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Anathema wrote:

sunbathing blackbird

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• sunbathing female blackbird
• sunbathing female blackbird

Anathema wrote:

sparrow stealing my grass

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• sparrow in the grass
• sparrow eating the grass

Anathema wrote:

young bird on the pond

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• a juvenile greater crested egret on pond reflecting the surrounding trees

Anathema wrote:

The end of summer.

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• a forest path, there are fallen apples

Anathema wrote:

Colours

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• sunset
• sunset

Anathema wrote:

I just liked the vague colours of the sky, I'm not one of those powerline obsessed people

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• a powerline against a sky with faint pinks, blues and oranges

Anathema wrote:

Wont find many fish there!

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• grey heron on a footpath

Anathema wrote:

Cambridge has some nice places.

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• an old boathouse on a still river surrounded by trees

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

doggeh

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• Chihuahua/terrier who is leaning back in a standing up kind of position, getting scritches (remote)

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Can we stop that "Is there a correction coming?" investment news sensation / clickbait shit?

I read that headline nearly every day while all stock markets make new highs...

owl@beach.city wrote:

Kråkan, using the melody of Italian calzone: FragZone

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Will it stave off the vengeance of the spiders if I blame it all on those dilatory flies?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/03/this-could-be-bad/

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I'm pretty sure this appeared in my timeline, but I don't know from where, otherwise I'd boost it. But thanks to the anonymous tooter for sharing Hélène Vogelsinger's "New Horizon". It made for some nice repeat listening this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TTZSNPbQGI

owl@beach.city wrote:

mono-åke

owl@beach.city wrote:

Played a bit on the piano and I was really bad.
But that means I'm going to notice an improvement every time I play, and that will be fun.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

From that same article, one of the first use of computers at pharmaceutical companies (outside of payroll I assume):

"[Computers] are ... finding names for drugs still undeveloped."

Anyway, I was referred to the Business Week article via "When Hackers Were Heroes", which is an interesting look back at Levy's "Hackers":

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/4/251341-when-hackers-were-heroes/fulltext

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marble@chaos.social ("marble [☎️: 6725]") wrote:

@OCRbot

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

That's from a 1958 edition of Business Week. Are the longhairs and financial men still running the computers? :thonking:

https://archive.org/details/sim_business-week_1958-06-21_1503/page/84/mode/2up

owl@beach.city wrote:

Kråkan: It's starting to get dark now.
Kråkan: *Closes the blinds*

owl@beach.city wrote:

piano arithmetic

owl@beach.city wrote:

It can also listen on the microphone but that's creepy and my piano has no speakers anyway.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Need a cable I don't have so this piano training program can "hear" me over MIDI.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

What weird mania afflicts the British press that they would think the Sarah Everard case is a good excuse to bash on trans women?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/03/twisting-the-story-to-fit-your-weird-obsession-is-disrespecting-the-victim/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

She's showing me how to play.

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• Grey tabby cat standing on the keys of a digital piano. (remote)

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kamonabetengoku@mastodon.art wrote:

Inktober 2021Day3 VESSEL

#mastoart #drawing #comicart #illustration #Inktober #Inktober2021

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fefe@mastodon.art ("Feff") wrote:

Sketch

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dustyqueersheep@mastodon.art ("Dusty Cynique Unapolegetic") wrote:

I am lucky enough my anorexia is not that strong so I recover before it gets too bad each time.
Take care, ED survivors 💚

Selling price 40€, delivery included for France

#inktober #art #mastoart #mentalhealthawareness

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• Some character with their stomach torn into a spiraling pillar, taking selfies. Background is a spirally-ish pattern (remote)

Anathema wrote:

Typical Cambridge. Out for a stroll in the woods and someone flies overhead in a biplane.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Also remove strandskyddet, so that owners can enjoy lakes and other things more, and other humans/lifeforms less.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Forest owners/corps here are logging more/younger forest than the law allows. Can't say I'm surprised.
And centre/right parties want owners to have the right to log even more, because they're the owners.