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@manton This photo would fit perfectly in digg.com/liminal (Yes, Digg is back).
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@MitchWagner To be fair, the Boy Scouts wing of Scouting (which turned into Scouting America) has always been anti-gay, anti-trans, and anti-atheist. They can just be more open about it now. Makes me glad my life membership is in Girl Scouts instead.
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@dwalbert eBird does show multiple sightings at Delta Ponds, where I took that photo. Good enough for me, non-birder that I am.
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@miljko The Amazon version was passable. The detailed world-building was very well done. The plot was of course simplified and then amped up a bit for TV purposes, and the ending was a complete dud, but all in all it was worth the time to watch.
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@manton Thanks for dealing with this. Confirms my resolution to never, ever run a server again.
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@Mikehendley You don’t know me, but I’ve enjoyed your amazing art. Hope all turns out well.
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@ExtralocalYokel They are cute, but if you ever live with them…well let’s just say we were happy when the coyotes got the last one and the blessed non-squawking silence descended.
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@gregmoore Well thanks! Kinda cheating to live in Oregon with spare time, but I’m happy to share.
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@manton That ruling is a hopeful sign, for sure. But I expect by day’s end we’ll see new executive orders attempting to re-apply the same tariffs under other sections of trade law. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see this administration just plain ignore the Court.
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@BonnieRue I’m an outlier: I have nothing-but-sourdough pancake breakfasts every couple of days. Starter has been going for years, I feed it a quarter or half cup of flour + enough water daily, then use it directly to make pancakes without adding anything else. Served with olive oil + salt.
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@digitalpardoe I just figure I can swap in the memory card from a camera I already have :)
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@manton I’ve already pulled all my own activity from Meta properties. I’m reaching the point where I’m not going to read other people’s work there either.
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@dwalbert Perhaps it would be more comforting to think that someone has bred a cow as small as an axolotl?
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@manton Much of my career was in software dev and management. Ended up moving through PM to VPE. I can totally see a world where a human maintains a kanban board of features and issues and the AI agents take care of coding and testing to iterate towards a product vision.
But I’m more worried about the impact of rising unemployment across multiple industries, coupled with more energy use, coupled with increased income inequality, coupled with entrenched fascist power in a US government that ends up running sham elections. That seems a recipe for revolution at best, and failed state and die-off at worst.
I just hope there are enough people with hopeful ideas and the energy to pursue them to avoid the worst possible outcomes, more for my kids than for myself.
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@xn_eckza I had never heard of melon bread. Now I have to figure out where to find some! (Or probably how to bake some). Thanks!
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@mitch 7 right now I think (not counting audio books). That’s about average for me. I expected it to go up with retirement, but in actuality it turns out my ability to focus has gone down which cancels out the additional time.
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@mitch 7 right now I think (not counting audio books). That’s about average for me. I expected it to go up with retirement, but in actuality it turns out my ability to focus has gone down which cancels out the additional time.
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@mitch Deadline had a story yesterday on how a Heritage Foundation spinoff was behind those anti-Netflix talking points.
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@ablerism Thanks! Complete serendipity - it was at the end of one of those “I wonder where this game path goes” side trips.
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@mitch Well, MY Ring camera isn’t an ICE agent - the whole process is entirely opt-in, unless you choose to believe Ring is risking a major lawsuit by flat-out lying about the process. It’s not like ICE gets to sift through all the Ring footage willy-nilly. (Though perhaps I should opt in so they waste their time with endless squirrels on our back deck).
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@rasterweb I’ve probably gone through > 100 keyboards in my lifetime (just on my own computers - not counting office computers!). Been pretty far down rabbit holes. These days…most of the time I’m on a cheap 78-key keyboard. I don’t miss the mechanical keys or the larger ones or the split keyboards or the hand sofas…but (a) I’m more a mouse person than a key person and (b) with retirement I spend less and less time on keyboards anyhow.
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@manton I used to worry more about this than I do now. I’d guess greater than 95% of my lifetime written word output has already vanished, or close to it (I’m sure there are old APAs in attics for example, but they’re as good as inaccessible). But having spent time as a history major, I realize that (a) most of everything has always vanished and (b) most of what I could leave behind isn’t worth much. So now I just figure if anything from my digital footprint is truly worth saving, someone will save it.
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@MitchWagner Well thanks. I’m at the stage of photography where I take 300 photos on a hike and hope to get 3 good ones. But at least it keeps me off the streets!