Parc Jarry
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angst-ridden wanderer
@angst_ridden@turtleisland.social
mastodon 4.7.3Born/raised on traditional Chumash / Tongva / Kizh land, and now I spend my summers on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg land. I feel there's a lot more to allyship than just reciting land acknowledgements, so I'm here to learn and hopefully act.
When depressed, I post nature pictures to cheer myself up.
• égalité pour tous • gegen die Faschismus • paz y justicia •
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#code #writing #tech #urbanism #nature #photography #BloomScrolling #birds
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Joined May 06, 2024
Atmospheric CO2:
More than 100ppm increase in my lifetime.
I was a fool.:
I am a fool. A fool I shall be.
Neurospicy?:
Undiagnosed, but the signs are there.
I’m repeating myself, but I can’t help it.
#BloomScrolling
Hummingbird in front of nearly full moon.
Monarch on takeoff!
#butterfly
Sea creature, visiting alien, or something altogether different?
#BloomScrolling
It was a day for butterflies at the gardens. First, a swallowtail.
#butterfly
A gentle rain of petals
Coopers Hawk fledgling, its eyes still blue!
#birds
Fractal Feed
Throwback to March of 2001, when hummingbirds nested in the rosebush out front. Photo taken with a Coolpix D950 which I had taped to a broom handle and held up from a distance.
Magnolia trees at the Jardin Botanique are just getting to peak bloom. Depending on the rain, next week will probably be the pinnacle.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io maybe solar powered carbon capture? (Oh no… I’ve become “tech bro reinvents the tree”)
People often* ask me how my toots here are so perfectly baked and browned.
Here I reveal my secret.
#toot
(* nobody has ever asked me this)
Barred owls.
Super-high-ISO, 300mm handheld at twilight. It's a miracle of technology that there's any image here at all!
Fungal Friday
Grumpy to be awake.
Fighting or flirting?
Sorry to be all hummingbird pictures all the time, but they're a fun challenge to photograph. Mute me for a few days, and I'll probably be back to other subjects.
New neighborhood has Peruvian, Mexican, Cuban, Algerian, and Vietnamese restaurants, all on the same block! I ordered last night’s dinner (Cuban-style onion pizza) in broken French, Spanish, and English.
New carved eraser stamp: Trillium.
Download it for your projects as a png, svg, dxf, or eps file.
https://artbits.fogbound.net/Carved_Eraser_Stamps/Trillium/
Circumstances have kept me indoors for a few days. Stepped out briefly today, only to encounter a boulangerie burglar.
Climate weirdness… grapes and wisteria together.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @megmac@social.treehouse.systems I would strongly second the Auberge. It's quirky and old, but the staff are great and the location is good. It's right across the street from two big Bixi stands, and about 1km from two different metro stations on the Orange line.
In Parc La Fontaine, there's the Theatre Verdure which puts on free music/theater in the Summer. There's a nonprofit restaurant/bar in the park that donates proceeds to community programs.
Roiling skies.
Young orange-crowned warbler is feeling a bit peckish.
I was in a real crunch, and I was weak. I used AI to generate the documentation for an API I'd just written. And I was pressed for time, so I only looked over it briefly before sending it out.
Now I get to implement all the endpoints and parameters it "hallucinated."
Time saved on documentation: 1~2 hours.
Time lost to implementing and testing spurious features: 4~6 hours.
Memorial from Red Dress Day (May 5th) at the botanical garden, inspired by Jaime Black’s "REDress Project."
Awake, but at what cost?
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@miyotehew thanks! I was staring at the moon when the hummingbird landed there. I had to run into the house for my camera, and it taunted me a few times by flying off and back. But just when I was ready to give up, it posed for a few seconds.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win here’s a real picture of a real bird that I encountered in real life, and I think its attitude towards the AI is apparent.
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@Rihilism@toot.community wishing you a quick and painless recovery from the surgery.
Here's a phrase probably never before committed to paper or keyboard: "weird, I must have Berenstain Bear-ed d'Iberville."
Somehow, I was certain the Montreal street, metro station, and the eponymous French colonist/soldier/merchant were all "d'Ilberville".
They told me it was going to be a cat scan, but they lied. It was a big noisy machine! No cats, not even a kitten 😾
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@evan@cosocial.ca the skies of the Los Angeles area in the 70s were so smoggy we couldn’t see the steep walls of the San Gabriel mountains 4km away. There are probably twice as many vehicle in the area today, but emissions requirements have improved air quality significantly.
Just witnessed an absolute legend - she got on the metro at Jean-Talon with two loaves of sliced bread, sat down, put on a pair of dark sunglasses, and consumed both loaves before we even got to Laurier.
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@molliwoodtagger@troet.cafe toll! ich hab' fast genau fotographiert! Grüße aus Californien.
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@dillyd@turtleisland.social such great plants. Not only can they switch sex from year to year, but they’re extremely long-lived - I’ve read they may first flower at five years old, but can live up to a hundred years.
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@dillyd@turtleisland.social nothing in this world is like backlit daffodils 😍
A European Starling just few into the office’s plate-glass window at full speed, chased by a crow. The crow was approaching the inert bird, and I went out and scared it off. After about 15 minutes, the starling recovered enough to fly away. I’m not sure what was going on. Was the crow intentionally chasing the starling into the building as a means of predation? The windows are tinted, and look very solid from outside (not reflecting the sky).
Problem: sink leaks
Solution: replace 5¢ washer
Problem: nobody sells replacement washer, even online
Solution: buy $13 replacement cartridge at old-school plumbing supply store (or buy it at big box for $22)
Problem: that’s still a fucking waste
Solution: ?
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@SarraceniaWilds Guy Maddin!
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@mitten@social.lol exactly! I sometimes see announcements of “Qixtblr releases improved version 3.5!” and the landing page tells you how to install or upgrade and assumes you already know what it’s for.
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@dillyd@turtleisland.social I’m excited!
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@dillyd@turtleisland.social I hope to go tomorrow!
Well, it looks like it’s attack season on the servers. So much for getting a decent night’s sleep.
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@MarkAsser thanks for the correction! My knowledge of plant names seems to shrink with every passing year 🙁
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@Catlynn@nerdculture.de it’s a quail parade!
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@jef@mastodon.social precisely! It’s like when I tell people I can talk to animals.
Any Quebecers have opinions on where to take a weekend getaway in Estrie?Thoughts on Sutton or Au Diable Vert? Any other recommendations?
Merci!