Apocryphal Ostrich

The Palace of Versailles still gets plenty of tourists, and think of the youtube ad revenue from the live-streamed executions. Someone should pitch it to Rachel.

Their. C'mon folks.

#BirdOfTheDay #WaterDroplets : Goose based sprinkler system

#photography

I know what you mean, sometimes my brain is in the right mode and other times it's impossible.

Thanks, I get lucky occasionally. :)

So.. I meant it in general about all your photography. If I posted at the same rate you do I'd run out of good ones in a week!

For this one, it's because you've created it from almost nothing. Easy to take a nice photo of a pretty thing, harder to create beauty from just light and a lens.

You are *very* good at this.

#scape : Playa de Tazacorte

#photography #infrared #lapalma

Thanks! I'm satisfied enough when I manage to get small birds in focus, let alone in a half-decent composition too.

Thanks! I was afraid it'd be a bit too subtle, especially on small screens.

Consumer spending up! Economy looking great! No problems here! Acceleration towards AI paradise or human extinction continues as advertised! Keep investing!

Whether they're nice people or not seems entirely irrelevant, if we say we believe in equality we can't then say one particular family deserves to be elevated above everybody else and given enormous amounts of wealth and privilege.

But it's generating 10X more code, that must be great right!

#BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds : Blue tit on a weeping willow

Imperfect shot, but I like the blurry green leaves.

#photography

What a good headline "Goose Green Goes Green" would be

Far be it from me to suggest that they might benefit greatly from an expert demonstration of it.

By the next GE we may be at the point where PR would actually give us *fewer* Reform MPs than FPTP will, if we're not already there.

People say PR leads to messy and unstable coalitions, but FPTP forces coalitions *within* parties instead and those have not been very stable either lately!

I think Linkedin did this years ago, and no genuine humans have posted there for quite a long time.

There was no evidence of WMDs prior to the invasion, and no evidence of them found aftterwards. It was about oil, this should be abundantly clear to even the most loyal Blairite by now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bl...

OTOH his wife works for Tony Blair which might make it tricky to be objective about, ooh, war crimes, things like that.

#MinimalMonday : Just before the sun rose behind Mt Teide

(So I suppose it just barely counts for #MountainMonday too.)

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Good, the anti-NATO stuff is a distraction and probably the most potent weapon ZP's opponents could use against him so far.

By the time of the next GE it might be somewhat clear whether NATO has a future or not, and no British politician will have had very much influence over that.

#BirdOfTheDay : #corvids

Here's a magpie selecting construction material for a bit of DIY.

#photography

#Stunday : Exiting through the barranco

#photography #lapalma

I hear IRC still exists.

They have incredibly short memories though, unfortunately.

#BlueSkyArtShow : #wood

A pathway of wooden platforms, for people who find walking on this exotic black volcanic sand too arduous.

Their presence implies a level of civility not found on my local beach in the UK, where these would have been quickly incorporated into bonfires

#photography #lapalma

I felt like I was living in the future the first time I ordered pizza over the internet, and it *still* feels a bit futuristic every time I do it.

We could have implemented that in 2000 if we'd thought of it though, so I'm with you all the way.

For good measure, let's lock her up for a year or two for absolutely no good reason. Seems fair.

I think this might be your best episode, and it seems you're both now finally as well-informed as everyone *should* have been prior to the last GE.

You'll be voting Green next time, right? I mean, what other option is there now?

Not only that, but it was many of the same Tories who are now in Reform!