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@rh2 It's all super quick and dirty :D

An unshaded view of the scene from a different perspective, showing that the body above the floor grating is mostly cubes, and the flashing lights are a pair of nearby spotlights rotating on a driver

Some friends from this morning
#photography #birds

A male Australian magpie stands on a mulch covered garden bed, under the shade of an out-of-view tree

A juvenile Australian magpie high in the tree, looking out before flying to a different tree

The juvenile Australian magpie in a different tree, calling out to their family

Five black swans flying across a clear sky. Two of them are craning their necks downward

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Dear @creativecommons ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

@rosewsgf Maybe! Given that prior to the Apple thing, they'd issued an apology for trying to force the same changes through, I think they recognise that that'd go down poorly. Instead, they've shifted the narrative to use terminology like "legacy billing" in order to frame this stuff as no longer current. Feels like a strategic thin end of the wedge to me

For the midweek #Blendsday session, I modelled this scene

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📅 Happy 32nd anniversary to Day of the Tentacle!

💾 Day of the Tentacle was released on June 25th, 1993!

@aeva I feel lucky to have been "Cheeseness" more or less from the beginning of my internet life in the 90s.

Prior to that, I'd made up random names when visiting chat rooms, and up to that point hadn't had interest in interacting with anybody more than once.

It feels more like "me" than the name my parents gave me. If I cared what the state thought my "real name" was, I'd fill out the forms to change it.

@tychotithonus I don't own a mobile phone, and generally don't take a laptop with me when I leave the house. I guess in practice, I'd be comfortable with 0%.

I used to keep a spare fully laptop battery in my backpack, but since that machine died and I've not been able to find one with replaceable batteries that suits me, that hasn't been an option (I do keep a second fully charged second for my camera in my camera bag though), so in that context, I'm uncomfortable with anything less than 100%.

@nini Yep! That's what I've been saying from the beginning - they'd previously tried to push through these changes multiple times, and each time, walked it back with an apology. It very much feels like Apple's in-app transaction policies were a welcome way to shift the blame and make it happen regardless.

Even though they can't use Apple's policies as justification anymore, Patreon are still very attached to wording that suggests they're going to retire their foundational billing models.

Also, apparently, Patreon are at least partly responsible for Apple being found in contempt of court rather than that being on Apple's shoulders. I don;t think that's how that works.

A screenshot of a message in an ongoing thread with with Patreon support regarding their proposed-but-postponed-for-now billing changes that were nominally in response to the in-app transaction policy Apple were ordered to walk back earlier in the year as part of a contempt ruling. In the message, which is too long for alt text, I ask for clarification of whether or not Patreon is committed to retaining the billing model I am on; refute that the situation was not the result of Patreon's internal decision making since Patreon could always have shipped an app with no in-app transactions, call out Patreon's misrepresentation of the contempt ruling as being the result of industry efforts rather than Apple being found in contempt of court through their own actions; ask what steps Patreon will be taking to ensure that no third party has the ability to impose such changes on the platform in the future; and ask for specifics on Patreon's claims that they had been fighting Apple the whole time. At multiple points, I point out that I do not appreciate being lied to.

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#birds #birdphotography #photography

Going live with week 4 of Fort Triumph for #TurnBasedTeusday in just moment https://twitch.tv/valiantcheese \o/

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So hum, yeah.

> We call on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong to:
> Publicly oppose any Australian military involvement in a US-led war with Iran
> Condemn all military escalation and push for diplomacy and international law
> Commit to a peaceful, independent foreign policy that puts people before war
> End Australia's complicity in war-making through bases, exports, and alliances
> Redirect military spending to the real needs of our communities.
https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/core-2025/australia-must-not-follow-the-us-into-war/australia-must-not-follow-the-us-into-war

#AusPol #NoWar

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We’ve been here before & learned nothing. 1 million+ dead Iraqi civilians, millions more displaced+catastrophic consequences till today on lie of WMD. Now lie of Iran imminent nuclear capability by Israel/US & to my disgust Australia endorses lie & a completely illegal attack.

@loren "How do you do, fellow gallifomes?"

@CaringKinderSociety I don't have much context, but for whatever the empathy of an internet person is worth, you have mine.

I gather this is ongoing stuff, so fingers crossed for no surprises

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I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says: ‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘

@CaringKinderSociety Well-wishes from me and foggy morning magpie

A magpie sitting on a power line, seen through thick fog

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https://adventuregamers.com/ was bought by an online gambling group which is in itself a huge tragedy but nothing can capture the surreal, brazen nature of this garbage more than the site's current About page

@kimfreephotography A lovely shot of some lovely friends!

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