Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

annnnd our lil buddy is finally an inside cat 🥹

#Lightning off the pacific coast. Picking out some of my favorites from previous years to build content here.

The #moon and distant tree were perfectly framed between these two #QuiverTrees at #sunset in #Namibia #Africa.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #Nature #NaturePhotography

@GreyElm I saw yours this morning and thought it might be fun to try. 🙏 for the inspiration!

Now that Christmas, I am looking forward to the brighter days

Brighter Day
Michael Frente

#music

https://youtu.be/76auK0v11Y8

#keepingon

Looking for something to investigate?

How about the $2,000,000,000 Saudi Arabia handed Jared Kushner?

DeSantis’ culture wars grabbed headlines — and legal challenges that cost $17 million. https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-culture-wars-grabbed-headlines-and-legal-challenges-that-cost-17-million/

Hey — anyone remember Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker? I’m guessing that Mehmet went back to New Jersey and Herschel returned to Texas.

What do you think?

Reading @npseaver ’s excellent “Computing Taste” that does a great job covering the history of #recsys both from an academic and social perspective.

All the usual stuff is in here (GroupLens, collaborative filtering, recsys the conference) but I also like that it ties everything we do back to an anthropological context.

@Bargdaffy The European Union model has worked. Let airlines figure out how they want to run their operations, but impose stiff financial penalties (payable to consumers) for delays, combined with a duty of care for stranded passengers. European airlines have invested in much more reliable operations than US ones. Before you say "that's too expensive!" you can fly over 1,500 miles for under 22 euro:

Here are the top law firms paid to defend DeSantis’ culture war policies. https://www.rawstory.com/here-are-the-top-law-firms-paid-to-defend-desantis-culture-war-policies/

I make a somewhat meaningful post and fediverse is like, *crickets*.

I make a mundane post and it somehow gets boosted.

You lot are strange sometimes.

@HermannTertsch

"Putin's repugnamt narrative, clothed as "anti-globalism", "defense of nations", or "pilar of Western values". Putin is a murderer of his own people and nothing more. Ukraine is right. To be is to defend oneself. The biggest lesson taught to Europe in this Century."

https://twitter.com/hermanntertsch/status/1607896802837106688?s=20&t=uNfopEDc2UDOuN2230WjSg

猫とハンモックで昼寝する…眠い…
#cocokame #cat

Time for another train post? Of course it is.

In October 2019 I caught the Savannahlander train from Cairns, Australia, on its weekly four-day tour through Far North Queensland. After it leaves the city it climbs high through spectacular tropical rainforest before heading across the fertile Atherton Tableland, then through sparsely-treed savannah country in the thinly-settled Outback.

There are excursions along the way to natural attractions such as caves and gorges, including a cruise along Cobbold Gorge. Passengers sleep in simple caravan park accommodation, with nights at cabins in Chillagoe, Forsayth (the line’s terminus), and Mount Surprise. There are memorable lunch stops at pubs in ghost towns - the one at Einasleigh being the highlight, a true Aussie Outback pub.

The train itself is beautiful, a streamlined delight with refurbished carriages from the 1960s and ‘70s. It’s all fairly basic, no aircon and little catering - though on one morning the driver stopped the train to set up a table with morning tea on the side of the tracks. While I stood there chatting another passenger, a young dingo trotted past, eyeing us warily. We saw a lot of wildlife on that trip.

#RailTravel #TrainTravel #Train #Trains #HeritageTrain #Outback #Queensland #Tropical #Railway cc @austrains @seatsixtyone

308th day of the heroic Ukrainian resistance to the Russian full scale invasion

Ukraine holds!

#UkraineRussianWar️ #Ukraine

#photography
#マストドン写真部
#japan
#kyoto
#fuji

I would like to share a recent personal render with you that I did. "MA-You have the right to remain silent"
#3d #3dart #3dartist #3drender #art #artist #daz3d #marcsart #realism #portrait #eyes #beauty #cgigirl #render #rendering #sexy #pinup #picoftheday #ginger #backtheblue