ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

weird story about our cat: I accidentally discovered a middle school choir in Ohio singing a song about her, specifically, on YouTube. This is not a joke.

i wrote a poem about her. Then @artsyhonker offered to set it for children's choir. Then we put it online with a free licence. Years later I was looking for an actual video of our cat to show someone, and there were these kids from Ohio singing about her. It was quite a moment

https://youtu.be/3OV-bKAxHeY

It's super lateee Still a lot to finish but first time for some sleep

Good night my dear friends ❤️

JUST GOT MY FIRST SALE OF MY BOOK!!! 😆😆😆 (it’s only $3 but STILL…sale is a sale!)

“A Song of Freedom” available in my #KoFi shop. https://ko-fi.com/scribblerrva

#author #writersofmastodon

and the seconds tick and tick.....

On the verge of 10,000 Mastodon followers, I’m launching a “10% off Glenn” sale! Not an arm or leg but rather books, keepsakes, ebooks, and other items from my website! Use coupon code MASTOTEN at checkout through Feb 10. Find all my stuff at https://glog.glennf.com/the-store

This includes:

• Six Centuries of Type & Printing (letterpress and ebook editions)
• Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It (limited edition hand-printed letterpress)
• Walt Whitman “A Font of Type” folio

(Most items ship worldwide.)

Some of you kids are all "Eat the rich!" and, look, Lefty McLeftowicz, let's just make sure the remedy isn't worse than the disease, by which of course I mean let's find a cure for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease first.

⚡ Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing (2022)
Peter Weller as Lionel Lassiter
#Directed by Panos Cosmatos
#Cinematography by Michael Ragen

#fluxiumfilm #film #gif

24 January 2023. Grövlan, Dalarna, Sweden.

Camera: @omsystem.cameras OM-1
Lens: Olympus M.Zuiko 8-25 mm f/4.0 PRO

Settings: ISO 200, 8 mm, f/8, 1/3 sec. High res Shot

#Photo #naturephotography #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #omsystem #OM1 #olympus #grövelsjön #grövelsjöfjällen #sweden #sunrise #sunrisephotography

There's something comforting about Camponotus, the world's second most diverse ant genus (probably?). There are always species that look very much like ones from home, wherever you go, and wherever you're from.

This is Camponotus innexus, which I encountered in Australia.

#Ants #Camponotus #Insects #Photography

Waking in Winter by Sylvia Plath

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.

Welp, somebody just spun up a new subreddit for ChatGPT to answer legal questions:

r/ChatGPT_LegalAdviceUS.

My first thought: it can’t possibly be worse than r/legaladvice. Guess we’ll find out!

#lawfedi #legaltech

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT_LegalAdviceUS/

So, the same people who think the spy balloon is loaded with biological contaminants want to shoot it down & plaster the neighborhood with toxins. Smart thinkin', Margery. #msnbc #alexwagnertonight

Facts

This is a big deal for me, so I hope you can read and share. My dad gave his first hacking con talk at @CypherCon last year. It took convincing because he doesn’t normally talk about stuff other than science lectures. He talked about the problem of light pollution and how hackers can help solve it. Send some support? Tia!!! https://youtu.be/Ib3qbJ8HjpA

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.

Just added

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