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Nature. Space. Functioning societies. Law. Kindness. Writing. Thinking. And bug-free code.

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annaleen, (edited ) to random
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Who is your commander at the moment?

jeffc,
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@annaleen Somewhere between Major Major Major Major and Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen.

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-29 Visual Inspiration prompt:

What is worth a Holy War?

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. An ode maybe?

To find more inspiring images, browse the tag.



jeffc,
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@VisualInspiration
It was just a misunderstanding--"grail," for us, is a kind of breakfast roll--but suddenly we're neck-deep in knights with long lines at breakfast.

Sir Galahad is learning to bake breakfast rolls, which is charming, and Sir Gawain is providing scholarly insights into angels dancing on pinheads. However, several haven't returned from their side-quest to Liberate the Sun, and the rest are quite rowdy.

Might you perchance consider recalling your knights?
#MicroFiction

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2024-05-28 Visual Inspiration prompt:

Some nights simply don't end well.

Time for another round of ! Use this AI generated image to write a very very very short story based on it. Can you get the 6️⃣?

And of course if you don't feel like it, just go and let your keyboard loose!

To find more inspiring images, browse the tag.



jeffc,
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@VisualInspiration

"Good news! Your part's on eBay."

jeffc,
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@VisualInspiration
Like someone who fixed antique clocks, the first challenge of being a bot doc is the diagnosis. The second, much bigger one is finding parts for a bot that's outlived its manufacturer.

BTW, the big one's the doc. You can tell 'cause it can afford body panels.

SteveThompson, to vexillology
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"Sam Alito bets his flag flap gets flushed down the memory hole"

https://www.mississippivalleypublishing.com/daily_gate/sam-alito-bets-his-flag-flap-gets-flushed-down-the-memory-hole/article_187b0a3e-1c3a-11ef-ae67-436b1f950288.html

#Alito #SCOTUS #Jan6 #flag #insrrection

jeffc,
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@SteveThompson
Contact your members of Congress.

http://www.house.gov/

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

jonny, to random
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Root post for

jeffc,
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@jonny Demographics.

europesays, to climate
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https://www.europesays.com/1242803/ Project Drawdown Identifies 100 Tools to Reverse Climate Change

jeffc,
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@europesays
Project Drawdown is good stuff.

jeffc, to sandiego
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Putting up the Ant Signal! (It's like the Bat Signal but, well, you know...) Can anyone identify the species?

It was at a nature preserve in San Diego county. The ants were brown, about 7mm long, and fast-moving.

@futurebird? You may be my only hope!

A macro image of the ants: large-ish head, narrow body, gaster is bigger than the head.

futurebird, to random
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My ants are kinda bougie... I hope I'm not raising them to be too stuck up.

jeffc,
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@futurebird

Use this handy quiz to tell if your ants are stuck up.

  • [ ] Door-woman at the nest entrance?
  • [ ] Prefer organic foods?
  • [ ] Prefer organic pheromones?
  • [ ] NIMBY attitude with respect to other species?
  • [ ] NIMBY attitude with respect to other colonies?
  • [ ] Will bite the hand that feeds them?
mastodonmigration, to random
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So, starting to see stories about how the RNC is saying they are not going to pay Trump's legal bills anymore.

Don't fall for it. This is just to fool their donors.

The RNC is going to continue to pay Trump's legal bills and a whole lot more.

jeffc,
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It might be lean times for GOP down-ballot races, though so many of them are self-funded, it's not clear what effect it might have on the outcomes.

arstechnica, to random
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Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court

IVF often produces more embryos than are needed or used.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/frozen-embryos-are-children-according-to-alabamas-supreme-court/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jeffc,
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@arstechnica
I wonder if this ruling means IVF clinics can seek child support payments to keep the freezers running, and what the criminal consequences of a power failure might be.

jeffc, to Russia
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What am I missing here? None of this makes sense politically, strategically, or any other way.

Let's start with Russia wanting nukes in space but "It would not be to drop a weapon on Earth but to possibly use on satellites."

Why would you use a nuke against satellites? Space is big and satellites are generally delicate. You might incinerate some nearby ones, but that's about it. I could see nukes for an EMP attack, maybe, but satellites?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293

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2024-01-04 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Do you have ? Try a Visual Inspiration prompt!

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or a poem... Whatever it inspires you to do!

To find more inspiring images, browse the tag.




jeffc,
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@VisualInspiration
They say there are worlds in droplets.

If the distance from a proton to its electron is like the distance from a planet to its moon, then that between oxygen and hydrogen is like a sun to its planet, and that between molecules is the expanse between stars.

These symmetries run deeper than most know.

So I have perfected the machine. So simple in its construction, yet so profound in its symmetries, that one may step into a droplet... and vanish into the world.

futurebird, to random
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Sometimes I come across strange jewelry ideas. Here is... a blank watch and a negative COVID test "lucky" pendent.

I wonder where these are popular. I'm starting a collection of jewelry that consists of objects that aren't functional, but look functional.

A watch, but it has not face, it's a bracelet.

jeffc,
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@futurebird I'm trying to figure out if the watch is a reference to society's focus on time since the industrial revolution (when factory shifts and railroad schedules suddenly made exact time important) or maybe about the fact that everyone's clock is on their phone now.

Popehat, to random

Someone trying to tempt me back to Twitter with this screenshot, saying “come on, won’t it be fun to respond to this?” Their idea of fun may differ from mine.

Lots of people have made fun of my mental illness and openness about it, most often on Twitter. But I’m okay. So far I haven’t looked at one of them and said “wow they seem really happy and successful, I wish I had their life.”

jeffc,
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@Eric
@Popehat I'm still trying to figure out whether renaming it "the ex-social media network" was somehow intended to hasten its demise.

jeffc, to climate
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"It may well be warmer than any time in the last 125,000 years."

Gift link.

https://wapo.st/3PNQb8V

jeffc, to climate
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The strandbeests noticed it first. They quit their daily pilgrimage and took to gathering mid-beach in listless herds.

It was as if, in their own way, the wind-powered sculptures realized that the warming water and the still, hot, damp air were somehow wrong, and they wanted no part of them.

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jeffc, to random
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Get the Navi-Gator, the nav/comm for the New Nomad lifestyle!

  • Track floods, fires, droughts, heatwaves, slimes, contamination, plagues, and more!
  • Multiple navigation modes: no satellites needed!
  • Crowd-sourced route updates
  • 500km Intermesh range
  • Light in your pack or saddlebag
  • Tough as a Tennessee gator

You have to know the weather to dodge the weather. Navi-Gator.

11/12

jeffc, to fediverse
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I've been thinking about the complaints about engagement and discoverability. And algorithms, federation, and social networks.

Online social media's different from the social environment most of us grew up in, which could be the root of the engagement and discovery complaints. In fact, I'd guess Twitter originally started their algorithm to bridge that gap.

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jeffc, to random
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Good thing spiders can't climb... uh...

jeffc, to random
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Yep. Radio's out alright.

jeffc, to random
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I'm thinking Gilligan and Maryann probably make it off the island. Not so sure about the others, though.

jeffc, to random
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Ooh! Santa Elf outfits!

jeffc, to random
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That was sure something! Thanks, all!

(Really hoping the Professor wasn't fooling around with Ice Nine.)

jeffc, to random
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Wait, did I miss something, or is humanity now destined to overpopulate and run out of food because Godzilla and friends messed up the experiments?

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