ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

A request written on a slip and rolled up in a bottle, thrown onto the tide:

For anyone who was into the SCA (especially West, Caid, Atenveldt, Outlands, and Ansteorra) or in Amtgard or any of the Renfaire circuits, and collected Filk / Folk songs, an APPEAL:

I’ve been trying to find a copy of the lyrics to “Don’t Drink the Dregs of the Bottle”, a country&western-ish song about the dangers of drink, which was in at least a few songbooks in the 1990’s. It was OC AFAIK so not strictly filk.

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Sunrise at Blachford
20×30″ 50×76
Oil on Canvas
2022

Based on a September 2022 photo I took during my Artist In Residence for the Cloud Appreciation Society at the Blachford Lake Lodge near Yellowknife, NT

https://earthskyart.ca/product/sunrise-at-blachford/

In Kyiv, mysterious underground passages were discovered during repair and restoration work on the grounds of the National Conservation Area St. Sophia of Kyiv. These passages are believed to lead to St. Sophia Cathedral, however, there is very little known about them in the historical record. (Photo: Vadym Kyrylenko).

Today is the #WorldWetlandsDay. I can only hope that this place, which I pass many times on my way to work, will still be so wet in the coming years.

#Polesia #wetlands

Ava, Mo. man delivers flowers to frontline workers around the Ozarks

I reluctantly agreed to this interview because a friend really wanted to do it. She is on weather so this is like extra credit. As you can see, I almost melted down and nobody was asking hard questions.

https://www.ky3.com/2021/09/15/ava-mo-man-delivers-flowers-frontline-workers-around-ozarks/

'The whole thing cost $5': The simple tool that helps my kid through stressful moments

https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/simple-homemade-stories-help-toddler-through-life-transitions/101915140

Future ICS News - Multiple Ransomware Attacks on Artillery Contractors - #futurenews - https://tinyurl.com/uw8n2dkk

Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.

Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?

@Elizafox Isn't Half Life 2 really just Life 1?

Besides more urgent problems centralized models like #DALLE and #Midjourney winning over open-source-models like #StableDiffusion everyone can further train, merge and generally fork at home would also mean a much sadder more generic far less diverse stage for AI-art in the future.

Nails didn’t turn out as intended.

Instead of cat eye, they’re giving Batman villain whose hands dipped very specifically into a vat of toxic sludge.

I ain’t mad.

The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reconstruction-era-not-taught-schools

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee “has disbanded the Subcommittee on #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties, which focused on #VotingRights, freedom of assembly and #CriminalJusticeReform policies….

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is urging the committee to reinstate the subcommittee, saying that the loss of it sends an ‘unmistakable message to the American people that their civil rights and civil liberties are no longer a priority to the 118th Congress.’” https://t.co/mZIqcQNaaG #Fascism

Harvard is shutting down prominent social media influence scholar Joan Donovan's project at a time when such research is getting both more essential and more difficult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/misinformation-harvard-donovan-close/

Hilarious, a Windows 98 user found a real OpenSSH remote 😂

Imagine all the bugs we can find if we install OS/2 lol #retrocomputing

https://social.treehouse.systems/@grawity/109689295609404907

I mean, I don't know where else people believe a rodent to predict the weather while rejecting evidence-based climate science, but this fits...