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Went to visit with the family, we went to Birdland in Bourton On The Water in the Costswolds.
Met these beautiful bird friends.
These are apparently basically the only Emperor Penguins in England, and they are old and mostly related so breeding is tricky.
Who knew a penguin would live 40 years eh?
They tell me one of them was a Hollywood star in the batman movie but they all look pretty much the same so not sure if it was the ones in shot or not.
#birds #photos

your consoles were hacked by tweezers and paperclips sit the fuck down nintendo

Great post from Meredith Whittaker, Signal’s President:
https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…

How the brain 'constructs' the outside world https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-constructs-the-outside-world/ "neurons in sensory cortical areas and even in the hypothetical central processor cannot …

How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

As usually happens in genealogy, one discovery leads to more questions, because I want to know the why and the how as much as the who and when.
#familyhistory #genealogy #ancestry

Unearthing Generations: How Ancestry Research Revealed More Than Just Names – Bob Mueller
Scrolling through Ancestry the other day I found a big chunk of a family line I'd been working on for a while. But it raises more questions.

Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy - Microsoft On the Issues
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/02/26/microsoft-ai-access-principles-respo…

Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy - Microsoft On the Issues
As we enter a new era based on artificial intelligence, we believe this is the best time to articulate principles that will govern how we will operate our AI datacenter infrastructure and other important AI assets around the world. We are announcing and publishing these principles – our “AI Access Principles” – today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in part to address Microsoft’s growing role and responsibility as an AI innovator and a market leader.

📉 Distrust in elections spreads in democracies around the world
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-12/distrust-in-elections-spreads-in-democracies-around-the-world.html

Distrust in elections spreads in democracies around the world
A survey conducted by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance shows that, in 11 of 19 countries analyzed, less than half of voters think that the last elections were free and fair

Oh, thank God! Now I can pray for one of these until next Xmas! https://mastodon.world/@funhouseradio/112339707180467506

FunHouse Radio (@funhouseradio@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image ► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- ON AIR #sarcasm #dark #goofy #toys #fake #funny #meme #memes

NAR/7 Mountains:
Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/taking-aim-at-religion-itself-apostles-prime-networks-for-real-w…

Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence
It is more than paradoxical that an ostensibly Christian university leader would say, “We are here to put a knife to the throat of religion.” But that’s what Apostle Greg Hood, the founder of Kingdom University in Franklin, Tennessee believes so heartily he emblazoned it on a KU t-shirt. This is

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a wheeze
#ElderASongOrPoem #HashTagGames

Hey, corporate news media, if you want young people to trust you more maybe try not being blatant untrustworthy propaganda filled with lies?
For instance, if you report on a report, you could try saying who did the report or link to it's actual contents? Or would that reveal that it's all just fake study propaganda made by corporate sponsors?
RE: Young people choose TikTok over BBC for news
#news #media

Login.
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memes sometimes stolen from outside fedi (@nonfedimemes@wetdry.world)
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https://www.404media.co/youtube-issues-cease-and-desist-to-gan-jing-world-bizarre-chinese-youtube-clone/

YouTube Issues Cease and Desist to Bizarre Chinese YouTube Clone
Gan Jing World is linked to the Falun Gong, and has been cloning popular YouTube channels in the name of providing "wholesome content for all."

On the topic of Free Speech and the politics of the day
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/04/pen-america-world-voices-festival-free-speech-israel-palestine/678201/

"Tech is better when power is distributed between multiple, competing companies. Living under the absolute rule of a single king is absolutely awful. Even if that king still does make very nice phones and very nice computers!" via: https://world.hey.com/dhh/switching-to-andr…

“Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, opened the detailed 25-page report, Anatomy of a Genocide, by stating: ‘After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza.’”
https://www.

UN expert accuses Israel of committing genocide
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler-colonial project in Palestine, UN report contends

It's the club circuit for very old comedians. The goiter belt.

booted up yarg on my bazzite 40 install, crashes after loading, said fuck it and ran the windows version thru wine, stuttering like crazy even after enabling vrr in gnome (which barely seems to work going by my monitor's fps overlay)
i dont know if i should bother with linux gaming man

Man, do I feel stupid. I set this up in my content scheduler, but never actually scheduled the post.
Come on. With a title like that, how can you not read this post?
#WeeklyBlogPost #WhereTheresSmoke

One Chair, Two Houses, and a Flaming Oven – Bob Mueller
The next day I asked my grandson how school was. "I told Miss Allen that fire shot out of Paw-Paw’s oven last night.”

Will anyone check if the USA is crossing it's fingers when it assures the court that it won't kill #assange and will try him fairly.
I mean what does the court think will happen if they just lie, like they will. They will just lie.

⚡ British company pioneers new nuclear welding technique
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/British-company-pioneers-new-nuclear-welding-techn?feed=feed

Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-project-2025-th…

Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
Project 2025 is iconoclastic and dystopian. Those who wish to understand Trump and the movement behind him, and the active threat they pose to American democracy, are obliged to take it seriously.

i wish linux gaming was less annoying bc i actually really enjoy the linux desktop experience, gnome on wayland with pipewire is probably the best desktop experience i've seen on any OS

McDonald's is the kind of food you like before you eat it but not afterwards.

Oh, "activist judges" too, nice. Bingo!

I feel like if he were a real leader, he'd be finding ways to fix the problem instead of just whining about it on social media and blaming the tribes for everything.
#Oklahoma #Stitt

i got my guitar hero guitar, been playing yarg for a few hours, actually really fun compared to keyboard i cant wait for instrument support in fortnite

Tories on the telly blaming immigrants for low productivity instead of the fifteen years of underinvestment and austerity that his party caused.
And the TV doesn't just laugh and call him out of course, it nods along sagely and asks how we can get rid of these pesky migrants causing such low productivity.

It's OK to give the police a fake name as long as you use air quotes.

Pentagon to 'rush' Patriot missiles to Ukraine in $6bn package
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68901820

Pentagon to 'rush' Patriot missiles to Ukraine in $6bn package
The $6bn package includes air defence munitions but not the missile systems Ukraine says it badly needs.

People who emulate games should be shot and killed for theft. Emulation is illegal and hurts the industry. I pay for my games. So should you. It's only fair.

I just added my first family tree member born in the UK, in Cambridgeshire. Everyone I'd added before was born in Continental Europe or North America.
#genealogy #familyhistory

Well the display froze at 7:20 am so I got a nice lie-in till noon thinking it was still early 😆
Wonder why that happened. Perhaps using it as a clock in the charger next to the bed was a poor plan.
Oh well, I like good sleep-till-noon now and then.

oh my god they're playing morbius at 4pm on tv today

This still pops in my mind quite often. Brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGxcTWLXAa0

Who would win a fight to the death?

Life’s Milestones: Embracing Changes and New Opportunities
🎉Celebrating two years of weekly blog posts and family milestones! From blogging streaks to graduations, join us on this journey. #milestones #blogging

Life’s Milestones: Embracing Changes and New Opportunities – Bob Mueller
Reflecting on milestones in blogging and family life, from weekly post streaks to celebrating school graduations and new chapters in life

MDH and Everest: US health officials probe Indian spice mix pesticide claims
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68911475

MDH and Everest: US health officials probe Indian spice mix pesticide claims
Officials in several countries say spice mixes made by MDH and Everest may contain ethylene oxide.

Look, Google, it's not that hard.
When I hit the "gi" shortcut in my browser, I want to do a Google-Image search, not some kind of reverse image-search where I identify images for you.
I give you text, you give me images! That's the deal!
Now the tables have turned it seems.
Now, when I say "gi", you ask me to identify images for you?
This is too many times. No more.
The apprentice has surpassed the master.
/me edits bookmarks.
"gi" will no longer mean "Google Image Search", it will bizarrely because of historic finger-memory, mean "search duck-duck-go for images"
Because Google just gives you adverts and spam and AI training challenges instead of actual search results now.
Thanks google. Now I have to trade time editing configurations in return for #boosts and #likes.
And I #block you from my default image search.

I'd fuck Checkers, marry Seamus, and shotgun Cricket in the gravel pit out back.

Israelis Broach a Concession in Hostage Talks With Hamas - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-cease-fire-talks.html

Israelis Broach a Concession in Hostage Talks With Hamas
Israel negotiators are reported to be considering the release of high-profile Palestinians convicted of terrorism in exchange for freedom for some of the hostages in Gaza.

No one's a rando to their mother.

The boss wants me to set up 2fa on the work gmail account, which is fair enough, but it turns out to be impossible to do so.
In order to set up 2fa with Gmail you must first associate a phone number with your account because Google are greedy data-hoarders.
But I don't have any business phone number and I am unwilling to associate my personal phone number with my employers gmail account.
So we had to do the dance where I give it his phone number and he forwards the sms confirmation to me and then I set up 2fa and then delete the phone number.
Every other one of the services he's asked me to set up 2fa for didn't require a phone number.
It's mostly just Google that Sucks.
#google #sucks #googleSucks

Hyannis Port is the Cape Canaveral of failsons.

The difference between identical twins and almost identical twins is wood shop.

I'm giving little Donald a C-minus in spelling, a D in civics, and an F in not farting.

If you went to high school with Steve Gutenberg, the most successful person in your class would probably be Steve Gutenberg.

Why do people keep buying graham crackers? I've never heard someone say, "We're out of graham crackers."

He's a Christian James Bond. He's a spy who can keep it in his pants.

Laika, Harambe, Cricket - cruelty, tragedy, idiocy

In an earlier version hologram Princess Leia asks Tina Fey for help and guess what? Tina Fey didn't do shit for Princess Leia.

The thing about Earth is, we're kind of locked into its ecosystem.

I'm handling all the "Sasquatch Sunset" merch. Best move I ever made.

AquaTek Plumbing - "Improving the Flow"

Upskirt photos but artistic

I have never regretted buying a hot dog from a street vendor.

Coach feels I can best help the team by getting the fuck out of the way.

There's been a big drop-off in murder mysteries featuring Chinese houseboys.

I'd like to report a stalker.

Every Friday we run down the top Food Network stories of the week on "The Regurge."

Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the can opener.
- "Army of Darkness" for cats

The difference between the median and the mean is that freeway car chases don't end with a guy in a Cookies T-shirt getting tackled in the mean.

It's called kopi luwak, it goes for $200 a pound, and I thought you guys might like to help me out here.

I would sooner have an atomic bomb lying around the house than a loaded gun.

1. Farting joins breakdancing as an Olympic sport.
2. America sends its best farters.
3. Donald Trump wins gold in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the first time he's ever won any sport fair and square.

Pokey was a horse. So could Gumby ride Pokey, or would that be against the Bible?

Pokey was a horse. So could Gumby ride Pokey, or would that be against the Bible?

It was a hard breakup but at least I got a number one song out of it.

Don Johnson on Miami Vice started the trend of men not shaving their legs.

The real obscenity is that he's selling a copy of the Constitution with his name on it.

Three months? Six months? A year? How long after you've got the kid do you scrape off the "Baby On Board" sticker?

Polytheism sounds perverse but it's just heathenish.

I know you're not a normal heron!

I think Robert Crumb may have redrawn me when I wasn't looking.

If you try to leave when you're supposed to leave, you will leave thirty minutes late. If you try to leave twenty minutes before you're supposed to leave, you will leave only ten minutes late.

Let's all practice our counting! One, two, three--everybody! come on!--four, five, six, seven, eight, nine--Jesus I'm bushed--ten, eleven--Jesus Christ how long is this going to take--eighty ninety one hundred one thousand one million! I know we skipped a few, but we finished strong. Great job, team!

One of our encyclopedias has an entry for Piltdown Man.

In one way Harley-Davidson jeans are the exact opposite of Levi's jeans. The watch pocket, commonly used for change for bridge tolls, is on the left, leaving the rider's right hand--their throttle hand--free.

ELSON ELGORT
LEGAL STONER

Everybody loves Alan Cumming, but I tell you he's the villain in some fairy tale.

How did I come to enjoy your cooking? Mithridatism.
- some damn Noël Coward thing

When the text is "The Fountainhead" but the subtext is "The War of the Worlds"

That pon farr is some weird shit.

I don't expect any recognition for the number of potstickers I have eaten. Consuming them was its own reward.

I am Shazam'ing the corridas on the pipe-in at a Chinese takeaway tucked in a corner of a Mexican grocery in the town of Galt. In other words, the center of the universe.

It seems like the kind of thing I'd do, but it also seems like the kind of thing I'd lie about doing.

Potstickers are Chinese Pop-Tarts.

- Use "irregardless" in a sentence.
- Tyson bit off Holyfield's irregardless of the consequences.

I think I can make some money betting on the Constitution.

I don't want a muffin. I don't want a scone. I want a fucking donut. Fucking Starbucks.

Thank you for the gift of your rap while I am waiting at the bus stop.

I'm looking to do a simple act of kindness that inspires someone to set up a GoFundMe after a stranger's video of me goes viral on YouTube.

For if we don't find
The next place I can pee
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die
- old Jim Morrison

Strangers in the night, exchanging rubbers
This one is too tight--get me another
This one is too loose . . .

I'm looking to upgrade from uggo to rando.