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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

every time i reached for my phone to take a picture of them, these two would give me an annoyed squawk because macaws are smart enough to identify when one should live in the moment rather than just try to document everything

Two blue-and-yellow macaws side by side on a branch looking at the viewer, one thinks, slightly annoyed.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

"Gentlemen, imagine someone playing your puzzle game for the mobile phone. But they are playing it incorrectly. Rules so simple you can get the idea across in a sentence, but they repeatedly make elementary errors. Maybe even the same error twice. Wouldn't you be […] [Original post on jorts.horse]

don draper from mad men giving a slide presentation to some clients

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

this differs from my backup plan only in that my writing would be much more boring

Screenshot of a news article reading:
"Deng Yu, the 37-year-old Chinese mathematician who won the 2026 Fields Medal, has a backup plan if artificial intelligence puts him out of a job.

On Tuesday, he wrote on social media that "if AI can solve all maths problems, I'll go home and write my yuri novel".

Deng is known to be a big fan of yuri, a genre of Japanese novels and comics that depicts intimate friendships and romantic relationships between women.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

i think this, and then the perfidious coup of 18 brumaire in november, and then the rest is all zoom meetings.

screenshot of my apple calendar for today showing i have an all-day event labeled "pigmon's death" and nothing else.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

i put this on my work calendar so i wouldn't forget. mourn ya til i join ya, good buddy.

image of heroic kaiju pigmon from ultraman lying dead amongst the rocks of tatara island. the subtitles read "september 4, 1966, Pigmon, who was popular among the girls, died.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

:goosesiren::goosesiren::goosesiren:GOOSE MAP:goosesiren::goosesiren::goosesiren: src: www.irbc.ie/notes/cackling/cackling…

Map of 11 taxa by Michael O'Keefe of Canada Geese and Cackling Geese across North America. Other than differences in size and some minor difference in bill shape, they look almost identical. Per the creator, "given the still relative lack of solid criteria for identification, this diagram really serves little purpose other than to illustrate the general trend towards larger birds to the south, smaller birds to the north and darker birds to the north west"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

correct post from sa graph thread poster aniviron

handdrawn graph titled "parts of a goat" with the y-axis labelled "danger" and the x-axis labeled "cuteness". their rectangular eyes are in the bottom left, their horns in the top middle, and their noises in directly in the center.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

i know "the two genders" posts are played out but i have to emphasize the extent that these are, to me, the two genders.

photo of a dolly parton themed pinball machine

photo of an elvira themed pinball machine

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

pov: you try to do something in modern powerpoint that would take two seconds to do in paint

Screenshot of my attempt to erase part of an image in powerpoint. A dialog box has opened up titled "This feature is very popular right now" with the caption "We can't complete your request at the moment, but we're working to meet the increased demand, You can try again later." At the bottom of the menu is the caption "AI-generated content may be incorrect." I should note that opening this window created a minute or two of latency as it did unasked for object recognition before I could even try to do anything.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

anyway here's a painting of a bird i liked

picture of a painting, "Saddle-billed Stork" by Susan Parmenter. It is, as per the title, a portrait-style painting of a long-necked water bird with a long beak with a yellow saddle-shaped feature at the top.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

nightvale-ass sign. just makes the siren call of the sphere irresistible imo.

photo of a sign at the museum of science in oxford reading "Please do not touch the sphere. Thank you."

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

most obviously cursed museum in the thriving genre of "obviously cursed english museums"

cases of artifacts at the pitt rivers museum labeled "amulets and charms". the cases of magical items extends for several cases out of the frame of the picture

photo of a shiny bottle with the label "Europe, England, Sussex, Hove. silvered and stoppered bottle said to contain a witch, obtained about 1915 from an old lady living in a village near Hove, Sussex. She remarked "...and they do say there be a witch in it and if you let un out there it be a peck o' trouble."

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

After ruining the "is a hotdog a sandwich" discourse for myself, I've now decided to pick another type of stupid discourse to permanently ruin.

An infographic titled "Does ACAB include..." with three categories of fictional detectives: literal law enforcement officers, people who work with lay enforcement, and general investigators. The list begins with a bunch of fictional cops (like Raymond Holt and Olivia Benson) but ends with absurdities (like Santa Claus, and Steve from Blues Clues).

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

even when it tries not to be haunted, maine is still, like, kind of haunted

a photo of a flowering tree in the middle of a (est. ca.) 1668 cemetery

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

[exploding animal carcass] they are doing this to me tomorrow

First page of a US Forest Service document titled "Obliterating Animal Carcasses with Explosives" by Jim Tour and Mike Knodel, the latter the "Northern Region Blaster Examiner". Figure 1 is captioned "Partial obliteration using 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms) of explosives under the carcass" and shows an outline of a horse with evenly placed sticks of explosives positioned around its body and limbs.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

@plut0nian also apologies for the blurry picture but i was at an art of moby dick exhibit today and the "moby dick but all the bits that aren't gay redacted" was very funny to me

blurry image of billy ocallaghan's "*redacted to queer", which is a copy of moby dick with all the bits that aren't gay whited out. the book is (of course) open to chapter 94 ("A Squeeze of the Hand"), where the passage "Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! All the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it" etc. etc. is not redacted even a little.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

does this count as environmental storytelling

pile of three books: camus' the myth of sisyphus, wittgenstein's tractatus logico-philosophicus, and volume 1 of eguchi's "stop!! hibari-kun"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

had to get the mary oliver card from the bookstore, sorry

greeting card featuring a goose with the caption "let the soft animal of your body love what it loves", which is a quotation from the mary oliver poem "wild geese"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

they had sold it in the 48 hours since i saw it in the window: ((( (it was this one from the 1870 census)

1870 census "map showing the proportion of deaths from malarial diseases to deaths from all causes" showing red regions of high proportions of malaria deaths in north central florida, the coastal carolinas, and around the chesapeake bay

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

[holocaust, human remains] and here were (some) of the most evil historical data representations i saw recently (i also saw some original prints from the pernkopf atlas but i was not allowed to, nor did i wish to, take pictures of it)

large infographic on display in the freud museum in vienna showing the "migration" of jews from post-anschluss austria by 1941, including isotype style demographic figures, flow diagrams showing the emigration progress, line charts, maps, etc.

skull of an anonymous patient owned by 18th century phrenologist (among, admittedly, other, less pseudoscientific credentials) franz joseph gall, on display in the josephinum museum, annotated with regions gall believed associated with different personality traits

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

here were two of the least evil historical data visualizations i saw recently

thematic map displayed in the josephinum museum in vienna, showing the prevalence of smallbox in the austrohungarian empire from 1872-1896

map displayed in the josephinum museum in vienna, similar to the famous london 1854 cholera map associated with john snow, showing areas in vienna inner city impacted by the 1873 cholera epidemic

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

experiencing what i can only term "baroque overload" after returning from vienna, where all i want to do is just stare at some brutalist concrete apartment buildings for a bit. maybe hang out in a strip mall with a dsw and a panera bread

interior of st. peter's church in vienna

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

[extremely detailed anatomical models] how your emails find me this week

18th century wax anatomical model from the josephinum museum in vienna. most viscera are removed other than the heart and a kidney, the muscles and major arteries are visible. the face is upturned and looks both concerned and tired.

another 18th c wax model from the josephinum museum in vienna, showing major and minor veins and arteries. the figure has a hand extended and is looking off to the side as if in either decadent repose and/or having just heard a very bad joke.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

people laughed at me when i said i was going to the globe museum but, listen: the globe museum goes pretty hard

baroque corridor in the globe museum with an ornate painted ceiling and a glass case with sun/moon/earth apparatuses where a candle replaces the sun and so creates location (if not scale) accurate shadows

display cases in the globe museum, focused here on globes of other planets, including early globes of the moon where the geography of the dark side was not known and so various techniques were used (from just total confabulation to using the blank space to write an index) to hide the lacuna

two enormous globes, one of the earth and one of the constellations

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

inspired by my friend showing us this ai info box that a) has the wrong pronunciation b) instructs you how to pronounce a letter "g" that is not present in the word c) provides an incorrect gloss and d) links to a pronunciation video for a different language

Screenshot of an AI overview box, reading:
In Flemish (which is a Dutch dialect), the word for ladybug is “lieveheersbeestie". A phonetic approximation is "lee-vuh-heers-bay-st-yuh", where the "g" is a hard, guttural sound similar to the “ch in the Scottish word "loch". The literal translation is “little beast of the Lord". You can watch this video to learn how to pronounce "ladybug" in French:"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

[ai] working on the paper that will get me fired

According to pioneers in AI research like Marvin Minsky, CEOs of AI-powered tech companies like Elon Musk, and even some people who didn’t associate with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein socially, AI will continue to have a transformative impact on society. However, the impact of this transformation is not felt evenly or equally across society.
For instance, AI has made great strides in the fields of convincing teenagers to kill themselves, helping people cheat on
tests, reducing what little integrity academic publishing had, making customer service worse, and making sure artists, translators, and programmers are paid less (if they even continue to have jobs). However, this allocation of interest and resources seems inefficient— for instance, most artists weren’t really being paid that much anyway even before AI came along. As so much university and corporate marketing material insists, we should instead be looking for impact: where can AI produce the greatest economic gains for the smallest cost? A killer app for AI should therefore be one where the current economic cost is high (spending trillions to make a few thousand artists less employable seems
like a waste of resources) and the AI methods are consistently performant (which excludes most current applications like medical diagnostics and software engineering, where actual performance in real-world settings often lags behind promises).

[Full text is over the character limit. The passage begins with the following, and argues for automating away CEOs as unnecessary in the AI-driven world:]
To this end, I argue that we should focus Al research on automating, and eventually eliminating, the job of CEO. CEOs are expensive: while the ratio of CEO to average employee pay was 21 to 1 in 1965, it is 632-to-17 and growing for CEOs in 2025, while average worker pay is stagnating behind inflation. And, according to self-reports, the work of being a CEO is arduous: "It’s frankly a horrible job. I wouldn’t want it. Being a C.E.O. of a big company is a hundred-hour-a-week job. It consumes your life. It consumes your weekend. It’s super-stressful", with multiple tech CEOs remarking that performing all the tasks expected of a successful CEO requires giving up ideas of a healthy work-life balance?, with self-reported tracking of CEO time usage finding the job to be “all-consuming”. Lastly, many of the responsibilities of being a CEO can and have been performed by AI. The tech company Klarna made headlines for having an Al-generated video (centered around a deepfake of their CEO) deliver their earnings report, with initial works showing (admittedly short term) benefits of decisions made by LLM-driven CEOs over human decision-making. In summary, the job of CEO is expensive, arduous, and amenable to automation...

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

[ai, bad graph] another contender for "graph taken from the sa bad graphs thread that immediately goes into lecture slides"

Chart titled "Exhibit 3 - Share Mix - AI Agent vs. Traditional Search Usage Instance" that, at first glance, makes it seem like ChatGPT has become the dominant search engine over Google Search, but then you look at the labels and dual axes and see that Google's y-axis goes from 80-100% while ChatGPT's goes from 0-16%, and Google is still 85.0% of searches.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

[food] verdict: 40 cloves turns out to be a lot of garlic. but the long braise sort of mellows it out into a soft roast garlic-style paste, and so the result is just a "very garlicky red sauce" instead of "a disaster". would probably just make a regular weeknight sauce next time

A dutch oven full of approximately 40 cloves of browning garlic.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

this one i thought would be fun but it turns out if a 1k piece puzzle is 1/3 clouds, 1/3 ocean, and 1/3 grass it gets kind of frustrating

completed jigsaw puzzle of a man and a woman (and some sheep) walking along the sea shore with a lighthouse and stone cabin in the distance

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

@mjskay.com and of course there's the pioneering theory shape work of unpleasant cranks

Image from Gene Ray's "time cube" theory of everything, showing earth rotating through a simultaneous four day period.

Figure from Jordan Peterson's "Maps of Meaning" showing a bunch of stupid set diagrams but in the upper corner is the "dragon of chaos"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

flipping off the hollerith tabulating machine to let it know that i detest it and all of its curséd progeny

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

more delilo most photographed barns from me. idk if it's like walter benjamin style "work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" aura or what but you do feel a like psychic compulsion to take these pictures alongside several dozen of your compatriots doing the same thing

geothermal geyser near geysir in iceland

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the tessellated swan wall and I thought well as well him as another

piece of art by hulda hákon titled "svanir" (swans) that's just a wall-sized panel of painted wooden swan heads

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

[uspol] apropos of nothing on this, the 11th of september, but remember when trump released a bunch of poorly redacted "jfk files" that, among other things, revealed that the CIA was actively engaged in attempting to sabotage and overthrow the chilean government […] [Original post on jorts.horse]

salvador allende's glasses recovered after this alleged suicide on september 11th, 1973. the caption reads "This iconic object is in the process of conservation"

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

from now on when people ask me about 3d pie charts i'll say "oh, you mean the nazi data visualization? no thanks" www.chartography.net/p/when-fascist…

3D pie chart from the short-lived (1940-44) Nazi propaganda magazine "Signal" titled "The Submarine Army" showing that ~1/5 of British shipping was being sunk by German planes and U-boats.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

ah fuck they are gamifying google scholar (more than it already was), leading to the grim future of an any% google scholar speedrun

screenshot of the google scholar website with a banner reading "Your paper got its 100th citation" under the search bar

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

new babysitter, talking to parents: "yeah, the kids went to sleep on time, but the life size statue of watto is creeping me out, can i cover it up?" parents: "take the children and call the police immediately! we don't own a statue of watto!"

Screenshot of a Facebook marketplace ad for a $600 "RARE Star Wars Life Size Watto Figurine 1999 Pepsi Promo No Stand"

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