szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

This was taken in Washington State last night. This is an example of a STEVE. STEVE is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that appears as a purple and green light ribbon in the sky and is an acronym for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement."

#Photography #Aurora #WashingtonState

photo by Mike Maddox

Dog physiology is weird.
5 days ago, #2 dog chewed up the rawhide shoelace on an old Doc Marten in my closet.
Since then she's eaten, drank, and pooped normally, but periodically horks up a piece of shoelace. Where is she storing it?

The white Christian #republicans have been anti-government and anti-everyone for a very long time. This is from MAD magazine 1968.

Given how people use the Internet, there will be conversations like these.

> can you help me find somewhere nearby that my mom can get her hair cut?

Sure! You could try

- Bea’s Salon on Fifth St.
- Lakewood Hair Studio at Lakewood mall
- Planned Parenthood on Jefferson St.

I can't stress enough how absolutely fucking unacceptable this is.

Imagine searching one evening for information about gender identity, abortion providers, or any of the things demonized in this country today — and then the next day at work with your boss, or at school with your teacher, or at home with your parents, submitting a query about how to file a government form or some such shit and getting answers to your private search activity in response.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT????

Here's a glitch/bug/massive-fucking-privacy-risk associated with the new #Bing #chatbot feature that I haven't seen documented.

Answers from one query bleed over into another.

Earlier today I asked it about the black power salute that Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave at the 1968 Olympic Games.

Tonight I asked it about headlines referencing chatbot halluncinations.

Look what it did. It returned an utterly irrelevant answer to a previous query.

Amazing this is production technology.

Another octopus done - bigger and in soft chenille this time. 🐙

#crochet #octopus

Time for some #geoweirdness

This week we head to the Iberian peninsula to take a look at the geographic oddities of Portugal 🇵🇹

#portugal

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For sale: cat boots. Can swap for bandages.

#MiszczowieKlikbajtu Kochani, mamy to! Łyżka musi być rozpuszczona przed dodaniem do ciasta na placki (nie pokruszona, nie w całości). Nie podali nazwy rozpuszczalnika, ale podejrzewam, że chodzi o ciepłą wodą.

this house has a thermostat with an RF controller (Salus RT510TX) so of course i have to reverse engineer the on-air protocol

it has a center frequency of 868.312 MHz and uses FM modulation with ±60 kHz

@lispi314 @whitequark

Are they just relying on security by obscurity?

Yup.