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Glossika trying to teach me Welsh. English: He'd rather not go out tonight. Welsh: Byddai'n well ganddo beidio â mynd allan heno.

Glossika trying to teach me Welsh: English: Zhirong would prefer not to go out. Welsh: Byddai'n well gan Zhirong beidio â mynd allan.

Glossika trying to teach me Welsh: English: Jessica would rather not go out. Welsh: Byddai'n well gan Jessica beidio â mynd allan.

I sense a theme to Glossika tonight, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh well, I think I'll stay in.
#Welsh #Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@ai6yr oh wow, that's incredible! How special! I visited a coffee farm in the far north of Queensland over a decade ago, was really interesting to see. Plus the old house had a wonderful garden with pineapples and bananas growing.

I was surprised to learn that the coffee bean isn't really a […]

White small flower, extremely fragrant, tropical smell

Dark res cherries on a stem of a tree

More coffee cherries

Enormous container full of fresh coffee cherries

Coffee harvest time! The smell here next to my coffee bush (Ventura County, California) is extremely floral--like a room full of plumeria or orchids. The coffee berry is extremely sweet and tasty. I would say it has a similar flavor profile and sweetness of a […]

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38 known car brands

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An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

@ai6yr @KrajciTom I guess it makes the work day fly by?

Sorry.

PC LOAD LETTER. 😉

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I hadn't realised that Portmeirion in Wales (the village used for the setting for much of the classic 1960s UK series The Prisoner) was celebrating its centenary this year! The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has more here […]

@ai6yr oh no! :-( Hopefully they aren't too badly hurt (I can't read that article unfortunately, it shows me something briefly then is replaced with a page saying "500
Something didn’t go as planned! Please try refreshing the page or coming back later.").

A photo of an area of Tilden Park on the Berkeley Hills showing an electric fence with part of a large herd of goats visible inside it (there's also a specially trained dog here, not in view, that defends the herd). The grass inside the fence is notably shorter than the grass just outside it. There are trees in the distance and a sign in front that reads: CAUTION Electric Fence - AREA CLOSED National Parks Fuel Break Goat Grazing Program Do not Feed Goats Keep Dogs on Leash For more information call 510-690-6605. East Bay Regional Park District.

A photo of a white goat with horns walking from left to right but with its face turned to the camera in interest. Behind it there is a large, old, felled, tree trunk on its side which, shortly after this picture was taken, the goat will use to scratch itself on. The foreground has short grass but in the background there are taller straggly bushes and goats behind them munching on the grass.

The fuel reduction goats are back on the Berkeley Hills, hooray! They arrived about a week ago and have been munching their way through this part of Tilden Park to reduce the fuel for fires as they get moved from area to area. There is a big white dog that's […]

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Well that was a surprise.

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Hooray, the last part of Nilpena cattle station in South Australia has passed into government hands. This is the side of the Ediacaran fossil beds that give us such insights into early life on Earth in various weird and wonderful forms […]

Very interesting - 1+ million year old stone tools found on Sulawesi, on the "wrong" side of the Wallace line separating Borneo from Sulawesi based on the assumption that Homo Erectus couldn't build a boat of some sort. Either some early humans got *really* lucky and crossed on natural rafts (or […]

I've found that the words I seem to struggle with most when trying to learn Welsh are those starting ng - for instance:

Dydw i ddim wedi cael fy ngwahodd i'r parti.

(I haven't been invited to the party)

I keep tripping up over them when I first try them in a sentence and have to repeat the […]

@ai6yr for me growing up in the UK those are waistcoats, a vest was an undergarment worn under the shirt. I didn’t realise that was different here! 🙃 😃

Stuck on tarmac at PHL on AA2663 heading back to SFO. Seem to be making a habit of this. This time our departure corridor was closed due to VIP traffic just as we were next cab off the rank for take off. #AvGeek

@futurebird @sabik *cough* 42 *cough*

TIL that Alexander Graham Bell also made kites, and not just the small easy to fly ones, but some rather enormous ones, including some that could lift a person! Also check out the last two photos for something sweet you don't often see from 1903 […]

@jorgecandeias @mattblaze apparently after five of the original houses had been demolished to make way for the railway these were built in the place of one of them as artists studios, which makes a lot more sense (to me at least). This has some good info […]

Gold... https://theconversation.com/are-you-joking-mate-ai-doesnt-get-sarcasm-in-non-american-varieties-of-english-254986

"BESSTIE is the first-of-its-kind benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm classification of three varieties of English: Australian English, Indian English and British English.
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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response — “I am taking a bus” — was met with a smirk.

‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/are-you-joking-mate-ai-doesnt-get-sarcasm-in-non-american-varieties-of-english #Auspol

A sun on a railway brush in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia saying “Danger: High Voltage”.

Where’s AC/DC when you need them?
(Yes, I’ve got an earworm after seeing this)

@kpdooty thank you! About to leave!

Sounds like the storms in eastern US are disrupting travel (again) with ATC having to rate limit flights to be able to cope. How do I know? I’m sat on the tarmac at SFO in AA3295 waiting to get permission to leave. At least the initial 90 minute delay is now just 30 minutes. 🤞

curl: add -h cheat-sheet using curl-cheat-sheet as text by jhauga · Pull Request #18071 · curl/curl Add a new argument "cheat-sheet" to -h, --help option that returns the content from the repo curl-cheat-sheet to the terminal.

Bring us your feedback on this idea and PR: make #curl output its cheat-sheet.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18071

@bagder my first thought was "that doesn't make sense" but on further thought what else makes sense?

If it takes an argument then does it matter that there's a space there or not? To my mind whatever follows it must be the argument to it.

One possibility would have been to require an error if […]

History of women's cricket - Wikipedia

26th July 2025 was the 280th anniversary of the (currently known) earliest recorded game of women's cricket, which took place in Surrey in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women%27s_cricket
#history #cricket #WomensCricket

A wide view of several mountains, from left: - Taboche (6,500 meters/21,325 feet) - Mount Everest (8,848 meters/29,032 feet) - Lhotse (8,516 meters/27,939 feet) - Ama Dablam (6,814 meters/22,355 feet)

It's a cloudy day. It's -2ºF/-19ºC.

via https://www.windy.com/-Webcams-Khumjung-Hotel-Everest-View/webcams/1652187391?27.820,86.682,5

#MountEverest #MtEverest #mountain #live #webcam

@KrajciTom congrats!

@KrajciTom @ai6yr oh I've been up Long Mynd when I used to live in the UK! Not that far from the Welsh border.

I have to say watching the first two take off into the wind I was noticing that rain approaching and thinking "hmm, I hope they get around/over that before it gets to them..." - at […]

SaaS - Sandwich As A Service.

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