strix alba

peck-idg plz

this is a delightful story, thank you for sharing!

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Lol. Lmao even

i just dug one of those holes today! dunno what the mysterious force is but it sure is there. I should've climbed into it, the better to watch the gulls from up close....

Red and yellow bunnies play "Connect Four", with themselves acting as the pieces on a giant connect four board. On either side, both the red and the yellow bunnies are arguing amongst themselves about tactics

Daily bunny no.2574 is discussing strategy

On one hand, it’s wild that people have been saying for months that they neither like nor want AI and it took an actual study to prove it. On the other hand, there’s a study now. You can cite it.

No one likes or wants AI (Cicek at al, 2024).

TIL they're PLANTS, not fungi! WHAT! :D I've never touched them bc they give me the heebie-jeebies (in a good way)

A gray squirrel splays itself out on the roots of a tree with a peanut in its mouth looking directly at the camera

Lookin good, Squirrel.

The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer In Japan, a system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of a whole lot more.

www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-... was the first thing that came to mind!

oh fuck yeah that quote rules

Rest in piss Turbotax

was talking to my mom about geography this weekend, and she casually brought up that when she was a teenager in the 70s, she had around 30-40 different pen pals from basically every country where teenagers learned/spoke English! got them from a penpal registry at the back of American Girl magazine

...I now want this as a tattoo

EXCITEMENT

couldn't think of any, so I asked my dad, and he said no, not really, but "you can hand someone a double bagel loss. 6-0 6-0." (you can't literally do that in a men's Grand Slam match though, bc those are played best 3 out of 5)

ohhhh gotcha gotcha gotcha! yeah that too!

absoLUTELY, it would be a delight and an honor :P still haven't actually seen Challengers but I do know what a match-point vs. a set-point vs. advantage is

AMIGA tennis is the one sport i actually know quite a bit about, if you DO need to toss around some ideas i would be thrilled to provide Sports Knowledge

also sitting mournfully at work wondering why neither of my beloved partners are texting me back even though both of their calendars are clear, and remembered that M mentioned them having Secret Hangout Time today. unbelievable betrayal of my instant-gratification needs, tbqh

this book about 18thc prisoners of war is very interesting but mostly i just want to inject the knowledge from reading it directly into my head so i can process it into a paper, instead of having to actually read the relevant chapters

wondering why I've been so bad at responding to people lately, remembered I usually get seasonal depression from mid-April to mid-May, maybe that's it? maybe it's some post-hysto hormone nonsense? doesn't *feel* like it's because I'm an irredeemably horrible person, at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would you like music about being a little sleazy? about parallels between British colonial tactics in Ireland and North America? about the military-industrial complex? about nostalgia for not needing money for long-term plans? about drowning? about Dante's Inferno? THE LIST GOES ON.

Hozier just KEEPS PUTTING OUT NEW MUSIC about all sorts of different things, it's a very good time to be a Hozier music enjoyer.

ooooh yeah that seems quite do-able!

two lines from a scan of a textbook. The first line has one printed capital K, and two dozen "K"s in a variety of handwriting and sizes. The second line has one printed lowercase K, and two dozen "k"s in a variety of handwriting and sizes. Some of them have loops and extra lines, or look like "R", "L", and one that looks like a doodle of a lightbulb.

this 19th-century French paleography guide's assortment of Ks is probably a fairly normal handwriting spread but wow that's a Lot when you put them all together like that

yes you SHOULD

All my respects to Her Ladyship 💜

<3 <3 <3 I will miss your stories about Her Ladyship's exploits [and lack of movement to engage in exploits]! May her memory be a blessing and may you keep finding her fur everywhere for months to come