ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Bald Eagle on the rocks on the Strait of Juan De Fuca in Port Angeles, Washington:

#Photography #BaldEagle #WashingtonState

safety net 1/3 #photography #art #mastoart #bluesky #mountain #travel #switzerland #swiss #winter #snow #throwbackthursday

I feel like the upswing in ads for mushroom coffee alternatives in 2022, and The Last of Us hitting the normal consciousness in 2023, was unfortunate.

Say a fireball streaks across the sky & lands nearby. You rush over & see broken meteorite fragments. You want to pick one up, but you’re worried they might still be hot. Fun fact from meteor scientist Richard Pugh: you’re more likely to get frostbite than a heat burn. The 5 - 6 seconds it takes to pass through the atmosphere is not enough for the heat to conduct to the center of the meteor. The inside will still be the temperature of deep space — as cold as 200 degrees below freezing!

US, #UN join in condemnation of #Uganda's anti- #LGBTQ bill that calls for death penalty for 'aggravated homosexualty' https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/22/africa/uganda-lgbtq-bill-condemned-intl/index.html

Still trying to find my people on Mastodon. Please boost if you:

-Like pizza.

-Enjoy watching movies.

-Have recurring dreams that you are a frog.

-Feel distraught when you wake up and realize that you are in fact not a frog.

-Spend your days studying ancient texts in search of a forbidden incantation that transforms humans into amphibians.

If you're Scottish, please sign the Calton Hill Declaration in favour of the creation of an independent Scottish republic:

https://www.caltonhill.scot/

Ramadan kareem 🌙
May you enjoy beautiful days

I got back to my Monotype Keyboard project and realized I completely forgot this part.

The key density CHANGES per line.
Most rows are 11-wide, except these two which go up to 14.

Man, it's a good thing I'm not an obsessive perfectionist!
OH WAIT

Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance roll past each other.

“It must be rush hour,” comments Dr. Manhattan in a flat monotone.

He’s known for sixty years he’d make this joke. He’s always been saying it.

ART🌻 HANG IT, WEAR IT, SIT ON IT, GIFT IT, COLLECT IT

This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
A gardener like that one no one can replace
- Elton John (about John Lennon

"MONET'S GARDEN"

See ❤️ Art Here : https://lynnie-lang.pixels.com/featured/monets-garden-squared-pastel-abstract-lynnie-lang.html

#MastoArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #mastodon #ArtBooster #art #artistsonmastodon #artist #abstract #abstractart #fediart #music #lyrics #song

It's a Tuesday, which apparently means another wild flurry of AI related announcements: Google Bard, Bing Image Creator, Adobe Firefly (an image generation model trained entirely on licensed or public domain art) - here's my blog's archive page for today with notes on everything so far https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/21/

One sign that you're not making a technology for the right reasons is when you have to fucking lie about it, or misrepresent others in order to compete. For example, Nostr (the protocol which currently enjoys zero million daily active users) says of Mastodon, "There are no clear incentives to run servers" — proving that this is, indeed, a protocol created by people who have no idea how to make friends.

Every time I see a post content-warninged with "ph - " I keep assuming I'm going to click and it's going to be like a photo of a vial of hydrochloric acid

The Trashcan MacPro eBay prices are into the “why not” price range (<= $300). If you ever wanted one might be a good time to pick one up, if nothing else it makes for an attractive piece of tech art on your desk.

This white peacock was ready for his big debut, Green Meadows Petting Farm, Orlando FL #BirdsOfMastodon #FotoMontag