They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum

And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

This is bound to bring some joy to your day. Everything about it is delightful.

(And the engineering is amazing.)

#Joy #JoyScrolling #Happy #Laughter #Play #Engineering #RollerCoaster

04:45 this morning, Loch Shieldaig.

My site, SFMemory, currently has over 9000 Historical images of San Francisco, the East Bay, and Northern California. I've done a lot, but I can always use help. Currently 245 images have the words "Unknown Location" I couldn't find them but maybe you can! #sfhistory https://sfmemory.org/UnknownLocation

@davidcs Interesting side note: reminds of this dude in Austria who proved that grocery stores were colluding on pricing back in 2023 at the height of "inflation" due to "supply chain disruption"

https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/

I love the idea of local governments having Fedi accounts. It sounds silly, but the idea of a bunch of local departments being able to get their messages out can actually be really useful. Think about how many municipal accounts post updates on Twitter to keep people informed about local events or developments.

#FediCon

The GOG website is overloading intermittently, but they're having a free ADULT game bundle in response to the payment processor censor-shit:

https://www.gog.com/redeem/freedomtobuygames

https://mastodon.social/@rootcompute/114954904755806394

These are the games:
- Leap of Love
- Being a DIK - Season 1
- Leap of Faith + Official Walkthrough
- House Party
- HuniePop
- Lust Theory - Season 1
- Treasure of Nadia
- Summer's Gone - Season 1
- Fetish Locator Week One
- Helping the Hotties
- Agony + Agony UNRATED
- Sapphire Safari
- POSTAL 2

I'm the guy whose gonna play Agony and Postal LOL...

It works for the USA, France, and Mexico. You may need a VPN if you can't see it.

Damn, there’s even a Twitch alternative.

https://stream.place/

#FediCon

Don't trust her

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-users-shocked-to-learn-their-chats-were-in-google-search-results/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

"Won't someone think of the poor children?" they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. Art: CMYKat If you're totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of "verifying you're an adult" before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a…

http://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/

@ZeirosLion @soatok this >20 yo cartoon remains depressingly relevant

Давно хотел себе фоторужье. Несколько лет назад на барахолке купил себе мечту. Вместо Зенита был установлен Nikon D200. Именно он идеально подходил по габаритам. Спуск затвора сделал от штатного курка фоторужья. Получилась приличная конструкция для фотоохоты.
#photo #photography #oldlens #nature

anyone have a large pushpin or needle?

boost if you are tired

@joeress being able to create bad code without the use of AI is a matter of pride for some of me!

@jimsalter

I remember circa 2018 when Facebook started to not let you pause ads in videos.
It was right after I saw the Black Mirror episode where the guy is forced to watch a porno of his best friend that got drugged and coerced into becoming a drugged-zombie porn star.

I deleted my fb account about a month later. I had had it for a decade. Lost touch with tons of friends and everything.

Let it burn. 🔥__🔥

Getting old is my most recent reminder that God does not exist.

I am surrounded by wonderful people who have lived full and rich lives, filled with kindness and love for other humans. And I watch these wonderful people turn old and slowly lose their world. They fall ill, they struggle to maintain independence, or maybe start suffering from mental decline.

And it's terrible to observe. A lifetime of meaning crumbling away, piece by piece.

If there really was some form of divine design, why would such a god create humans to grow wise through their lifetime, only to eventually grow old and incapable over the course of years or decades? Why make people suffer so much at the very end of their lives? It's brutal.

I don't want some fairy tale about an afterlife and fluffy clouds. I want to accept reality and cherish the fleeting moment we have in this world. I just wish the people I care about, those wonderful kind souls, could enjoy the very best of this world forever. A lifetime is not long enough.

By way of #introduction, I'm an Australian #photographer based on the coast south of Sydney. I shoot mainly #nature and #landscape images, and have a particular love of #monochrome with an emphasis on #line, #tone and #texture. I operate almost entirely in a #reactionary way, setting out without expectations, rather simply responding to the way #light falls on a scene or subject.

My thanks to @geoff_eg and @mattpaynephoto from the Discord server Landscape Photographers Worldwide for the intro

Look, it is only "AI" if it is a desperate play by VCs to squeeze out a return on their investment in an overcapitalized startup, otherwise it is just sparkling ML.