As fall migration begins across the Northern Hemisphere, apps like Merlin, which is put out by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, have caught on among birders and non-birders alike. pic.twitter.com/kHYPhfXs5a
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2023
(I’m not a birder, but even I can identify blue jays: They’re the ones yelling Thief! Thief!… because, according to folklore, that’s what they are.)
Having mastered the Aspen
Ideas Festival and life of Steve Jobs, I would now like to explain how turning on Starlink would’ve have caused World War III just like Elon, I mean Mr. Musk, says…(1/87) https://t.co/Sf4N7q9GA9— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 9, 2023
I (also) approve this message / tactic:
The IRS is launching an effort to pursue 1,600 millionaires who owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.
The agency's leader says a boost in federal funds and help from AI tools offer new means of targeting wealthy people who "cut corners." https://t.co/CrgZGDzzgU
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2023
once again, this town probably has been insanely woke since like 1824 and every church is flying an LGBT flag, https://t.co/5oNz1lXja5
— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) September 7, 2023
There’s layers to this story…
New Jersey Dating Coach Gets 4 Years for Capitol Riots https://t.co/bKGUK7zLAf via @thedailybeast
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 8, 2023
someone should announce that you're only allowed to eat one lithium battery a week https://t.co/2CeAxxOHwh
— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (I – Podcastia) (@Ugarles) August 31, 2023
It's going to turn out that Ramaswamy is running because he bet someone that he could make RFK Jr look sane https://t.co/CQI7RD6uwX
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) September 8, 2023
In his defense: as an old person who is bad at technology, Senator Marshall has an easier time calling his usual drug dealer than navigating the Dominos app https://t.co/ncyiCcl1NI
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) September 7, 2023
“Live long and prosper with health insurance!”
George Takei joined other striking “Star Trek” stars on picket lines outside Paramount Studios. pic.twitter.com/xYv5UDUuzi
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) September 8, 2023
Baud
Corporate sellouts.
OzarkHillbilly
Jackbooted thugs! Stealing all those poor people’s hard earned moneys!
p.a.
Hey Nimarata, give your party’s policies, small-town America will become ghost-town America.
OzarkHillbilly
Speaking only for a friend of mine, that is certainly true.
p.a.
@OzarkHillbilly: b-B-But they’re the jerb createrz! They tolds me so themselfs!
Maybe they meant job crater-ers?
Frankensteinbeck
I know a Birder who talks to other Birders, and they love these bird identifying apps.
p.a.
Senator outs himself as a no-tipper.
Ramalama
I’m loving the variety of features/tweets/topics on this thread. +1 for a town photo anywhere in Vermont.
Kay
The “I can’t… order… pizza” incompetent is like the guy who doesn’t know how to call ahead to a motel. They’re failing at ordinary adult chores. We don’t have time to help them all.
Kay
Merlin is amazing. Terrific thing. Now if someone would make a really good plant identifier we’d be all set for outside identifying trips.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Are the IRS agent going after millionaires going to be the ones with guns etc. that Grassley (I think) threatened would be there if the funding went through? Because if so, I want pictures.
Scout211
Another well-known pair of insurrectionists were sentenced yesterday.
. . .
OzarkHillbilly
About a month ago I finally got a “Gay Ally” sticker for my truck (in fact I bought 3 of them figuring they would get ripped off the truck) (so far the first one remains on it). Last week I was driving thru Sullivan when I spotted a gay flag on the sign of the St. John & St. James Episcopal Church. Surprised the fuck out of me. Even if it is an Episcopalian church, this is still Sullivan. Just want to give them a small shout out.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Worse than guns, they are coming with calculators!
peter
@Kay: There is an app called Seek which uses the data from iNaturalist for identification purposes. It’s very good, and since the iNaturalist data is constantly improving, the app will improve along with it. It correctly identifies most of the tree and bush species in our neighborhood.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Go Sullivan!
Anne Laurie
Oh, absolutely, I keep meaning to install one myself! It’s just that even this ex-Bronx kid can identify three basic bird calls: blue jays, mourning doves (I learned that my freshman year in Michigan, after wondering why so many owls were calling during daylight), and English sparrows (who go choip! choip! with a Bud Abbott accent).
OzarkHillbilly
That’s what wives are for. Don’t tell my wife I said that.
Betty Cracker
Merlin’s sound ID is amazing! I tried several bird call ID apps before Cornell launched that function with Merlin (which began with photo and/or user description input ID). All the sound ID apps I tried before sucked, so I was skeptical when Merlin added sound ID to their app. Then I turned it on and saw it accurately identify half a dozen birds in 30 seconds. It can tell a Fish Crow from an American Crow. Sorcery! ;-)
@Kay: My husband is the flora person in our family, and he has a plant ID app that he seems pretty happy with. I’ll ask him what it’s called!
Scout211
I love iNaturalist. What a wealth of information and I love that you can search in so many different ways, especially by locale. I have it bookmarked for my county. Having an app that uses the iNaturalist database sounds promising.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
New England seems to be a unique case when it comes to which party rural States support. Vermont is blue but NH and Maine aren’t completely Republican. In fact I’m half convinced NH would be solidly blue except for their determination not to be exactly like those Vermonters. And also the Massholes.
Suzanne
LMAO. Showing a picture of Montpelier reminds me of the time Trump said, “I was elected to represent Pittsburgh, not Paris”, and it turned out 75% of Pittsburgh voters went for HRC.
Layer8Problem
@Anne Laurie: ” . . . this ex-Bronx kid . . . ”
As a current one, which neighborhood?
Phylllis
@p.a.: As her hometown has become.
Betty Cracker
The MyPillow conspiracy theorist has been freaking out during depositions for a Dominion lawsuit, according to The Daily Beast:
One thing I give Trump lots of credit for: he inspired many terrible and dumb rich people to self-immolate! They’ve bankrupted themselves and squandered unearned reputations in his service.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I assume Lumpy Pillows would be too obscure for the rotating tag.
bbleh
Musk, TIFG, Ernesto Cruz, Tucky Carlson, Mr. MyPillow … how did we end up in the Age of Man-Children? I mean, was it this bad before and I just didn’t notice? Or were their wives or bosses or whatever kinda keeping them in check? What a colossal embarrassment.
Also, while I’m feeling grouchy, I’m getting REEELY tired of articles (hello CNN) and blog posts with breathless Hot Takes on the Hidden Meanings gleaned from the subtabs of the Latest Poll Results (meaning within the last 12 hours or so). It’s NOT true that “you can prove anything with statistics,” but it sure as hell is true that if you are particularly discriminating in your cherry-picking you can usually find some statistically insignificant results from a tiny subpopulation that supports your preferred narrative.
Skepticat
Try Plant Net and/or Seek.
Gin & Tonic
Musk also gave Isaacson confidential text messages he had received from Ukraine’s Deputy PM, without asking for consent or even notifying him that he’d done so. The Deputy PM first learned of this when being interviewed by the FT’s Chris Miller.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t that sort of thing generally considered unhelpful?
Layer8Problem
We stayed in Montpelier last month for a few days. It’s a lovely town with good people. It was seriously hammered by the flooding earlier this year and they’re rebuilding. If anybody’s going up to look at autumn leaves consider stopping in and helping out local businesses.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: At the very least it gives the opposing lawyers a good way to get under his skin.
Baud
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Probably, but it would be a good band name!
Starfish
@Anne Laurie: What’s really cool about Merlin is that it will identify the birds by their calls, so even if you can’t see them, you can know what bird is making the sounds.
Edit: I see Betty got there first.
Nukular Biskits
Mornin’, y’all.
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
And that’s exactly how Republicans are going to spin it.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: In less than 24 hours, I have seen 3 different reports of the mom’s sentence: 47 months, 36 months, and now 30 months.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
hells littlest angel
The Merlin app is fantastic. Thanks to it, I now know most of my neighborhood birds.
And Senator Marshall is right: it’s really hard to find a pizzeria that will deliver a slice.
Kelly
@Kay: Google Lens image search is useful for plant id. Often returns several candidates that I can pick the right one. Most reliable for flowers.
mrmoshpotato
Oh noes! Some people are gonna be losing 2 houses!
hells littlest angel
PlantNet is pretty good. Not 100% reliable, but good.
mrmoshpotato
If Shithead Ted doesn’t like the beer recommendation, he can always move to Cancun.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nukular Biskits: Of course. I was quoting* somebody.
*Not really, but they all say similar things so often it could easily be a quote.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker:
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Completely normal reaction from a grownup if you ask me. 😏
The only thing missing is him yelling out, “You know who has lumpy pillows? YOUR MOM!”
Jeffro
@peter: Seek is what I use, too!
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
😹 Let Darwinian selection take care of it.
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
Good morning.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
I think there is a good plant/tree identifier. I just can’t remember what it’s called.
Jeffro
I think that dating coach guy Stedman is on to something – J6 should be a national holiday! Just not quite the way he thinks.
I can already think of 5-6 new traditions that would go along with this holiday…
Steeplejack
@Scout211:
I was delighted to see that. I had been wondering about zip-tie guy and had seen nothing about him at all. I worried that he was one who managed to cleanly disappear.
tobie
@peter: What a great tip. Thanks.
Ken
As Terry Pratchett said in Going Postal, it’s the warfare of clerks, and it harries the enemy through many columns and files with a patience that is first boring, then terrifying.
Kristine
@Kay: The Seek app is pretty good. It’s an offshoot of the iNaturalist app.
It’s dodgy for things like asters–there are so many and a number of them look alike–but overall it’s been pretty good.
Kristine
I love the Merlin app. I especially like the new Sound Recordings feature. I can stand out on the deck in the morning and id all the birds.
And I see @peter: already mentioned the Seek app.
tobie
I linked to this shameless piece of fan fiction by Walter Isaacson yesterday. The obsequiousness on display is nauseating.
https://time.com/6127750/elon-musk-history-innovators/
schrodingers_cat
My town in Western Mass has a lot of farmland. There are at least 3 working farms at walking distance from my home. HRC and then Biden got over 70 percent of the vote here. The outer ring around Boston is purple, rest of the state is pretty blue
And it has been this way for a long time. It was an abolitionist stronghold during the era of the Underground railroad.
gene108
1. Sen. Marshall isn’t wrong. No one delivers pizza by the slice. In many parts of the country, they don’t even sell pizza by the slice.
2. Vivek’s just pandering to the lowest common denominator of white bigotry. It’s pathetic. Sadly, it’s been somewhat effective for him.
ETA: I had a procedure where I could be awake, but was given a fentanyl drip for sedation. Surgeon had the afternoon free so he went at it for a couple of hours. I felt like the warm glow of a sunrise. One of the most amazing feelings I’ve ever had.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
But it would make a nice change from Green Balloons as a safe word.
schrodingers_cat
@gene108: Indian Damien is utterly amoral. He is the beloved of Modi supporters on Indian Twitter. They love his performative bigotry.
*Indian Twitter (this is Twitter with handles that are in India
Most Indian Americans with the exceptions of the devout RSS and Modi supporters find him cringe and despicable.
persistentillusion
@Kay: I use, and like, Picture This for plant ID.
Scout211
Here’s the DOJ news release:
Maybe the other reports tacked on the supervised release.
gene108
@schrodingers_cat:
My mom follows women online in India who have cooking videos. One lady she follows had her sister interviewed by a media outfit, because they’re somehow related to him. They’re families are from the same ancestral village in Palghat.
He is getting media attention in India. Kamala got some media attention in India, too.
Ken
In criminal sentencing aspirational terms, it’s hard to top the 11,196 years in prison that crypto-scammer Faruk Fatih Özer and his brother and sister were just given by a Turkish court, for stealing about $2 billion in customer funds.
Link here (warning, it’s coindesk, which has a very ad-forward cookie policy and no way to turn them off).
schrodingers_cat
Speaking of Indian politicians, I come from a non-Congress family, especially post Indira Gandhi’s semi-dictatorial emergency. But since last year’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, where Rahul Gandhi walked the length of India from TN to Kashmir, he has won me over.
Check this video out and you will get a glimpse of what I am saying.
Rahul Gandhi with Kunal Vijaykar who hosts a popular YouTube show Khane me kya hai? (What’s for dinner). Vijaykar and Gandhi hang out one evening sampling delicacies that Delhi has to offer.
schrodingers_cat
@gene108: Bhakts are not fond of Kamala, but they love themselves some Damien, I mean Vivek.
OzarkHillbilly
My first shot of morphine was like that. I’d had emergency surgery w/o anesthetic and when they stuck that needle in my ass I felt a warm golden wave wash over me. It didn’t kill the pain, but it became a beautiful pain, glorious even.
Another Scott
@OzarkHillbilly: Who orders “a piece of pizza” for delivery?? These people are trying really hard to break our brains.
And Kay’s right about the nimrod who cried and cried and didn’t call a hotel to try to get a room. The last time I walked into a hotel to try to get an unreserved room was about 35 years ago (and it worked fine because it was in the suburbs and about 3 in the afternoon). I don’t pine for those days, and tell all my followers about it looking for clicks, and think that things work the same way 35 years later.
Hey, nimrod, there are these things called “smart phones” which have things called “web browsers” which let you do things like visit “hotel web sites” or “hotel price search engines” that let you find rooms available.
Grr…,
Scott.
Frankensteinbeck
@mrmoshpotato:
Okay, yeah. AI tools would be helpful for an understaffed IRS to pick out the most likely targets to investigate. I think AI tools are wildly overhyped, but this sounds like an area they could be helpful.
I wouldn’t want to depend on them if the IRS wasn’t understaffed. They’ll have prejudices and blind spots that start to show if you use them for everybody. When you’re drowning in too many possibilities to check, definitely useful.
Another Scott
@hells littlest angel: It’s tough to find a corner store that will deliver penny candy, also too.
I guess we have to vote for theh GQP, otherwise things will just get worser and worser.
[ sigh ]
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@Another Scott:
He’s an amateur. I can plan trips now between and around really localized weather events. I can go west ahead of a snowstorm and beat it again coming back east with a smartphone and an hourly weather prediction. You can get a halfway point in either distance or time and a motel that is there. They’re just miserable people who like to complain and won’t help themselves to all these great tools.
moonbat
Glad to see that the modest trim to the monies going to rebuild the IRS that Kevin McCarthy was so proud of is not stopping them from doing the right thing and going after these guys who commonly cheat (excuse me, cut corners!) on their taxes.
You want to balance the budget and shrink the deficit, Repugs? Just make all these millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.
Cameron
You can get fentanyl delivered? Shit. I’ve been going to the drive-thru all this time.
Subsole
@Baud:
Like I said. Lazy.
I mean, what else do you call it?? They get paid to inform people. That is their job. They accepted a contractual obligation to do so. And they can’t even bother to inform themselves. No, the folks they are supposed to inform have to come along and provide the context (which, to reiterate, the article was ostensibly written to provide) in community notes.
Just sloppy, slapdash thinking. Abject dereliction.
These media assholes got their idea of small-town America from a Hallmark romance special. And instead of acknowledging that reality is very different, or at least more nuanced, they try to cram us all into their ridiculous narrative cobbled together in some Hollywood writer’s room.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Baud: FTC rules regarding disclosures are woke communism.
zhena gogolia
@Another Scott: I want my root beer barrels and red hots! And those little candy buttons stuck on rolls of paper!
kalakal
@Betty Cracker: Sounds like a Frank Zappa album
Cameron
And here I thought the Lumpy Pillows was a ’60s nostalgia band. They need to go after this crazy bozo for copyright infringement.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: Seconded. I knew I was in major pain, but I didn’t care.
Trivia Man
For plants I use Leaf Snap. It can use the leaf, flower, bark, or fruit
Gin & Tonic
@kalakal: That was Lumpy Gravy.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m so old I remember when Republicans used to campaign on “we don’t need to raise taxes, we’ll just get the revenue by pursuing all the tax cheats”.
I’m not quite sure when that became “tax cheats, we’re on your side and we’ll fire all the auditors to help you.”
I guess about the same time as they abandoned “we’ll balance the budget”
kalakal
@Gin & Tonic: I know, it was a failed attempt at a joke
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Another Scott: Hell, I’ve been closed out of a hotel room even when I booked it online. And prepaid it. Months in advance.
Ken
@Cameron: You can get fentanyl at the drive-thru? I’ve been licking the handles of Wal-Mart shopping carts all this time.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Steeplejack: I have PictureIt on my phone and I love it.
correction: PictureThis
Phylllis
@zhena gogolia: Mast General Store. I can heartily recommend in-person visits, particularly to the original store in Valle Crucis, NC.
schrodingers_cat
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Google Lens is also pretty good. Not just for plants. Its good for any reverse image search.
zhena gogolia
@Phylllis: Ooh, thanks!
MazeDancer
Walter gonna have to cash in all his Morning Joe/CNN/60 Minutes chips to survive his hubris-filled, foolish mistake of choosing a crazy, untalented, not likable, racist, traitorous transphobe for a subject.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Gin & Tonic:
After my quad tendon repair on my right leg in early 2021 (tore my left one on a dive trip just before Christmas 2022), I was in the recovery room and felt a huge wave of pain starting. I have a high tolerance, but this was unreal, and I was strident about needing something because I was panicking. Nurse finally came over, looked at the doc and they both nodded (I guess my BP/pulse was showing legit panic), and she gets the tiniest hypo of fentanyl and sticks it in my ringer bag – instant relief, and I felt like a million bucks. At that moment, I said “Oh. Now I get it.”
They laughed, but told my wife that I shouldn’t be allowed to sign any contracts, make big decisions or take work calls for 48-72 hours.
Mai Naem mobile >
This is so I don’t even know how to describe it weird? It’s supposedly(really does seem legit) Queen’s ‘I want to break free’ done in North Korea in front of Kim Jong Un
https://youtu.be/jYvcdhCbzJw?si=F0RiftM6XT09HNhs
Another Scott
@Mai Naem mobile >: Weird is a pretty good word for it.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ben Cisco
Weird random thought: I haven’t encountered ONE mosquito since returning to Alabama in 2018. Not one. Not even at Mama Cisco’s (where I am currently wrapping up a week-long vacation/82nd birthday celebration). Place used to be lousy with them.
Not that I have a problem with that AT ALL. Just seems a little strange.
schrodingers_cat
@Ben Cisco: Come to Mass, we have lots of mosquitoes. We have also had lots of rain this summer.
noncarborundum
@Ben Cisco: Climate change has driven them all up North to Massachusetts.
grumble grumble *scratch* grumble grumble
narya
Add me to the list of people who discovered the wonders of opioids (in my case, after fibroid embolization surgery). The weird thing is that it doesn’t make the pain go away at all–it just makes you not care. Once they finally gave me some ibuprofen the pain stopped, which made me happier than the opioids. Like the rest of you, I did suddenly learn why opioids are so addictive.
trollhattan
Your ammo is going to cost more, guess it’s time to stock up.
A friendly reminder why we need supermajoritites to get anything done.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Little place I make a point of stopping by when in NY for nostalgia’s sake.
Betty Cracker
@Ben Cisco: For the past two summers, I’ve noticed there seem to be fewer mosquitos at my place. I’m not complaining either — I’ve saved a ton on DEET! But I hope it’s not a sign some ecological tipping point has been reached that portends mass species die-offs and eventual doom, ya know?
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Ooh, looks great. Maybe we’ll get there one of these days.
Ben Cisco
@schrodingers_cat:
@noncarborundum: I’m sorry for you both. Went through YEARS of that growing up here.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: That’s Long Island, right? I was in that town long, long ago.
Ben Cisco
@Betty Cracker: Mom’s response when I mentioned it to her: “Wonder what WORSE thing they’ll get replaced with?”
I wanted to dispute it, but can I really say she’s wrong?
rikyrah
Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) posted at 7:10 PM on Fri, Sep 08, 2023:
New reports that there basically is no “Trump 2024” campaign on the ground in Iowa. No surprise. When you’re broke and you’re only pretending to run in order to fund your legal expenses on your way to prison, you’re not going to waste any money on an actual campaign operation.
(https://x.com/PalmerReport/status/1700300683537444954?t=mpycpmjAnlG-DYCS0oNP3g&s=03)
Betty
@OzarkHillbilly: On her very last days dying from lung cancer, my mom consented to take oxycontin. Afterwards she told my brother, “Oh, now I understand how people become drug addicts.”
Subsole
@schrodingers_cat:
I chuckled at Indian Damien.
Ben Cisco
@rikyrah: Also, the rubes will be more than happy to send their money to him. Kinda like the TV preachers scamming their way to Granny’s Social Security checks.
Come to think of it, it’s EXACTLY like that.
Alison Rose
The death toll has gone over 1,000 in Morocco. Just heartbreaking. I haven’t seen any info about local orgs to donate to, but NYT does have this:
So anyone who has a few bucks, that might be a place to start. I’d assume WCK will be on site soon, too, though haven’t seen anything yet.
schrodingers_cat
@Subsole: He does give those vibes doesn’t he. His smile totally creeps me out.
Subsole
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
It never changed. “Tax cheats” was code for black single mothers, or immigrants that took our jerbs and then laid around sponging off our taxes.
Think of tax cheats as a variant spelling of welfare queens or anchor babies, and you’ll have the gist of it.
Subsole
@Mai Naem mobile >:
I watched that, got up, went and checked to see if I was running a fever.
Nope.
I am, so far as I can tell, not delirious.
That was some weird shit.
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato:
LOL!
Subsole
@rikyrah: Oh please, please godalmighty…let that miserable wretch drag that party down into oblivion with him next year.
Subsole
@schrodingers_cat:
Yeah. There’s something genuinely unnerving about a man whose smile never quite manages to reach his eyes.
Salty Sam .
From 2021. That piece hasn’t aged well…
Ken
I agree that the “campaign” donations are being diverted to his legal bills (and I so hope fake Jack E. Smith is right about wire fraud), but I have to ask, does he need to campaign?
I’ll still expecting a dozen state Republican parties will find that they never updated their 2020 rules, and are still obligated to give Trump all their delegates without bothering with a primary.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Salty Sam .: Anyone who had anything nice to say about that smarmy fucker, after his attacks/defamation of the hero who saved those kids trapped in a cave in Thailand, was either stone-cold ignorant, or on the asshole’s payroll.
Salty Sam .
Here in Texas, we still get them (BAD) in the spring, fall and winter, but summer has become too hot and dry for them. I won’t complain about lack of mosquitoes, but I could deal with their presence better than this damnable heat. This summer broke us- Salty Spouse declared we will not be here next summer. I was born and raised here, lived most of my life here, and I agree. We’re leaving.
Citizen Alan
@Steeplejack: I don’t know if I am disappointed or relieved to find out that he was not, in fact, some highly trained paramilitary domestic terrorist who went there to take hostages and/or assassinate democrats but simply some ignorant yokel who picked up the zip ties on-site.
Citizen Alan
@Another Scott:
Maybe he is just sad that Sbarro doesn’t deliver.
Matt McIrvin
@rikyrah: Trump managed to win in 2016 with, by most accounts, no ground game to speak of, so I wouldn’t take this as determinative.
Citizen Alan
@rikyrah: It would be both hilarious and horrifying if shitgibbon can win the republican primary without spending a penny on campaigning simply because he is cult has such absolute control over the party.
Miss Bianca
@Citizen Alan: Ah, I’d almost forgotten that “shitgibbon” used to be my epithet of choice for Trump. Thanks (I think?) for the reminder!
Miss Bianca
@Citizen Alan: delete
Wanderer
Merlin sound ID is really fun. I often realize there are more types of birds around than I realize. I’ve also used it with the grandkids to help them learn some frequently heard bird calls.
Lyrebird
@OzarkHillbilly: Maybe pizza places are fewer and farther between where you live.
In these parts, I can think of at least five within 5 mi where you can just call ’em up if you don’t want to deal with the crappy online ordering page.
satby
@schrodingers_cat: Delhi street food is the best!
JaneE
Someone needs to tell Ramaswamy that children frequently go with their parents when the parents are deported. Regardless of their US citizenship.
schrodingers_cat
@satby: Second best. Best is Mumbai, of course.
JCNZ
@p.a.:
“Senator outs himself as a no-tipper.” Hehe.
Yet another reason why there should some way of thumbs-upping on this site..
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Well, right, you don’t get delivery for a single slice of pizza, you animal.
Bill Arnold
@peter:
Yeah, the iNaturalist data has been the subject of at least 4 annual machine learning visual classification competitions. It is a difficult dataset, with a very large number of classes (many thousands of species), often with a small number of photos for a class; good side is that the community-sourced labels are quite accurate.
iNaturalist itself uses it, but good to hear that specialized ID programs are taking advantage of it too.
iNaturalist Competition Datasets (2017,2018,2019,2021)
The iNaturalist Species Classification and Detection Dataset (2018, pdf)
JR
@Kay: I found PictureThis to work pretty well. It won’t nail things like all the different varieties of Aster, but it gets the big things right.
Misterpuff
@Gin & Tonic: That was Lumpy Rutherford.
KCSteve
72 year resident of Kansas, I got to call foul. Tommy Tuberville is famous for being the dumbest Senator in office. I say it’s just because he has a better media operation than are very own Roger Marshall. Keep it up Roger…you’re beginning to get the recognition you deserve.