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Written by Amethyst73 on 2025-01-21 at 17:53

Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day! Here's a photo of a local ground squirrel to celebrate.

[#]squirrel #animals #cute

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2025-01-18 at 05:10

For various reasons, I haven't been able to work on quilting my quilt for ~2 months. I'm proud and happy to say that I was finally able to work on it again today!

[#]quilting

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-11-28 at 05:15

Our goober kitty Thomas decided my (empty) glasses case was a good toy earlier today.

[#]CatsOfMastodon

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-08-17 at 16:01

Thomas in his bed being cute.

[#]caturday

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-08-02 at 04:11

Book 7 of Martha Wells' Murderbot series, System Collapse, is currently on sale as an ebook on (AFAIK, possibly North America only) Google Play, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and possibly other platforms for only $2.99. Not sure how long the sale goes for!

[#]books #murderbot #marthawells

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-07-06 at 16:15

Luna says it's her hat now. #caturday

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-05-27 at 16:23

I was cutting up this green pepper for salad, and really liked the look of the seeds along one of the ribs.

[#]photography #pepper

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-04-26 at 16:33

ND Stevenson (creator of Nimona) has a Substack on which he posts occasional art and musings. Today's newsletter contained several emoji recreations of famous pieces of art. My favorite piece is below. You can sign up for his substack at https://www.imfineimfine.com/

[#]art #emoji

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-04-08 at 18:28

Here in our area, skies are clear, so we can observe the, um, 35% coverage of the sun easily. Check out the photo I took through our colander at maximum coverage!

[#]eclipse

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-03-10 at 05:19

A couple of tools to prepare for the great Reddit IPO/sell-your-posts-for-AI-training:

How to back up your data and delete your account:

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-delete-your-reddit-account (via @jhpot from @jeridansky )

How to replace all your comments with text of your choosing (which is what I'll be doing after backing up original comments): https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension (via @jupitersigh

[#]reddit #ai #enshittification

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-02-02 at 18:17

To the #art world, if you don't already know about it: You might want to use the Nightshade tool on your art before posting it online. It "transforms images into 'poison' samples, so that [AI] models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors ... a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

h/t @marthawells on Dreamwidth: https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/643323.html

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Written by Amethyst73 on 2024-01-19 at 05:22

Luna being completely adorable. #catsofmastodon

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