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in other news, my @… X finally shipped!
pretty excited. i built custom family dashboards for this thing months ago, so sometime next week i’ll finally find out whether all that overengineering survives contact with actual e-ink hardware.

I just had the vision of a forest of octrees.
Like, a 1980s looking low poly wireframe or flat shaded wilderness, but with a small octree on top of each tree trunk.

Canada anemone (Anemonastrum canadense)
#BloomScrolling

and some sort of hieroglyphs graffitied on a dead tree by boring beetles, for #texturetuesday

Elephants have all the best jokes. And some serious junk in their trunk.
#AnimalsSuperPowers
#HashTagGames

#goodmorning from my walk to the rail station.

Strava launched an official MCP connector for Claude yesterday. Live access to your full activity history, training analytics, heart rate streams, GPS data. No more manual exports or sketchy third-party tools.
Gradual rollout though -- check eligibility by asking Claude "am I eligible for the Strava MCP?" Mine came back not eligible yet 😅 Not that I need it anyway, already built my own via their API.

One big miss on the Nissan Leaf is only the top trim has the automatic trunk opener. But the lower trims don't even have a way to open the trunk unless you have the keys while standing at the trunk. There is nothing on the key or in the driver's seat to unlock the trunk.
#ev #nissan

I honestly have never heard of most of these ADA awarded apps lol, I guess I'm pretty out of the loop.

Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 ⛲️
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nice to see this after a recent renewal for another year
https://mimestream.com/trust/private-push

Mimestream Private Push (Beta)
A native macOS email client for Gmail

Late to this but this is cool https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designedincalifornia/designed-in-california-an-apple-history-podcast

I have seen squirrels climbing up and down this poplar snag, particularly underneath the bark which has become detached from the trunk
#photo #photography #landscape

Hello everyone.
I am taking a social media wellness break from posting my Weekend #Plankton Factoids for the boreal summer. I hope you have the opportunity to do something you enjoy over the season as well. Until then ❤️.

My Mac Studio had been crashing ~once a week since I got it. Assumed hardware and ignored it.
Finally pasted a crash log into an LLM.
Root cause: long-running Tailscale session − network resource exhaustion (connections/sockets over time).
Fix: small script LaunchAgent to bounce Tailscale overnight when the machine is idle (checks system idle time via ioreg, only restarts if I’ve been away).
Zero crashes since.

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

#thickTrunkTuesday #graveyard #tombScrolling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Seiji Oda, Trunk Boiz:
🎵 GO DUMB!
#SeijiOda #TrunkBoiz
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eS0osV4ztBNZ6kd2wUP74

I think this is the most I’ve used Untapped this year. 🍁
(That’s a #beer joke, friends.)

Oh did the whole dogwood bloom sometime in the last day without me noticing? This is looking up at the night sky lit by an automatic floodlight some distance away.

I wonder why Oregon ash isn't an approved street tree in San Francisco. Despite the name, its native range includes the city.
Maybe it's because it's native to riparian corridors, so needs summer water even in maturity? Another reason to daylight creeks and plant some along the creeks!
https://

Oregon Ash
Fraxinus latifolia (Oregon ash) is a member of the Oleaceae (Olive) family native to western North America on the west side of the Cascade Range from southwestern British Columbia south through western Washington and western Oregon to central California. It can grow to 25 meters in height, with a trunk diameter of 30-80 centimeter, and it is typically larger in the northern part of its range. Trees can live to 250 years; young trees are fast growing, slowing down in maturity. It is usually foun…

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Australia’s new national park links habitat to protect koalas https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/australias-new-national-park-links-habitat-to-protect-koalas/

Australia's new national park links habitat to protect koalas
“When I was a kid, forestry was more sustainable,” Mark Graham said, leaning against a massive tree trunk. “Now 30-tonne industrial machines bulldoze everything in their path.” He’s an ecologist who’s worked for state and federal governments — and has often been at odds with the forest industry. We were walking through the Coffs Harbour […]

Xennials lol

After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee

"Cook-ian" is right

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Billy Bragg:
🎵 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
#BillyBragg
https://billybragg.bandcamp.com/track/a13-trunk-road-to-the-sea-saturday-live-13th-october-1984
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MthAx0ivlTNM1yZ2L0rnD

The Aspiration of History 🌠
历史的热望 🌠
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Our 3yo boy Chase really enjoys watch Danny Go. He finds his videos super funny. ❤️
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpAyjIEepY/?img_index=1&igsh=anByZGxvdzFvenZ1

Daniel Coleman on Instagram: "Isaac Daniel Coleman 10/3/11 - 5/21/26 Oh my sweet boy. There’s so much I want to say, but I don’t know how yet. I already miss you so much, and the pain in my heart is far more than I can process. But looking through thousands of pictures and videos this past week, I’m also filled with tremendous pride. Your 14 years were full of so many challenges, but you met them all with such grit…and you somehow kept your trademark joy in spite of it all. You truly had a spark like no other, Isaac! Remembering how loved you were and how full of life your time here was gives me great comfort. Being your dad was the honor of a lifetime. I’m so proud of you and I love you forever. Rest peacefully, son."
99K likes, 11K comments - danielspaniels on May 22, 2026: "Isaac Daniel Coleman 10/3/11 - 5/21/26 Oh my sweet boy. There’s so much I want to say, but I don’t know how yet. I already miss you so much, and the pain in my heart is far more than I can process. But looking through thousands of pictures and videos this past week, I’m also filled with tremendous pride. Your 14 years were full of so many challenges, but you met them all with such grit…and you somehow kept your trademark joy in…

@… these Apple blossoms com from the top fruit tree in the temperate zone -- they blossomed very well this year on my farm and if i am lucky they'll bear good fruit this year
#photo

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

lol fun news day https://www.techmeme.com/260415/p43#a260415p43

Sources: Apple plans to send ~200 people from its Siri team, a group internally known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp
From The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.

wait what? https://www.techmeme.com/260415/p24#a260415p24

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+
By Bryce Elder / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Rise in elephant killings reveals conservation gaps in Bangladesh https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rise-in-elephant-killings-reveals-conservation-gaps-in-bangladesh/

Rise in elephant killings reveals conservation gaps in Bangladesh
On April 25, 2026, a male elephant suffering from illness died in the hilly district of Rangamati in southeastern Bangladesh. Residents from the remote village where it died hacked away at its legs and trunk, which highlight serious failures by the country’s Forest Department as well as a lack of public awareness and sensitivity towards […]

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been shipping a lot without coding lately. going to start documenting some of these projects here.
today: mac apple music to discord rich presence bridge, plus the universal landing page it links to. friends on apple music, spotify, tidal, or kkbox get a one-tap deep link to whatever i'm playing, with a youtube music search fallback for completeness.
example:

Always
Daniel Caesar · NEVER ENOUGH (Bonus Version)

Fuck it. Let's go swing.
#photography #nature #trees #sky

Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🗿
完美因为完美不存在 🗿
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Summer Social with work, which is more than two dozen people now. So much bigger than it used to be.
Enjoyable enough. The boss picks pretty good people, all of whom I'd otherwise not meet at all really being remote. Beats working for a day.
This time a painting session. Drawing a picture. Here's how we draw this particular picture.
Everyone's painting ends up much the same, within a pretty tight variance. All end up with something that's not displeasing, even though hardly anyone paints normally, even the graphics people.
The key here I think is the subject of the image. Something easy to draw is key. Very few curves, mostly straight lines, easy vivid colors. Easily identifiable subject even if it's drawn badly.
If your lines and form are wobbly and weirdly angled then yeah, that's indeed what these trees are like. You just draw a slightly different tree.
Sky, haze, and ground in acrylic. Then chalk up the tree-trunks for some reason, before painting 'em white. Add some trunk-shade and flecks, do grass then flowers.
Easy recipe. Everyone gets a passing grade. Nobody's embarrassed coz they can't draw a nose.
Good first painting session since school. Maybe I'll do another one in another 30 years.
#art #painting #acrylic

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