#Holos is a #Fediverse search engine: https://discover.holos.social/

shortly followed by writing "queueing" and, I assume, knocking off early to go the pub.

Somebody was the first person to write "queue" in a dictionary.

Imagine saying "yes, that is the correct and best spelling for this word: one consonant followed by four vowels, the final three completely redundant."

You hear the wailing of the Banshee...

president hotel, swan lake, new york, 1977

You have to wonder how low Apple’s talent pipeline is running when all they could find to replace Tim Cook was another middle aged white guy

Grind Stormer: The Ultimate Blast-Fest!
Source: Diehard GameFan Volume 2, Issue 5 (April 1994)
Scan Source: Sketch the Cow/Jason Scott (Internet Archive)

#retrogaming #sega

Western Rockhopper Penguin

A relatively small penguin with spiky yellow eyebrows that flare out behind the eyes. Formerly known as Southern Rockhopper Penguin, but recently split into Eastern and Western Rockhopper. Western Rockhopper breeds on the Falkland Islands and around Cape Horn in Chile and Argentina. Most often seen at breeding colonies, but singles or small groups can sometimes be found in the open ocean far from land. Compare with larger Macaroni Penguin, which has a larger bill and bold pink gape. Typically no range overlap with Northern or Eastern Rockhopper, but vagrants are possible anywhere in the Southern Ocean; note details of bill pattern and crest shape.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/rocpen2
Photo Location: Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

sugar maples, maplecrest, new york, 1977

CPOD from 2025/08/27

Children play with bicycle tires among large conical piles of rice at a processing mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh

Artist: Original: Azimronnie
Derivative work: Radomianin; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work

See explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children_playing_in_the_rice_mill_(edited).jpg

#wikimedia

But: remain skeptical about quickly adopting new jargon from the worlds of business, technology, or journalism. Especially if it's that sort of new jargon that enthusiastically trades clarity and precision for deliberate opacity or cheap novelty. The track record for jargon's longterm contributions to society has been bleak.

Out-of-context QOTD:

“With all due respect, a country that puts beans on toast is not allowed to tell me what I can and can’t do with bread”

Giulio Noccesi

Roger Ballen

#photography

This mic drop happened in the Iran negotiations.

Geraint Smith

#photography

David Alan Harvey

#photography

this reminds me of something from the Zhuangzi

"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle."

but it is from Walden

the real DLSS controversy we should talk about: