Auriel Fournier

<heads off to pre-order>

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

“Just standing on my stone in the stream, watching the world go by. Make of it what you will. It makes no matter to me!” Mallard #Duck. #Kennebunk #Maine. #Sony #Sigma #Photomator #birdphotograhy #Point’nShootNature

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

either way seems very possible

Molly the Moorhen chick learning to use those massive feet. #BirdOfTheDay #SteppingOut #Birds #Birdwatching #Birdphotography #Nature #EastCoastKin

A moorhen #SteppingOut. It was actually being chased by a coot.

Taken at “The Secret Lakes”, former reservoirs for calico printing in the middle of Manchester that have become an ad hoc nature reserve now threatened by a housing development #photography #BirdOfTheDay #birds #wildlife #nature #Nikon

Liberan ocho fochas morunas en el Clot de Galvany (Elche) para evitar su desaparición Liberan ocho fochas morunas en el Clot de Galvany para reforzar esta especie en peligro de extinción en el paraje natural de Elche.

The red-knobbed coot is threatened with extinction in Spain. Captive-breeding is being employed to augment wild populations. 🌍🌰

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its wild how often I end up having to pay more for a thing, because the person who has it for cheaper, can't accept my money for whatever reason

same for services, as someone who manages a facility off campus

<waves> helllloooooo!

seriously

American Coot. Arizona.

Today's theme for the #birdoftheday is #shoutitout. This coot looks like it's yelling at a neighbor's kid to get off its lawn 🤣.

#birds #wildlifephotography #animals #nature

A pair of Hawaiian coots engaged in nest building. The male in foreground has just handed (beaked?) the female a large stick which she will incorporate into their new home. She has the stick crosswise in her beak

Did someone say #NestBuilding for the #BirdOfTheDay theme? A pair of 'alae keʻokeʻo just after Dad made a stick delivery--at Kealia NWR the coots sometimes make nests right near the boardwalk, I guess they feel pretty safe in the reeds and the people must make the night herons nervous. :) #birds 📷🌿🦉

There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.

WHY DO ALL THESE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO THE BLOODY INTERNET? Our landlady installed light switches that don't work properly unless you use them in conjunction with an app. I don't want a fucking app for light switches. I just want to switch a light on and off, using a switch.

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

todays post brought to you by me, a scientist, actually getting to do some writing/analysis OF MY OWN

I FINALLY CAUGHT UP ENOUGH I CAN WORK ON SOMETHING I WANT TO WORK ON

please do not email me to remind me of things you need me to do

I am finally doing a science again

we can only hope

there is also the train based literature (Sora are a rail)

which is also fine

I study this amazing bird

the Sora

for a long time my google results have been a mixture of bird, and Anime

this is fine

now...it is a mixture of literature about some freaking AI tool

this is not so fine

:(

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

Reminder:

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

The left is excited about underwater robots that livestream video feeds of octopus nurseries from the deep Gulf of Mexico.

The right is excited about summarizing a five word e-mail, incorrectly.

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.

mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.

But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

yah its not better

sorry

have you tried being angry instead?

that is....what I have been doing

Two large Alligator Gar skulls draped in Mardi Gras beads, with the text “Mardi Gars” across the bottom. Play on words with gars, because that’s what the post author does.

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!

Happy Mardi Gras from the…

Two American Coots in a pond, one is dropping a leaf that it was eating while the other is biting the first

Two American Coots. One of them is attempting to match the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #CollectingFood but both fall in the alt theme of #Grey 🪶📷

I know right!?!

I've been told that getting the details right is just too important to replace admin tasks with AI

(as if details aren't important parts, of almost everything)