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My video this week talks about scammers on social media and I have a particularly honest moment during which I discuss my biggest *personal* concern when it comes to this topic...
RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-0Ynzb5XjQDG2Ez9aCbs3EQ%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
There's only one answer to this question. 🔼
@evan please help my doughter https://chuffed.org/project/193080-donate-and-help-hadeel-and-her-children
Dolly Parton is the best of us.
Of course her music is an unparalleled gift, but I don’t know if many know about her Imagination Library.
As a children’s court judge I get many cases involving kids in all manner of vulnerable situations. I would sign up all the children to Imagination Library. Dolly sent each child an age-appropriate book every month, and all those kids continue to get a new book, every month.
Sometimes these kids are moving around between shelters or relatives and all they have are some clothes, and these books. We always make sure the books go with them.
It is hard to put into words the gift of the world coming in every month for these kids.
That’s what Dolly Parton chose to do (quietly) with her wealth.
She will be deeply missed, but her mark on the world will live on.
Thanks for the follow!
@TheEddieShow As I’ve told @adhdeanasl pls stop making me look up words 😅
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history,
What the hell is going on in Germany?
> German CDU MEP Bentele defends Ben Gvir's calling for killing '30–40' Palestinians in Gaza every night
> She claims such calls need to be 'considered in the context of October 7'
> 'October 7 was BIGGEST act of de-humanization'
#IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza Germany
@foufoutos 🤢 😡 🤮 #nazi
I finally succumbed to temptation and tried using compositing when (re)processing some of my images of nebulae. For this image of the Eagle and Swan Nebulae I removed the stars, fiddled with the nebulae only image, then mixed just a little of the stars back in. It's cheating, in a way, but a pretty common astrophotography workflow.
All data (just over 5 1/2 hours worth) from my Seestar S30 Pro, processed in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Yeah, I'm trying out the RC Astro stuff too, using the 30 day free trial.
#Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux
Hm, der Brand im Hohen Venn wurde wohl durch eine Agrarmaschine verursacht.
Dabei hatten Dirk Wiese gesagt, es seien Brandstifter und laut Innenminister Herr Bert haben "irgendwelche Idioten einfach etwas weggeworfen" …
Wer macht so was?
Mit Agrarmaschinen werfen ist echt asi.
@sl007 eine Glasscherbe reicht.. insb noch viel gefährlicher als bisher, in dieser akuten Dürre/ Klimalage 🫣
The gardens of stately homes such as Hampton Court and Chatsworth House are among England's top visitor attractions. But their historic style of planting and ancient trees are being hammered by climate change https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/25/climate-change/trees-climate-change-english-gardens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #trees #climatechange #heatwaves #gardens #uk
@aaronbushnell Whoah. I've NEVER seen that.
@marcoarment @aaronbushnell I have it in mine FWIW.
The term "AI" has become almost meaningless. While it's easy to dismiss this as marketing hype, you can't restrict what you can't define.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/25/what-the-hell-is-ai-anyway/
RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/117152114860123580
About a year ago I ranted about the wonky TESCREAL behavior of Musk and Thiel. I felt bad about that post because explaining what is going on in a short post makes for a very unhinged post.
Gil Duran described having similar feelings about his book; so he started with quoting Biden's last speech as a president on this topic to legitimize the topic.
For those in the UK puzzled why we Americans are so distraught over the passing of Dolly Parton: try to remember how you felt when you heard Queen Elizabeth had died. Then imagine how much worse it would have been if Queen Elizabeth had ever helped anyone
@toychicken I’m just kidding around. It’s a testament to how Dolly lived her life that she was loved the world over.
@jalefkowit I reckon for someone that was alive for 80 years, she lived a lot longer than that. 😁
very very rarely (like, once in our lifetimes if we're lucky) you get to see a Fata Morgana
where because of very specific atmospheric conditions, mostly a temperature inversion, you get to see over the curvature of the earth, and see rochester from toronto (or toronto from rochester)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)#Toronto_mirage
@benroyce Oh my thats so cool!
Feds: Super sophisticated computer hacking hackers hacked all the utilities!
The actual attackers:
N7628 Took off from San Jose, California, United States.
this is Guild Park and Gardens in Scarborough
i chose it because it's a canadian view, the direction you're looking in is towards rochester near where i live over the curvature of the earth, and...
yes, it's beautiful
😁
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