Butsky Canyon.
Picturesque canyon on the Girsky Tikich river. This place is also called "Little Switzerland" for its beautiful scenery. It was here that the first hydroelectric power station built on the territory of Ukraine was located. Currently, only the ruins of the HPP remain. There is also a man-made Vyr waterfall nearby. Where: Cherkasy region, https://www.volynpost.com/news/55158-unikalna-ukraina-24-kutochky-stvoreni-pryrodoyu-ta-lyudynoyu-foto
"The South Carolina ruling embraces the predominance test to conclude that the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature deliberately shunted tens of thousands of Black voters from one congressional district to another for partisan gain. Doing so, the judges said, denied those voters equal protection under the law as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment."
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:38b1016f-378c-317e-b7df-3448285c5e17
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/south-carolina-gerrymandering.html?smid=url-share
January In The Garden (Protection)
The great Swamp Willow is home to the Swallowtails, Tiger and Zebra. A dozen will leave their cocoons and float all day among the flowers carefully planted for them here in Summer. A calming cloud. On a quiet day you can hear their wings flutter.
But remember there was no tabbouleh last year. The precious parsley must be protected somehow. Otherwise, again, a caterpillar’s markings will say, "Sorry gardener, I ate it while you were away."
#gardening
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Two old photos of my cat. The first is fuzzy, since I had to take it from quite some distance, and enlarging it didn't keep things neat & sharp. He was still so shy then. (He'd been two weeks with me by then, having spent his first four months outside, as a farmyard kitten.)
The second pic I took two months later; no more issues with shyness by that time.
#Astronomers dutifully removed all light from known sources from over 200,000 #Hubble images. Yet an even, dim glow remained when it should have been dark. Equivalent to the brightness of 10 fireflies if spread over the whole sky, it is hardly a significant source of light #pollution. One theory suggests the glow is the reflection of #sunlight off the dust left by innumerable #comets. If true, this would represent another structure of our #solarsystem.
Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-050
Dang, I just scrolled through all my posts are realized I never did an introduction. So here...
I'm a guy in his 40's who lives in New England with his family and dog. I'm a bassist, a notary, an amateur photographer, and wood builder. For now. I'm interested in tech, astronomy, books, snowboarding, and trying to find the beauty of the world. ☮️ I believe in equality for ALL.
#introduction #bassist #dad #father #newengland #photography #woodworking #astronomy #books #snowboarding
I’ve started to go through my photos from the past that have only ever been in our family library. I hope you can enjoy them as we have.
Barcelona 2014
#photography #photo #AmateurPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Barcelona #Spain #España #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BWPhotography #Travels #Traveling #CityPhotography
Just hit my 25,000th #MidJourney image. #AIArt #GetALifeEhWhat
AI text generating
I was randomly reading r/novelai, and in a thread decrying how #NovelAI has been focusing so much on their heavily waifu-based image generator, someone mentioned #sudowrite as a good alternative fiction writing assistant.
So I made a surreal story with it.
Here it is!
https://paper.wf/ceoln/first-sudowrite-story
The knee wasn't cooperating today, so it was "birding by car." #birds #winter #eaglecreekpark #cardinal #bluejay #redbelliedwoodpecker #squirrel
Tell me you haven't argued in front of a panel of judges before without telling me you haven't argued in front of a panel of judges before.
Answering questions from judge or justice is not just answering the question asked.
RT @jbrowder1@twitter.com
DoNotPay will pay any lawyer or person $1,000,000 with an upcoming case in front of the United States Supreme Court to wear AirPods and let our robot lawyer argue the case by repeating exactly what it says. (1/2)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1612312707398795264
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.