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Anathema wrote:

a man-made thing!

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• an archway bridge over a footpath
• a fancy clock face

Anathema wrote:

back 2 my bullshit, this time with apertuse and iso

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• a fir tree of some sort with red berries. I was very tempted to eat one but I did not.

Anathema wrote:

roots are cool too I guess?

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Anathema wrote:

was it really this dark or did I just play with the shutter speed? we'll never knoooooooow

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• a tree has fallen blocking a path unless you crawl under. the tree is covered in ivy
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Anathema wrote:

I like forests and their paths apparently. also the birds were too skittish. bonus secret bench

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• a winding path through a forest. the path is laid with dark sand
• a winding path through a forest, the path of worn by foot traffic, the forest floor is covered in ivy
• a rusting metal bench obscured by trees
• a roman road flanked with trees

Anathema wrote:

a polite yet demanding dinosaur. I think it was left behind by its dinosaur friends

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• a dinosaur (greylag goose) on the bank of a pond

Anathema wrote:

Uh oh I was spotted

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• swan waddling towards me to get food

Anathema wrote:

I agree

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• an abandoned house graffitied with "house the homeless"

Anathema wrote:

there was also fancy ducks

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• a fancy duck
• an equally fancy but different duck

Anathema wrote:

I went somewhere else, it had fancy crows

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• a hooded crow standing on a bin

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

Reblogged by Lyrilith@mastodon.art:
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