David Baer @david@arktos.social

I love that the bluff/intimidation factor of this is way higher than its actual degree of difficulty.

You don’t need fancy symbolic integration techniques here. You just need to know that "integral" means roughly "area under curve" and that it’s distributive over addition.

Repurposed church altar at Dinosaur BBQ, Newark. Not pictured: POS terminals sitting on top.

An October crocus on our street

This quote from the White House press secretary is... really something.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-kelly-says-he-warned-trump-hed-be-impeached-if-he-hired-a-yes-man-as-chief-of-staff-to-replace-him/2019/10/26/e4d5d028-f827-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

Inner harbor, Baltimore - early morning

Halloween

USS Constellation, Baltimore

Looking north up the river, the Tappan Zee Bridge in the distance

West bank of the Hudson

The Hudson River, from the top of the Palisades

Hello, froggy!

They defy gravity!

These Lipizzan horses are really magnificent.

Once upon a time God, massacred almost everybody on earth, but when the survivors made really good barbecue, he promised not to do it again.

Sleep well, kiddies!

Scammers don’t even try to put in decent effort anymore. Sad.

I like a lot of the Babylon Bee's satire stories, but they do put out a lot of tendentious crap as well. And yes, Snopes can and should fact-check satire when there's a clear intent to mislead.

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Babylon Bee, Snopes feud over fact-checking satire - Religion News Service

(RNS) — The popular fact-checking site Snopes and the Babylon Bee, a religious humor site, have feuded online over the difference between 'fake news' and satire.

https://religionnews.com/2019/07/31/babylon-bee-snopes-feud-over-fact-checking-satire/

The light was beautiful in the sanctuary this evening.

I don’t know where to begin with this, but let’s start with it being wrong in its factual premise. As Rebecca Solnit documents in A Paradise Built in Hell, the historical experience of communities affected by disaster has shown that survivors form spontaneous support networks, rather than descending into the war of all against all that people like Graham say they fear.

My eldest took this... Gorgeous!