Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸

A cluster of honeycoloured fungi weight flat caps growing on a bit of fallen tree. The wood is exposed and blackened from moisture. To the left of the fungi, there is a bit of moss. Trees and leaves form the blurry background in the top half of the picture.

The season is almost over, so this picture is from the archives, October 4 to be exact.

#FungiFriday

The brook running through the park on its way to meet the river. The trees on either bank are tall and threadbare, the autumn colours of yellow and brown are mixed amongst what is left of the green. November, 2025. Wales, UK.

A river runs through it 📷
#photography #journal #scape #nature #EadtCoastKin

New Comic found: Dinosaur Comics - 2025-11-19 https://www.gocomics.com/dinosaur-comics/2025/11/19

#webcomics #dinosaurcomics #comicstrip

It’s Friday, which obviously means today is the day to push all your untested vibecode to prod before the weekend, but remember that (at least for those of us in the US), next week is a short week presenting one of the best opportunities for code pushes. 🦃🍂🍃🍁

An illuminated manuscript depicting some kind of whitely cloaked religious figure punching a dorky looking devil in the schnozz. She is carrying some kind of letter as the devil grasps at a dongle below the letter. Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face. book of hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1240. BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v. #medieval #MedievalArt

BONK!

An illuminated manuscript depicting some kind of whitely cloaked religious figure punching a dorky looking devil in the schnozz. She is carrying some kind of letter as the devil grasps at a dongle below the letter. Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face. book of hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1240. BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v. #medieval #MedievalArt

BONK!

Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face. book of hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1240. BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Holy Mary full of grace, punch that devil in the face. book of hours ('The De Brailes Hours’), Oxford ca. 1240. BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Sure, the Dems are right; Cops, military folk, government employees, petty bureaucrats, and so forth... you don't have to follow illegal orders.

Let me add to that, though:

You don't have to follow legal orders either.

Nobody does.

You might lose your job. In some cases you may go to prison […]

A narrow hallway in a walk-up apartment building, ending with two adjacent doors at a roughly 90 degree angle from one another.

Hallway, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, no brokers' fee, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/13337114073

#photography

Lots of truly terrible stuff is happening in the US government, but 2 senators just reintroduced the "Dark and Quiet Skies Act" to protect the sky from light pollution and satellite pollution and that's a really big step in the right direction! […]

The epistemic environment is not good, folks. It's not good at all.

@corbden I agree, but also, understand your enemies not by what they say - both to themselves and to others. Abusers lie by their very nature to everyone. There's no need for yet another "NYT profiles MAGA voters to help liberals understand them". They hurt other people because they have […]

@JessTheUnstill (Unpacking a little more...) The idea that "understanding" someone means you should "give them what they want" or you should "side with them" is an abuse culture reaction. I've honed the ability to both-and, to hold space for and understand inner worlds that conflict with my own […]

@JessTheUnstill Yes. This isn't about empathizing with them over their victims to helping them escape accountability. It's about the opposite. It's about understanding what they really mean by the words they use (it's often not the same at all, for instance, see "justice," "respect," and […]

[AI and uspol kinda]

@trixter @davidgerard That's the point of promoting mass conspiracy theories. It discredits information about real conspiracies.

[AI and uspol kinda]

I love how I have to explain to the less terminally-online people in my life that AI is getting shoved into everything because Peter Thiel literally believes it will slow the coming of the Antichrist, very cool and fun world we live in, I love sounding like an unhinged person

This is an example of the flaws of an undeveloped extrospection. People tend to think everyone else reasons like they do, even their enemies.

An authoritarian worldview values loyalty above principle. They expect us to be like that, to protect our own over holding to what is morally right and […]

Limmy and I are exactly the same age, so it's awesome getting the GenX perspective. His stories are all from my time.

#DiscoElysium

Limmy's stream is SUPER ADHD. It took an hour just for him to open the game, and three hours just to get out of the Whirling. He tells some interesting stories, but in the most drawn out and distracted way possible. Sometimes he never even reaches his point.... tedious.

But his interaction with […]

Falconhoof streamed a let's play of Disco Elysium. So my inner accent on the week is a deep Scottish brogue.

#DiscoElysium

Oooh, it's my time to leap into cybersecurity.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

"...Abstract

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs) […]

WTH!

WaPo: “U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

The Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz tried to get into an academic debate but they wouldn't let him in.

pottery in motion

Democrat doesn't care if Epstein files name members of his party Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut demonstrated far more integrity than his GOP counterparts when he was asked Thursday on CNN whether he was concerned that Democrats might be implicated in ...

Democrat doesn't care if Epstein files name members of his party

@JessTheUnstill A classmate was there in a school to when the Berlin Wall wall fell, and she showed us pieces with spray paint on them. I'm sure she still has them.

I... uhh... have a piece of the Pentagon... 🫣😇 I happened to be visiting DC alone in November of '01, and took the metro stop […]

Sometimes it's weird to remember just how recent history was. Like there's still living people who marched with MLK Jr and Malcolm X. There's probably still people who survived the Kent State Massacre. A few people who survived the Holocaust. Lots and lots of people who were there in Berlin when […]

The singularity
Spoke in explosion,
Said “there will be
Light, of which you
Are a part.”

#poetry

@Aphelion @Lucaas I've had to come to accept that all of my ideas will die 😭