Jurph: the Scent of Oak Leaves
@jurph.bsky.social
Veteran of dial up BBS, mIRC, AOL federated messaging, and Google Reader. When all this is gone I will remain. The most important thing is helping people.
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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
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I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.
AI to track icebergs adrift at sea.
British scientists say a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change
u.afp.com/S2sA
British scientists say a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change
u.afp.com/S2sA
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.
If you ever got the impression that "just following orders" was a way for regular people to get by under fascism, n.b. they literally don't care and will grind up any and all compliant bodies in or near their path
Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
If you ever got the impression that "just following orders" was a way for regular people to get by under fascism, n.b. they literally don't care and will grind up any and all compliant bodies in or near their path
Remember: AI is being sold to wanna-be resellers with the promise that they can generate infinite product at no cost. The sales pitch is "scarcity of text is over - you can sell text and strike it rich" even though there's less-than-zero demand for this specific text (and the scarcity is falling).
"Investors must act fast; this is the most exciting get-rich-quick opportunity since Bitcoin started accepting Bitcoin in transactions for Bitcoin."
Introducing Total Crap, the First Magazine Written Entirely by AI
Amid doomsaying pronouncements that the publishing industry is dead, we are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary tech...
buff.ly
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Remember: AI is being sold to wanna-be resellers with the promise that they can generate infinite product at no cost. The sales pitch is "scarcity of text is over - you can sell text and strike it rich" even though there's less-than-zero demand for this specific text (and the scarcity is falling).
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Elfin Cove, Alaska
Pop: 12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfin_Cove,_Alaska
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33601245
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177120331
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52590828
Pop: 12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfin_Cove,_Alaska
Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33601245
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177120331
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52590828
February 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Change “Sauron” to “Sonaur” and call that Lord of the Pings
Frodo buying all the ancient vases is the Hoarder of Mings.
frodo at wing stop is lord of the wings.
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Change “Sauron” to “Sonaur” and call that Lord of the Pings
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What is amazing?
Watching a contestant try to pronounce “Schuylkill” on Jeopardy’s Tournament Champions.
Watching a contestant try to pronounce “Schuylkill” on Jeopardy’s Tournament Champions.
February 4, 2026 at 12:44 AM
What is amazing?
Watching a contestant try to pronounce “Schuylkill” on Jeopardy’s Tournament Champions.
Watching a contestant try to pronounce “Schuylkill” on Jeopardy’s Tournament Champions.
In Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", while the person enumerating the ways does repeat them several times with mild variations, they only actually list something like six unique ways to leave your lover.
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
In Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", while the person enumerating the ways does repeat them several times with mild variations, they only actually list something like six unique ways to leave your lover.
The goddamn Lee Greenwood thing that some troglodyte motherfuckers think should be reverently afforded our attention when our REAL anthem slaps, and Greenwood's sloppy milquetoast dogshit pablum is not worthy to be played within 200 miles of any active or former VFW hall. No I will not stand up.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
The goddamn Lee Greenwood thing that some troglodyte motherfuckers think should be reverently afforded our attention when our REAL anthem slaps, and Greenwood's sloppy milquetoast dogshit pablum is not worthy to be played within 200 miles of any active or former VFW hall. No I will not stand up.
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it's boar vessel tuesday
September 5, 2023 at 11:42 PM
it's boar vessel tuesday
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Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
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I remember, before the film came out, Groundhog Day was relatively unknown. I told a friend from Georgia about it and he disbelieved me. Razzed me about "Tuscaloosa Tex" predicting rain. We were in a theater together when the Groundhog Day trailer came on, and he hollered "oh shit it's real!"
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I remember, before the film came out, Groundhog Day was relatively unknown. I told a friend from Georgia about it and he disbelieved me. Razzed me about "Tuscaloosa Tex" predicting rain. We were in a theater together when the Groundhog Day trailer came on, and he hollered "oh shit it's real!"
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Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for another six weeks or if an early spring is around the corner.
bit.ly
February 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
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Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring.
Punxsutawney Phil prepares to issue his Groundhog Day weather verdict
The groundwork has been laid for a sunrise ceremony Monday when international woodchuck celebrity Punxsutawney Phil’s annual long-term weather forecast will be announced.
trib.al
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring.
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wow mamdani won NYC
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
February 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM
wow mamdani won NYC
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
They have to sleep, and to be effective they have to sleep in territory held by Americans. They could pick a shitty fleabag an hour from town and bus in and out every day, but that takes a toll, too. And the hours they're bussing in and out, they're not cracking skulls or arresting our friends.
"[...] if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay."
#FuckICE
#abolishICE
#FuckICE
#abolishICE
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
They have to sleep, and to be effective they have to sleep in territory held by Americans. They could pick a shitty fleabag an hour from town and bus in and out every day, but that takes a toll, too. And the hours they're bussing in and out, they're not cracking skulls or arresting our friends.
In the prologue of the story, we're introduced to a villain who asks to breaks bread with strangers and then attacks them after they've offered hospitality, or kills mariners clinging to floating debris instead of rendering aid.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
February 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
In the prologue of the story, we're introduced to a villain who asks to breaks bread with strangers and then attacks them after they've offered hospitality, or kills mariners clinging to floating debris instead of rendering aid.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
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This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement