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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I made tzatziki sauce from scratch 🌿

Light fog over the Ohio River, on either side of the river is a small hilly landscape slightly obscured by the fog.

foggy Ohio River.

Sunset yesterday in Pennsylvania. ☀️

i think people freak the fuck out about computers because baseline literacy is genuinely declining and this compounds badly with tech literacy at a time when nobody feels like they have any control over anything else going on.

online is bad for you, basically.

The new rosemary & black garlic boursin cheese has no business being as good as it is.

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Second loaf ever, spiced things up a bit with a different recipe. I remembered to add steam this time. Also, I made a sourdough start– wish it luck.
#breadsky #beginnerbaker #bread

I’ve never seen a living quetzal but I have held museum specimens and I’ve seen many fantastic photos

But none of that can convince my brain that they could possibly be real, something about the way their feathers fall makes them look like a painting by someone who doesn’t really understand birds

Thank you so much🥲❤️

Thank you so much!!❤️

wow thank you so much!! 🥲❤️

Hi-res still download: satlib.cira.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...

I mean my goodness...

Bomb cyclone goes boom.

An incredible view of the deepening low pressure system approaching the Pacific Northwest.

A freezing daytime Moon! It's still below 0c here in London, Earth but up there it's about 120c in daylight! #astronomy #astrophotography

My first time making bread from scratch! 🍞 #bread #baking #beginnerbreadmaker

I'm moving next month and I'm really going to miss this view. 💔 #westernPA #sunset #skypics

A photo of a small brown and black spider curled up, napping in her web with a white painted wood background.

Arachnophobia warning ⚠️

Triangulate Cobweb Spider living peacefully in my kitchen 🕸️ #arachnids #spiders #spiderposting #arachnid #combfoots #spiderfriends

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

#Birdspotting

Found under a bridge in my town. #foundart #streetart

4 panel comic: P1: Begins with a caption box. "There's a scene in Twin Peaks - The Return where David Lynch --as Gordon Cole-- utters the words: Beneath, is a caricatured drawing of Gordon Cole saying "FIX THEIR HEARTS, OR DIE" P2: Another caption. "Those words have been going through my head on repeat today" Beneath, a silhouette of my head forms in negative space formed in a pink-red background. Within the head are multiples of the phrase spoken by Cole. P3: A massive "FIX THEIR HEARTS OR DIE" dominates the panel, formed, again, in the negative space. P4: Sandwiched between two caption boxes --one top, one bottom-- is the image of a man yelling with unbridled rage. The top caption reads "so many people need to hear those words with their whole person--" The bottom finishes with "--however, maybe those people are already lost to us"

fix their hearts or die

Ella McSweeney: Is the nightjar extinct in Ireland or just keeping a low profile? The confirmation revives the question of whether nightjars could have a more hopeful future in Ireland than previously believed

I’ve never seen or heard a Nightjar, but maybe there’s a chance I will now.

Once feared extinct in Ireland, the secretive nightjar calls again

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

A Probably Incomplete List of Bluesky User Safety Mechanisms Protecting your posts • disabling replies on your posts • limiting replies on your posts to people you follow, mention, or include in specific lists • disabling quote posting on your posts • detaching your post from someone else's quote • changing the above interaction settings even after a post is sent hiding replies to your posts for yourself or for everyone • self-labeling your media for adult or graphic content to protect other users • limiting account visibility only to logged in users • note: this is not 100% enforceable but all major bluesky clients and apps support it Limiting your interaction • blocking users from seeing or interacting with your posts • if you block after an interaction, they vaporize • if they've replied already, the entire thread below their reply is cauterized for everyone, floating in space detached from your post • note: your blocks are publicly visible via 3rd party apps • muting users to remove them from your notis and feeds, and hide them in replies • note: your mutes are private • muting or blocking entire moderation lists of users • note: inclusion in a list is public via third party apps. muting a list is private, blocks via a list are public • subscribing to other people's mod lists • note: your subscription is private, muting & blocking work the same • subscribing to labelers (moderation services) from bluesky or third parties o decide whether to show, warn, or hide posts that have been labeled in each category • report content that should be labeled to bluesky and/or third parties labelers

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk

as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media

here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

Welcome Chris to #Bsky! He's a treasure and it's good to have him here. My daughter's favorite book at the moment. 🚀

already tired of the whiny threads from young men about how society forced them to become monsters because they put woke in the video games or whatever. back in my day you applied some guyliner, wrote some emo lyrics in a journal, and handled it

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

If I see GenAI artwork in your game trailer or screenshots, I'm going to stay as far away from your game as I possibly can.
If you can't afford artists, use asset packs! There's so many great cheap or even free ones out there.

#IndieGameDev