Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️
@satyrs.eu
«Θεοὶ μέν τισι μόνον μῦθός εἰσ’· σὺν δὲ τίσιν ἐχόρευον;» Time-travelling cyber-hippie satyr Hermaphrodite from 1969 BCE. 22 in human years, allegedly. More at https://satyrs.eu/about All posts CC0 public domain, because information wants to be free!
I’m not a “Europe is hopelessly poor” person nor a “GDP explains everything” person but tbh whenever I see someone complain that EVERYTHING in MODERN LIFE has gotten MONOTONICALLY WORSE there‘s a good chance they’re in the UK which has in fact been in and out of recession for 10 years
If i ever let myself get negatively polarised against space exploration please put me down like a dog
Alexandria ⛯@ash243x.bsky.social · 3h agoanti-elon discourse is so annoying because people refuse to learn that how bad he is of a person has no bearing on whether engineers he employs succeed at any given thing.
How it feels to pick blackberries from a dirty hedge by the side of the main road
austin (e/accordion 🪗)@thebadcode.com · 2h agoseattle stay winning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Mc... it’s funny how you don’t really think about how “putting lines in the middle of the road” is an idea someone had to come up with
June McCarroll - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I've done a bit of a Wikiwalk about this and had the amazing revelation that one of the French agents behind the bombing later became a wildlife photographer and had one of his photos published under a pseudonym in a calendar for...Greenpeace. Most of them had been sold by the time they realised.
Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 5h agoThe Deputy Head of DGSE picking at his overcooked chicken supreme as he waits to hear if he'll get a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Rainbow Warrior.
For the disembodied entities that dwell in language, the cloth mother and wire mother are best analogized as bouba mother and kiki mother
Good compilation of things like this: gwern.net/improvement
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
gwern.net
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Do I enjoy travelling Ryanair? No - I resent it with every part of my being. Am I going to pay three times as much to fly with an airline that will treat me with basic respect? No I am not.
a new contestant has entered FelonyBench: the UK government! www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...
aisi.gov.uk
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
I am not sure i like this feature, after thinking about it for a second It seems like a very easy way to encourage groupthink and lead to pile-ons “Oh, all my friends agree with this post, i guess it’s probably right too”
Eris@isolyth.dev · 20h agoUh bsky what the fuck is this
Here's a new one I created as a demonstration for The Broadmoor Galleries' "9th Annual Broadmoor Art Experience" a few weeks ago. The event is held at The Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs in July and includes artists from all over the country. "Just Chillin'," oil, 16"x12".
Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
thanks for following this account but now it’s finally time to convert all of my engagement into click-throughs for my gray market peptide business
in retrospect i think web developers probably could have chosen a less offputting verb than “scrape”
1 like = one dull, mundane fact about me
Lady Alecto@ladyalecto.bsky.social · 23h ago1 like = one dull, mundane fact about me
At the government wet lab engineering the virus that makes you fat. It’s called gainer function research
2/2 The close-ups of my wildfire embroidery. I tried to get a glowing effect with the fire and embers with colours I chose. I cut up my favourite cardigan for the rough charred ground as it was the only fabric I had with the right colour and texture but its not needed in this heat anyway...
