Historians sometimes put their own opinions into their papers. I honestly like this. It really shows how enthusiastic they are. I wish they would let scientists do that. Jacobus, Helen. “Greco-Roman Zodiac Sundials and their Links to a Qumran Calendar […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I vomit forth signs up mirth unto the very air that they be perceived by all who have ears to listen. https://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-7-page-50

You know what's great? Trains🚄 There should really be more of them

The Lunar Hijri, or Islamic, calendar is well known. Famously, it is based entirely on the moon, with one year consisting of 12 lunations and no effort made to synchronise with the solar year. This makes it the only purely lunar calendar known to exist; since a purely lunar calendar is utterly […]

Wait, there's a love hotel emoji‽🏩

First mince pies of the year! They're good! #baking

I've been working my way through Empowered for the last while, and it's good. Really, surprisingly, good. A series of commissions for superheroine-themed fetish art evolve into a hilarious and heartbreaking yet inspiring story about broken people working their ways through traumatic and […]

I'm still thinking about this damn ant. Most charitable take: The artist used a bad reference possibly AI. Least charitable take: The artist is trying to overcome the backlash to AI art on etsy by lying. Looking at their other work the other insects are well-rendered. The ant is the only with […]

Cuteness time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5opzZxbo-GE #cute #lion #lions

Beurla aig clann Ghlaschu? An dùil Farage? Fascist Farage not happy at Glasgow's kids not all speaking English. We have news for you. Thall is cac. #Glasgow #Glaschu #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Tshirts #Scotland #Scottish #antiFascist […] [Original post on ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net]

[Earthpol] Unpaid UN membership fees have reached $1.59×10¹²; as such, the UN will be cutting staff to save money. But it's not poor countries failing to pay their dues; it's America, Russia, China, and Mexico. Of these, only Mexico can reasonably plead poverty. Perhaps instead of cutting […]

Stonking sunspots photobombed by a departing flight this lunch break #Seestar 😎🔭. #AR4294

Did you know that gender is constructed with LASERS? https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/construction

James Stephanie Sterling returns to YouTube with the greatest description of "AI" in the univrse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcB_kqpYNhc #jimquisition #jimsterling #stephaniesterling #jamesstephaniesterling

Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it! It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for […]

Fascism has arrived in the US. Here's a video of a (liberal) lawyer just straight up saying the courts won't save you. The system only speaks two languages now: money and violence. If you want a chance to avoid the second, now is the time to use the first. #massblackout is a #boycott of the […]

... The proposal to rename #herzogpark after #hindrajab is an understandable response to the calculated horror of her extraordinarily determined murder, aged only five. But it is mistaken. #dublin certainly should have a memorial to Hind Rajab, but it should not replace this memorial in #rathgar […]

retoot if you retoot posts that say "retoot this post"

• Sees you when you're sleeping • Knows if you're awake • Knows if you've been bad or good, so b good for goodness' sake! You'd better not pout. You'd better not cry. You'd better not shout. Is Santa Claus secretly Friend @Computer ? Has anybody seen them in the same place at the same time?

God damn. (Image is posted twice because the alt text ran over the limit) #ai #generativeAI

I have seen the heights of “mrrap rap” I have seen the dark caves of “murah” And on the open fields of “brrap brup” faced the rolling spot of “praah” o’re field and mountain moor and fountain I have followed soft paws far Through muti-dimensions uncanny suspensions carrying me through stars […]

At the risk of sounding like a neckbeard, some of the enthusiasm for "AI" is due to not teaching the command line. I know. I know. But hear me out. People should never have to use the command line for normal things, and it is a good thing that, since the mid-2000s, it has been possible to do […]

At the "AI" workshop, the CoPilot advocate told us that LLMs are better than using a search engine because using a search engine requires figuring out the exact keywords, while an LLM can take a query in conversational language. Later, she had us use the company's "AI" assistant, and told us to […]

The woman giving the "AI" workshop didn't quite seem to grasp that the company makes *things*. She's used to vague, abstract paperwork and writing stuff on a computer. As such, she struggles with the idea that there are people here who assemble things made of atoms. This reïnforces my […]

I'm trying to trick one of the senior people at my factory into letting me give a talk on why "AI" is bullshit, but to do that I had to sign up to an "AI" workshop to make it seem like I'm neutral. Let's see if I can handle 90 minutes of bollocks.

People (left leaning media figures) stop calling "grok" responding to something on X "fact checking" just because the LLM happened to be right one time *challenge* Difficulty? Impossible?? Even if it's funny. eg. "Elon go FACT CHECKED by his own bot" yes that's funny but no facts were checked […]

[Catholicism] Catholic pope reäffirms that Catholics must embrace the pagan Roman practice of monogramy and reject Biblically-approved polygamy. http://www.africanews.com/2025/11/25/vatican-reaffirms-monogamy-amid-african-bishops-polygamy-concerns/ #catholic #catholicism

RE: https://c18.masto.host/@carrideen/115612306944610233 Hey students, here's a great resource for how to ask for and help your professors/mentors to write good reference letters for you!

I am starting to develop opinions on BibTex and DOIs.

In a landmark step toward reconciliation, Victoria has become the first Australian state to enshrine a treaty with First Peoples into law. Passed to applause and tears in parliament, the Statewide Treaty Bill establishes Gellung Warl, a democratically elected Aboriginal body that will be […]

Hilariously, I found out about the #cloudflare outage by trying to use a goat gestation calculator from the American Goat Society after breeding the first goat of the year this morning.

"The Bruce" is a remarkable little Natural History and Art museum in Greenwich, CT. If AMNH is a five course meal, with three course dessert with brunch the next day. The Bruce is a bent box. Delightful, not overwhelming and a perfect day trip from the city […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

You have two wolves inside you. I have several octopuses inside me. We are not the same.

I am Infrapink. I like calendars, dinosaurs, and Nintendo games. I think compassion is the ultimate virtue. My Kinsey score is 1. I have no idea how to hold a conversation. I think pineapples and anchovies belong on pizza, chocolate should be as dark as possible, and Fortran is a perfectly […]

[Autism] I've spent years trying to figure out if I'm autistic or not, and I'm now about 60% certain I'm allistic after all. (Giga thanks to @SleepyCatten for giving me a bunch of resources:QueerCatHeart_BlackTrans: ) Honestly, I wanted to be autistic because it would explain quite a bit (and […]

Banrigh na Gorta an Lìte. Uinneagan an-aghadh sgrios-cinnidh. The Famine Queen in Leith. Windows against genocide. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Leith #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Edinburgh #Scotland #politics #photography #Palestine #genocide #mastodaoine

Trying to do some stuff at work which involves using a full-fat computer¹ running Windows 11 and in ainm Dé the operating system is fighting me every step of the way. And I'm not even using any LLM bollocks. ¹we normally use thin clients

Giving out the What's On Clonmel guides this evening, almost everybody complimented me on my dedication and hoped I was OK. I've been wetter. I'm more annoyed that I don't get to see the aurora.

[Earthpol] Venezuela is Trump's Ukraine #venezuela #ukraine

Ugh, Wednesday‽ But we just had Monday and Tuesday!

The news said an aurora was visible tonight even in Chicago. So, I went chasing it here in the NW 'burbs. Here's my shot away from house lights as best as I could get. #aurora #chicago #chicagoland

Constellations are weird. "Capricorn" just means "goat". The Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic names also mean "goat". Yet it's consistently represented as a goat with a fish tail. In India, it's a sea monster. Sometimes its a crocodile. Sometimes it has the back half of a fish or a dolphin […]

[Lebanon, Israel] When China yanked Tibet, there was at least a history of Tibet being sort of kind of part of China. Israel is acting like a European empire between 1490 and 1980. And people wonder why Hezbollah and Hamas garner support […]

less "you can transition in your 40s and 50s and still be hot" and more "transitioning is worth it regardless of whether or not you turn out conventionally attractive," please and thank you

[USpol] I feel like the president shouldn't be able to pardon people who helped the president try to overturn an election.

Started playing Donkey Kong Bananza a few days ago and Oh Hylia, THIS should have been the Switch 2's big launch game. I get that Mario Kart is Nintendo's most popular non-Pokémon series, but Mario Kart World is, at best, *fine*. Donkey Kong Banaza is big, fun colourful, and JOYFUL! This is […]

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Apparently the average Irish person throws away 19kg of new clothes every year. What the feck else are the rest of ye doing with yere clothes? https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1110/1543034-textile-waste/ #ireland

[North Sudan] The situation is utterly fucked. Fuck the RSF with a rusty chainsaw. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/9/sudan-medics-accuse-rsf-of-burning-burying-bodies-to-conceal-genocide?traffic_source=rss #sudan #northsudan #rsf #rapidsupportforces