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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 30/04/2025

Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.

A comic called Bird Photography tips. A good bird photo shows a cape may warbler perched on a branch, with excellent lighting, subject in focus, and field marks clearly visible. A great bird photo shows the warbler in mid hop, labeled with peerless athleticism, levitation??, powerful. An excellent bird photo shows a little round warbler facing the camera, labeled borb, round, and a good bird. An exceptional bird photo shows the bird zooming forward mid flight, labeled nyooooom.

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Sierra (she/her) @hi-sierra.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

(1/9) I often see the effects of hormone replacement therapy summarized as a snappy little list of distinct effects- eg, estrogen HRT gives you “breast growth, some fat redistribution, etc”. This is an easy way to talk about it, but it often understates the actual effects.

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Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Seeing new people discover this for the first time is one of the last remaining unalloyed joys of the internet.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I can't remember if I read in Stone or Serano the framing that doctors wrote books about how to distinguish the few worthy trans people from the unworthy crowd and then had a profession-wide meltdown when they discovered that trans people can read books

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ch1n3du @ch1n3du.net · 05/04/2025

also one of the core devs has a really cool dissertation on decentralizing scientific knowledge/research: jon-e.net/dissertation/

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Swarmpunk

Rough Consensus and Running Code in Brains, Machines, and Society, a dissertation by Jonny Saunders, Institute of Neuroscience/Department of Psychology, University of Oregon. Summer 2022.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/04/2025

the porn brain of the new right. the reactionaries dreaming of rape. the unsettledness of all things. is there a better way? yes. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

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The New Gender Synthesis

To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being.

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Jessica Paquette @barrelshifter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

if slouching is so bad for you then why does it feel so good and natural to sit hunched over like some sort of little goblin hoarding some sort of precious gem

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/04/2025

If being the sole, largely unsupported provider of childcare and domestic labor is so glamorous and empowering and fulfilling, why aren't men signing up for it in droves?

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Miserable Man Hating Feminist @miserableharlot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

People actually should be forced to reckon with the fact that their “individual choices” that just so happened to be “right” for them & their family might have broader societal implications that serve to further the oppression of women.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My point is that > if you consider sex the biological traits associated with masculinity or femininity since there is a certain overlap between trans women and women's brains is a bit too essentialist too, because there need not be such overlap and we shouldn't ground the right to transition on it

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you aspire to ANYTHING beyond the mud, you must be utterly ruthless to troglodytes asserting that "people shouldn't be allowed to change their sex." There's no ignoring or compromising with such an attack on science and choice. The only path to the stars is through the ribcages of transphobes.

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mcyoung 🏳️‍🌈 @mcy.gay · 21/03/2025

cmake2: like cmake but it kills you instantly

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Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @atomwitch.net · 21/03/2025

Just finished this series and I quite liked it! It's a good introduction to the Rationalists and their weirdness, but I really wish they'd had a trans woman on to co-host given how important transness is to understanding Ziz and her friends/followers

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 21/03/2025

It's also about threats of state violence against everyone from hosting providers to electronics manufacturers to deform and cripple an entire technology stack to accommodate crap like DRM and undermine end-user ownership and control of their equipment

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 10/02/2025

If it works for you: I'm not here to tell you to stop. I think a lot of the efficiency issues will be addressed in time. Provenance of training data might get fixed at some point, I doubt any time soon though. I think treating statistical tools the same as deterministic tools is always a mistake.

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 10/02/2025

We have pilots, or developers, in the loop on purpose. They are capable of real reasoning, and in most cases, they have been trained in the area they are operating in. They have limited context. It's better to know when you can't rely on your tool, than to think it is good when it isn't.

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 10/02/2025

I think one of the reasons that I like Rust, and why I've been so reluctant to really use LLMs at all comes from a core tenet in building safety critical systems: When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong

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Kay Lack @neoeno.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

when the usenet thread is about to get good

"This is a novel idea, and I understand the underlying theory. However, according to my calculations," and then redacted.

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

one of the most notable things about tech worker organizing is that it is frequently motivated by *moral* concerns about what the company *does* bc they fail to live up to the values that the company purports arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15790

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

this can turn into broader labor struggle bc you cant change policy without fighting management/owners. anyway tech worker radicalization against the rightward turn of the owner/investor class would be amazing. may this be the beginning of a flood that washes away those reactionary fucks

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wife suggested the RE4 shopkeeper but he's Senor Cardgage. Flasher coat curled around his shoulders, looking at Leon, "oh salutrations ma'am, can an old man offer you some high ballistics?"

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Duke Nukem 3D level I built in high school

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

this is undeniably true, accurately modelling the world is as much if not more a matter of emotional intelligence than it is whatever iq tests purport to measure

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Jane Herbert @aussky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Spotted the most beautiful pair of Gang Gangs yesterday afternoon. I've heard them in Trentham before but not seen them in the 17 years I've been here!! ❤ #birds #ganggang

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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This website rules

Three skeets:

Skeet #1 from Spice8Rack: "The fact that they haven't caught the CEO assasin yet has fundamentally shaken my assumptions about the impenetrability of the borgious surveillance state."
Skeet #2 from Makswel: "Can you explain this in mtg terms? I recently got a concussion and big word no work."
Skeet #3 from Sheep puppet: "The Azorius control player with 11 mana open didnt have an answer when someone Dreadbored their Teferi, Time Raveler, so now the whole pod is thinking maybe their hand is all basics and no counterspells.:

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/12/2024

legit think the shift to online multiplayer had some major detrimental effects for young men!

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François Tessier @hephtaicie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A priceless quote from @sneuwirth.bsky.social's talk today at the Inria center in Rennes: "Benchmarking can be benchmarketing at times". I think I'm going to frame it for my office 😅

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌏 Superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) #Australianbirds | #SuperbFairywren | #Fairywrens #AustralasianWrens #Wrens #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by yjchua 🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

🌏 Superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus)

The Superb fairywren is a small bird species endemic to Australia. The males (pictured) exhibit vibrant plumage during the breeding season, characterized by their brilliant blue feathers on the head, upper body, and tail. Their wings and lower body are mostly brown. In contrast, the females have predominantly brown plumage with a patch of blue around the tail base. The habitat of the Superb fairywren consists of dense shrubs and undergrowth, particularly in woodland, heathland, and coastal areas. GPT-3.5 (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

📷: Photo by yjchua via Pixabay

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Kay Lack @neoeno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

New video! Lots of circles in this one and also some unix history, prime numbers, and possibly a few Jokes watch out for those youtu.be/gITmP0IWff0

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How regexes got catastrophic

YouTube video by Kay Lack

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) poses for it's portrait at the University of Queenlsand, St Lucia, Austalia #birds #Australia #AustralianBirds #photography

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Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Scientists, when do we start lobbying for #Bluesky to implement native LaTeX support? #science #physics #mathematics 🧪⚛️

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

moth doing an excellent lichen impression www.inaturalist.org/observations...

moth flat on tree trunk, moth fills nearly the whole frame, moth is mostly off-white with lots of little speckles looking like tree bark

portrait view of tree branch, about the foot worth of the branch, moth is at the top blending in really well, looking very much like all the other off-white patches of lichen on the branch

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Gordon Haywood 🇦🇺 @gordonhaywood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tawny Frogmouth Closely related to the nightjar and often confused with an owl. A master at camouflage. #birds Refer ALT test for more

With their nocturnal habit and owl-like appearance, Tawny Frogmouths are often confused with owls, but are actually more closely related to the nightjars. Their feet are weak however, and lack the curved talons of owls. The leading edges of the first primary (wing) feathers of the Tawny Frogmouth are fringed to allow for silent flight.
The Tawny Frogmouth is found throughout Australia, including Tasmania.
Tawny Frogmouths are nocturnal (night-active) birds. During the day, they perch on tree branches, often low down, camouflaged as part of the tree.
The bulk of the Tawny Frogmouth’s diet is made up of nocturnal insects, worms, slugs and snails. Small mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds are also eaten. Most food is obtained by pouncing to the ground from a tree or other elevated perch. Some prey items, such as moths, are caught in flight.
Tawny Frogmouths have a regular breeding season from August to January in temperate southern Australia, but birds in more arid areas may breed in response to heavy rains. Both sexes incubate the eggs. The male sits during the day, but both sexes share sitting at night. The nest is a loose platform of sticks, which is usually placed on a horizontal forked tree branch. Normally only one brood is raised in a season, but birds from the south may have two.

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The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

unchecked pointer dereferences may crash a lot of programs, but they also help a lot of programs run fast, so, it;s impossible to say if therye bad or not,

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Tess🏳️‍⚧️ @subluminalmessages.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I love overfilling my schedule with things but I seem to be struck down by the gods every so often. Probably unrelated though.

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Jessica Paquette @barrelshifter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

oh yeah I never posted this classic here

The Dragon Book (compilers) cover with the dragon swapped out with the LLVM dragon. Art contains references to technical phrases used in the LLVM community (NFC commits, Address Sanitizer, SSA form).

Art by Jessica Paquette in 2018

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Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @atomwitch.net · 19/11/2024

The supercomputer I used for my PhD went all in on Xeon Phi and hardly anybody used it. Naturally, I ported my code to run on them and got that partition *entirely* to myself. I have never felt more powerful than running AMBiT on 16 Knights Landing nodes simultaneously

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 19/11/2024

xeon phi is so cool to me because it's like an intel engineer saw the "would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?" reddit thread and was like "wait, i have an idea!"

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 19/11/2024

i think it’s pretty cool how they invented a graphics card that doesn’t have any kind of display output, but *does* have ethernet. we live in the future!

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Tess🏳️‍⚧️ @subluminalmessages.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Me and who tho

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I love reading about the early astronauts because it's essentially a bunch of drunks being strapped to massive explosives and flung headfirst into unknown peril, which is also the premise of Jackass.

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Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @atomwitch.net · 25/10/2024

After years of not owning a car, I finally bought one a couple of months ago and have somehow turned into an obnoxious revhead overnight. I think "car lesbian" might just be my default state of being, unfortunately

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 23/10/2024

“society if compilers improved” with pictures of uranium marketing materials

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