Yellow in the Undergrowth
Here’s a scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea)—female, I believe. I captured this image years ago while she lingered in an oak tree just beyond my fence. It was the first time I’d photographed one, and I remember thinking: maybe I’ll see a male someday. Who knows.
If you’re captivated by indigo buntings and other members of the Cardinalidae family—better known as the cardinal family—step into my photo gallery for a visual feast. Come take a look:
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What if the real flouride conspiracy is that Alex Jones is trying to give people that listen to his show cavities and most people should increase flouride intake and brush their teeth with flouride toothoaste more often and only a small percent would have better health if they reduced intake
But flouride water can still pose health problems for infants because it is easier for them to accidentally have too much flourude
Fiamme altissime all'Euro Stamp di Pianezza nel torinese, poi l'incendio è finalmente domato
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Fiamme altissime all’Euro Stamp di Pianezza nel torinese, poi l’incendio è finalmente domato
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X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat. You probably shouldn't trust it yet. | TechCrunch
X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
to be fair, you can still implement E2EE on the actual content, while collecting all the juicy metadata around it unencrypted and undisturbed.
If authorities need to know if you contacted a certain person around a certain time, or if you are a member of a given group, then the metadata is more than enough.
Advanced search operators list (Gitlab version)
List of the links to the docs for different services, which explain using of advanced search operators.
gitlab.com/cyb_detective/Advan…
Angela Rayner, already disgraced and forced to resign, is now being lined up for a payout funded by the very taxpayers she betrayed. The TaxPayers’ Alliance has called her out for what she is: a complete hypocrite.
Ordinary Britons are being hammered with record taxes, mortgages, and bills. Families are counting pennies, pensioners are choosing between heating and eating, and veterans are sleeping on the streets. Yet somehow, when it comes to failed politicians, there’s always money to spare. Always a cushy parachute. Always one rule for them, another for us.
Rayner’s scandals should have ended her career. Instead, she might walk away with a reward, paid out of the pockets of people who have been crushed by the very government she was part of. That’s not just wrong, it’s insulting.
If Labour cared about integrity, they’d block this payout immediately. If Keir Starmer had a backbone, he’d demand she refuse a penny. But we all know how this goes, excuses, spin, and silence while the public is fleeced yet again.
🇬🇧 Enough is enough. No golden handshakes for hypocrites. No taxpayer bailouts for failed politicians. Sack them, strip them, and make them live by the same rules as the rest of us.
gbnews.com/politics/angela-ray…
#UK #Britain #Politics #Accountability
Angela Rayner's potential 'payout' for resigning scolded by Taxpayers' Alliance: 'She's a complete hypocrite!'
Angela Rayner has been branded a "complete hypocrite" by William Yarwood as he demanded that the ex-Deputy Prime Minister does not receive a Government payout, following her resignation.Georgia Pearce (GB News)
On a rainy day in 2025, I found poetry in a single drop.
Where water meets life, stillness becomes wonder.
This piece is my tribute to the beauty of the ordinary — to the quiet moments that speak louder than words.
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🌿💧 #photo #Art #RainDay #photography #Stillness #NatureSpeaks #digital #artwork
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Discover the world through my lens and brush: from wild primates in deep contemplation to delicate watercolor cacti kissed by dew. Original art for nature lovers. Prints available.Linktree
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🦇 #GothDiscoInferno #84 🔥
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Qualcomm Rolls Out New Self-Driving Stack on BMWs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-09-05/qualcomm-rolls-out-new-self-driving-stack-on-bmws-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/773087/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-to-authors-in-landmark-ai-settlement?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
A settlement between Anthropic and authors over books used to train its AI would pay out “at least” $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action copyright lawsuit.Hayden Field (The Verge)
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It's up! Elijah Claude's rant/analysis responding to misinformed #solarpunk critique.
Includes lots of resources! (opinions his own...and worth reading!)
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Mentions @susankayequinn @AEMarling @drewthewho and more
#justice #hope #activism #resilience
Note: Elijah just joined us here @eruditelijah on kolektiva.social Should be set up soon.
In response to misinformed criticism of solarpunk ⋆ BrightFlame
Some dismiss solarpunk as unrealistic, sappy, etc. Here's TechnoShaman and Black anarchist Elijah Claude’s excellent response.BrightFlame
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"I sometimes wonder if ppl misunderstand #Solarpunk because people think that the only way to rebel against oppression is fugly physical combat? Totally missing the innumerous times other strategies have succeeded too. The idea that rebellion can ONLY be direct violence seems like a fairy tale oppressive people tell to keep folks from trying other perfectly effective methods. Cuz violent oppressors already intuit how to deal with violent resistence. They don't know how to perceive of the impacts of concepts like malicious compliance, weaponized hope, undaunted kindness, or contageous self respect." Exactly, @bluespruce!
@BrightFlame @growfediverse @susankayequinn @AEMarling @drewthewho
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Hedge Funds Jump Into Bullish Oil Bets on Tight Supply Signals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/hedge-funds-jump-into-bullish-oil-bets-on-tight-supply-signals?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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*sniffs, tugs at shirt* You know, the true perversity of Evangelion is not the obvious Freudian symbology -- the mother in the robot, the father who abandons, and so on and so on -- but rather how it stages the fundamental deadlock of the otaku subject under late capitalism.
*gestures wildly* Here you have Shinji, the perfect neoliberal subject: he doesn't want to pilot the Eva, he hates it, but he does it anyway! Why? Because of some abstract duty? No! Because he has already internalized the superego injunction to enjoy his own exploitation. "I mustn't run away" - this is not courage, this is the purest ideology!
*touches nose* But the real obscenity -- and here Anno is a true genius, whether he knows it or not -- is how the series presents instrumentalisation itself as traumatic. NERV literally dissolves the boundary between human and machine, mother and weapon, and what do we get? Not liberation but pure anxiety! The EVA units are the perfect metaphor for our digital predicament: we are told these technologies will extend our capabilities, make us posthuman, but instead we discover *laughs darkly* that we were always already instruments!
Gendo's Human Instrumentality Project is just making explicit what capitalism already does: reducing humans to pure exchangeable substance, orange goo, the ultimate liquidity!
*sniff* And the masterstroke is the ending - not the false happy ending of End of Evangelion, but the original episodes 25 and 26, where the budget runs out and we get pure interiority. *waves hands* "Congratulations!" they all say to Shinji. But for what? For accepting his place in the symbolic order? This is the ultimate perversity: the show literally cannot afford to show the apocalypse, so instead it stages the real catastrophe - the subject accepting his own subjection as liberation! The production committee pulls the funding, and Anno turns this material limitation into the perfect metaphor for ideological closure!
*adjusts shirt violently* You know what nobody wants to admit? Evangelion is not about robots or aliens or whatever -- it's about the impossibility of authentic action under capitalism. Every character is trapped in their own repetition compulsion: Misato drinks, Asuka performs superiority, Rei submits to erasure; and the Angels? The Angels are just the return of the repressed, the stupid insistence of the Real that says: your little techno-military complex cannot contain the trauma of existence!
*sniff* And so on, and so on...
Trump Tariff Challengers Back Fast-Track Supreme Court Review
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/trump-tariff-challengers-back-fast-track-supreme-court-review?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from canceling temporary protections granted to 1.1M Haitians, Venezuelans. Read more from @AssociatedPress:
Silicon Valley Insider Runs for California Governor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-09-05/silicon-valley-insider-runs-for-california-governor-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Deux frères et une obsession : créer la simulation la plus complexe ; le projet Dwarf fortress — Obscuria
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Mais l'histoire est si mignonne 
#vulgarisation #éducPop #informatique #mathématiques
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Wall Street’s Wealth Engine Powers Through Job-Market Anxiety
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/wall-street-bets-that-asset-owners-will-power-through-jobs-slump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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You’ll Never Have Enough Cheese
This Human Factors International presentation (ppt) references something called a Columbia Obstruction Device: I couldn’t find any actual references to the Columbia University science experiment they’re referring to, but it certainly seems plausible…Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
It's hilariously wild to me how much more reach my Pixelfed posts have over Instagram.
I just started a new Instagram (for work, I have Meta, but you need it to reach out to influencers and stuff), and there are three likes on about 40 photos.
I just uploaded two new photos to my Pixelfed, and BAM, likes are FLOODING IN because I use the proper hashtags.
IG is straight-up garbage for creatives and photographers.
Advanced search operators list (Gitlab version)
List of the links to the docs for different services, which explain using of advanced search operators.
gitlab.com/cyb_detective/Advan…
Build your own wedding website with Visualmodo WordPress themes! 👨❤️💋👨💌📷🎥❤️💍😍
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August, 2025.
📷 FED-3 | 🔎 Industar-61 L/D | 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400.
#filmphotography #film #analogphotography #35mm
~ black and white ~
#blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #analog #analogphotography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #stillshootfilm #sheep
Ok, ho pubblicato il mio giochetto (il secondo progetto della mia vita ed il primo terminato) per la "LÖVE Jam 2025 [B-SIDE]".
Lo trovate qui: mrnetwork.itch.io/space-bricks
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate! Senza remore!
PS: so che è semplice e banale, ma essendo il mio secondo progetto mi sento orgoglioso di quello che ho realizzato 😊
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Ultimate entrepreneurial success metric: becoming wealthy enough that LinkedIn profile updates become unnecessary.
Current reality: updating LinkedIn status every time follower count increases by three people.
The aspiration remains distant but motivating. Professional social media obligations persist regardless of financial status.
#EntrepreneurGoals #SocialMedia #StartupLife #ProfessionalNetworking
Nåtö, Åland Islands
September 2025
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Jeff Jarvis's definition of journalism exposes parallels between the missions of journalism and participant-driven & participation-rich events
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#journalism #mission #community #convening #events #eventprofs cc: @jeffjarvis
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in reply to shortstories • • •anecdotal refutation: I have not used fluoridated toothpaste for over 20 years. I have had zero tooth cavities. My mouth feels healthy and teeth are strong.
Tooth health is mostly due to diet, not what you brush your teeth with.