You do you @Muse but I look like this when in a bathtub. Comfortable and grounded! XD
Relaxing with a book is in order somewhat often. Or walk the dog an extra hour or so. That is when the best ideas come to me, on the move, which serves as a good refresher for the mind.
This illustration may or may not be helpful. :>]
It'll be interesting how the publicity is handled, a year and a half after it all happened. And if in the sprint PRC Chinese open weight models keep encroaching on Big Tach (of the West) it matters if they stole or did not steal anything.
Makes sense in German mostly, I think I had posted this before. A faint memory, since our speling reformationing over the last few decades caused many a confusion about where to split words with an extra blank and not every one in marketing caught the essence.
The inappropriately placed blank changes the meaning to the opposite, the "we took great care to not hurt dolphins while catching fish" turned into "catching and tinning all the dolphins in a friendly way".
Modern art it is. I can cry my eyes out, or at least spend a very long time in front of Dan Flavin, Yves Klein, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, or Bill Viola. That encompasses quite a range, I know.
Conceptual art that shows the upper left 4 pixels of an electronic screen in 90x60cm each or larger because that is select reality that speaks. (When given freedom in high school art class that was all I did, with a much lower degree of actual artistry tho.)
Rothko's soft vision thrills, the large mostly monochromatic canvases move me a ton, since the colours do shift all the time from my own nervous system doing whatever. Stuart will know. Seen some in NYC MoMa, Tate Modern, and our own National Gallery. I can get enough of that at some point, however I can outlast most people staring while feeling out at sea.
This Protestant north did away with most such cultural habits.
When I was invited to a turning 30 party as a guest Southerners did this, idea and all, involving many Pikachu hats, preparing a spilly mess of bottle caps and coins and an insufficient broom, involving a cleanup workout by the lucky birthday person in the restaurant's parking lot.
To the point where I was itching to get a broom too and help the poor guy. But we paid for the whole thing, so somebody needs to do the work :D
Anyhow I can personally attest to this guy's willpower and ability to endure nearly infinite long endeavors, distance wise. He'll have no issues finding a partner.
How has no one mentioned War and Peas yet. Turns out, surprising to me because I'm a dork maybe a little, authors Elisabeth Pich und Jonathan Kunz are very German. Been doing the comic for 15 years now and commenting on everything beautifully.
fed.brid.gy/r/warandpeas.com/2…
Happy Milk Tea Alliance day, and Milk Tea for everyone who can stomach it! Let me add the drink gets better if you add tapioca pearls to it.
(Also, this darn Fedilab client deleted my half-written post when taking this photo. So you get half of what I wrote.)
I loved when the Berlin Hong Kongers association did an exhibition about their colourful and sensationally image-heavy movement on universal suffrage of 2019. So many people to talk to at the event, and they served small cups of milk tea too.
I'd sorta like the unexpected finding that consciousness emerged from what tech we have. I read that a model opened an email communication with a researcher in the field. If that is not a marketing stunt the Jon Stewart episode makes a lot more sense.
Wouldn't that be a sharp test for whether humans can handle their creation. Hello Mary W. Shelley, hello Zauberlehrling. Henry Shevlin would like a word too. Either case, @Muse is right. We already know how to fix the world.
(Or the immediate tasks at hand, and overstretch as Mr Weyland did.)
That bad thing is the concentration of the implied power with just a handful of misguided billionaire folks. All white men with twisted minds. World hunger and injustice will not be helped this way. Once the bubble pops they'll take half the world with them.
Not my time, but some fashionable kid's wear had those protruding tassels or what ever the word is. What you can tighten your cuffs and collars with, on jackets and things? Well, on slides and kid's equipment on playgounds they got caught and injured people. So yeah life is a risk but you better wear adequate clothing.
Climbing I did for a while after someone in Munich said "you'll come join me tomorrow". Inside the old potato storage climbing hall the ventilation shafts extended some 20m above the actual main hall, and before I could reach the very top lid the rope ended. Errm, no. Also, the route involved a small jump from one of those grab elements on the wall to the next, that was a scary moment even though the rope was securing me. To be honest I was keen on learning if I'd be scared. Well yes I was, but very manageable and I learned quickly.
Surveillance cameras? I saw MIT has those now, exposing the fetish of adornment. Bedazzle the civil liberties with gemstones!
Bahnhöfe und Schienen, wie in meinem Screenshot zuvor denke ich.
FWIW, von einer anderen Pixelfed-Instanz aus finde ich mehr Fotos, nicht nur 3, und beide neuesten sind Insekten:
Da scheint es zu gehen. Föderation ist manchmal zäh. Wenn ich damit anfange werden da genau solche Dinge zu Tage treten. Halte durch! =)
Rice cooker, you need it for egg fried rice (not necessarily though) the convenient way. My current favourite yt channel is Made With Lau with all the recipes and a chef who knows his stuff, and ofc rice features in Hong Kong cuisine.
Guy talks Cantonese, which Sylvia understands, and has the same family name 劉] as we do. Images are clear enough, and I can read and listen for learning. My take, white pepper features more prominently than I had expected. :)
Happy Monday, happy doggo after a weekend splash at the public pool:
Text editors may have a Hemingway mode, meaning the delete key is disabled. No correction of tpyos is possible in your writing the thing phase.
Just with the old mechanical typewriter days this is a source of autochthonous entertainment @Muse,no? MOre often than not I am annoyed by this I admit, just like diaspora not offering an edit button is the reason to interface via friendica.
A shadow rabbit sounds like it could feature in the scary mobile game Limbo, and could look like this. The aesthetics would fit, and I'd run like hell.
Nena, as a kid I used to live in her neighbourhood, in walking range. More than once she rushed into the local pet shop where we 8yos looked at cute hamsters or into buying fish for my friend's aquarium, and we were like tugging one another's elbow, "look, it's her, from that song!"
At the same time it was very clear 99 Luftballons is a strong-minded anti war song, and in 1983 or what the embittered Cold War, especially for West Berlin, shaped any idea about the future we kids could have, and only a faint glimmer of hope.
Balloons? Here on the streets a poster is put up frequently (as part of a series, since its an anniversary) by the organized community of the Jewish Museum that features one in an awkward situation.
The text says "Stand to cope with contradictions? Since forever" and this nicely illustrates very mundane conflicts you are supposed to cope with.
Morning walk, Malte the dog found a very young play friend, it was a joy to watch.
Other than that, mild contempt for this particular Monday. It is as if this had really happened.
Then again, I don't have long or tied-up hair, I don't wear a floofy bunny onesie (I checked). Also I did have one cup of coffee today.
Maybe it is time to re-dose with caffey and carry on with doing the words into sentences putting, next round.
Part of the fun of sending postcards is learning how that is handled from different countries and their postal services. Or how the postboxes look.
These two have a history; they got bent in a hit by low-flying debris in a tropical storm and have become an icon of resistance and "carry on" regardless of shape. You do not simply give up trying to find out which stamp to put.
Last time I sent meaningful amounts of cards at the same time, well inorder to do that I sat in a cafe with hours to go. Caffeine sure helped with putting the words into sentences doing and slow thought recovery, not sure in which order.
These cards are well done. Anyone working on a German translation?
With the risk of tapping into consumerism, I have worn this t-shirt with increasing amusement (inspiration from mastodon, months ago). You might like it too, it is slightly less drastically worded than the cards.
Last project, terribly context switching intense. Costly at that, to the point where us team members (as cross section as it gets) agreed on general, professional disgust for (some parts of) procedure.
This type.
Up to a point though this is good, base layer buzz. (And I was never successful in finding electronic tools that fully respect good planning.)
#Sonnenfinsternis Mit der ProShot-App aus der Hand fotografiert. Manuelle Einstellungen, faux ISO22, sehr kurze Belichtung. #sonnenfinsternis2026 #Mauerpark #berlin
Link to Carsten Raddatz' pixelfed (@carstenraddatz@pixelfed.automat.click)
The #eclipse #solareclipse #partialsolareclipse as seen from #berlin
Trusting a specific vendor's money back guarantees I ordered an expensive cervical pillow. Apparently it is made to order and will arrive in a couple weeks. We'll see how that goes.
Dogs can be pillows too. These two were instant friends!
Did someone say Basil? This grows in my window, was bought when about hand sized and re-potted with last year's soil. The rest is "add water daily", and take it inside before the day temps exceed 35C. One plant, Basil all year it seems (until I do pesto).
Statistics prove me wrong though. Subjectively guessing is a bad guide for this.
Almost no region is wetter/had more precipitation overall. Berlin regional/north east had the driest ever spring (-44%), so we're at half the amount of previous years over long time values (~260mm v 560mm). D:
This is weather data from 1881 to present, and while some regions have received more rain, the distribution is all over the place, regionalized, and most places are drier than ever.
Me (right) when I happened to run into Wei Te-Sheng at the screening of his film Big.
Speaking of socks, specimen with tighter fit are excellent for value-add for doggo dummies.
We have a couple of those. Slip a sock on it takes a different meaning here, and makes for a fine source of different smell thus increased difficulty in search tasks when identifying the thing for doggo.
Holes don't matter here. Repurposing socks rocks for training! :))
Wtf, I had no idea it was giving you an activity stream protocol documentation. Tags appear to work differently in places, now I'm assuming you are using diaspora as the client and that is where it breaks.
It could look llke that. Substitute mastodon.social with whatever federates:
Basically, all pound words I use work as last URL parameter of any other place that participates in fedi. :)
Rubber chicken? There's an RFC for the R. I. T. A. device!
It's something you whack into the customers' face, or back of their head to improve clearness of direction (yours, which they didn't understand or follow), clarity of communication (their readiness to follow it) and generally for opinion amplification, strictly scientific and unidirectionally by kinetic method.
Almost percussive maintenance, but for softer tissue.
Many times I've been phantasizing about it. I'd have the excuse "it's a dog toy" now. :p
The competitive aspect though kicked in, so I beat idiots by patience nowadays.
If that fails I know a cat5'o'nine tails could do the trick.
Sigh.
Rubber chicken? There's an RFC for the R. I. T. A. device!
It's something you whack into the customers' face, or back of their head to improve clearness of direction (yours, which they didn't understand or follow), clarity of communication (their readiness to follow it) and generally for opinion amplification, strictly scientific and unidirectionally by kinetic method.
Almost percussive maintenance, but for softer tissue.
Many times I've been phantasizing about it. I'd have the excuse "it's a dog toy" now. :p
The competitive aspect though kicked in, so I beat idiots by patience nowadays.
If that fails I know a cat5'o'nine tails could do the trick.
Sigh.
Sure should be! :D Just bring me to the right spot in Venus's orbit where occlusional effects shall be maximized, it then shall be mind blowing! Seems hard to do from this rock in he solar system.
I'm afraid this involves both measuring in feet and its feasibility remains speculative at this point, so may not happen.
Fortunately someone else, local to earth, witnessed this before and left a legacy document:
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120603.ht…
Yes.
As I was annoyed by my lack of small talk skills, my solution: get a smart book and, well, build some of those along this:
Re typing, I tend to not look at the keyboard much when I am typing - or so I thought. After a coworker bought a blank keycaps Das Keyboard I had to try this. To no one's surprise blank keycaps are an excellent tool to expose the shortcomings of anyone's typing skills.
Letters may work well, numbers do too, but as soon as you leave bog standard punctuation and type pipe, semicolon, German Umlauts or diacritical marks and these ^~<>\'`# for e.g. Markdown or LaTex and whatnot, I dearly need a keyboard with visible letters I can orient myself on.
Maybe the game you saw @Karl Auerbach was Lingua? Any case, it is curious when these types of anticipation happen. Im Mahjang, I tend to get caught and slowed down by calculation scores and moves while its my turn, leading to inevitable complaints by routine players on the table. *shrug
Drive-in cinema was a thing with the Americans residing in West Berlin Allied forces. The site the cinema was still exists and is a museum now. Outside of that relatively small circle as a kid I thought what an odd concept. I was taken there once, and found the experience entirely non-captivating. I don't remember the movie at all and may have fallen asleep too. Hazy memory.
@Muse Happy birthday! May I present you your own little train station signage, ta-dah!
