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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

These days my photographs are mostly from around Hveragerði. /end

The sun seen through steam in Hveragerði.
Steam freezes on the ground as crystals in Hveragerði.
Autumn mist in the reforestation area near Hveragerði.
Mist covers the ground. Snow is scattered. Starlings fly above.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Montréal is quite picturesque.

A couple confers over something in the sun in a Montréal park.
Through the reeds we see the vague outlines of a duck.
People meet in the rain, under the cover of their umbrellas, in Parc Jarry, Montréal.
Teenagers meet under a tree in Parc Jarry, Montréal as the sun sets.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Got back into proper photography ten years ago with a Fuji when I was living in Montréal.

A mother dragging a reluctant child over the road in Montréal.
A very green armchair that was left under a bridge in Montréal.
A very chunky cat that was outside a store in Montréal.
A woman reading a book in a public park in Montréal.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Had my iPhone era like many others. The iPhone 6 camera had some charm

A black and white photo of old buildings next to the river Avon in Bath. 2015.
Canal boats in the river Avon in Bath.
A bird flies over buildings by the river Avon in Bath.
Tourists walk along a hill in a geothermal area somewhere in Reykjanes IIRC

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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116628363841732321

This law is so good and the US needs an equivalent this strong, badly.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Got into digital photography about 20 years ago while still living in Bristol. Although regularly visiting home.

A photo taken in Bristol. The cobbles are still wet from the rain. A pigeon is chasing after another pigeon.
A photo of the “Gentlemen’s” public toilets in a park in Bristol. The sign says “these toilets are now permanently closed.”
New year’s eve in Garðabær in Iceland circa 2007. There are fireworks everywhere.
New year’s eve 2008 in Reykjavík city centre. A couple walks along the pond.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Never really recovered from my admiration of black and white film although I don't miss the many inconveniences

The fire escape by the dormitory belonging to the University of the West of England.
Mail is stacked up against the wall by a very shoddy front door.
A group of people walk through a cemetery in Clifton, Bristol.
A child looks at the procession during a commitment ceremony in Bristol. Apple’s “AI” thinks she is a bald eagle.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Most of the photos were taken in Clifton, the centre, Redland, or Southville

A bicycle is locked to a railing in Clifton, Bristol.
An out of focus photo of the Clifton train station, I think.
A view town a tunnel of thorns in a cemetery in Clifton, Bristol.
Through a gate, down a hall, we see a silhouette of a man.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Moving to Bristol in 2000 I was still using black and white film, mostly

A black and white photo taken through an arch in Bristol city centre. A woman is on the other side taking photos of the architecture.
Newspapers piled on chairs in a Clifton laundromat.
A pair of golfers seem to argue in the Ashton Court golf course in Bristol.
Pigeons taking flight in a Bristol park.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The dog got skunked today and I have to think the skunk had been storing that shit away for a while because it was the most caustic chemical-smelling, WWI mustard gas-level skunking ever, our house is now a Superfund site, please avoid

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Cross-posting tools still suck, huh?

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

These were taken after my shift in the newsroom studio on the last day that the Icelandic national broadcasting service broadcast from their old facilities in Laugavegur. Late 90s

A photo from an old-style newsroom showing a number of screens with various broadcasts and clocks showing various time zones.
Inside the small newsroom studio control room at the old facilities that the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service had in Laugavegur. A documentary about the life of Halldór Laxness is being broadcast.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The rules are being rigged to favor contrarian assholes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/24/idiots-demanding-special-status-for-being-idiots/

National Academies of Science

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If you’re one of my new or recent followers that came here because of my newsletter, you might not know that I regularly subject my audience to my photography. So to give you some context I figure I might as well post a little bit of an overview of the kind of photography I’ve done as a hobbyist.

A scanned film photo of a cat taking shelter from the rain under a car.
A photo of the pond in the Reykjavík city centre. The buildings are in silhouette as the sun sets.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

What a BANGER https://youtu.be/Ck3MRdeph5o

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evaristegal0is ("evariste.gal🌈is") wrote:

@campuscodi open source projects should not pay for bug reports. But they should credit the researcher publicly.

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Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

The worst implementation of the rand() function can be found in Objectivism Oriented Programming.

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ton@social.coop ("T🎃N") wrote:

Black and white ink cartoon of a three eyed alien creature at a lectern raising its hand as it gives a commencement speech to a sea of mortarboards. It says, "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasaed to feed your new alien overlords--wait, why are you all booing?" Cartoon is signed joedator + kevin maher

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Gulfie@yiff.life ("gulfie official") wrote:

PSA it's fledgling season in many parts of the world, many well-meaning people will see a fledgling and think it's a "baby bird that needs help". Fledglings do not need your help aside from imminent dangers like cats dogs and roads. If it flutters and hops around, it's a fledgling, its parents are very likely nearby. Leave it alone please!

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fluffy@plush.city ("fluffy 💜") wrote:

man streaming sure is lucrative for indie musicians

Royalty Periods Year: 2026 Feb-26 Opening Balance: $0.00 Earnings: $0.07 Adjustments: $0.00 Payments: $0.00 Outstanding Balance: $0.07

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lunareclipse@snug.moe ("luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian:") wrote:

thinking about this post

Two posts by teaboot on I think tumblr. I'm not Christian, I don't go to church anymore and my pastor died, but when he was alive I'd sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn't allowed, so when we're told that we're allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we're supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I'd like to perhaps submit that. Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I'm allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it's the latter so once again thank you pastor D

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silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

I consider it to be a successful con when your room looks like several cartoon dogs have exploded in it Sunday morning. #fursuit


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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

"Don't use AI because it's bad" is possibly not a nuanced or complex position.

"Don't use AI because it's bad due to this list of careful considerations" is a nuanced and complex position by construction.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

That is not a simple position to hold, but precisely none of those complexities point to embracing the relatively extreme position of AI adoption, let alone AI boosterism.

Nuanced and complex positions are not necessarily those that coincide with popular discourse. You are not necessarily a more careful thinker for hedging your own internal cognition towards media narratives.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "complex" views about AI.

I ask that you please reject that temptation and recognize that full and complete abstinence from AI is a complex view that considers the tradeoffs, compromises with the relative extremes of direct action, and that comes from a comprehensive understanding of what AI is.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Why is Apple’s iCloud still so useless? After all these years, every ”improvement” regresses away in the space of a few months. The iCloud Photos sync lag seems to have returned, albeit not as extreme as it used to be.

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I don't love how much time this writing piece is taking to come together

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay, so the good thing is it merges errors nicely etc.

the bad thing is the errors are limited to c-style enums. by default it uses a u16 to indicate the error.

so i guess what you're supposed to do if you want more info is pass a union pointer as an out param? or have a thread local?

not sure i like this.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i suppose i ought to see in which ways zig gets error handling wrong.

this could be problematic.