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This clip is interesting for a few reasons: 1. It shows their long, snaky neck. 2. It's an immature bird that's spending time at the rookery with nesting adults. 3. This young bird is starting to show some of its light blue feather crest Agami Heron #CostaRica #birds #herons

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Bloody hell, who wrote this? I would be infinitely less irritated by an invoice. Tempted to move my deposits to BoI, purely out of spite.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Central Bank Analogue Currency. Transfers are made via careful adjustment of rheostats.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In another sign that the bubble probably doesn't have long left to run, fridges are now 'AI', apparently. Open the freezer door, HAL.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

submitted 5 days ago • 374 comments

Just saw someone say "the King's English" and I'm not really used to this woke gender-swapped monarchy

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Alpha Male. Beta Male. Release Candidate Male. Release to man-ufacturing. Microsoft Service Pack 2 for Men.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

> The railway proved expensive to build, the final cost being under a little under £60,000 per mile in total, Murray in 1938 commenting that this rate per mile was one of the highest ever The Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1832). Apparently Dublin rail being really expensive to build has HISTORY.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, look, the 37 is a weird bus route, Google, granted. I am, however, sceptical that it is _this_ weird.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, this feels like we’re really getting very close to the AI bubble popping. Also, even for an ai thing this is nightmarish-looking.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

So, er, who, precisely, is now the target market for paying for a Twitter bluetick? I presume the MAGA crowd will be burning theirs in protest over Elon's attacks on Dear Leader.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

our RAM is not and will never be for sale

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 17 days ago • 230 comments

"little Elon has too many kids, he calls them things like 192.168.1.1, they're saying he calls another "admin password"

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

The fallout from the far-right’s biggest celebrity couple breakup is a thing to behold.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing. Respect the lede.

submitted 17 days ago • 319 comments

Seen: an AI booster describing LLMs as the biggest innovation in programming since the IDE. If true, that should be a concern for AI boosters, because IDEs have been in decline for over a decade. VSCode is an IDE only in the same way that vim is.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

OpenAI has apparently managed to produce a robotic version of Superhans from Peep Show. futurism.com/therapy-chat...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Today in completely inappropriate precision; this Grindr guy has measured himself to within hundreds of microns, presumably with a laser. (It’s actually metric/imperial nonsense, of course.)

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

… Right. What do you want, Michael O’Leary, a medal?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

People in this country continue to be really weird about houses. There's a solution to underutilised holiday homes; a punitive vacancy tax. But for some reason, it's _fine_ to use tax to phase out smoking or control pension policy, but not to address housing: www.thejournal.ie/mayo-county-...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Bloody hell, these people are ridiculous.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“Then, after the absolute minimum of time to ascertain he wasn’t going to drop dead, they dragged him into a meeting”.- Extremely relatable quote from an @aptshadow.bsky.social book.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is so stupid.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Ol' minihands, presumably getting bored with tariffs, is now declaring war on Bruce Springsteen, instead.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So apparently when electric buses are charging, they show a battery indicator on the front, like enormous phones.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky

submitted 35 days ago • 114 comments

Weirdly common sci-fi trope: you've got your giant military starship, which will have a shuttle or fighter bay. Will this have a _door_? No, absolutely not; the air will instead be held in by a forcefield, which someone will definitely turn off at an inopportune moment.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Bluetooth: reassuringly annoying.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Hey isn't it weird that every single AI lab is saying that their ultra-powerful flagship AI model is just around the corner, but it isn't ready yet and you can't see it and they don't know when it'll be done? Isn't it strange that everybody is having the same problems?

submitted 38 days ago • 82 comments

> Mr Trevelyan said: "Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew” BBC News is weird, in that it’s half geopolitical chaos, and half odd local-interest stuff about people who like dressing as birds or similar.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"Now, Aontú Councillor Sarah O'Reilly queries why e-scooters are banned from buses because of risk of fire yet 48 40ft containers of lithium batteries have been granted planning permission in Cavan." - Oh, no! What if someone puts Cavan on a bus?! Aontú, as always, has the most bigly confused pols.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I love this whole thing and not just because it quotes me. extremely catty in a way I think is magnificent, especially this bit about how much the internet hates Sam Altman's coffee machine

submitted 42 days ago • 57 comments

> Pope Leo XIV says advancement of AI played a factor in his papal name selection "Hey, Siri, what's the best pope name?"

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments