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Satelitte images gif showing the exceptional drough this summer in France (and around) compared to the past two years.
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I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
Best way to travel, tbh.
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Satelitte images gif showing the exceptional drough this summer in France (and around) compared to the past two years.
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I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
Best way to travel, tbh.
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[OC] Carrion crow (corrected, was Rook).
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You are in fact correct, I asked my birder colleague and he said it was a carrion crow!
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Peanut butter
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I have a t-shirt that says "Unfortunately peanut butter".
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business is business
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A not too long one, for portraits, say 86 to 135mm, and a fast one at that? Absolutely.
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[OC] Carrion crow (corrected, was Rook).
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There's rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shot a took, here. I'll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I'm already pretty confident.
Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.
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business is business
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No, "AI" can't "take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional". It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.
Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they're doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that's before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn't "free".
I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don't think for a second that you've made a photographer superfluous. You weren't her (or any photographer's) target group to begin with.
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Hot potato, marriage edition
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That's because they keep giving her back.
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A white-throated dipper hunting underwater
That bird isn't birding.
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FIFA bends the knee to trump again
If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA.
UEFA is already a thing.
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'
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That photo shows a paper with all eligible representatives for all eligible parties for that election. We don't have "hundreds of parties" (although we have, IMO, too many — but a fair few of them are splinter fractions on the right).
Don't spread bullshit, please.
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Hot potato, marriage edition
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She puts money in trust to retire well and make sure her daughter is well taken care of.
If 260M isn't going to let you and the rest of your family retire in absolute comfort, you have some really expensive hobbies. That's a ridiculous amount of money.
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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
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Doesn't even run Outlook, let alone two. Pathetic.
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Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses
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Not all hearing aids are cochlear implants or bone conducting types. There's plenty that are basically an Airpod.
Source: am a user.
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finally something worse then curl | sh
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"Try to keep out the worst malware'd packages"
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meow
I have this one, too! Well, actually, I have two of them, as I also wanted one on my desk at work.
I have the shrimp in an office chair, too. Twice.
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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead
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There's other instances, and you can interact with subs on other instances just fine. That's the whole point of activitypub. So if you really miss those subs, maybe see if they're available on other instances?
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Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
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A mild nausea, usually.
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Hunters: is camo just cosplay?
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Are you sure you're not just a deer or boar?
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How is it going, TeamSpeak?
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Just use some open discussion forum software.
GitHub discussions is fine…
Pick one. Github most certainly is not open.
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Anon observes a coworker
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Yes, there is, it's actually the trope namer!