A lazy fly sitting on a leaf. I felt like the karate kid after getting off a couple of shots

#macro #Photography #fly #nature #zerenestacker #darktable #sony #Laowa #akdiffuser #neatobuilds #year2025

Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087844
#hackernews #tech

This whole Agile Coach debacle has helped me realize something that hadn’t fully landed with me before: agile started as a movement driven by builders to «build better», but it is largely dominated now with people who don’t know how to build and look at agile as a management process style. These are MBA-like folks who are trying to figure out how to manage an IT organization. But that wasn’t what agile was about. It was about a better way to build stuff, better stuff, by collaboration and not getting stuck in our ways.

Inside every QA tester there are:

- Two wolves
- One wolf
- Zero wolves
- 0.5 wolves
- 2,147,483,648 wolves
- -2 wolves
- Beer wolves
- Two coyotes
- 🐺🐺
- Два волка
- '); DROP TABLE WOLVES;--
- <script>alert('Awooooo')</script>

German artist Cornelia Konrads creates site-specific installations using a variety of materials such as wood, stone, brick and steel wire, set in natural surroundings with elements of impermanence, transition and the surreal.

Here’s ‘Passage’ (2007) #WomensArt

#Art #Artwork #Artist

@GPJohnston
Looks like a fantastic trip.

Took the long way home after eating cake at a friends. Henceforth those 11km shall be known as “the cake walk”.

#cake #longwayhome #norwegianwood #photo

@SeaFury Made me laugh. Sorry!

@sarah4425155
Assumed as much. But of course, the internet can’t let a mistake pass without comment. *grin* Cheers!

My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers: https://inessential.com/2025/05/23/love_letter.html

FACT: The more people choosing to walk, bike & take public transit to get around cities, the better cities work for EVERYONE, including DRIVERS.

Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work.

It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.

@sarah4425155
Welcome to Norway. Cool sign.
And your posted phrase translation was correct, but … this photo shows a sign that says something else:
«Hvis tørsten deg vil kvæle drikk da fra denne dale», which means “If your thirst you will quench, drink then, from this valley”.

Interrupting the hatting to say this news article is fabulous. So many thoughts.

I mean, what time of day is it OK to answer the door to unexpected visitors?

Feelings of amazement that he answered the phone at all.

Delight at the acceptance of what is, and hope for what will be. "It's a very bulky new neighbour but it will soon go away".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8nk279ydyo

Glad to see this:

The EU launching their plan to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans.
https://youtu.be/qf_6hTBUZXE

#academicchatter #braindrainamerica

In a love-detest relationship with recommendation algorithms.” … But I’ve been sitting in my driveway for ten minutes now digging the satirical lyrics with catchy and complex rhythms chosen for me.

#confession #thematrix

I overheard one of the ladies who brought in her therapy dog speak to a young boy who was nervous about reading.

She said, "Ohh, Skye here doesn't care if you read in English or Spanish or are a good reader or nervous about reading. He can't understand you. He's a dog. But he loooooves to be read to. Loves hearing your voice. You just read whatever you like as well as you're able to and Skye will listen to you intently and lovingly."

And now I'm crying.

#library #libraries #reading #solarPunk #mutualAid

In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

@ewen
Beautiful

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