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Yehuda in black hoodie

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#Intro post & #Mvskoke #Ancestors thread

I'm retired from an Information Technology career & currently a co-admin of TurtleIsland.social with @tzipr.bsky.social.

My Mvskoke & Ashkenazi cultures are very important to me. I love music & especially synthesizers.
#NativeSky #Native #Indigenous

Close up on a bright yellow crocus lighting up the morning.

Spring is coming.

#Nature #Flowers #Gardening #Photography

A picture taken in a forest where the camera is pointed directly upwards, causing all of the tree trunks to appear to converge in the center of the image.

Another pictures of trees in forest, however this time they appear to converge in the upper left corner of the image

A third picture, this time the trees converge at the top of the image

Vanishing points

A tall, mossy tree with ferns clinging to its bark in front of a bright blue sky.

#Nature #Photography #Ferns #Trees

Yes. Yes, all MAGA are Nazis. Not just now. Always. See, if you vote for the nazi party, you're a nazi. That's how it works.

A tiny gnome with some mushrooms, a cardinal at the birdbath, and a gnome home shaped like a fly agaric on a carpet of moss in the woods.

You never know what you might find, if you go into the woods with an open mind...

A jumble of rectangular ice crystals in a puddle reflects the morning sun.

Ice, ice, baby.

#Nature #Winter #Photography

A pen and ink drawing of paperwhites from the garden.

A pen and ink drawing with a bit of colored pencil, the paperwhite flowers have been cut out and the drawing is sitting on a piece of paper.

Today’s quick pen and ink. #TwosDay
It’s been over 15 years since I picked up a pen for art, my garden turned into my canvas instead. Now more than ever I feel I need art back in my life. So, I’m being brave and sharing today’s doodle. ##SciArt 🌱

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...

#Nature #Photography

A large white chrysanthemum with a light green center in a bouquet from the market with the winter woods in the background.

Peace be with you, Friends 🌱

" the findings reflect an undertreatment of female patients’ pain. We discuss the troubling societal and medical implications of females’ pain being overlooked and call for policy interventions to ensure equal pain treatment."
#medsky #feministsky #womeninSTEM
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

That's not a Twain quote
- Mark Twain

A bank vole it's hairless tail visible to the lhs edges out into the light from the safe haven of darkness in the background, the photographer, that would be me, was lying prostrate on the ground just over two metres away, so the vole looms large in the frame, just under it's pink whiskered nose to the right a small twig lies where it fell from a tree above at some point in the past, encrusted with cyan coloured lichen, the lit foreground is blurred due to shallow depth of field from the f5.6 aperture of my 200-500mm lens, the image was shot at 500mm, the vole's eye has a nice catchlight. The sunlight illuminating it's fur which appears mostly grey but on it's back a rich chestnut colour predominates.

I have a spot in the woods that I frequent regularly, in the past I'd piled up the odd log beside a mighty oak tree. This log pile has been home to a few generations of bank vole by now. I feel a great sense of achievement every time I see them emerging from their home. #Nikon #AffinityPhoto

A beautiful dahlia in multiple shades of yellow.

#Flowers #Gardening #Nature #Photography

An outhouse, with wood walls, and a 1970s style wood toilet seat, and metal grip bars behind and to the side. A red Folgers coffee can has been attached to the wall as a toilet paper holder

@adamcadmon1.bsky.social
Adam, I'm popping by Bluesky just to tell you: I found a good use for Folgers

Hot pink dahlia lights up a fall morning.

#Flowers #Nature #Gardening #Photography

‘Labyrinth’ tuber #1 is at the end of its bloom cycle. Yellow center, radiating out to pink petals.

‘Labyrinth’ dahlia tuber #2 is about halfway through the bloom cycle. Center is dark pink grapefruit, radiating out to apricot petals.

Today’s daily dahlia report 🌱
It was 39 degrees F this morning, this may be the last of the blooms for this year…

Two bright purple asters shine against the background of green leaves.

#Flowers #Nature #Gardening #Photography

Three Greater Flamingos in a sort of line, one behind the other. They all have their heads in the water feeding and all casting wavy reflections. Taken at parque de El Hondo, Alicante, Spain.

Getting my ducks in a row!
#birds

A muted red House finch perched on a dried stem eating a sunflower seed, in the background is blue sky and a green blur from a tree.

Good morning, grabbing some breakfast. 🪶🌿

Thanks so much! 😊

Dark background with faint stirrings of greens. A center composed large decorative dahlia bloom is turned in a 3/4 pose away and down with sunlight just catching the last edge of the bloom.

🌱Yes. The glamour shot.
Dahlia Nepos.

A pale pinkish lavender floribunda rose at sunset, background is the green foliage of the rose bush.

Autumn sunset in the garden. 🌅🌱

Red rose with white and yellow centre against background of green leaves. Rose is Bidulph Grange

Deep pink echinacea flowers with many pink petals that make the flower look like a large daisy. The centre is deep orange and the top flower has a bumblebee with a white tail gathering pollen

David Austin rose Lady of Shalott a salmon pink with many petals around the centre.

Pink sedum flowers against dark bronze fleshy sedum foliage.

Morning #rollcall I thought that these throwback flowers would brighten the start of the week. Have a great day.
#gardeningfeed 🌱

A red and yellow aster sparkles with raindrops.

#Nature #Flowers #Photography #Gardening

A blanket flower. The center is red, and the petals are red near the center and yellow at the edges.

A bumblebee on a false sunflower. The flower is all yellow and the bee's wings are open as if it's just landing or taking off

A red rose against blue sky, backlit by the sun

A pink rose against blue sky, backlit by the sun

Some sunny flowers from yesterday 🌱