“Not Confusing At All”

street signs at the intersection of Timberline drive and Timberline Drive

Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies

  1. Looks like yet another attempt to convince us that the fossil fuel industry is actually good, instead of a polluting, life-destroying disaster.
  2. I am deeply skeptical that any chemical process will destroy or remove all harmful additives.
  3. No. Just no.

Only in America: Sullivan endorses Sullivan against Sullivan in Alaska

(Personally, I wish we were more like Britain and could vote for Count Binface over any Republican.)

“No Trespessing”

At the very least, this sign seems to have kept proofreaders away.

sign on a fence: "PRIVATE PROPERTY. Wild & Untammed Domestic Animals. Electric Fences in Use. Do Not Enter, No Hunting, No Trespessing, No Camping"

“Camo Grass”

Spent some time today just playing around. These grass seed heads were shot with one of the OM System “key line” presets.

Tis the season for dried seed heads in the meadows.

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“Amber Waves”

This is just grass in the not-very-wet local wetlands, but I think it’s pretty grass (and good computer wallpaper, which is what I developed this as).

Great Egret at the Fern Ridge Wildlife Refuge. I was shooting through heat haze at a pretty long range, so not a great photo, but still a great bird!

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Private Equity Is Deploying an Army of AI Wonks to Embed in the Firms They Back (WSJ link; here’s an archive.today copy).

PE & AI, it’s like chocolate and peanut butter. Only the chocolate has ground glass in it and the peanut butter is cut with rat poison.

“Peek”

Spotted on the side of a building in downtown Eugene

a vent with kilroy-style fingers sticking out