Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...

I have a whole album of video game cats as well #cats

I’m obsessed with Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. It is overwhelming and tedious. Your shoes get wear and tear. You have to boil things and collect herbs. Your character sucks at fighting and loses most of them (initially). When you fast travel, bandits might pop out in the middle of your fast […]

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

We put out a giant mattress in the living room because Mila’s old 19 year old bones need lots of soft things to sit on Our whole house is basically cat beds #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

“But Möther, I specifically requested the chicken pudding, not the chicken morsels.” Happy Thorsday! #allcatsarebeautiful #thorsday #thortoots #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #catsofpixelfed #catstodon #cats #cat #caturday #ragdollcats

my most san francisco problem is that my neighbors keep putting plastic in the compost bin. (green) my theory is that they just emigrated from a place where green is recycling. and they don't really read english. the practical downside to this problem is that everybody gets charged extra for […]

i've finally resolved the mystery of why my half of my youtube recommendations are mandarin and taiwanese videos. my mom's been signed in to my account at her home. i found out when she asked me for 'my password so i can sign on to premium in my room as well'. (i had to make her another account)

This was.. a brand new sentence. Also the most exciting thing to happen in Palo Alto #billionaires

Both sides think the other side is tricking Chinese people into the other side’s nefarious political goals As if Chinese Americans can’t just have bad political ideas all on their own https://sfba.social/@MLNow/115501004535615562

TIL about the baker’s edge baking pan https://www.wired.com/2007/03/bakers-edge-baking-pan/ #food #cooking

I got a bit completionist about AC Mirage #videogames

‘Wind gusts up to 35mph’

I made flammkuchen for dinner and I’m about to make persimmon jam. Are there lesbian tradwives? I think that’s me

Taking recommendations for best savory breakfast pastry in the Bay Area. I’ll start: - Cubano croissant at Juniper in San Francisco - Bacon scone at Arsicault - Salmon or mushroom danish at the French Spot Happy to hear your recs for Oakland! (I despise sweet pastries and sweet things for […]

TIL that this memorable sound from the video game Dead Space was recorded in a BART tunnel https://youtu.be/aNmTQDEuHKs #videogames #transit #BART #foley

I would like Billie Eilish to be the new Christmas Queen. Mariah's reign is over.

I dont make the rules, but rules: 1. Nobody who ever says ‘to be fair’ has ever cared about fairness 2. Nobody who says ‘uses the race card’ knows anything about race or racism

A hair cut on the Upper East Side (Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Tri-X 400, DDX, Nikon CoolScan 8000ED) #believeinfilm #BlackAndWhite #nikonscan #TriX #filmdev

My most inconsequential hot take is that most people not from the tropics who think they dislike coconut probably just dislike artificial coconut.

Dimsum on Staten Island (Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Tri-X 400, DDX, Nikon CoolScan 8000ED) #photography #believeinfilm #BlackAndWhite #newyork #statenisland #food #chinesefood

Street food. Malaysia, 2005. #photography #food #cooking #tootsea #malaysia #chinesefood

Where I grew up, we were expected to feed ourselves early: every neighborhood had these shops called ‘zi char’, which were ‘dudes with huge woks, with so much fire it sounded like a jet engine’. In Malaysia they call it ‘dai chai’ (big fry) and in Hong Kong they call it ‘dai pai dong’ (big […]

A hair cut on the Upper East Side (Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Tri-X 400, DDX, Nikon CoolScan 8000ED) #believeinfilm #BlackAndWhite #nikonscan #TriX #filmdev

After a year or so I have finally found the hardware and software situation I have been pursuing for my film scanning. While lots of people use DSLR scanning, I don’t really like the way that works. I prefer a powerful desktop film scanner, unfortunately the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Lukewarm take: If your team is made up with a majority of men, but most of the documentation was written by people who aren't men, your team has a misogyny problem.

Wilderness survival note: DO NOT GO OUT INTO THE SIERRAS doing any outdoor activity in jeans. If they get wet, you will get hypothermia and be unable to get warm again.

Zebra Dry Plates has a blog post about someone who made photosensitive emulsion using silver cutlery and table salt. #believeinfilm #believeinchemistry https://zebradryplates.com/a-new-and-probably-the-cheapest-way-to-make-silver-gelatin-emulsion-elios-story-and-full-step-by-step-tutorial/

Mila was sitting in the sun and she got so warm and toasty. I smelled her and told her she smelled like ‘laundry after drying in the sun’. She was not impressed #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

A Street Car Named.. Los Angeles Transit Lines #believeinfilm #transit

Mila would like you to know she has never, ever been fed #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

Pop! An urban mushroom pokes up through a tangle of leaves. #MushroomMonday #mushtodon #fungiverse #sporespondence

Yesterday, I went to a random intersection in San Lorenzo in east bay and I had the most delicious Colombian BBQ. There’s a collection of street food stalls on Hesperian Blvd and Paseo Grande, near the Public Storage, on weekends (go around noon). We found a cute little Colombian grill spot […]

Salinas Diptych: some families practicing a cultural dance for the Mexican national day some time in 2025 #believeinfilm #photography #BlackAndWhite #california

Scream #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

Long animals should always have "oo" in their name. Foorrets, snookes 🐍, giroofs 🦒

Lake Chabot, Oakland #california #oakland #outside

[Food, oat and tea congee with Teochew pickled radish omelette] I make congee using oats instead of rice sometimes. I add a black tea bag for a few minutes, and dashi. Then I fry up some ‘chai poh’ (pickled radish) omelette and that’s basically what my […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

She was annoyed that I woke up late. She can’t read the clock, I guess.

"Lajok: The Night Dancer" by filmmaker @dilmandila is a spooky revenge fantasy based on Ugandan (Luo) folklore. Dance is used to possess and control but once the spell is broken, the same power can be used for payback. Watch: https://makertube.net/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW If you enjoy this […]

I'm at an interesting intersection between poor as fuck (mostly anarchist) folks and generally well off (mostly liberal-ish) tech folks, so every once and a while I can help with some info that bridges that gap. Right now is kind of a critical time for that. For anyone not extremely affected by […]

I like to tell people that my lack of visual images is so utterly lacking that I cannot even picture my own face. https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115464168609073514

What is something that is completely inconsequential that you have very strong opinions about (and would like to share)? #askfed

The Library of Babel is a coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression […]

#dpreview has a new article about a jaw-dropppingly great photo by Dan Zafra, in New Zealand, of the milky way, the comet SWAN, and aurora, *and* red sprites. It's insane! The foreground looks to be the Ōmarama clay cliffs […]

When I graduated from college in 2007 (in Singapore) I already had a life traveling internationally, and I was already making money per story / photo essay / travel guide thing that I did. Back when journalism still paid real money. I immediately got a job that moved me, expenses paid, to an […]

My new persona Fursona?

A drag queen is giving me amazing business advice on Halloween. Just Oakland things

Happy Halloween!! #halloween

I enjoyed this profile of Fitzroy. It's a great area, I visit often. 'This deep community campaigning has cemented Fitzroy as the heartland of Melbourne’s progressive politics, Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly says. '“If you’re living in Fitzroy, you’re voting Green, socialist, independent or maybe […]