Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

A bright green frog with tiny red polka dots. It is clinging to a branch.

We went out on a night hike last night and @scibugs.bsky.social spotted this adorable Red-spotted Glass Frog. These frogs are found in the Andes Mountains from Colombia south into Ecuador.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador

You're not the only one. I'm with you there.
Too many people. A significant lack of shading trees, and by far not enough fog and snow to make it enjoyable.

Sad side effect of revisiting one's #fanfiction #ebook #library (was cleaning up my #Calibre database), getting reminded of a lot of favs & when wanting to leave a review only to find that you can't #review because either the site the fic was from is gone, and the #author can't be found anywhere. 😢

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

My @seisubhanamiex.bsky.social exchange fic is now up on Ao3! If you are interested in putting Seishirou in situations, please enjoy!

archiveofourown.org/works/82347526

Die Stadt #Hildesheim  fragt mal wieder "Was wäre #Ostern ohne die traditionellen #Osterfeuer?"

Kurz & knapp: nicht mehr Asthmatikerfeindlich!

www.stadt-hildesheim.de/portal/meldu...

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

The 49 MB Webpage.
Do read. Then get a browser that allows proficient adblocking

thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Stress Break, perpetual murder kitten

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

a girl with white hair is reading a book and holding a cup ALT: a girl with white hair is reading a book and holding a cup

Dear #ReaderCommunity,
I’ve decided to remove my books from Amazon & move to more reader-friendly platforms like Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo and more. No Kindle required!
To celebrate, I’m offering free books via Smashwords until March 7th!📚
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Hanafuda: How a Banned Game Defined the Pre-Pokémon Era Before Mario, Nintendo sold hanafuda cards to the yakuza. Read the 400-year forbidden history of the flower cards that tricked the Shogun.

Japan refused to quit playing card games despite Shogunate censorship. It turned into a centuries-long game of cat-and-mouse. Every time the government banned a deck, people invented new versions with different pictures to hide the numbers.

buff.ly/kvlJ7S2

A line in the snow with the impressions of bird wings at both ends of the line. There is a patch of rough snow on the right that looks like clouds.

Several impressions of bird wings on the snow.

Bird created impressions on the snow. It is long and bird shaped with a beak and head on the left and tail feathers on the right. It also kind of looks like a fish.

Bird snow angels🥰 #birds

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Episode 2: The History of Cats on Ships by The Untitled History Podcast From as early as 7000 years before the common era, we have evidence suggesting cats served alongside humans on ships. This isn’t just in a civilian capacity. As long as there have been warships, cats ...

Important news!

I am delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast: The Untitled History Podcast.

It's me, and guests, falling down all the history rabbitholes you can imagine.

Please, please spread the word, subscribe and listen. Because... SHIPS CATS!! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

From the Adobe community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Adobe community

This Reddit thread is amazing. Literally 100+ people directly telling Adobe how much they suck

www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/s/G2...

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

The Microsoft guff on the launch screen this morning suggested I "use Copilot to whip up hilarious photos like showing your pet as a human!"

JFC. It's a bazillion-pound company and the best comms they can do is 'elderly relatives on Facebook'.

reality break and timeline cleanse:

...und wieder mal, nix #Bus in #Hildesheim. #ROSA ist eine Schönwetterfarbe.

Xingu and Jurua the Maned wolf pups
#PaigntonZoo #manedwolf #mammals

Have you met the newest addition to the Preserve pasture? This little lady is a Hartmann's mountain zebra, and one of two foals we've had since 2024!

Dragon in the deep. 🐉⁠
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Dragonfish (family Stomiidae) are cunning predators. Although they are strong swimmers, they prefer to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting fishes and crustaceans. This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay.

A large cluster of turquoise pea-shaped flowers hanging down from a vine. Nonnative and cultivated here.

Six years ago today 🌿

The outrageous Strongylodon macrobotrys (Jade Vine) blooming at Maui Tropical Plantation. Few flowers are this amazing turquoise color! 😎

Ich finds immer toll, wenn die #Glättewarnung des #DWD gerade dann beendet wird, wenn die tauenden Klinkersteige in der #Oststadt so richtig glatt werden! #Hildesheim #Wochenendeinkauf als #Fußgänger

Eine im Eiswasser treibende Kuh, von der man nur die Rückenlinie sieht. Textzeile: Wie die Regierung klimatechnisch und ökonomisch vorhat, die Kuh vom Eis zu holen

Union und SPD unter Merz arbeiten faktisch an einer Rückabwicklung der Energiewende: Sie schaffen Förderungen ab, reduzieren Anreize, sitzen Vorgaben aus, bauen fossile Kraftwerke. Geht es nach Ihnen wird Deutschland zum 3. Mal die Wachstums- und Zukunftsbranche abwürgen und auf Abhängigkeit setzen.

Splash screen for video

The testing method explained

Two cats maxxing and relaxing at 30C

The inconclusive results

Today in Very Important Research: Shipping company Yamato (known for its "black cat" logo) decided to discover which kotatsu was most beloved by cats. After three test runs at five different temperatures, "researchers" said they... had no idea, actually.

Die #Müllabfuhr in #Hildesheim ist wegen #Schneefall das zweite Mal in Folge eingeschränkt. Bürger dürfen daher ihren Müll auch an der Deponie abgeben.
Nett gemeint, aber bekomme ich als #Fußgänger und Öffinutzer dafür ein Busticket?
Nimmt #ROSA die 500 l #Restmülltonne auch mit?