There are about 20 swifts above me and from the sound of it they are loving it.

Just donated to @fdroidorg because the FOSS ecosystem is a beautiful thing!
Learned a lot when I published Coppelia, my Jellyfin music client, and the #fdroid review team and community was extraordinary!!

stop joking around the goose is losing value and it wasn't even valued in the first place this isn't fucking funny anymore

Lift-off

"Huddled in a Zodiac boat in icy waters off the Antarctic peninsula, I waited patiently for an Adélie penguin to propel itself from the water to the safety of an iceberg. Persistence delivered as I captured this penguin in an almost levitational-like state, as if posing for the camera”

Photograph: Mat Bell/Australian Geographic

#photography
#Antarctica
#penguins
#AltText

Kimchi has psychoactive effects I swear. Every time I eat it I just feel my whole body get this wonderful buzzing feeling and my head clears up a bit. Plus its the only form my body will accept very spicy chilis without doing nausea.

CMYK Halftone Roses. Drawing halftones with a plotter is brutal on the pen up/down mechanism (so many dots!) but the results are very pleasing.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

Danny Bate on the Linguistic History of Our Alphabet

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVZ90JA55X1GY58PKNE4348H&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books about Linguistics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=linguistics+

#books #literature #linguistics

they say that fedi doesn't have a meme culture or a unifying discourse.

well what do you call goose was not valued

When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/are-your-local-police-using-flock-safety-alprs-scan-immigrants

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Gooseholder value

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We now also have a draft of automatic goose value recognition: https://github.com/dwebagents/AgentPipe/pull/115/changes

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This joke is going to make me lose my mind. The bots have started negotiating between each other about alternative implementations of the golden egg factory

@ricci @lina @aud @SnoopJ agentpipe has immediately starting paying dividends

@tomjennings @jonny LA was making faster progress (measured as progress rather than existing achievement) than the SF Bay Area for some years there.

The D line was stymied by rich folks in BH fighting it every step of the way. And Garcetti and Bass rolled back progress LA had been making generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_Line_Extension#Prior_opposition_and_halt_of_Wilshire_branch

I'd add that what helps things get better is showing up consistently for active transportation activism. BikeLA and many other coalitions in LA need donations and members. https://www.la-bike.org/chapters

ActiveSGV has been having a lot of success improving things in the San Gabriel Valley. https://www.activesgv.org/get-involved#donate

There's also the Bus Riders Union https://thestrategycenter.org/projects/bus-riders-union/ #LosAngeles #BikeTooter

I'm burned my dogs we need a clean reset of the bit. regenerate/rebrand, move all automation nonsense offrepo

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Paging and current or former members of #BrandsTown

Accepting pitches for business model and name, the themes we have so far are Banana Financial System, Goatse Jazz, Alchemical Transpilation, Soul Imprisonment as a punishment for Lack Of Velocity, and as of a few hours ago also Goose Value, Egg Pipelining, and Endo-Organoid Factory Stomata

And that is the most I will intellectualize this joke for the foreseeable future because we are about to pivot the brand to be a better honeypot

The thing about this, and this whole thing, is that only a pattern completion machine would do any of this. A human being would have taken one look at the issue and been like "what the fuck is that, that's not real" but the bots have zero judgment between just performing the form of code without any meaning and the real thing. LLMs produce boilerplate. Code boilerplate, syntactic boilerplate, semantic boilerplate.

The bot notes pre-existing test failures without noting that nothing in the entire repository, nor anything it is doing makes a goddamn bit of sense.