2026-06-21 02:10:36
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Added Power Grips (pedal straps) to my wife's #Brompton. Not going to say it's my nicest work, but I'm hopeful that it'll hold. I only drilled holes through the plastic reflectors; the metal is all intact. I can change that later if needed. #BikeTooter
Hälsingland #sweden
I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959)
SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vrlJOfXNxxE3Ik_a3SZfj2rEb9hV9qru/view?usp=sharing
Кумедно.
Я думав, катари-"ножиці" це чисто вигадка Блізів. А зараз читаю — виявляється, що ні. Менш розповсюджений варіант, але реальний. Тільки вони "розкривалися" не перед ударом, а після. Як експансивна куля.
Національна зброя менш попсових культур здатна принести цікавий вайб у геймдизайн. Особливо якщо втілюється не поверхнево.
Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963465/xreal-a01-plus-xbx-ar-glasses-hands-on…
"Our movement has all but disappeared from most working-class neighbourhoods. The far right could soon be in government as a result."
The Morning Star view on the 2026 election results | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/morni…
The view out my window right now looks like someone's applied the (racist — https://screensphere.co.uk/news/film-news/the-yellow-filter-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think-in-hollywood/) Hollywood yellow filter. My phone camera…
Hello, reply guys!
Yeah, the Democratic Party in the present and political parties in general are…um, disappointing at best, let’s just say. It’s foolish to view them as the primary mechanism of constructive change; they are at best a tool we use, but change has to come from the ground up.
We can recognize that without the nose-in-air whataboutism of this person’s reply. The fact is that if we had 2 more Democrats in the House right now, ICE and CBP wouldn’t have this •massive• budget influx that’s set to give these modern Brownshirts the ability to operate at every-city-at-once scale. I am not looking for a party I can cheer like a sports team; political parties should not be fandoms. I am just looking for ways to put out the fire that’s consuming my country. If I have a bucket of water I can dump on it, I am not going to whine about how the water tastes.
https://olifant.social/@burly/statuses/01KTS3TPYH0HK6HC7VQ58MTNRP
Frühstück #balkonien @…
Sunrise In A Scale-free Landscape (2026)
(For reference, the visible valley section is ~6km long... Alt text for more info)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
I could see an Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment argument for the right to view a state execution.
If you want to ensure a punishment is not cruel or unusual,
it helps if someone can see it taking place.
Same for equal protection under the law.
https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmalor.…
Just finished "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. A fascinating and epic science fiction novel with fascinating ideas about technology and also future societies. As I'm delving into a lot of sci fi looking for social imagination it's a good find in some ways but disappointing in others. The Qeng Ho culture is interesting, but their society is uninspiring; Vinge's rosy view of "trade" is not one I completely share, and their hierarchies and wealth accumulation are less compatible with their freedoms in my imagination than in Vinge's. That said, his perspective on the possibilities of galactic-scale civilization and the idea of the "age of failed dreams" are fascinating, especially right now, and his detailed ideas about programming, AI, automaton, and "Focus" are extremely relevant right now. Ultimately I didn't love some parts of the dénouement, and there's a lot of "great man theory of history" going on, including (only somewhat ameliorated) a focus on men over women. Vinge's damsels in distress have a lot more agency than usual for the role, but with the exception of Victory Sr. and Jr., the damsels are very much in distress, and Victory Sr. gets overshadowed a lot by Underhill.
It definitely helps one expand their imagination of what long-term and large-scale human existence could look like, which is great and no easy feat, and both the technologies that are written in and those written out are extremely convincing. The only thing I didn't find compelling was the transposition of capitalism onto such space and time scales. It's a very standard feature of sci fi from the last few decades, and I'm sure most readers don't question it, but I've become someone who can no longer imagine "capitalism across the stars" without questioning how realistic it is that its self-destructive tendencies could possibly last even a few more centuries, let alone succeed at interstellar travel.
One last extremely fascinating thing: how closely the strengths and weaknesses of Focus track with the strengths and weaknesses of modern generative AI. That, and the way that the "age of failed dreams" idea can help people imagine beyond generative AI in a positive way.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
went out on the bike again today. this is an interesting track by the lake, loads of dragonflies, butterflies and stuff here. could of stayed all day.
#footpathfriday
Even the right-wing underworld claims new DOJ indictment is nonsensical - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/even-the-fascists-admit-that-the-indictment-is-nonsensical-and-indeed-view-its-legal-falsification-as-evidence-that-trump-is-truly-on-their-side/
Decompressing, right here, right now.
#nature #photography
The Odd Rock Cafe (formerly “Cafe Voltaire”) in Milwaukee, where many bands played in the 1980s. Lots of memories from that place. It was eventually torn down. I use to live a few blocks away and later worked right down the street in Bay View.
#mke #Milwaukee
Inside Outside 🔲
中间 🔲
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Hauling logs across to the sawmill. I've got a certain amount done this morning, but it's now too hot to work.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
It is encouraging to see that so many countries are making the transition from a 20% share of electric cars to 80% over the average lifespan of a car (15–20 years)
https://leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery/#worldmap (transition time between thresholds view)
A break from portraits for the kind of #bloomscrolling Y'all seem to like. A #9mm view of a daffodil bed by Barnes Hall
#photo
a couple of weeks a go we did a beautiful walk around a village nearby. No mountain, no summit, just a walk that we did a year ago as well.
But what is "usual" for me might not be for others. That's what I'm trying to keep in the back of my mind whenever I'm out and about and think, that a scene probably isn't worth a photo because it's too ... normal to me.
I wrote a bit about our walk:
Trump’s $2.2 billion in personal earnings during his presidency has been met largely with silence from his MAGA base,
which has been increasingly willing to revolt against policies they view as an abandonment of his promises to put everyday Americans first.
Far-right members of Congress, prominent media pundits and grass-roots activists have criticized Trump’s war with Iran
and openly broken ranks to demand the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
They have accused hi…
A Day Or Two At The Museum III🏛️
博物馆的一两天 III🏛️
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Maintenant, je les vois partout. 😶🌫️
#AngineDePoitrine #Photography
Unf*ck your feet! 👣
#photography #sandals #running
The Aspiration of History 🌠
历史的热望 🌠
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Inside view of my fruit cage. The blackberries and raspberries are too new to produce much this year but the strawberries (raised bed and hanging baskets, upper right) have hundreds of developing fruit and I can't wait. When everything is ripe it's very satisfying to watch the birds and squirrels try to break in. #fruit #garden #gardening #blackberries #raspberries #strawberries
View North from Chestnut Hill Road
#photo #photography #blackandwhite #monochromemonday
Greetings from the soil. 🌳
#nature #photography #grass #soil