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I'll be playing some Isonzo over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. There's a new expansion with a new level, so let's see how it plays. See you in the chat!

Samsai's Owncast

Playing games on Linux and occasionally doing some coding streams.
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#SilentSunday
#nature #photography #michigan #sunset
From 1 year ago today…a sunset that reached down and surrounded me. A dramatic sunset featuring vibrant orange and red clouds reflected on a serene body of water, with a silhouette of a distant hill and a swan swimming in the foreground.
#nature #sunset #Photography #SilentSunday #michigan

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How is the C balance of #plants and #ecosystems regulated: We assume that C #sequestration under future #climate conditions will follow #optimality principles that balance #water and #carbon resources to maximize growth in the long term nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do…
Scheme that explains the linkage between short term control of source sink relationships with longer term trai t adjustment
#plants #water #Climate #carbon #ecosystems #sequestration #optimality

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I went to the Lamberton Conservatory in Rochester, NY yesterday. Well worth the paltry $3 entry fee. Cool plants and also turtles and tortoises and little birds crawling and hopping around underfoot.
#LambertonConservatory
A tortoise reaching up on their front legs to get a closer look at us. The legs are covered in small and large brown and yellow scales. The head is fully extended from the shell and turning a bit to the left, giving us side eye.
A small pale gray bird with yellow feet, running to the right. The feet and background are blurry because it was moving fast, but somehow I managed to move the camera at the same pace as the body, which is pretty clear.
A curving brick path under a greenhouse structure, with tons of beautiful flowers on both sides, mostly yellow and purple on the left, and cream on the right, with some ferns at the top right.
Looking up under a garden croton plant with purply red leaves, with a string of red fairy lights.
#lambertonconservatory
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A sploot of turtles. My new collective noun of the day.
#SplootOfTurtles #turtles
Looking down at a water feature surrounded by rocks and turtles. Some turtles are piled on top of each other in the center, while the large stones in front each have a single large turtle in full sploot position, with hind legs sticking out.
#Turtles #splootofturtles
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wanna see a real weird light bulb?
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- YouTube

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#silentsunday
Sunset on a wooden dock in Hilton Head, SC
#SilentSunday

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#SilentSunday
A pine grove backlit by the sun. The floor is covered in brown pine needles and pine cones, and the long shadows of the trees are coming towards us.
#SilentSunday

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#BelieveInFilm
Black and white film photograph from inside a dormant tunnel greenhouse, made of an arched PVC frame covered in plastic, with a line of tables and lights and dirt floor below. Taken on a Pentax KX with Hp5 35mm Film at 1600 ISO.
#believeinfilm

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Made yesterday a couple very quick rough mockups of how lists on Mastodon could be extended to be public and/or used as starter packs. I think it could be one of the easiest way to share follow recommandations with a minimum of change from the bits Mastodon already has? (another could be being able to generate a CSV of a specific set of people and then share that to be imported, but that’s much more technical)
Fake screenshot of an imagined slightly revamped list feature on Mastodon. A list which is now public has a header with a description and an emoji, as well as buttons to follow everyone in the list or to save someone else’s list along with your own lists. Below, the listing of people in the list is now a proper people listing, with clickable profiles and follow buttons, unlike the current list feature.
Same but showing the view of latest posts instead of people listing.

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Buenos días MastodonLand
#Cats #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon

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I know it is seemingly criminal to some to mention other social networks on Mastodon, however would like to mention I am on Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/joshuastrobl.…

Liam (Gaming on Linux) has been doing a lot of fantastic work creating / maintaining lists for gaming, Linux, and open source (yours truly is also on there). I would suggest using those to follow a bunch of people and filter down after that. Also be sure to ask Liam to add you on the list if you do Linux / OpenSource things!

Open Source one: bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux…

Gaming: bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux…

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There's some good stuff happening over at Bluesky. It's the first time in a while the community seems pretty excited and positive about something.

Liam @gamingonlinux put together a starter pack for Linux and open source accounts that you can use to get rolling.

bsky.app/starter-pack/gamingon…

@Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

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#silentSunday
View of train tracks heading off into the distance. Hills with trees on both sides.
#SilentSunday
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Small Things Considered
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such rail tracks 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘰 evoke the same associations for me as long highways...
long, straight highway with (photoshopped) "3'-end"" sign

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#SilentSunday
Closeup foto of plump yellow lemons hanging in tree thru a veil of leaves and thin branches.
#SilentSunday

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#SilentSunday
En forêt, des arbres aux racines enchevêtrées
#SilentSunday

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LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241117.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2024 November 17 – LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Why is YouTube's Next Video button so big? Double-tapping to skip 10 seconds is like threading the needle. Which MBA-having middle manager has "numbers of videos loaded" as their KPI?
YouTube.com on mobile, showing the video controls. The right side of the video is extremely cluttered with buttons for auto play, closed captioning, setting, full screen, and a large Next Video button.
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Fionnáin
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I noticed this and that's what I suspect too. It's basically unusable these days — the double-tap 10-second skip was one of the best features of youtube, but I guess it's 'not commercially viable'.

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Friends of my parents recently got a poodle a wel, also black and tan, first time I saw them. He's adorable as well and so relaxed

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@ntnsndr
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Quite pleased with my current lock screen.
An iPhone lock screen with my photo of my wife looking out onto Windermere, with the clock peaking out from behind the fells in the distance.

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I imagine her raising her right hand, and pointing at the time hovering above the horizon.

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We’re now in the “Guy on Substack saying Bluesky is a rejection of Big Tech” phase of the hype.
Guy on Substack: “Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system No bad adtech, no AI, no throttling links. Bluesky is a booming because it's everything big tech is not”

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Latest comic: It did happen here

#cartoon #comic #uspol #USPolitics #election2024 #democracy #media

It Did Happen Here 2020 WAS OUR REPRIEVE AFTER A BRUSH WITH AUTHORITARIANISM. JOE BIDEN SMILING AT LECTERN GUY WIPING BROW - WHEW, THAT WAS CLOSE! JANUARY 6 SEEMED TO BRIEFLY MAKE THIS CLEAR TO EVERYONE. THEN MUCH OF THE MEDIA FORGOT ALL OF THAT AND REVERTED TO FAMILIAR NARRATIVES. TV PUNDIT ON PUTZ TALK - HOW DARE BIDEN POLITICIZE THE MIDTERMS BY ARGUING DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK? TV PUNDIT 2 - ORDINARY AMERICANS ARE PUT OFF BY ACADEMIC JARGON THEY JUST LEARNED ABOUT FROM ME! IN THE END IT WAS A CATCH-22. GROUP OF PEOPLE - HEY, WE'RE FEELING A LITTLE EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OVER HERE. TV PUNDIT - SO ELITIST AND POLARIZING! YOU MUSTN'T ALIENATE THE PEOPLE WHO DEMONIZE YOU. WE HAD THIS ONE CHANCE... WOMAN LOOKING AT PHONE - HMM... WE'RE BLAMING THE MOST VULNERABLE GROUPS INSTEAD OF GROTESQUE ABUSERS AND THEIR DERANGED PROPAGANDA. WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE? ...AND WE BLEW IT. © 2024 Jen Sorensen - Be a subscriber! jensorensen.com/subscribe
#Comic #cartoon #Media #democracy #uspol #uspolitics #Election2024
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ManVsXerox: Resistful Dingus
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ManVsXerox: Resistful Dingus
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so, what do we do now? You have been a voice of realism these past few years. Is there any hope not built on a mountain of dead bodies?

... God, fuck accelerationists.

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Jen Sorensen
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@manvsxerox Take care of ourselves and others, seek out trustworthy sources of information, and try to keep the flame alive. That's all I've got.
@manvsxerox
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Old Fucking Punk
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Brush with? ???
Many of us have felt like we've been living under a police state since at least Reagan, and the Democrats have been happy to pile on. They certainly ran away from defund, even though the real referendum was and continues to be the working class economy. I'll thank the Democrats for some more liberal policies on environment and social justice, but those still take a backseat to the interests of capitalists. Plus we should think of authority globally.

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Nansen #CatsOfMastodon
A ginger and white cat sits on a patterned surface, looking to the side. The background features a green leafy wallpaper and various papers pinned on a board, along with some books and a colorful fabric underneath the cat.
#CatsOfMastodon
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They really are each other's best friend, as well as accomplices in crime. One of them will excavate the plants while the other is the lookout. Little Criminals.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

A black cat in the foreground, sitting and looking directly at the camera, a layer behind him is his sister, a white cat with orange spots, also looking at the camera. Their cute facades hide their criminal minds.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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This is what we do 😍
Street art on a red brick wall depicting a group of small fish uniting to form the shape of a larger fish, facing a single larger fish. The artwork, done in black on a yellow background, is split into two parts. The top shows the small fish scattered with the words 'DO NOT PANIC,' and the bottom shows them organized into the larger fish shape with the word 'ORGANIZE.' The piece conveys a message of strength in unity and collective action.

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Today's weather.
Dark shadows on golden hills.

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Monsieur Léo and the morning mist

Nikon F4 / Nikkor AF-D 50mm f1,4 / Kodak Portra 160

#cats #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #Cats #caturday #35mm #nikon #argentique #analogphotography #kodak #photo #filmphotography #photography

Monsieur Léo on a terrace in the morning mist. Photo taken with a 35mm camera on color negative film.
#cats #photo #Photography #Caturday #nikon #35mm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #kodak #argentique

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my house

This is my beautiful house. It is up for sale. Bye-bye beautiful house! I will miss you.

realestate.com.au/property-hou…

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Sam Smith Moving to Glasswings
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Let me know your new address when you have it for Christmas cards! Best of luck!

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"If you're tired of algorithms deciding what you see, Bluesky might be the relief you're looking for. Like Mastodon, Bluesky has no central algorithm feeding you posts based on some popularity contest. Instead, what you see comes from genuine engagement: posts gain visibility based on how many users like and "re-skeet" them (Bluesky's version of a retweet)."


Tell me you don't know what an algorithm is without telling me you don't know what an algorithm is.


7 things to know about Bluesky before you join - and why you should

It's not a direct replacement for Twitter (X), but Bluesky has a lot to offer those who want a fresh start in a decentralized, privacy-minded network.
Jason Perlow (ZDNET)

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Time to rebuild my follower base from Twitter on Mastodon!

I’m Vidar, founder of Street Art Utopia, curating the most inspiring street art from around the world.

Every new follower who comments here will receive a high-quality street art photo as a thank-you reply! Feel free to request a specific theme for your photo!

Street art mural depicting R2-D2, the iconic Star Wars droid, offering a bouquet of flowers to a trash can painted to resemble a companion. A small red heart hovers above R2-D2, adding a touch of charm and humor to the piece. The artwork, set against an urban wall, playfully reimagines the characters in a heartwarming scene that brings personality and affection to inanimate objects.
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Terrain3D is an incredible add-on for Godot 4. Thank you @TokisanGames !

This is part of R&D for Liblast and Liblast Framework.
Based on CGI data from #NASA, that was interpreted frivolously to an 8x8 km area and then sclupted over to add detail that was missing from the original textures.

- unfa

#Liblast #IndieGame #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev

A screenshot from Godot 4 editor showing an inside view of a pale ring of mountains under a black sky with a bright sun.
#gamedev #godotengine #indiegame #NASA #godot #Liblast @TokisanGames

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So there's a kind of, tick-tock, feel to this, that won't be present in the final game, but I'm convinced is absolutely critical at this phase.

If your systems can't tick along this discretely, like a well-oiled clock, then they won't feel right once you cover them up with more ease/interp/curves🐭⚔

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Megan Fox
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Suffices to say I am very freaking happy with this. It's so crisp! There's a smooth turn toward each attack dir that SNAPS in when the movement frames actually begin, like a perfectly machined part snapping into place. That's what I want a combat system to be.

That's what DMC is, as a random example, but this also applies to a ton of fighting games.

(where say Veilguard, bless its heart, is more like controlling a bag of soft cheese)

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nebunez
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This looks really fun and responsive! This is very similar to what I’m going for in the game I just started on, except I’m doing 2D isometric. I’m enjoying your progress posts, keep ‘em coming!

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NASA Receives 14th Consecutive ‘Clean’ Financial Audit Opinion nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-rec… #NASA #NASAHeadquarters #BudgetAnnualReports #OfficeOfTheChiefFinancialOfficerOCFO

NASA Receives 14th Consecutive ‘Clean’ Financial Audit Opinion - NASA

For the 14th consecutive year, NASA received an unmodified, or “clean,” opinion from an external auditor on its fiscal year 2024 financial statements.
NASA
#NASA #nasaheadquarters #officeofthechieffinancialofficerocfo #budgetannualreports

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Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/half…

#Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming


Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update

To celebrate that Half-Life 2 has turned 20, Valve has made it free to claim and keep for a limited time. Not only that, but Episodes One and Two are now included.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #linuxgaming #pcgaming
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unrelated, I would love if valve made half life 3 and portal 3 into an asymetric coop game where glados send chell to get ride of the rogue core aboard the ship, gather the sweet test data and maybe steal some black mesa tech data while Dr Freeman is here to get technology to... I lost the half life plot.

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Oh hey, I hit over 66K followers here. Well how about that then.

Soon my world domination will be complete. Thank you for your compliance.

Homelander from The Boys sighing, with him looking insane layered over the top but faded meme

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I coincidentally started reading Sara Horowitz's book 'Mutualism' last week and it's the one thing giving me cause for hope amid the statements of US lawmakers(!) claiming they're going to 'take a blowtorch' to the federal govt. Lessons from mutualist history says we can just do it ourselves. @ntnsndr's timely article talks about how nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-…

How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Growing US corporate economic control has impeded people’s capacity to self-organize. The time to rebuild community-scale economic institutions is now.
Aine Creedon (Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly)
@Nathan Schneider

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Absolutely brilliant article!

10 Ways to be Prepared and Grounded now Trump has Won

10 Ways to be Prepared and Grounded now Trump has Won - The Commons

To take effective action in a Trump world, avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
holly hammond (The Commons Social Change Library)

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I've seen a couple people post this article. Let me contribute to its circulation.

What to Do Before the Trump Administration Takes Office in January


What to Do Before the Trump Administration Takes Office in January

Read about what to do before the Trump administration takes office, from updating your personal documents to building community.
Brittney McNamara (Teen Vogue)

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