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14.08.2026

The river Rhine in sunshine. More riverbed than river is seen. And two folding chairs stand by the water edge.
Two chairs by the river edge. That edge should be where the grass is.

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Tell Us Your Intergenerational Travel Stories

We wanna hear from you! Tell us about your intergenerational travel stories. Who did you go with?  Where did you go? What did you learn about traveling with this person of a different age? How did the trip go? What are some stories you brought back? We want to hear it all. 

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Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US

This is Morris.

Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the entire Pacific Ocean.

He showed up in the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco 14 years ago. He has since made Pillar Point harbor his home, where he's quite easy to spot: the only white bird with a yellow head, usually hanging out with the smaller black Brandt’s cormorants near the harbor sign visible from the end of the commercial pier.

Tags: photography, wildlife, half-moon-bay

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Accretionary Arc

The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.

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Don't classify. Hallucinate!

Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856 tags - likely too many to feed to an LLM in one go and say "which of these tags match the following content". Doug Turnbull has a neat solut...

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llm-gemini 0.33

Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-0...

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This REALLY Pissed Me Off

In this episode I respond to a ridiculous comment on my most recent video.

My Beato Club supporters:
Justin Scott
Terence Mark
Jason Murray
Lucienne Kilpatrick
Alexander Young
Jason Wagner
Todd Ladner
Rob Kline
Nicholas Long
Tim Benson
Leonardo Martins da Costa Rodrigues
Eddie Perez
David Solomon
MICHAEL JOYCE
Stephen Stubbs
colin stead
Jonathan Wentworth-Linton
Patrick Payne
MATTHEW KARIS
Matthew Barouch
Shaun Samuels
Danny Kurywchak
Gregory Reedy
Sean Coleman
Alexander Verbitskiy
CL Turner
Jason Pappafotis
John Fulford
Margaret Carno
Robert C
David M Combs
Eric Flatt
Reto Spoerli
Herr Moritz Adam
Monte St. Johns
Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
Eric Nabstedt
Eric Beggs
Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
Peter Pillitteri
Piush Dahal
Toby Guidry

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★ You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses

Following up on my post yesterday about modern iPhones and scratch resistance, and my personal habits of (a) almost never using an iPhone case, and (b) never setting the iPhone face down except on soft (cloth) surfaces. I should have anticipated this, because I’ve had this ...

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Google’s ‘Material 3’ Design Write-Up Is 93.3 Percent Embarrassing

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This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a few years old — but I’d...

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A New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 Years

A New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 Years“If ‘greatness’ has long been defined by visibility and remembrance, then the continued documentation and celebration of women’s photographic practice is not only relevant but essential.”

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 Years appeared first on Colossal.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...

Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run. “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”

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Nigel and the Real Gannet

In 2016, Chris Bell, a ranger with New Zealand’s Department of Conservation, was the sole human inhabitant of a small island off the west coast of the country, called Mana Island. He was there to take care of the island’s fragile and recovering ecosystem, including a colony ...

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The Great Romance Slump

"Why are so few young people finding love?"

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.

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Koutammakou (Classic)

A race is on to save this world heritage site that straddles the border of Togo and Benin. It’s home to remarkable earth tower homes called Takienta, and the Batammariba people, whose existence is threatened by climate change and migration.

READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/koutammakou-batammariba


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sqlite-utils 4.2.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2. I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions import Self It turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a dependency for sqlite-utils - it was installed by one o...

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sqlite-utils 4.2

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2

Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature, which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one.

transform() now preserves a much larger array of edge-case schema definitions, including check constraints, unique constraints and even comments describing the columns.

There are also new introspection properties for check constraints, and a whole lot of other smaller changes.

Includes contributions from Bunlong Heng, ethanhawkes-gif, Rami Abdelrazzaq, nyxst4ck, and ikatyal2110.

(It later turned out 4.2 had a crashing bug, fixed in 4.2.1.)

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Billy Joel talks about how his live songs developed  #piano #billyjoel #shorts

The Rewatchables
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‘About Last Night’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin

Bill, Chris, and Mal head on over to Mother’s for a quick boilermaker or two after revisiting the 1986 romantic comedy ‘About Last Night,’ starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, and Elizabeth Perkins.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

LIONSGATE’S MUTINY, STARRING JASON STATHAM, ONLY IN THEATERS AUGUST 21

Put ChatGPT to work on your most ambitious ideas and projects. Get started at https://ChatGPT.com by selecting Work mode. Available on Plus and Pro plans
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704: Past the Ternus Horizon

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn Lutron Caséta Fan Control Fanimation Technology Connections video Follow-up: Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬 SQLite bug write-up Blackbird Post-show Neutral Professional negotiators / “headhunters...