Apocryphal Ostrich

Couldn't find any recent shots for #WeekWForWindows , but I managed to dig this out. Tokyo, 2009, #pentax K200D. A sufficient quantity of windows.

#AlphabetChallenge #photography

...and if/when inference is cheap enough to be profitable to provide as a service, everyone else can do that too even without the massive newly-obsolete data centers - and also it'll be efficient enough to run locally on our phones and laptops. It's mostly a way to part investors from money. Right?

"Gold! There's gold in them hills! Loads of it! Definitely!"
- Shovel manufacturers everywhere

Tide literally out for #TidesOutTuesday

#classicmono #infrared #photography

#MinimalMonday : Pigeon

#photography

Very nice! I'm no art connoisseur but I think you're onto something here.

Thanks! Thought maybe it was just me that would like this one.

Found one for #ColorADay #GreenSat
Took it a few months ago, reminds me of summer.
#photography

"In South Africa, white people wanted black people for labour. Most Israelis appear to want Palestinians out."

Perhaps you're saying there are better parallels to draw here than South Africa?

Hopping on the #HolidayRobin #FestiveDailyRobin bandwagon.

#BirdOfTheDay #BeakOpen #photography

Mainstream media, innit.

I'd think i was going mad if it wasn't for people such as yourself on the fringes of the internet who validate my own memory of events.

I definitely didn't, at school in the 80s and 90s. I found the 1991 curriculum (annas-archive.org/md5/36dd27ba...) and it's only covered in "supplementary study unit 18" which sounds very optional indeed.

We really don't like to educate people about all the terrible stuff we did.

#FlyDay ? OK: A fly.
#photography

= CEO's are burning company cash on OpenAI/Anthropic/etc subscriptions nobody asked for, are mandating its use, and demanding 10X productivity from their devs because that's what the bigger boys are telling them will happen.

TBH nobody who's been taking any notice of Starmer since before the leadership election should have been conned, this was all quite predictable.

I'm quite hopeful that many more people will join me in voting Green now. Actual optimism about anything is.. more difficult.

I strongly suspect a lot of 'normal' games would actually perform better on these measures than boring 'brain training' ones.

My mother has so far failed to get to grips with BOTW though, which limits its efficacy somewhat. Maybe we need simple games to teach older people to play proper games.

I think I can cover #MacroMonday and #MinimalMonday with this one:
Ginkgo on Gunnera

#photography

If such a theme were to occur, I would feel obliged to reveal the glorious "Arc of Cormorant"

In case anyone's tempted to follow suit, do be aware that they tend to attract unwanted attention from violent nutters.

...and one more before #WeekSForShadows finishes

#AlphabetChallenge #ClassicMono #photography

The shadow of Aqueduto das Águas Livres, Lisbon

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #ClassicMono #photography

Thanks, same to you.. Aha, you're the bnwmacro person! A very good idea for a #.

Does anyone read the alt text for photography posts, or is it mostly just perfect for training AI? Hmmm.

Dahlias, apparently.
In colour these are mostly just super red, more interesting in mono.

#BNWmacro #ClassicMono #flowers #BloomScrolling
#photography

Long exposure night shot of Hong Kong, from Victoria Peak over the bay towards Kowloon.

A #scape

Hong Kong, 2011

#photography

A covered space next to an office building. Supporting columns cast shadows across the ground, which are reflected in the building's windows. In the distance one worker emerges from a side door to join another already leaning against a column.

A mid-afternoon cigarette break

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #photography

Calm water mirroring a featureless sky. A sailing boat in the distance.

#MinimalMonday #photography

B/W photo of a model lighthouse with a carpet of autumn leaves in the background, reminiscent of ocean waves.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

A sea of leaves on the crazy golf course

#photography

Piers Morgan seems to spend altogether too much time thinking about penises.

More chance of another PR referendum, I think... And rather little chance of that.

Who indeed! Certainly nobody who's intending to ever visit Thailand would express such a sentiment.

(Note to Thai immigration: Long Live The King, hurrah)

If you guys are fine with *actual* monarchies, you're welcome to join the Commonwealth Realms as long as you make friends with Canada again.