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incredibish

@incredibish@mastodon.green

#photographer #parish #councillor
#feral #druid #retired #engineer
#charity #trustee #biker and #cyclist
#rock #blues #bassplayer #folkie
#real #beer #Islay #malt #whisky
#GNU Terry #Pratchett
#pinball #duolingo #born at 317ppm #CO2
All comments in a personal capacity. May contain nuts. Unless boosting other posts, all photographs are taken by and © me. Please do boost, please do not steal. Speaks British English, understands some American (also some Americans).

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incredibish, to photography
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The Difficulty of Caging Snakes...

ronanmcd, to random
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Got a local political flyer in the door. All the usual dog whistles; no-go areas, war on motorists etc. For example, he wants to allow private vehicles use bus lanes. Consigning everyone to driving. I mean it's all really stupid stuff, but the overtones struck me.
He's running for local council but all policies are individualistic and against civic spirit. They are all "I'm alright" and anti progress.

incredibish,
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@ronanmcd
When you say private vehicles do you mean cars or motorcycles? The two are quite different issues, with the one clogging up public transport and making bus lanes just another carriageway, while the other offers a low congestion way of effectively moving individuals around who cannot feasibly otherwise use public transport.

incredibish,
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@ronanmcd
Thanks for the clarification. Bikes are allowed here, in Bristol, and it makes for a much easier journey without adversely impacting buses. Taxis too, actually, although they can cause congestion. Allowing cars in would seem to be eradicating all the viability of bus lanes.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

incredibish,
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@pvonhellermannn

No, there's no chance of stopping this train of events now; the motivation to sustain profit was stronger than the motivation to sustain our only habitable environment. Which is insane.
I've done the grief, and now I'm living in a sort of dim acceptance that what we thought was going to hit our grandchildren is already touching us.
I'm not as green as I could be, but I'm experiencing life in as honourable a relationship as I can craft for me and mine.

mathowie, to random
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This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/

video/mp4

incredibish,
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@mathowie

Oh my freakin' gods... I had to go look for the ad, because this was all new to me and wow... love love love your take.

...and yes, I'm entirely in the walled garden. I like it. But man... that ad.

incredibish, to random
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Another bonus...

Just checked my passport (still the maroon EU one) and realised it runs out in April 2027 but July 2026 if I want to go to Europe...

If I didn't already hate the Tories...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68677938

incredibish, to photography
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That dive though...

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Do you have a blog at Wordpress.com? Congrats! You will soon be feeding all your content to an AI, unless you opt-out. Same with Tumblr! (Why I self-host, reason ) Source: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/ and many more

UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery

incredibish,
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@jwildeboer

incredibish,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @jwildeboer

It would be naive to imagine permissions are always honoured. This appears to be more smoke than fire though, and perhaps it's being spun but WP itself offers this link: https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/25823/posts/5136056647

incredibish, to photography
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#photography #bristol #colours

Bristol has a lot of colourful houses. These are some of the other ones.

incredibish, to photography
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As darkness falls, the trees pull on their cloaks of darkness...

janboehm, to random
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Remember, remember, the 9th of November
Broken glass, fire and plot
I know of no reason
that our very own treason
should ever be forgot!
https://youtu.be/HMQkV5cTuoY?si=I3R73kgrLp8Gu4dF

incredibish,
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@janboehm

Well, kind of speechless! Such a curious, perhaps uniquely Germanic, positivity. Love it.

incredibish, to random
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Kudos to Carol Vorderman for holding true to her ethics over job and money - although I expect she's not short of the money and will soon find a new job.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67357877

incredibish, to random
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Fair to say I am horrified that the Musk has introduced an AI called Grok. , coined by Robert Heinlein and Valentine Michael Smith of Mars, is such a perfect word with no adequate synonyms, and I am unwilling to give it up to a box of parroting electronics. You Grok me?

tante, to random
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I do think that generating a track from existing songs to create a "new" Beatles track does create a Beatles song. Just a very boring one that probably wouldn't have made a b-side.

Artists do often have a certain style (at a point in time) which these statistical systems can reproduce to a degree. So yeah, the song is based on the artists' patterns and if done by the artists could be considered their work.

It just takes away everything from the work of artists we care about. There's no reflection on the real world, on lived experience, no social interaction or communication, nothing new to say about anything.

It's pretending as if the album by an artist you like that is kinda boring because it sounds like all the old ones is relevant work. It's the definition of cashing in on one's reputation with worthless content.

incredibish,
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@tante I don't disagree with your uncharitable sentiments, but then again I am an old people, and a long time Beatles fan, and I am ready to drop shields this afternoon and go with the emotion - as indeed I did when I watched the making of mini-doc this morning. ;-)

ronanmcd, to random
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If you enjoyed the book reviews a few weeks ago that comprehensively destroyed the Isaacson Musk biog, then this is for you. ‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/27/thomas-heatherwick-humanise-vessel-hudson-yards

incredibish,
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@ronanmcd
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that vehement take-down! Thanks for posting.

0xabad1dea, to random

if you are a bandcamp user, you should make sure you have a local download of all your albums in high quality, because they're in a situation where they may stop existing As Such on short notice

incredibish,
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@0xabad1dea
Wow, that made the fibres hum... but all downloaded. I really hope BandCamp remains intact. It's where I buy most of my music.

badlogic, (edited ) to random
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Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at

The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

https://skyview.social

The protocol is absolutely insane.

There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post

incredibish,
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@badlogic
Mmm, nasty. That's why I post publicly all the time and don't rely on PMs even if it's vitally important to remain secure. There was a time when private existed, but we've gone full circle and now it's handwritten notes, manually encoded, physically passed on...

incredibish, to photography
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Iconic and surprisingly emotional

jwildeboer, (edited ) to apple
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The weather app in 17 now shows the deviation of temperature and precipitation compared to the averages since 1970. Interesting and a bit frightening. This was yesterday. (scroll down in the weather app, bottom left, click on tile called „Averages“)

incredibish,
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@jwildeboer How is it I've had an iPhone since forever but I've never noticed there was an Apple weather app? I have four other weather apps on my Home Screen, but not that one! :-0

pvonhellermannn, to climate
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i had my (realising i needed to really act about climate) in Feb 2019 and have tried so many different things since. But right now, for the first time, I feel completely “spent”. Obviously hasn’t gone away; it’s more my own issues (mostly i think debilitating sense of guilt and hypocrisy). Have any of you ever had these points, and how did you work your way out again? Or anyone feeling this just now, too?

incredibish,
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@pvonhellermannn Totally. I went through the "I must make a difference and save the planet"... then eventually realised it wasn't really catching on with the rest of the 'western world'. I've done the grief and then the rage and the hypocrisy. Now I look to enjoy the ride into the catastrophe while living as honourably as I can. I don't think the planet's in danger from us, excepting a few thousand other species extinctions we're involved in, but I think our part of the ride is almost finished.

abominabledrh, to random

Happy Lughnasadh, everyone.

incredibish,
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@abominabledrh

Grain harvest blessings fellow. /|\

incredibish, to photography
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I am not a number...

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: kills billion dollar development plan in Florida

Disney Imagineering move to Florida from L.A. area has apparently been canceled, and team members already moved or planning to move are being offered opportunity to return to L.A. This will be very good news to most of these employees.

incredibish,
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@lauren The Mouse that Roared.

pivoinebleue, to random

"There have been more shootings than days so far this year and more shootings than at this point in any year since at least 2013."

This is how many mass shootings there have been so far this year | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/us/how-many-mass-shootings-2023-dg-xpn/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image&utm_content=2023-05-08T15%3A15%3A04&t=rHEb4vtHDB9iQZWs7npKFw&s=09

incredibish,
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@pivoinebleue they say “since 2013” like it’s “since the Glorious Revolution”!

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