I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.
Illustration of a California newt in a pond full of plants and bubbles. Text says “i’d rather have a pond full of newts…”
Doodle of a gross ai data center spewing out pollution. Text says “… Than an ai data center”
Fellow San Jose/South Bay residents, ai data centers are coming for us, but we still have a chance to stop them!
Ilovesanjose.org has a petition and a prewritten email to send to the city council. Let’s stop them before they build anything.
If you look closely and watch the Goldeneye's eye, you can see his nictitating membrane (or third eyelid) doing its work a couple of times before the duck dives into the water. Video is slowed down so that you can see things more clearly. #wildlife #birds
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commission for soundjake
graph showing engagement and activity at the Facebook group Coalition for Critical Thinking in Bigfoot Research, showing over 50% increase since March 8th. Graph shared by Joseph J Wheeler.
Thanks to announcements about the movie CAPTURING BIGFOOT, the online #bigfoot community has ramped up its normal in-fighting and disagreeing to nuclear proportions, with Facebook groups having massively increased engagement (this graph from CCTBR). Interesting timing in view of my own writing.
A illustration of blue whisling thrush and star sky
A bird carrying the whole night sky🌌
#illustration #birdart #surrealart #fantasyart
I've been saying this! You don't even need scientific papers, only a couple well-placed posts online and two hours to make AIs spit it out uncritically
Spring is here, birds are noisy in the garden, time to repost this:
Hard to believe that in what used to be one of world’s most prestigious newspapers, neither the NYT writers nor editors appear to know what the not-so-obscure acronym NATO stands for.
(Hint: it’s *not* the below)
BTW, a whopper like this probably would get you fired from a college paper in Ireland.
Gonna keep banging this drum but Indie Animation CANNOT survive on YouTube, the platform that can WITHOUT NOTICE change its algorithm or or deny you the audience you need to make your show sustainable.
Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.
You don't hate the New York Times enough, you just think you do.
Three totally unrelated statements:
1: we look at the people in the past who have committed necessary violence against unreasonable oppressors for the sake of human rights as heroes.
2: something being illegal doesn’t make it immoral.
3: billionaires are causing lots of problems, aren’t they?
piercing together history thanks to one autistic dude at a time, god bless him.
Baby Seinfeld dating a fetus
@paulvermeersch.bsky.social this feels like something you would appreciate
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
In the Clouds
by Lily Seika Jones
A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges. Artist: BriarhideIllust
Persist against all odds
Guardian 🌿
The pure white Snow Petrel is easily one of the most distinctive seabirds of the Southern Ocean. Especially beautiful when found among icebergs but I not so fortunate this time. South Georgia 🪶🦑
Can someone add death metal over this
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
big dino feeds lil dino🦖🧡🐦
happy black history month to Ken sample, thank u for inventing the fursona.
The Door Brothers
Rusty Bush Lark – a poorly-known bird from the Sahel region of Africa – has been seen definitively for the first time since 1931, with the first-ever photos of the species taken:
yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan
