Singapore's Jewel Changi airport is...a rainforest? It's a rainforest.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Shiseido+Forest+Valley+%40+Jewel+Changi+Airport&t=ffab&atb=v315-1&iax=images&ia=images

/nosanitize

@MLClark @LnzyHou I love longhand despite my technophile tendencies. And I don't author books but Neal Stephenson does -- long ones -- longhand.

Just me or do these look like Spitfires. rawwwrrr.
The 15 RQ-35 Heidrun reconnaissance drones that Mark Hamill has been raising funds for are already in Ukraine.
#Ukraine #politics
https://u24.gov.ua/news/heidruninukraine

Got Satan?

#coffee

Russian media, "fire was quickly localized"
Also Russian media:

The Taylor Swift is a Pentagon asset rumor is obviously stupid.
The truth is in plain sight. Can you see it now? #swift

You know what we urgently need?
Generative AI for Cobol. Wait stop laughing hear me out

(srsly it could be good)
#llm #dev #cobol
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx-code-assistant-4z/1.0?topic=transform-transforming-cobol-java-by-using-generative-ai

/nosanitize

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Most popular books in US public libraries, 2023
#books #libraries

https://proquest.syndetics.com/news/2024/01/02/top-syndetics-unbound-titles-of-2023/

Thanks for your concern, Faceless Corporation, but if your product includes a list of 32 safety instructions, maybe tell the lawyers to chill out, have a cold beverage, smell some flowers.

Somehow this took a lot longer to arrive...four of them in a grocery bag inside a beaten cardboard box... than the wall-mount. These will be scattered amongst the tools to increase the chances of finding one when needed.
Works great!

Flags bearing the names of fallen soldiers, including those of foreign soldiers who died defending Ukraine, are displayed at a makeshift memorial on Independence Square in Kyiv on Jan. 11, 2024. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

#ukraine

On the pencil sharpener front:
New sharpener arrived, installed and boom pow got hit with <mumble> years' old memories of elementary school, being tasked to empty the shavings.
Know what I'm talking about?

This AP picture is showing up on news sites with bylines like, "Dr. bandages an amputated limb", which misses that the doctor, Alexis Cholov, is also an amputee and his arm in the picture is a bionic from a Ukrainian company. A proper story about him at the link.
#ukraine #biotech

https://www.kaaltv.com/news/health-science/the-war-took-away-their-limbs-now-bionic-prostheses-empower-wounded-ukrainian-soldiers/

I want it. Someone give me 15k USD please. jk there's a rafflle-y thing (see below).

"Mother Ukraine is an engineer's miracle, the tallest monumental sculpture in Europe. Its height is 102 meters. For comparison: the Statue of Liberty is 93 meters high. The figure of Mother Ukraine of LEGO is made on a scale of 1:200, its height is 54.8 cm and its width is 22.4 cm. When you complete it, you have to find a decent shelf."

#ukraine

https://u24.gov.ua/legowithukraine

The fall foliage is getting good so I tried to capture an image.

#dogs #photoBomb #smdh

Making pizza with whatever I've got.
Collards go on pizza now, alert the press.

#collards #pizza #noPineapple

Where's Jeeves with my coffee.

Oh hey
#coffee #JeevesNotCars

My yard work assistant believes raking is too late. Leaves should be gathered while they're falling.
#dogs #lunatics #autumn

Who's going to break it to Elonimus, Sagan beat him by decades. Didn't even need a space suit what a complete badass.

#space #viking #OkItsCalifornia