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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh, cool, the video is by @cabel.panic.com Nice job documenting this idiot's behavior!

Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Holy shit, that was a dangerous maneuver! That guy should lose his pilot's license.

Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

A relative of mine lives in one of those apartments in Alterlaa. Not one with a balcony unfortunately, but it's still pretty nice. People who live there are overall very content with the building. The pools on top are pretty sweet... "Sozialer Wohnbau" that works...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, yeah, it's still right in the middle of the uncanny valley. But wow, we've come far in robot development, I must say! I almost didn't notice it. Cool demo...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Looks like the eyeballs interfered with the link. Here's the working one: mikeiswatching.com

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess it all depends on how well the guy is playing the flute. Having experienced my kids learning the flute, I picture this scene as Hades' Community Garden, with worm-infested zucchinis and tomatoes that are on fire.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

PS: One has to click on "EXPLORER LA TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX" on the above link to open a map-style browser.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Agreed. And the Bayeux museum has a really wonderful, high-def online browser for the tapisserie de Bayeux. Here's the link: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisseri...

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Explorer la Tapisserie de Bayeux en ligne

Pour la première fois, vous allez pouvoir explorer librement la totalité de la Tapisserie de Bayeux avec une qualité d'images exceptionnelle

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

This reminds me that I should definitely get fireworks so I have them ready when "it" happens.

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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You don’t own anything you buy

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Yay, glad I could help. Alan Alda is amazing! Love the guy...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

That's going to look something like this:

schematic of a distribution of news stories aligned along an x axis where "not too great" is on the "left", and "extremely bad" is on the right. Boxes symbolizing news stories are all bunched up against the right side.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

That's quite a Hilaire-ious statement...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I just found my old issue and have been browsing through it today. Powerful words and imagery. I had forgotten about that powerful poem at the very end. It's very moving: www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Is this Portland, Oregon? Then it's maybe just some good Samaritan working hard at keeping the place weird.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't have Ophidiophobia, and I don't have Arachnophobia, but I think I might have Arachnophidiophobia...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Americans and their weird metrics... I think in terms of global sea rise level, and I was born about 129mm ago.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, to be fair, even cheeto himself doesn't go that far and imagined himself running (what an image!) He said "[] and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

I go there twice a week and have learned to prepare a list beforehand. Then I force myself to only buy what's on the list, which takes a lot of willpower. Well, today I failed and got myself some roasted pistachio toffee and a large chocolate bar with hazelnuts.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

FYI: I'm having issues entering my payment info on the lightingsource site. The window for entering my CC info is not popping up as it should (tried in Firefox and Safari.) Anyway, I ordered it through Powell's Books, and that worked...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks! This is great, and very timely for me because I'm going to be attempting to create some phylogenetic trees for a work project in a few months.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Interesting how the areas with positive anomalies in 1976 are generally in the same locations as now, except that now they are much more extreme. Off the scale even...

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Love my MacBookPro, but not being able to uninstall various OS apps is super annoying to me. E.g. the Music app, which constantly tries to interfere (e.g. when pressing the play button on my BT headphones), but which I can't figure out how to uninstall. (Using Plexamp and audiobookshelf instead.)

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

I love the Alpine Lake Wilderness in the Northern Cascades + the volcanoes, but what I miss from growing up in the Alps is that there's always a hut along my hike where I can stop and have a beer. (Wilderness like the one you find in North America really doesn't exist any more in central Europe.)

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

I hate these kind of clickbait headlines. I subscribe to the Oregonian, because I believe it's important to support local journalism, but I have my limits as to the quality of content I'm getting in return.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

Ah, I've had the pleasure of meeting these guys in Vienna, Austria, next to a pond in the Prater area in 1998. I swear they crawled up my legs for a while without me noticing, and then they all stung in a coordinated fashion. Quite painful, leading to cold sweats, and a lasting memory.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Nice idea. I'm going to turn this Northwest Cherry Trail into a bike ride (except for the Sugarpine Drive-in, which is a bit too far outside my range.) Cloud City Ice Cream is my absolute favorite!

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

That's (another reason) why I like the Portland International Airport (PDX). They have a "street pricing" policy for all its shops and restaurants. Vendors are mandated to charge the same prices as at their off-airport locations.

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

Great illustrations! I recently used a similar one of Rhacophorus reinwardtii from www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31895954 for making myself a laser-engraved coaster. I'll have to make more coasters with these other frog species now. They'll go well with my morning coffee.

Cork coaster with a laser engraving of a tropical tree frog (Rhacophorus reinwardtii). The illustration is from: Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles, 1834-1854, Roret

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

This is so god-damn stupid and wasteful. $20 million just "to cover the cost of keeping the plant ready to run during the first 90-day order."

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Armin @armin.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026

I might as well save a few bucks, skip this technology, and only go fishing in densely-stocked holding ponds at my local fish hatchery.

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