@pbryson.bsky.social
🇨🇦 🦅🦈 ☕️Sci-fi, biology, science, sustainability, design, and bird nerd; cyclist & (sometime) runner. All opinions def mine alone…as my DH will attest. She / her
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Sauce for the [Christmas] goose, Mr. Saavik
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sauce for the [Christmas] goose, Mr. Saavik
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"What's 'surveillance pricing,' Spike?"
- Fire up your VPN
- Set your location to, I dunno, Missouri
- Look for a specific hotel room for a specific day on booking dot com, Note the price
- Now set your location to NYC or SF
- Look up that same hotel room
- Is it $80 a night more expensive?
- YEAH.
- Fire up your VPN
- Set your location to, I dunno, Missouri
- Look for a specific hotel room for a specific day on booking dot com, Note the price
- Now set your location to NYC or SF
- Look up that same hotel room
- Is it $80 a night more expensive?
- YEAH.
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"What's 'surveillance pricing,' Spike?"
- Fire up your VPN
- Set your location to, I dunno, Missouri
- Look for a specific hotel room for a specific day on booking dot com, Note the price
- Now set your location to NYC or SF
- Look up that same hotel room
- Is it $80 a night more expensive?
- YEAH.
- Fire up your VPN
- Set your location to, I dunno, Missouri
- Look for a specific hotel room for a specific day on booking dot com, Note the price
- Now set your location to NYC or SF
- Look up that same hotel room
- Is it $80 a night more expensive?
- YEAH.
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As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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Watching Frankenstein &
1) I want so many outfits
2) it is so wild that Victor answers “wtf is that monster who killed 6 of our men” with “let me tell you about my dead mother”
1) I want so many outfits
2) it is so wild that Victor answers “wtf is that monster who killed 6 of our men” with “let me tell you about my dead mother”
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Watching Frankenstein &
1) I want so many outfits
2) it is so wild that Victor answers “wtf is that monster who killed 6 of our men” with “let me tell you about my dead mother”
1) I want so many outfits
2) it is so wild that Victor answers “wtf is that monster who killed 6 of our men” with “let me tell you about my dead mother”
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
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This ep is about a species without gender, so pronouns inevitably come up. Riker makes a mistake and gets corrected. He apologizes, asks what pronouns Soren prefers, and then says he will do his best to be better going forward.
If Riker could figure this out in 1992, your MAGA uncle has no excuse.
If Riker could figure this out in 1992, your MAGA uncle has no excuse.
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This ep is about a species without gender, so pronouns inevitably come up. Riker makes a mistake and gets corrected. He apologizes, asks what pronouns Soren prefers, and then says he will do his best to be better going forward.
If Riker could figure this out in 1992, your MAGA uncle has no excuse.
If Riker could figure this out in 1992, your MAGA uncle has no excuse.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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It doesn't matter that experts say one thing on a hundred sites if a million sites written by ignorant people exist to counteract it.
You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It doesn't matter that experts say one thing on a hundred sites if a million sites written by ignorant people exist to counteract it.
You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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You're not "asking an AI to answer a question" you're "giving an LLM a prompt and it is generating plausible text".
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I know nothing about cars so when my car was playing up I asked my neighbour, who also knows nothing about cars and he said "it's completely broken, you should scrap it and get another one".
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November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I know nothing about cars so when my car was playing up I asked my neighbour, who also knows nothing about cars and he said "it's completely broken, you should scrap it and get another one".
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Ted Chiang called LLMs a blurry jpeg of the internet, which I think is a great metaphor
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ted Chiang called LLMs a blurry jpeg of the internet, which I think is a great metaphor
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In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.
In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
In every dystopian novel: the government bans books.
In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, statues like these are not objective records of empire, but deliberate, ex post facto public celebrations of a perceived past, erected with a selective presentism all their own - i.e. the exact process TD is railing against here.
'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.'
'20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.
'20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.
Historian attacks ‘ludicrous’ changes to statues with slavery links
Professor Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, said he was opposed to changing artefacts to suit modern sensibilities
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
At the risk of stating the obvious, statues like these are not objective records of empire, but deliberate, ex post facto public celebrations of a perceived past, erected with a selective presentism all their own - i.e. the exact process TD is railing against here.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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Snow geese’s coming in for a landing. I took a series, it’s around 30 photos. It’s amazing how many adjustments (wings, tail, body etc) it makes as it comes in to land. Truly amazing!!! 1/2
#birds #birdphotography #nature #birding #CanonR5MarkII #photography 🪶 #NewMexico #BosquedelApache
#birds #birdphotography #nature #birding #CanonR5MarkII #photography 🪶 #NewMexico #BosquedelApache
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Snow geese’s coming in for a landing. I took a series, it’s around 30 photos. It’s amazing how many adjustments (wings, tail, body etc) it makes as it comes in to land. Truly amazing!!! 1/2
#birds #birdphotography #nature #birding #CanonR5MarkII #photography 🪶 #NewMexico #BosquedelApache
#birds #birdphotography #nature #birding #CanonR5MarkII #photography 🪶 #NewMexico #BosquedelApache
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I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)
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It is so very easy to offer non alcoholic beverages - just buy some fancy sodas or pop some regular apple cider on the stove, everyone will cherish your kindness, I promise.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It is so very easy to offer non alcoholic beverages - just buy some fancy sodas or pop some regular apple cider on the stove, everyone will cherish your kindness, I promise.
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Wood Ducks! 🪶🌿
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Wood Ducks! 🪶🌿
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I think about this John Cullen comic all the time. Thank you! @nellucnhoj.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I think about this John Cullen comic all the time. Thank you! @nellucnhoj.bsky.social
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Quite a few #SandhillCranes in the farm fields again. A few short clips to get the feel for the atmosphere.
Vid1-When cranes land around many others, there is alot of excitement. They flap their wings and hop around. It's not quiet!... and it's very fun to observe.
#birds
Vid1-When cranes land around many others, there is alot of excitement. They flap their wings and hop around. It's not quiet!... and it's very fun to observe.
#birds
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Quite a few #SandhillCranes in the farm fields again. A few short clips to get the feel for the atmosphere.
Vid1-When cranes land around many others, there is alot of excitement. They flap their wings and hop around. It's not quiet!... and it's very fun to observe.
#birds
Vid1-When cranes land around many others, there is alot of excitement. They flap their wings and hop around. It's not quiet!... and it's very fun to observe.
#birds
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Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
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Just wow. The irony.
I hope people are safe and learn from this- overcome their cognitive dissonance.
I hope people are safe and learn from this- overcome their cognitive dissonance.
A fire erupted inside the packed United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday, forcing a panicked evacuation of thousands of delegates just as negotiations reached their final days.
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Summit Venue in Brazil
A fire erupted inside the packed United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday, forcing a panicked evacuation of thousands of delegates just as negotiations reached their final days.
bloom.bg
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just wow. The irony.
I hope people are safe and learn from this- overcome their cognitive dissonance.
I hope people are safe and learn from this- overcome their cognitive dissonance.