szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

are you a person that buys into grift and lies?

these 8-foot single-conductor cables are $1300 each unless you pay what the manufacturing and component costs that add up to about 65 dollars.

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649935640-synergistic-research-atmosphere-x-euphoria-speaker-cables-8ft-spade-gtgtgt-banana/

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮

Today’s ’Spot the Dog’ comes from a changeable Quantocks where over the course of one dog walk we’ve had sun, wind, rain and hail, all enveloped by a slight nip in the air.

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #trees #photography

My darling Tuure. #Mondog #dogsofmastodon

Not a bird picture, but a picture of my well loved dog Lola.

This is Lola meeting Daisy the Moomintroll whilst out for a walk.

#nature #NaturePhotography #dogs #Wildlife #naturecommunity #Duck #photography #Cow

If you are a truck driver, you might end up having to share a building with a very shady company sometimes.

Here is my truck in the same hangar as Donald Trump's helicopter 7 years ago. :-)

Curious, is there a #Mushtodon? Because I've never seen these here before... #mushrooms

PORTLAND: The first Friday of every month I hold office hours at @bookswithpictures on SE Division. So this Friday Jan 6, I'll be there, masked, from 4- 6PM giving portfolio feedback to emerging comics artists.

You mask up, sign in at the counter, & bring 6-8 pages of comic book storytelling. I'll give you feedback based on my 30 years experience. What works, what doesn't, how to tweak a panel for clarity or impact. (Details in the thread below)

Americans lose more money to civil asset forfeiture than to burglary every year now, and the wage theft dwarf that.

You're far more likely to to be robbed by your employers and the police than you are by your neighbours.

Brodie taking a dip in the sea at a cove on Loch Bracadale. Clean, clear waters ensure his safety. A sunny day with bright light. Last summer he and I removed several large bags of litter from the area. This consisted of plastic, wood and metal detritus which had come ashore after storms. We carried the waste to recycling bins and took wood home for the fire. There are several planned much bigger initiatives like that around Scottish coasts. #cleanwater #swimming #coastalwaters #Scotland

I didn't fact-check this but it seems legit... #climatecrisis

"No, officer, I do not know why you pulled us over". Tiramisu (foreground) and Magnum sitting in my car. Neither have their licence yet. #dogs #dogsofMastodon

Got two #puppy #teeth! I'm so excited. I like to keep puppy teeth from all my #puppies. Casper is almost 6 months old and I was thinking I'd missed them all. But these two were hanging on by only a thread so I pulled them out! #tooth #PuppyTooth #DogsOfMastodon #Dog #Dogs #DanishSwedishFarmdog

Because of Finn’s epilepsy, we try to avoid dog treats that have Rosemary and other preservatives. Which means buying dog treats for these dogs gets EXPENSIVE. The ones we’ve been buying are TEN BUCKS A BAG. And we probably go through 4 bags or more a month. So. I’m making homemade ones. Making about the same amount for probably well under five bucks. And they actually smell really good. Just pumpkin, peanut butter, oat flour, and eggs. Here they are ready to go on the oven to bake. Paws and little bones. #dogs #baking

As I recall, the "hyperloop" was originally supposed to be some sort of maglev type thing where special pods hovered through at high speed, unburdened by friction. Right? Have we all just memory-holed that?

Somehow it became "single-car tunnels" & everyone just shrugged.

17:48 Lützerath bekommt ein Momentum. Neue Baumhäuser entstehen.

My friend had a visit from a moose this morning. 💗
#Alaska
📸: A friend

Imagination
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/imagination
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics

@Anthro Interesting scientist. He was also the master of the academic burn (and, apparently, lip reading). From the USGS archives.