Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
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59th Street Bridge
28 July 2019. From 58th Street and Sutton Place Park, Manhattan. Officially the "Queensborough Bridge" and, more recently, the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge", but immortalized as the 59th Street Bridge by the eponymous Simon and Garfunkel song (AKA โฆFlickr
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Maรฏder, Soul Raider by Magali Villeneuve
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
[Preview] The Soul Raiders | Soul Raiders
Hello everybody! Here is the start of a thread to introduce the valiant heroes composing the party of Soul Raiders! This will be updated regularly in the months leading to the Kickstarter campaign, so follow it to have a sneak peek at the charactersโฆBoardGameGeek
The image depicts a female warrior in a dynamic pose, suggesting movement. She is dressed in a combination of armor and flowing garments, with a red and gold tunic, a white sleeveless top, and a gold belt. Her armor includes a breastplate and arm guards, and she wears knee-high boots. She holds a large, ornate shield in her left hand and a long sword in her right, both adorned with intricate designs. Her hair is curly and blonde, flowing behind her as she moves. The background is a muted, cloudy sky, emphasizing the warrior's figure. The colors are rich and warm, with golds, reds, and whites dominating the scene.
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Took down some of these horrid plastic boxes that the old man had used as nesting boxes.
One actually had a nest inside from some time ago. The others just wet compost. Not that popular I guess.
They seem to be made from electric connection boxes, perhaps they came with all those concrete pylons from the garden?
I'll make some wooden ones instead. I don't want a plastic bird slum. You'll end up with square birds in these!
#NestingBox #Birdhouse #Homestead #Plastic #Cleanup
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
hackaday.com/2025/03/16/transmโฆ
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Teslaโs] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses involโฆHackaday
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news vice.com/en/article/people-areโฆ
People Are Seasoning Packing Peanutsโand Eating Them
Hey, soโฆNot sure if anyone told you, but youโre absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. So don't do that.Sammi Caramela (VICE)
When algorithms take the field โ inside MLBโs robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesnโt mean perfect precision โ nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.The Conversation
โAre we going to break something?โ acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. โI donโt know."
propublica.org/article/recordiโฆ
#News #DOGE #Musk #ElonMusk #SocialSecurity #USPolitics #Trump
Recording Reveals SSA Head Dudekโs Thoughts on DOGE, Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with โthe DOGE kids.โProPublica
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"The president wanted it" will not age well when it comes to face the music.
#philosophy #raptor #dinosaurs #meme #memes #dreams #wow
FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Okay but what is the new way to query hash tables then lol
Itโs got to be more than putting a linked list in a slot, which makes x the amount of time to find the slot + an average find time for the depth of the list.
This is the part I am also curious about, something @gvwilson (correctly) gets wound up about regularly. Cutting-edge anything interesting that shows up SIGGRAPH becomes an AfterEffects plugin in weeks.
We've got an incredible new hashtable implementation? Great, but where my libraries at?
I beg your pardon?
Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
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Sparklemuffin peacock spider: The spider with secret iridescent scales that busts a move to win a mate
This bedazzled arachnid woos its mate with a sexy thrusting dance.Melissa Hobson (Live Science)
DXVK 2.6 Adds NVIDIA Reflex Support, Improvements for Many Games - 9to5Linux
DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with many game improvementsMarius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Audacity 3.7.2 Improves the Linux AppImage Bundle for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - 9to5Linux
Audacity 3.7.2 open-source digital audio editor and recording app is now available for download with improvements for Linux and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Gesehen auf dem Gelรคnde der #PHTG Pรคdagogische Hochschule Thurgau in Kreuzlingen
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
Thereโs a simple solution:
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Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
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The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW โ Write to your MP โฌ๏ธ
#SaveOurSites ๐
action.openrightsgroup.org/savโฆ
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #fediverse #netplurality #mastodon #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
โซ๏ธ Check if they have UK users
โซ๏ธ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
โซ๏ธ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcomโs future directives
#SaveOurSites ๐
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.
This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.
We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.
Read our explainer for more detail โก๏ธ openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-โฆ
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.Open Rights Group
A historian talks about the state of things. Which appear to be retrograde.... Not the "r" word he's talking about.
"NEW: I guess we have to argue, once again, that the Holocaust was real and Nazis are bad. But flip this around; thereโs also good news. Right now, those of us who hate Nazis, but love equal rights and not catching measles, are losing. But we won before. We can win again."
Tim Walz is touring Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327412/tim-walz-is-touring-republican-held-congressional-districts-in-iowa-and-nebraska?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump is getting pushback from an unlikely place โ the conservative media
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328623/trump-is-getting-pushback-from-an-unlikely-place-the-conservative-media?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Media @media-npr
An animation breakthrough makes it possible to more accurately illustrates Black hair
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5327498/an-animation-breakthrough-makes-it-possible-to-more-accurately-illustrates-black-hair?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
Early tractors were wild. This here is a "road locomotive" plowing an entire field at once.
youtube.com/watch?v=5xDj45zF-lโฆ
#Tractor #Locomotive #Steam #Engineering
2021 RECORD! 150 CASE Road Locomotive pulling 44 bottom John Deere plow
Watch the 150 Case pull 44 bottom John Deere plows at the James Valley Threshing Show in Andover, South Dakota! This is a new record for this engine with 36 ...YouTube
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@mcSlibinas It's been generally found that sun-following solar panels aren't worth the cost and effort.
Especially since the event of double-sided panels ๐
A Tesla protester targeted by Elon Musk speaks out: 'I have to protect myself.'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5328626/a-tesla-protester-targeted-by-elon-musk-speaks-out-i-have-to-protect-myself?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-npr
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People in the path of destruction of Oklahoma's wildfires survey the damage
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329291/people-in-the-path-of-destruction-of-oklahomas-wildfires-survey-the-damage?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr
Looking at Solid Project: Can anyone give an overview of how this fits together with or complements ActivityPub?
digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.โฆ
#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
digiKam 8.6.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 8.6.0.digiKam
Saw the incredible images from the mass protests in Serbia, so I wanted to post this of Seoul yesterday with citizens trying to get the impeached president (Mr. Overnight Coup Attempt) removed from office
Original article:
hani.co.kr/arti/society/societโฆ
#seoul #korea #southKorea #protests
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14๊ฐ์ ๋ธ์ ๋ ์๋ด๊ธฐ ์๋น ์ ์น๋ฃก(34)์จ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋ ์ฌ๋ผ ์์ค๊ฒ ์์๋ค. โํจ๊ป ์งํ์ ์จ ์ ์๋ด, ํ ์๋ฒ์ง ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ๋ธ ๋ํ์ด, ์ด๊ณณ์ ํจ๊ป ํ๋ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ๋์ง๋คโฆ. ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์งํค๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋๊น์ง ํฌ์ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.โ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์งํค๊ฒ ๋ค๋ํ๊ฒจ๋
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Domain renewal month this month so we need a little extra.
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Repairing Our Clothes ๐งต
Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.
A few key points >>>
๐ชก #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.
This shows that weโre placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we donโt want to keep replacing items,
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#WRAPreport #mending #repairing
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The missing children of Syria: Hidden in orphanages under Assad, where are they now?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/16/g-s1-53476/syria-orphanages-assad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health @health-npr
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Attaching an eGPU to a Low Cost Mini PC Without Thunderbolt! - Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog
I decided to try something unconventional: attaching an eGPU to the system bus of a budget GMKTec G3 Plus mini PC (compensated affiliate link), curious to see if I could push the limits of what these sub $200 PCs are designed for.admin (Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog)
#ClimateChange
Environmental protection laws still apply even under Trumpโs national energy emergency โ hereโs why
President Trumpโs national energy emergency declaration does not qualify as an emergency that would exempt energy projects from environmental laws and regulations.The Conversation
Survivors of Pakistan's train hijacking recount the harrowing experience
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5326060/survivors-of-pakistans-train-hijacking-recount-the-harrowing-experience?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Legitimately among the finest American novels ever written. When I read it as a teenager, I found its giddy prose exhilarating, but with every subsequent re-read - as I gained the maturity to appreciate its deeper meanings - it became more horrifying.
Such careless people...
Karl Auerbach
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