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Doom scrolling antidote

Ancient Tree Inventory - Woodland Trust share.google/aWTI7Vq2gCCG...

It's like six inches from the first one though.

Minnesota Was Promised to Us When the LRAD hit ya’, ICE just split ya, head so hard that ya’ hat can’t fit ya’

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Plus it's nostalgic to think back to when it was a portrayl of a near future dystopia rather than it looking slightly more fun than reality.

I was busy listening to the soundtrack whilst wearing sunglasses in the dark. It's brilliant. Atmospheric, B-movie-ish, basically the only good Terminator movie. Soundtrack is incredible.

It's great! You don't know how to have fun! ;)

Is it insane property speculation? Doesn't seem to be the same anywhere else in Europe.

On the Nose - Futility Closet The distinctive smells of spearmint and of caraway seeds are produced by mirror images of the same molecule, carvone. The fact that we can distinguish these smells shows that our olfactory receptors c...

New favourite Chemistry fact thanks to "The Rest is Science" podcast
On the Nose - Futility Closet share.google/LdUMLRG4d6Gf...

Which actually really helps to make things sound super wide if you, for example build a synth out of pairs of SIDs panned left and right!

time to liquidate my collection? (Also, not my favourite revision. Yes, of course I have a favourite revision, what of it?)

Yikes

"come" hur hur

Just warning you but if you hit this point it's about to start refusing to indent anything at all and possibly applying random styles to your bullet points when you try.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

thanks!
I think it's totally fascinating thinking about what pops out at the end of the different models and why.

"Je suis desolee, 'combien de temps' est une question philosophique"

Loads of people are awful at counting, so the LLMs learnt that numbers are fluid?
(interestingly ChatGPT is always under, Claude pretty much always over. Now absolutely fascinated as to where that comes from obvs.)

it is mad that all LLMs seem totally incapable of doing a word count.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Accidentally read this book thinking it was John Niven's "Kill Your Friends" and can confirm.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

I mean in fairness, despite fierce competition he's upped their "absolute dishrag of a man" levels significantly

What an absolute Jenrick

And I thought I couldn't think any less of Robert Jenrick! He showed me.

You can't even build a proper small hill to die on with them

I'll be much safer on this motorbike with the brakes taken off and all the wheel nuts loosened?

so UK peeps, which country are you claiming asylum in when Reform inevitably win the election?

It's not even a real McDonalds the AI seems to think it's MucDonalds if you look closely

Finally! Electronics has been crying out for a way to avoid the crippling cost and inconvenience of poking a bit of wire into two terminals for YEARS.

YouTube video by Shermanology Shermanology & Champion - Badder

I know no-one cares, but I've thought long and hard about it and THIS was the best record of 2025 (that I heard, naturally)

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