I'm ready to just delete everything and every account. Go back to a dumb phone. M

Go Bears!!!!!! What a game!!!

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Instead of punishing myself with doom scrolling today I'm going to watch Tron Ares instead 😬

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Instagram ads team is the laziest crew. What's that? You accidentally looked or clicked an ad for a hat? Well here's 25 more ads about hats (and if you're lucky maybe one post from someone you're following).

Wild this week about the crazy violence happening in the world, it's all over my main feed, yet not cracking on the "explore" top topics? Actively filtering there BlueSky?

I really just need to turn my phone off for a few days. I can't with the constant stream on shit.

get outta here with this crap

Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate

Finally getting my last #bird post of 2025 posted - my birding in December. It was a great month. Even after a lot of culling the post features 50 new photos! kriegs.net/2026/01/bird...

Shit. They got me.

So far, quite happy with the migration away from Spotify to Apple Music. Not quite as good as the ol' Rdio days - but already discovering more new songs/bands rather than having the same stuff thrown at me time and time again.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

Great now we'll have the dumbest people running two countries.

But my neighbors had a "Trump For Peace" sign on their lawn during the election. I'm so confused. Surely the FIFA peace award winner wouldn't keep attacking more countries.

Getting some New Year's sledding in this morning with @mintyfreshflavor.bsky.social after shoveling the driveway.

@bsky.app feature request: ability to hide reposts by accounts.

Back with another year of wallpapers! January variant of my calendar #wallpaper series is now available. Downloads available in Desktop 4K (with and without dates), Ultra widescreen, Tablet and Mobile sizes - kriegs.net/2025/12/janu...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Snowshoed up the backyard to get some sledding in. About 8" or so of really powdery snow.

Winter Storm has started.

We were essentially the only ones hiking today, loved it!

Working on January's wallpaper. Gonna mix things up for Patreon in 2026, now that I have a few months under my belt with it. Really excited by this set.

uhhhhhh

All that melted snow came back just in time for Christmas.

Still snowing. So much so that Amazon decided it couldn't make it down our street and said it'd try to deliver later. Had no idea drivers could message you through the app.

Going on a bender deleting old profiles on social sites I don't use anymore. Goodbye Dribbble, Vimeo, 500px. What else can I axe?

Not sure if it's the different models these apps are using or the cuts to NOAA but one weather app is showing about a foot of snow Friday while the other is saying an icy/rainy mix.

Printed out some stoppers for the IKEA Kallax to keep my vinyl collection super neat.

A few shots from our visit to the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge the other day to catch some Short Eared Owls. More photos on my site: kriegs.net/2025/12/shor... #birds #photography #sonyalpha #shortearedowl

Talking to some random photographers last night when out taking photos of owls. All commenting about how high we needed the ISO and how noisy these photos will be. We all (almost at the same time) said we're thankful for Lightrooms AI Denoise and it's the ONLY good use of AI. Good people :)

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Guess I'll start the new year off with one less social platform. I'm loving deleting my accounts, give me any reason.

Switching to MS Office suite from Google Workspace may be enough to drive me to quit. What unusable garbage.

Július Hegyesy (1933-2018)

Indeed — "I don’t know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they’re seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me."

If you imagine it making a little gagging sound every time a cookie comes out, it’s actually quite cute.

Released a new Patreon-exclusive wallpaper - available in desktop, tablet, mobile and ultrawide sizes for all subscription tiers. Hoping to do more of these in the new year (and featuring more birds!) patreon.com/Kriegs #birds #photography #wallpaper #patreon

A fresh blanket overnight.

Some good birding this morning at the local grasslands. More photos up on my site: kriegs.net/2025/12/bird... #birding #birds #sonyalpha #photography

Morning visit to the local grasslands (no owls) and Mohonk Preserve. Nice anniversary morning with @mintyfreshflavor.bsky.social

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Total War: 40k and Dawn of War 4. Goodness me I'm cooked! (On top of still playing tabletop too)

The party of small government and states rights.

Bob Iger says that Disney's OpenAI deal is designed to respect and protect the artists and art that made the studio legendary. Wrote about how that's complete and utter bullshit

“hallucinates less” - not "never hallucinates" - unreal that this is basically a feature of a full, non-alpha/beta release of a product.