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#silentSunday #bloomScrolling

Non-silent version of the same plant 😁 Bzzzzzz :dancing_bee:

#bloomScrolling #bee

Tech debt is like a gym membership:

You ignore it for years, then one day you try to fix it and realize you're too out of shape to even start.

This badass woman should be all over the news but sadly her accomplishment is under-reported.

Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.

Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.

›› https://palantirwatch.org

#privacy #government #surveillance #technology #osint

Apparently I am feeling slightly sweary this evening. Take your choice of who "he" represents. So, so many possibilities.

#colourfulLanguage

make yourself a shitload of oj

Spending the weekend watching all Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies. #tolkienenmaxxing

Commemorating my steel & glass work tables I built in my 20s with documentation, since I always meant to publish the designs but never got around to it. Pictured: generic galvanized perforated plate hand-cut to various lengths, bolted together to create a rectangular table. Rubber grommets were used to buffer the slabs of 1/4" glass placed on top.

xylo- comes from greek for “wood”

the metal one is a glockenspiel

🌈✨ you are now informed

Bristol Pride today. Time to break out a slutty little outfit and bake in the sunshine at the poly picnic 🌈

This might be one of the oddest tiny planets I've captured. Taken by sticking the camera over the outer wall of Stirling Castle, at the point where there is a LONG drop down the castle crag cliff to the land below. The top half is within the castle grounds (garden at the back of the chapel and the end of the museum building), the bottom half is the surrounding lush lowland.

#Scotland #360degrees #photo

A new Blue Plaque has turned up on Trafalgar Street

“carnival against fascism. The Battle of Trafalgar Street. It was here on the 13th of June 2026 that police used batons and pepper spray on the people of Brighton in an attempt to force a far-right march through the city. Over 4000 Brightonians resisted and the fascists did not March. BRIGHTON IS ANTI FASCIST”
#Brighton #AntiFascist #community

New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No #AI) on the cover.
Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.

I've had to make a tough choice. That land plot I wanted is going to have to wait. The short story is that, I did a lot of research to figure out everything that I'd need to make that plot livable, and essentially, I would end up sinking a couple hundred thousand into it.

I don't have that money. I'd have to come up with it over time, or take out a construction loan that would cost double my mortgage right now.

I'm not giving up on my future in a land that I consider to be paradise for both my appreciation for nature, and also for my memories and nostalgia rooted in the region, but I cannot in good conscience invest in a plot of land that would take over a decade to come to fruition. Especially not in a city where they have HOA rules, but with literally none of the benefits.

I was given a lot of information about the city and HOA bylaws, and the restrictions on the land are kind of restrictive.

If hypothetically, I had to commit over 230,000 dollars to close to 300,000 dollars depending on how shit my luck is, I would like to know that outside of the law, I can do whatever the fuck I want to do on it.

sometimes, life has other plans for you.

I’ve been working with computers for five decades. Some people view me as an “expert” in certain subjects.

And I can tell you that when I am learning a new technology I still feel like the dumbest newb on the planet. I make tons of mistakes. I go down stupid rabbit holes of my own making. I have tons of self doubt.

So give yourself some grace. Everybody goes through this phase. Take a deep breath. Believe that you can do this.

@gsuberland you mistyped hootup