ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

be right there, just finishing my to-do list

Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.

A lovely #northwales sunset, walking the fields this evening. Now an hour later than midwinter!

#cymru #wales #northwales #smartphonephotography #sunset #winter

This book shop in Rome, near piazza, Navona, carries signed copies of my book SHE SEDUCED ME: A LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROME.

Please support them by stopping by getting a copy. They are an independent bookstore. Right now we are making arrangements for me to do a public presentation of my book around the middle of September. Exciting.

OTHERWISE BOOKSHOP! @bookstodon #bookstodon

Sharing a few useful tools I've made over the years with the #webdev community on here:

- #GenerativeArt as your placeholder images: https://generative-placeholders.glitch.me/
- HTML/CSS-only social media sharing buttons: https://simplesharingbuttons.com/ (no Mastodon/fediverse support yet, sorry!)
- redact text before taking a screenshot of a website: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/redacted/
- turn URLs into HTML/Markdown links: https://link-formatter.glitch.me/
- add anti-fascist banners to your site: https://fightfascism.glitch.me/

#WebDevelopment

New video on my YouTube channel, this one’s a little NSFW depending on where you work I suppose. It’s entitles Why type One Diabetes can be a sexy thing https://youtu.be/UgU1_Xa6BEo

"The enemy doesn't arrive by boat, he arrives by limousine"

Sticker spotted in Dublin, Ireland

All a girl really needs in life is red shoes and a watering can.

#Gardening

How to Diagnose Hookworms in Dogs

Growth constraints set an upper limit to theropod dinosaur body size

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-023-01832-1

Every time I see some quantity of stuff described as "circling the world X times" or "from here to the moon and back", I imagine an episode of The Worlds' Most Dangerous Jobs where boats full of hard-bitten, grizzled sailors, stringing impossibly long lines of corn dogs across the Pacific, low low-earth-orbit astronauts piling huge stacks of Peeps miles up to the night sky.

@dailyhaikuprompt @nlowell
#haiku rage

I wasn't gentle.
The light died around me, and
I raged against it.

In 1995 I was fascinated by this logo, and I still like how it looks today. It's a great mid-90s logo, with the serif font, the gradient, and the implied depth.

Netscape Navigator was a great product for the time. I wonder if any lines of code in Firefox, the browser I use now, survive from back then...

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

#ThickTrunkTuesday

I took these #moss photos during my walk at the #UWarboretum here in #Seattle yesterday.

#mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #PNW

I like continuous mixes, but I keep finding albums that have silence between tracks yet still start every song at the end of the previous track. Often with just half the first note.

That isn't a continuous mix, it's a choice to annoy people whose music players don't do gapless playback.