavilala, Seemandhar Jain, Rahul Vasanth, D. A. Forsyth, Anand Bhattad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20703

Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures
We describe Generative Blocks World to interact with the scene of a generated image by manipulating simple geometric abstractions. Our method represents scenes as assemblies of convex 3D primitives, and the same scene can be represented by different numbers of primitives, allowing an editor to move either whole structures or small details. Once the scene geometry has been edited, the image is generated by a flow-based method which is conditioned on depth and a texture hint. Our texture hint tak…

Berlin Buzzwords 2025 in pictures!
We've uploaded all photos to our Flickr account. Check out the full gallery here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCihoH
Once again, a huge thank you to our incredible photographer, Jan Michalko, for capturing these amazing memories!

The BC Ministry of Transport has an album of all the pictures they have been taking of the Broadway Subway project. This can be found on flickr at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72157706275278374/

https://mister.computer/@kyle/114410413167281179 I will reward you with Likes, Boosts, and replies, for pictures of pets, stories about an amusing incident that happened to you, interesting programming problems, and self reflection showing vulnerability.
Continued LLM talk will e…

A fern I saw last week in Shindagin Hollow; I took a lot of pictures this weekend in town and at Monkey Run but didn't do much developing because I was busy fixing a busted webcrawler (and playing some Death End Re:Quest)
#photo #photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Wave Pictures:
🎵 Douglas
#TheWavePictures
https://thewavepictures.bandcamp.com/track/douglas
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GBcWvblfVDOcSq2rCIgPH

Might I offer some cute dog pictures in these trying times?

I am doing a throw-back #caturday today with pictures of #cats that I had as a kid. Silver Streak and Snowball, you were very good cats. I miss you.
#catsofmastodon

A sad neighborhood story in 2 pictures. #ohio

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Alien Boy:
🎵 Pictures of You
#AlienBoy
https://alienboypdx.bandcamp.com/track/pictures-of-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/0B34pINzP9T59D9uBhYxA5

I know AI and neural processors fill/fix pixels when taking pictures with digital zoom, but it boggles my mind how many people do not appreciate the merits of closeup pictures (as in being up close or using optical zoom).
Or maybe I'm the one who is wrong. 🤔
Here's a closeup worth every bit:
#photography

Phone physics and the Gateway Arch: Fun with friends and physics at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis
David Marasco, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22746

Phone physics and the Gateway Arch: Fun with friends and physics at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis
As a famous landmark and feat of engineering, the Gateway Arch was a popular destination at the 2025 AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis. The visit to the observation deck of the Gateway Arch is unique, climbing the steps after exiting the small tram capsules and seeing a floor that continues to slope upward assures that you are in fact at the very top. Everyone in our group excitedly took pictures, pointing out local features like the Dred Scott Courthouse. There were many selfies at the pinnacle…

A crazy picture of the #occultation of the #Pleiades by the #Moon right now ... shot with a handheld camera through a window and a hole in the clouds from Bochum, Germany. See https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0VgrVTvLkmkn7SjUGXRKTYTNsxUFs8kyPZXN9TbHsLiuUeb2xCY5p7SDQ6QzBsiWVl for more pictures: the cluster stars came and went and were never all at once in the clear. But hey, I kinda got it. ;-)

A bit of context that might be needed for this story about a 2010 website, is that prior to 2011 https wasn't widely used outside of e-commerce. The release of Firesheep in October 2010 led to a push for site authentication to go over https, and the 2013 Snowden revelations shifted the web towards encrypt all transmission.
https…

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

ugh I will have to get into turning photos into videos won't I? Because this is fun but I NEED MORE COLORS.
dammit, I just want to look at pretty pictures. Pretty moving pictures maybe as it may be, but...
Anyway, if anybody here has experience and knows what the most pain free way is to turn a series of photos into a short video while using linux and not spending money, I'd appreciate advice (*from people with experience*) in this case.

lynn bought a couple sheets of these really cute stamps

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Jr. Johann Strauss, Lorin Maazel & Vienna Philharmonic:
🎵 North Sea Pictures (Waltz)
#JrJohannStrauss #LorinMaazel #ViennaPhilharmonic

On Saturday we spent a deal of time cleaning up the shed and whist it's not finished it's a lot closer to the way it looked some 15 years ago when I started using it.
There is still a lot to do, build another 2 bookcases and put them in the server room at the end of the shed. And then replace the blinds.
#Shed

preserved dead from peru and chile. pictures from "memento mori: the dead among us" by paul koudounaris

I will defiantly take pictures and videos on #Saturday for #Pride to post on my #Pixelfed: @…

Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below. …

Great design, and great post @… !
Thank you for all the part numbers and pictures, descriptions, etc.
After making 2 of the 1st generation Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, the next ones I build will use your design.
Slick looking, efficient, replaceable filters, and quiet.
#AirQuality

Eddy #Merckx ;-)
Ferrovelo Cycle Works. Vintage and Classic bicycle projects. Builds | Restorations | Collections.
#colnago #ferrovelocycleworks

#PennedPossibilities 683 — Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?
A group of children drew pictures in class after hearing an excerpt from one of my texts.
I have those saved, I was stunned. Kids, like 9–10 years old, liked something I wrote enough to actually draw images to match?
I am honoured!…

“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs [with] the LAPD,”
Pasadena City Council member Rick Cole said at the rally.
“So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out.”
Protests against federal immigration raids continued to rage Sunday after Trump ordered the National Guard to Southern California.
Mejia, Cole’s boss, is an outspoken critic of the Los Angeles Police Department.
On Fri…

L.A. City Council aide arrested on assault charge at anti-ICE protest
Luz Aguilar, 26, who serves as City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado’s deputy for economic innovation and community growth, was arrested around 7 p.m. Sunday.

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

Make paint-by-number pictures in R: #rstats

My guess on the Palm Springs vehicle from pictures is either a Toyota Corolla or a VW Jetta.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Nigel Hess, London Symphonic Wind Orchestra & Nigel Hess:
🎵 The Catskills (from East Coast Pictures)
#NigelHess #LondonSymphonicWindOrchestra
#Spotify

Cranky to see people posting ai images of the LA crisis
Pretty sure that there are a lot of great pictures of the Waymo cars on fire that *aren't* generated slop

More ghost modules I
Kiyoshi Igusa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12904…

More ghost modules I
Ghost modules were introduced in [I3] without definitions or proofs. We also introduced stability diagrams or "relative pictures" for torsion classes and torsion-free classes for representations of Dynkin quivers. Modules which were not in the chosen class reappeared as "ghosts", in fact one missing module produced two ghosts. In this short paper, we give a precise definition of ghost modules. We give several examples and prove basis properties of ghosts and pictures for torsion and torsion-fre…

Alert - new email spam angle!

New Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle couldn't wait to show up for work https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/new-dallas-cowboys-defensive-tackle-couldn-t-wait-to-show-up-for-work

Just found this website for identifying ICE agents from pictures:
https://icespy.org/

Some pictures from Graz today

today i cycled along a dried up stream. found a couple pools of water remaining. loadsa white butterflies drinking from the bank. and a gret fat dragonfly that kept fucking off every time i pointed my camera at it. i was there for ages but could not get a shot. i could just imagine - "NO PICTURES you scrawny ol' bastard, fuck off" so i rode around for a hour or so, came back and finally got this shot. ha ha
🦟

TIL that on DOSBox Staging you can
C:\> config -avistart
to start a video recording of your current session, which creates an AVI file in your ~/Pictures folder, and accordingly,
C:\> config -avistop
… well, you know the drill

To those who joined TRU and DETROITography at the Transit Fantasy "Support Group" meeting in Royal Oak tonight, that was a phenomenal time and I hope we do it again soon 🚍🗺️
Who's got pictures? Share your maps!

Work Spring Seminar. So much AI. But well working with HPC and the biggest AI factory in Europe (LUMI-AI) have that right now. Probably the nicer thing is to think this is for scientific research and not for creating profile pictures in someone elses style

at the very end of tulip season I allowed myself to cut a bouquet. having it on my desk might have been a mistake - I got utterly and completely hypnotized by the way how the wind in the tree outside my window that is filtering the sunlight coming in made them look differently from split second to split second. so hard to look away. so many pictures taken. so many decisions to make. but now tulip season is truly over.
which one do you like better, and why?

Hey, Jörg Schoppmeyer opened his talk at the #SolarEclipse Conference in Leuven on imaging annular eclipses without filters with one of my Australian pictures from 1999 (upper right): see https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/aus99/story.html for how they originated. Schoppmeyer's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtQrHdl5Og of the 2023 ASE actually found scientific use: https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_2.pdf#page=3 (once again confirming the larger solar diameter https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114681336115327260 had determined by an entirely different technique). 6/n

Been some time since I last posted #food pictures, let's go through the archives: moo satay (going through a Thai cookbook to finish a big quantity of red curry paste)

Going up to MŸrkgonga was kinda scary, especially after the rains yesterday. Very rewarding getting to the top, but I must admit my pulse was high with all that mud and loose, slippery rocks.
Absolutely ridiculous views!

Thanks for all the fun pictures! Diggin the lines and textures. https://pixelfed.social/p/wolle1301/826028253139259011

Wolle (@wolle1301@pixelfed.social)
Attached: 1 image

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22889 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Variational formulation of dynamical electronic response functions in presence of nonlocal exchange interactions
We consider the dynamical electronic response function in theoretical frameworks that include nonlocal exchange interactions, such as the Bethe-Salpeter equation with the frequency independent approximation of the screened interaction, Hartree-Fock, and range-separated Hybrid DFT approaches. Within these pictures, we demonstrate that any time-dependent electronic linear response function allows for a formulation which is variational in the electronic density matrix. To achieve our goal, we cons…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Camper Van Beethoven:
🎵 Pictures of Matchstick Men
#CamperVanBeethoven
https://open.spotify.com/track/5LPx6fu4vKk8FheRq2DAn0

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RecordReview
- Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with Marina Frolova-Walker & Andrew McGregor
The best recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to buy, download or stream, plus the best of the week's new releases.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d1pr

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
Kaushik Talathi, Aparna Santra Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06691 https://

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
In the age of IoT and mobile platforms, ensuring that content stay authentic whilst avoiding overburdening limited hardware is a key problem. This study introduces hybrid Fast Wavelet Transform & Additive Quantization index Modulation (FWT-AQIM) scheme, a lightweight watermarking approach that secures digital pictures on low-power, memory-constrained small scale devices to achieve a balanced trade-off among robustness, imperceptibility, and computational efficiency. The method embeds watermark …

On the way back from the stork viewing position in #Bochum a close (!) encounter with a singing Eurasian #chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), perfectly placed and lit in the trees ... more pictures in #BirdsOfMastodon

Friends, when I do things on the croft which I think are interesting, I usually post photos here.
Today, we have slaughtered, gralloched and quartered a bull. There are many photographs. There is a bit of blood, but actually not that much.
Would people be interested in photos, if I put content warnings on them?
@… , am I OK posting pictures of thi…

One happy white #stork (Ciconia ciconia) family in #Bochum, Germany, photographed - often with digital zoom at the limit - from the approriate distance: one adult and four youngsters, one pretty big already. A lot of interesting behavior observed in one hour: more pictures in #BirdsOfMastodon

I have a lot of cool pictures to share from hikes and such, but first I have some stylesheets with cascading speculations to fight, I mean write. 😟
#technology #webdev #programming #life #nerd

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Seattle Symphony & Gerard Schwarz:
🎵 The Lake at Evening (3 Tone-Pictures Op.5)
#CharlesTomlinsonGriffes #SeattleSymphony #GerardSchwarz

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel, Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle:
🎵 Pictures from an exhibition (Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques)
#ModestMussorgsky #MauriceRavel #BerlinerPhilharmoniker #SirSimonRattle

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel, Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle:
🎵 Pictures from an exhibition (Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques)
#ModestMussorgsky #MauriceRavel #BerlinerPhilharmoniker #SirSimonRattle