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#treetrunktuesday #thicktrunktuesday
Hald ege (Hald Oak) Dolledrup Bakker, Denmark

A groove of birches with distinct bending of trunk from deep snow sliding downhill. A very peculiar shape. Norway 2025
#dnt #hiking #norway #thicktrunktuesday

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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 3 - What signature marks your work as definitively and effectively yours?

Taking an idea and running with it, then giving up running and stealing a hot set of wheels then driving around an obstacle course at high speed making unexpected turns and doing donuts with the kidnapped idea screaming from the passenger seat.

Sort of like that over-extended metaphor.

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Thought of the Day 🤔

It's not a question of whether or not rich people are evil.

No, the question is if they became evil because they got rich. Or if they got rich because the were evil.

I feel the Epstein files goes a long way towards proof of this statement I've been saying for years.

#Evil #Rich #Wealth #Satire #Epstein #Epsteinfiles
#Thought #ThoughtOfTheDay

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Check out this big gum emperor moth that visited my moth light at home last night, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.

I first thought there was a bird flapping in the bushes, before it appeared. This one was pinker than most I've seen, and it happily clambered about on its big fluffy feet.

They're more like Pokémon than real moths.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/336921630

#moths #mothodon #Christchurch #NZ #Ōtautahi #insects #entomology

A photo of a pink pink fluffy moth with a big black-rimmed orange eye spot on each rear wing. It's got big feathery antennae, which means it's a male.

A photo of a big fluffy moth on a hand, with my moth light blazing white on the top right.

A photo of a big fluffy pink moth on a hand,

A closer photo of the head and antennae of this big fluffy pink moth. Even its legs are fluffy, making it look like it's wearing leg warmers.

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This fear actually proceeds from an even deeper impulse, the belief that quick judgment thinking (what I call memetic epistemology) is superior to extrinsic thinking.

They trust their instincts more than any other person, regardless of their expertise.

Conservatives and reactionaries believe that their views are true because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 believe them. Evidence isn't needed for "common sense."

This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.

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fellas, if your savior:

can turn water into wine
can make bread
is risen

that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms

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Ran a short rope protection and security course for some hill walking and scrambling friends of mine today. Included improvised harnesses, Italian hitch, clove hitch, assisted hoist, anchors, rappelling, classic belay, belays, prusicks, basic rescue and more. Hopefully everyone came away more confident about having to deal with an emergency situation. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and laughs in the strong winds.

#climbing #scrambling #hiking #rockclimbers #mountaincourses

A person with yellow helmet ascends a cliff using the assisted hoist

Prussicking up a rope on a vertical rock wall

Lowering somebody down a cliff using the Italian hitch method

A person in red helmet ascends a short rock walk attached to a rope

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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

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«Please, pretty please, don't call it slop. Do you have any idea how much money we sunk on this thing? Can you imagine what kind of about-face I'll have to make if this thing tanks for good? Our investors are going to cry so hard when they figure out that we lit their money on fire. So please be kind to this faceless megacorp and don't call it slop.»

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop

Christmas in Prague. Beautiful walk around the American quarries, a series of limestone quarries and Karlštejn castle.

Limestone quarry. Steep cliff sides and a lake at bottom

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SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION TIME:

There are now only 30 days until publication of "The Regicide Report", the 14th (and final!) book in the Laundry Files. Preorders help enormously!

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#madeinUkraine #handmadejewelry #SupportUkraine

A collage of 8 photos of handmade beaded and rhinestone jewelry made in Ukraine. Images include: a heart brooch in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with a poppy; Christmas angel ornaments; a patriotic bracelet for the hand; a brooch with an animal paw and rhinestones; a bright red necklace with a cross; a necklace with a silyanka on a model; a bracelet made of beads in the colors of the flag with a sunflower; a brooch with a dove of peace.

A collage of patriotic beaded jewelry. The photo shows a long necklace (blue beads with a yellow and white geometric pattern), beaded bracelets with Ukrainian and British flags, and rectangular beaded key chains. The bottom right corner shows thin necklaces of yellow, blue, and black beads and stones with metal pendants, including a Trident.

A collage of images of delicate collar necklaces woven from tiny beads that mimic lace. The jewelry is presented in various colors - milky white, bright purple, copper brown and emerald green. The upper part shows folded strips of beads. The lower part shows several finished products laid out on a dark background, emphasizing their sharp jagged edges and complex weaving technique,.

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#silentsunday

Sunrise was spectacular this morning. It loooked like Copenhagen was on fire. We had to go outside in the cold to have a look.

A deep red and yellow sky. Old houses and small gardens in foreground and a lovely women to the right of the picture. She look toward the photographer.

Sunrise lights up the sky. From bright yellow to deep purple. Plants in the foreground and old houses. Outskirts of Copenhagen.

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2/ Tucked into a good spot for the night facing east so I could see the earliest glow.

Pretty dawn warm color reflecting on mountain sides while the rest of the sky is still mostly dark

Pretty dawn light on the horizon with mountain covered lightly in snow

Pretty dawn warm color woth patched of snow becoming visible around

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I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.

Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX.

#Hurricane #Melissa

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When someone who doesn't know shit about ass weighs in on a discussion with unsolicited advice that's derived from an LLM text extruder, that's called Altmansplaining.

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What's that thing called when you see someone post something so mind-numbingly wrong you need to go get some facts right before replying, go down a rabbit hole, and 14 months later you're probably one of the top 5% of experts in this niche subject and can't find the original wrong post to refute it?

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