Nils Albin

“Love the earth & sun & animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy.
Re-examine all you have been told
at school or church or in any book;
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul;
& your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

~Whitman

"Striken"

A lucky moment when late morning sun illuminated lifting fog and created this illusion of the tree being struck by light.

#landscapephotography #nature #bluesky #fog #tree

ynicism is first of all a style of presenting oneself, and it takes pride more than anything in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both these things. That the attitude that prides itself on world-weary experience is often so naïve says much about the triumph of style over substance, attitude over analysis. Maybe it also says something about the tendency to oversimplify. If simplification means reducing things to their essentials, oversimplification tosses aside the essential as well. It is a relentless pursuit of certainty and clarity in a world that generally offers neither, a desire to shove nuances and complexities into clear-cut binaries. Naïve cynicism concerns me because it flattens out the past and the future, and because it reduces the motivation to participate in public life, public discourse, and even intelligent conversation that distinguishes shades of gray, ambiguities and ambivalences, uncertainties, unknowns, and opportunities. Instead, we conduct our conversations like wars, and the heavy artillery of grim confidence is the weapon many reach for.

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

Mystiskt sken över Malmö Har en naturlig förklaring.

Tycker ändå det är jävligt sjukt att detta ses som en OK ljusförorening eftersom det är Malmö FF det handlar om. Förstör för djur och natthimmel för att de ska ha riktigt gräs att leka med på vintern? Rimligt www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-01-19/m...

“I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.”
― Gary Snyder

One of our time's greatest poets

Thinking today of this Gary Snyder poem

For the Children

The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
The steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.

Welcome, TikTok users! Bluesky is just like TikTok, except instead of videos we post words and instead of fun we have "discourse"

We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction.

- Carl Sagan

"The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day." ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.

A close-up of a small, bright green frog perched on a leaf, its wide, golden eyes with vertical pupils staring directly at the camera. The frog's skin is speckled with red markings, adding vibrant contrast to its smooth, shiny texture. Its tiny, delicate limbs and yellow-tipped toes grip the leaf, and the background is dark, emphasizing the vivid colors and intricate details of the frog.

A very special froggy, the Tapir Valley Tree Frog (Tlalocohyla celeste). It was first discovered in 2021 and is found only in the lagoon at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#herps #frogs #costarica

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Drömmer om vägen, drömmer om vinden, drömmer om Bobby McGee

If it sounds country man, that's what it is

beep boop beep

Ska njuta extra mycket av min 31krs dusch vid kl 17 idag i elområde 4

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"

They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.

Which is very, very, very different

as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work

Generativa AI-bilder känns verkligen som det nått boomerpubliken senaste året. Alltså, alla medelålders som helt okritiskt tycker att detta är jättecoolt och häftigt och blir impade över att man med tre ord kan få fram en "grym bild". Vilken läskig och skoj teckning!!

Varför kallar man detta "promptografi" lol. Det är ju liksom inte direkt svårt att göra sådana här bilder.

Det finns liksom någon slags misconception att det skulle krävas värsta svåra avancerade promptsen för detta när det bara är att skriva typ "läskig häxa som skriker"

Även om jag hade önskat Mastodon blev alternativet så är jag genuint förvånad över hur många, särskilt vänsterinriktade, journalister som är kvar på tidigare Twitter. Nästan skamligt tycker jag

Politics only matters because of what we love, what we care about, where meaning comes from. And this is part of what I love and where meaning comes from, for me.

Last night's beauty.

Godaste pizzan

hatar att min frisörsalong använder ordet "egentid" när de påminner om min bokade klippning till veckan

Har alla äntligen flytt det andra stället och hittat hit?

Podd: Varför kryllar det av råttor i Malmö? ”En enda hona kan föda hundra ungar på ett år.”

I'm joining the war on råttor i malmö on the side of the råttor

www.sydsvenskan.se/2023-07-18/p...

Vissa tänker nog "så skönt att ta det lugnt i några veckor före ens jobb börjar", vissa andra (jag) tänker "så skönt att ha tid att stressa över min helt självpåtvingade C-uppsats jag tekniskt sett inte ens behöver skriva"