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a pelican with their mouth open, and two fish are above to fall into their pouch, but one is above another and may take a path out

the pelicans mouth is closed, and there's a fish out

the pelican looks at the camera, miffed, the fish is far away from its head at this point

the pelican opens its beak and tries to go for it, but i can report back it failed, the fish was long gone

FINALLY GOT IT!

I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000.

Over 20,000 the past month alone.

Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away"

In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare:

Fish success story.

🪶

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Landmark Agreement to Make Beloved Characters from Across All of Disney’s Brands suck a dick while doing a 9/11 As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters sucking dick while doing a 9/11. Agreement will make a selection of these fan-created videos of Black Widow unnaturally deepthroating a dick that suddenly emerged from off screen, each lasting about 4 seconds and ending before you can even get hard. Or she's ripping off her outfit and suddenly there's two Black Panthers (RIP) getting her from each side, and they're going like, ridiculously fast, and it looks impressive until you realize all of these videos do the same thing and you're bored and back on Chaturbate watching normal people undress over the course of 2 hours and muting the sound so the tip noises don't wake up your sleeping wife. Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible usage of AI and the rights of creators pfft haha just kidding get fucked losers. Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major financial burden for OpenAI; burning down an acre of forest per economically useless video of Ariel queefing out a bubble while giving Hades a footjob

Oxford’s hidden food emergency – and the community filling the gaps “What are your plans for next week?” asks Dave. Maria tells him that it's her birthday.  As a volunteer for Oxford Mutual Aid (OMA), which delivers food to people across the city, Dave calls Maria ev...

🚨Clarion morning read 🚨
Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities.

Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help.
@oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore Your brain’s middle finger to people-pleasing

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore. “…that point in midlife when your capacity to pretend, perform, and please others starts shorting out like an electrical system that’s finally had enough.” [blog.lifebranches.com]

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

Still looking for a cause to support this Christmas? Please consider O.M.A. Volunteering here has been a real eye opener, not just noticing the many pockets deprivation everywhere in our city, but also witnessing the heartfelt kindness, care, inclusivity and community that O.M.A. champions.

What makes you think they want to weaken the far right?

Indeed. I told them I will not be sending my child to school with flu.

Human Interface Guidelines saying to not use arbitrary symbols in menus

Menu stuffed with largely meaningless icons

Apple 1992 vs 2025

Cat paw print in a red brick wall.

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

The “forever” implies that after my own death, an AI simulation of me will take over and continue the conversation

I see the Lib Dems are giving peerages to the homophobe Sarah Teather and to Mike Dixon, the man who has been personally responsible for every time they've caved to the TERFs. Still, they'll be company for Ludford and Strasburger I suppose.

whomst amongst us

“Listening to legitimate concerns and acting on them is what our politics is about. That’s not empty populism, it’s democracy. We are determined to show that our societies can act with compassion while upholding law and order, and fairness.”

It's weird how it's never the legitimate concerns of people who want publicly owned utilities and for the poor not to be punished for the mistakes of the wealthy, isn't it?

Always the racists getting pandered to.

Fewer children visiting cinemas; large increase in cinema visits by tall, lumpy men in trenchcoats.

So even if people say “you shouldn’t use it to try to care for a baby” it’s silently shifting the window… because many will think “well I’d never use it for anything THAT important but it’s fine that I use it to compose text msgs.” So these outlandish claims help normalize other personal uses.

I’m increasingly convinced many CEOs saying these things don’t actually believe them, they just think the rest of us can be played for fools.

Part of the ongoing PR strategy is to shift the window of tolerance for what AI can/should do further & further into our personal lives & relationships.

@geor1002 12 days ago I am in Romanian prison and the guard plays this to us on lunch breaks. We love it. 559 Reply 10 replies @Noktalives 2 weeks ago I am prison guard in Romania and I play this to the inmates on their lunch break every saturday. they love it. 473 Reply 7 replies @DavidTrujillo-pr6pg 7 days ago I'm the warden at a Romanian prison and i have my guards play this to the inmates on lunch breaks. they both love it. 117 Reply @CoachMattRice 20 hours ago I am the electrician for a Romanian prison and I keep the power running so the guards can play this set every lunch break. Everyone loves it. 7 Reply @TheGImp1214 9 days ago I am a japanese deathrow inmate in Romanian prison. The guard plays this while I study my code. I love it. 214 Reply 2 replies @AnthonyMontero-p4g 8 days ago I am Venezuelan, the son of Romanian parents who are in prison. They tell me that the guards play this song during their lunch break and love listening to it while they eat tequeños. 🇻🇪 174 Reply 3 replies @indiegameswithT 4 days ago I swear this is the same set that my cousin, who is the boyfriend of the Venezuelan son whose Romanian parents are in prison, told me about. I heard that they play this every day during lunch. Everyone loves it. 51 Reply @pachadela 23 hours ago I’m the lawyer of a Japanese deathrow inmate in a Romanian prison. He said the guard plays this set and he loves it

what is happening in the comments of this random DJ set on youtube

"Thansk"

I think you're seeing something completely different from me, which probably means they're rolling out the brokenness to me soon 😭

Schools absolutely refuse to understand this as well. "What if everybody needed to eat/drink/take breaks whenever they felt like it?"

Meanwhile Elder's school has just told me that "having flu or something" isn't a good enough reason to be absent from school.

Just went to look at my free Trello and a) I can no longer log into it with my (personal) Google account while I'm logged in to my (work) Atlassian account, so that sucks, but b) when I do get in I don't see the inbox thing by default, only if I click Inbox (can click it again to toggle off). 🤷🏻‍♀️

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Wait so the thing that happens everywhere congestion charges are introduced also happened here?

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds.

This is obscene.

That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.

We are the 99.999%.

Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

#Oxford congestion charge first month of data is out!
It's a complex picture. Many things impact travel behaviour - rain, cold, people getting used to where congestion points are.
But, things seem to be going in the right direction.

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/promising-st...

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia. Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.

That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

How is there still anybody left who _doesn't_ expect this shit from our "Labour government"?

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...