if both teams in the final failed to beat you in 90min you should be crowned the honorary world cup champion. congratulations cabo verde 🥳

everything is very bad in this modern age but i truly think Merlin Bird ID App is a wonder so astonishing that it almost makes everything else worth it. like you can just sit somewhere and listen to birds and 4 minutes later you will know stuff you didn't know before. not only that but you might even retain that knowledge. this morning i sat with my coffee and let Merlin record my surroundings for 4 minutes and now i know 1) what a northern parula sounds like 2) that i have been listening to northern parulas for years without being aware that they even existed. this cheerful little gold-and-gray guy has been trilling at me my whole life and i've never known his name and now i do! you can sit there and hear something and think "that sounds familiar, i'd like to know what that is" and then look down and see the little bird ID light up LIVE. ohhh of course, a red-eyed vireo, how could i have forgotten. AI good actually.

right after i posted this a HUMMINGBIRD buzzed up to stick his beautiful snoot in the bugleweed. the Lucky and Beloved Child of the House!

if you guys didn't know btw merlin uses pre-trained machine learning on spectrogram data to ID bird calls. there's no aspect of generative AI to it and it's the same kind of technology that was used for years before consumer-targeted generative AI became popular. so you know. you don't even have to feel good about genAI for this one tbh

gay people can never just say I love you they always gotta say some shit like this

a single, solitary, earth-shattering note thunders across the battlefield like a tsunami.

people starting to ask about the pwhl schedule, have u met the pwhl? we're getting that schedule a good 1 week before the season starts if we're lucky

A cautionary tale about the growing literacy crisis

Wednesday the 15th. What an excellent day. Middle of the week, middle of the month. Truly, we are in the middle of things.

you were born in 2006? what are you? a Honda Civic?

can i fucking help you?