evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Morning! Been having a few days mainly offline while catching up with friends, but feel a need to keep my #photOctober2023 run going. The theme for day 30 is flame.

This is from the late 1990s, shot on a cheap old film camera at Fringe Sunday in Edinburgh. I clearly remember the performer making a joke about how difficult it would be to catch the finale flame on camera.

I only took one shot but I got it. I was SO pleased when I got the film processed.

#photography #fire

I'm okay with the idea that the fediverse isn't going to be the best fit for everybody. But people keep championing Bluesky as being "like Twitter was at an earlier stage of its life," and I feel like responding "say that again, but slowly." Having been through Twitter's lifecycle once, I find it impossible to feel good about going through it again.

I am proud to report that, after six months of patience and diligence on my part, the clock on my motorbike tells the right time again.

Gun nuts get very upset when you mislabel an AR-15 as an assault rifle. So to avoid any controversy, please refer to the weapon using its proper technical classification, which is a mass murder rifle.

Bumblebees learn by observing other bees. Bumblebees, like ants, may even teach each other. In a University of London experiment a bee watched a "fake bee" (a fuzzy yellow & black orb on a stick) pushing a yellow ball into a circle for a sugar water reward. The bee copied this action.

When a nest mate was introduced, they learned by watching the bee trained in the previous experiment. I find the idea of a "fake bee" adorable.
https://www.popsci.com/brainy-bumblebees-can-push-balls-into-goal/

It's amazing how quickly fungi appears. Yesterday there were a few scattered around this wooden planter in the garden, today it was fully surrounded. LOADS of them.

Fortunately they are very friendly, and hope you all have a lovely day.

#sillyScribbles #photography #fungi #fungiFriday #silly #drawing #gardening

go to the cloud they said.
it'll be fine, they said

Sam is giving Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch a once over.

@stavvers my hope is failing for the Conservative MP to Noncington & Creepe, Mr Peter Fyle.

#motivation #meme

I spent a while waiting for certain spaces at the Natural History Museum to become free of people so I could take cleaner, better photos, but when I scanned the negative of Hintze Hall I was fascinated by the individuals below the whale skeleton: the group wearing matching baseball caps, the three men studying a map, the girl posing on the steps.

It's a mistake to discount humans when we come to observe the natural world, especially as we hold so much influence over it.

#believeinfilm #london

stolen and alt-texted

DHH says most companies should “seriously reconsider the cloud craze.”

OK, I considered it seriously. Here are my very serious thoughts.

https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/wait-is-cloud-bad

got nerd sniped by a McDonald radio advert boasting about them using british beef since the 90's and i was like "thats a bad time to start using British beef"

the secret to getting good, genuine smiling photos of children is to start by taking the normal awkward ones, then say “fart” and keep clicking away

guaranteed gorgeous photos

Good morning lovely people.

Have a CONKER OF DOOM.

#sillyScribbles #photography #autumn #nature

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs#the-near-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-knowledge-graphs-get-chatbots

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware