Sterling

@fedi.ssterling.net

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Something in between a polymath and a dilettante. Mostly a hobbyist ecologist and amateur computer scientist, though—and multidisciplinary schoolteacher by trade. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://squawk.social/@ssterling, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Edit of a political cartoon, wherein a woman reads a headline saying “Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce”, and a man flips a calendar from December 2026 to January 2006.
Table of downstream DOCSIS channels, all of which have power of between about −15 dBmV and −20 dBmV, as well as a signal-to-noise ratio of about 32 dB. Downstream 21 in particular has an absurdly high error rate, especially uncorrectable.
Mediocre photo of an inordinate amount of gooey yellow cheese atop a pork chop alone on a large plate.
screenshot: “67 followers”
Screenshot of QRZ.com’s homepage, featuring—amongst other, more typical things—a card saying “Special Event: World Autism Awareness”, which depicts four Among Us characters, one of which is multicolored and dabbing, alongside the text “It’s OK to be different”.
Throne gift receipt for an $87.02 monitor from thehungryrat.
Screenshot: thehungry_ratt followed you 47 minutes ago; thehungry_ratt gave out 20 community sub gifts 45 minutes ago.
Character reference sheet for an anthropomorphic, humanoid red-bellied woodpecker.
First panel, man saying: “It’s time to evolve Firefox into an AI browser”. Second panel, happy woman saying: “Locally run AI, right?” Third panel: man silently looking with stilted expression. Fourth panel, dejected woman saying: “Right?”
Error message in red text against a light red background, saying: “We encountered an error, can you please try again? You can also contact our support team for help. [Hyperlink:] Contact support”
Facebook Messenger screenshot, in which, at 12:02, I sent “kitchen ceiling fell down”.
Mexican rice in a large saucepan with conspicuous pieces of chopped cilantro stirred in
That early ‘20s rage comic renaissance meme wherein insane trollface guy barricades himself with a rifle from herp derp UN agents entering; but instead of corn syrup, the agents say “Recommended for you:” and show an ASMR YouTube short of a tomato with a baby’s face; and the trollface says “I HATE AI” four times over.
The “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” meme, with the word “Person” replaced with “Presidency”.
Captive pileated woodpecker fledgling perched on and pecking at me, eventually searching for bugs in my left nostril with its lengthy tongue.
Close-up, wide-angle, out-of-focus photo of the snout of a sleepy brown and white cat.
Colorful canine fursuiter in low outdoor lighting, partially obscured by a bunny fursuiter.
A white-breasted nuthatch vocalizing whilst hanging from the bark of a maple tree.
Captive red morph eastern screech owl fluffing itself up whilst looking at the camera, all as seen through a grate.
Lakeside sign: “Please take your litter with you”. Adjacent to the sign are two old, torn bags of trash.
Recently hatched, mostly naked bird wrapped in a paper towel atop a heating mat.