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Picture of a crowd around an NS train at Amsterdam Centraal. Patches of light coming through the tall vaulted ceiling casts light onto the big green exit sign and a blue and yellow NS train beyondcasts light onto the big green exit sign and a blue and yellow NS train at the platform. A woman wearing a yellow dress & blue backpack steps towards the train.
Picture of a seagull standing on top of a dirty glass roof from underneath. Its orange feet are pressed up against the glass, with the rest of the bird only visible as if a shadow. Metal beams arc across the frame.
Picture down a long Amsterdam street lined with tall brick buildings, the zoom making everything appear closer together. There's a progress pride flag hanging above, gently translucent with the bright sky above. A big tree at the end of the road is catching the light, leaves darker towards the center and glowing softly at the edges. A giant gold faucet hangs off the side of one building, surrounded by vines and other plants down on the street below. A woman walks away from the camera, halfway down the road, as a man on a motorcycle comes towards the camera from the far end.
Picture of a dark underground metro station, a small handful of people standing on the escalator going up, lit by bright white strip lighting along the escalators and subtle ambient light from above. Tall slanted pillars cut the frame, leaning on jagged triangles reflecting smeared colors in the ceiling above.
Picture of two gannets nestled into each other, as viewed from above. From this close, all the feathers on their heads are visible, and they look almost like fur instead. Their eyes are pale with teal rings around them, and the flesh next to their fractured pale beaks looks almost scaly. Are they secretly dragons? No one can really be sure.
Picture of a gannet coming in for a landing on a grassy outcropping. Its wings are outstretched, black wingtips bending backwards with as it slows down. Drops of rain around it are blurs of motion.
Picture of two gannets staring at each other while standing at the side of a cliff. The one facing the camera has a slight high ground, almost looking angrily at the other? Their eyes are shaped with their forehead cutting in, almost like eyebrows angled down towards the middle, cutting off their piercing blue-ringed pale eyes.
Picture of two gannets - large white birds with long necks - at the side of a cliff. The nearer one is taking off towards the camera, large webbed feet still pushing against the rocks. Its wings form a V shape, pushing itself into the air. The other gannet is behind it, looking slightly down and almost glaring at it.
Picture of soft purple flowers growing out of a brick wall, sun catching them where they grow around the corner. A little black-and-yellow bumblebee is frozen in flight above them.
Picture of squirrels poking out between branches. They're in shadow, leaning over dark branches with dark green leaves blurred in the background. One of them is looking at us, and another is barely visible to the side, fluffy tail drooped over the side of the branch.
Picture of tall buildings in downtown Vancouver. They completely fill the frame, with evening light peeking through only to brightly light the leafy trees in the middle glowing on some terrace or partial roof from one of the buildings.
Picture of a crow taking a swipe at a seagull sitting on top of a pole. The seagull is twisted around to follow it, as the crow is a blur of downward motion, claws extended and beak open, even its flight feathers the image of sharp spikes behind it. If you look carefully, it seems to have grabbed one of the long flight feathers tucked into the seagull's tail.
Picture of an eastern gray squirrel on a bench, looking at the camera, hunched over with its arms tucked together. Despite the name, it has soft black fur, wide eyes looking at you, as if about to ask you for food.
Picture of a juvenile bald eagle, soaring above and evidently zoomed in, for us to see it this closely. Unlike its older form, this eagle has splotchy brown and white feathers under its wings and body, and still a mostly brown head. If you look carefully, it's holding a crab, tucked away in its talons under its tail.
Picture of an adult duck and duckling beside it in the water. It's a bright day, soft deep blue reflecting off the water, and ripples extending in front and to the side of the ducks, where reflections alternate between the ducks and the sky. The little one, while not in focus, is incredibly fuzzy.
Picture of a seagull looking over a train yard, bathed in the bright sunlight. There's a couple trains there - one carrying shipping containers and the other carrying unknown substances inside the train cars - but the sunlight glares across them all, and they're all equally hazy in the out of focus distance.
Picture of a woman sitting on a concrete slab at the side of the road, looking into something in her lap. There's a tall blue streetlamp nearby that hooks down at the top to give an almost hanging light look. Mountains in the distance are partly obscured by bright clouds where they meet the pale blue morning sky.
Picture of a vertical slice of the port of Vancouver, edge of a grey gantry crane at the front, layers of shipping containers behind it, and a large shipping crane towering over a dense mass of shipping containers with the morning light casting sharp shadows over the across their ends. Presumably that mass of containers is on top of a boat, but only the top few layers are visible from this angle. The bright light over everything contrasts with the cool blue of nearby forested mountains and the grey clouds above them.
Picture of an alleyway with compressed focus. Everything close by is in shadow - a row of trash bins, little ambient lighting, a fire escape ladder. Where it crosses a road, a man walks from one side to another while two crows take off behind him. A bright green tree bends over the end, with an even brighter white sky behind it.
Distant picture of a small section of a modern skyscraper, intricate red metal designs running up the side in front of floor to ceiling blue glass. The bright morning sky is off to the side, with a few wisps of clouds, and the sun is just catching the wingtips of a pigeon flying in front of the building.
Picture of someone walking across an empty parking lot, head down, looking at their phone, closed in by a chain link fence, as the trees just beyond are completely aglow with the morning sunlight, vibrant as can be, and a tall apartment building behind them shows scattered reflections.
screenshot of bluesky profile of "Marcus Aurelius" as a bot that is following me. Bio reads: "Emperor of Rome by inheritance. Stoic by choice. I wrote Meditations to no one but myself."
Picture of the Deloitte Summit building in Vancouver, from just below - off-axis glass boxes reflecting a soft blue sky with patchy clouds. The underside of one glass box has a distorted reflection of the street from above, cars split and warped across the glass panels.
Picture of a group of pedestrians crossing a downtown street, lines of cars behind them and tall office buildings reaching up to a fading cloudy sky. The sun is setting in roughly the direction we're looking, but out of view except for the way that light bounces between glass buildings, painting their neighbors with evening light.
Out-of-focus picture of the top of a gate, with a sign reading "NO ENTRY. Gate Monitored and Armed. Stand Clear." and, in the distance behind it, a West Jet passenger plane climbing towards the clear blue sky.
picture of the back of a crow, from above and behind, zoomed in closer to the feathers. they're very brightly lit and slightly iridescent, all overlapping and flowing from one feather into the next, with a big flight feather tucked back at the bottom.
Picture of a spherical CCTV camera on a tall pole above a pedestrian street. The camera is pinned in by two strings of flags, and lit without a hint of shadow; the people below are out of focus and in shadow.
Picture of a spanish bluebell, lit almost painfully brightly, its entire background almost black. Each flower is a pale lavender, darker at the base but almost sun-bleached towards the body of the petals.
Picture of a construction site, tower crane stretching out of the frame and into the clear sky, dwarfing an otherwise tall, sunlit tree. Construction only has the skeleton of the building, temporary supports all over the place between the concrete pillars and floors. A couple workers stand in the shade.
screenshot of a flame graph showing the vast majority (more than 90%) of "insert" time is spent in __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms
Picture of a purple anemone flower lit from behind and glowing. It's facing to the side, petals hiding the reproductive parts of the flower. The petals are fading to white at the edges, one drooping behind, yet they still shine with iridescent sparkle in the gaps between the veins.
Zoomed picture of a backlit quince tree flower. The petals are bright white, turning to pink at the edges as they trace the vascular structure. The leaves below it are similarly illuminated, alongside darker pink flower buds on each side. The background is a blur of dark greens.
Picture of a curled, purple anemone flower. Its petals are bright, almost translucent, lit from behind by the afternoon sun, and faintly fuzzy. It's framed on either side by the tall, triangular leaves from another plant, similarly backlit.
Screenshot of text and code. Text reads: "Even with relaxed memory model, out-of-thin-air values are not allowed to circularly depend on their own computations, for example with x and y initially zero, " - code shows two threads setting x and y to the other with relaxed loads and stores, only if equal to 42 - "is not allowed to produce r1 = r2 = 42 since the store of 42 to y is only possible if the store to x stores 42, which circularly depends on the store to y storing 42. Note that until C++14, this was technically allowed by the specification, but not recommended for implementors."
Picture of a squirrel on a big branch, looking suspiciously at the camera. It's lit by the sun on one side, fur glowing and light shining slightly through an ear with a chunk missing. Beyond it, pale blue skies.
A European Robin, standing on a small branch, head turned back to look at the camera. Its wings are spread slightly behind it, slight shining on its chest and shining through its tail feathers.
Picture of a blue tit, a tiny bird with a short beak, a tuft of blue and white hair on its head, and tiny yellow and white feathers around its body. We're viewing it through some branches, and it's clinging to one, pinning an even tinier flower to its branch, eating the bottom of it.
Close-up picture of a european robin from the side, perched on a thorny branch and looking into the distance. It's a very tiny bird, and its feathers are kind of puffed out to make it round and cozy. There's a little bit of soft light hitting it from the front, making the orange feathers on its breast almost glow.
Screenshot of the wikipedia article "List of The New York Times controversies" One section reads: The Times has been criticized for its coverage of the Holocaust. According to the 2005 book Buried by the Times by Laurel Leff, it buried in the back pages of the paper stories about the genocide of European Jews, and avoided mentions of Jewish victims of persecutions, deportations, and death camps. Between 1939 and 1945, the Times published more than 23,000 front-page stories—half of which were about World War II—and only 26 were about the Holocaust. In the documentary Reporting on The Times: How the paper of record ignored the Holocaust, past editors of the newspaper stated that there was a conscious decision to bury the paper's Holocaust coverage. Various motivations have been attributed to the decision to bury and minimize the Holocaust, all of which are linked to the Times' publisher at the time, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who was Jewish. Some claim that Sulzberger feared the Times would be "viewed as 'a special pleader for the Jews'"—at a time when anti-Semitism was relatively common in the United States—if the Holocaust was given more prominent coverage. Others point to Sulzberger's anti-Zionist views as a stronger motive. A Reform Jew and an enthusiastic supporter of the American Council for Judaism, both of which heavily emphasize anti-Zionism, Sulzberger believed European Jews were partially responsible for their own demise in the Holocaust. Not even a personal visit to a concentration camp was enough to shake this conviction. In a 1946 speech, less than one year after his visit to a concentration camp, Sulzberger stated, "'it is my judgment that thousands dead might now be alive' if 'the Zionists' had put 'less emphasis on statehood.'" In another speech that same year, Sulzberger downplayed the plight of displaced Jews, stating "they were 'but a minor percentage of the total of displaced persons' and therefore should not be receiving so much attention."
Picture of a small painted statue of an angel between two lamps, a flock of birds motion-blurred in flight behind them against a white sky. The angel holds a shield with the flag of England on it, white with a red cross. The lamps to either side mimic royalty, with curled metal strips suggesting the shape of a crown and little plain flags curling around the top.
Monochrome picture of a statue of lady justice on top of a building. She holds a spear and scales, perfectly balanced, looking down to the side below.
Picture of a seagull against a white sky, sitting atop a metal and blue glass structure.
Picture of a wet city street, cars between red brick buildings, pointed towards a church tower fading as it pokes up into the fog, and a much larger gothic cathedral, disappearing into the white blanket sky.
Picture of flooding from a river far above its normal levels, nearby stone bridge and brick buildings nearby faded by the low-lying fog. In the foreground, there's a partially submerged "no entry" road sign, and a sign for a local wine bar leaning against it (also submerged), that boasts a "large selection of beers and wine" and says - in all caps - it's open till late, with the lettering on the last line just touching the water.
Picture of the train tracks at the end of a station, a ScotRail train leaving, and graffiti on the wall behind it, saying "FREE YOUR SOUL!". The trees above the tracks are shades of yellow and red with autumn colors.
Picture of a crow perched atop a hanging sign, looking quizzically at the sky. The sign is attached to the wall, and says "TATTOOS PIERCING".
Picture of the Newhaven Lighthouse in Edinburgh, against early morning skies. The lighthouse is tall and thin, rust creeping along the edges with green splotches on white paint from exposure to the elements. The water below reflects the soft light blue of the skies above a layer of clouds. A plane goes by in the background.
Picture of people standing atop Salisbury Crags - chunky rocky cliffs against blank grey sky. A plane flies by in the background, away from the cliffs and lit brightly by the sun.
Picture of the outskirts of Edinburgh from a distance, abundant trees shades of yellow and red with fall foliage and lit - almost glowing - by the winter sun, low in the sky. The top of a church pokes up above the houses, and the houses fade into the haziness of the sky and green hills in the background.
Photo of the Foss Barrier from a distance. It's a brick, metal, and glass structure arching over the outlet of a narrow river. It's supposed to come down to keep the water from flooding back; there's a staircase up the side from the brick base and an array of hydraulic-looking pipes and boxes at the top, all enclosed in glass, at the top for raising & lowering the barrier itself. Beyond the barrier, a trio of people are crossing a little blue bridge. There's big trees back there, green and turning bright yellow at the tips.
Picture of the medieval York city wall, bending back on itself as it curves and turns a corner. Trees on either side are in various states of autumn - some fully yellow and losing leaves and others only starting to turn at the edges. There's vibrant green grass below the wall as people wander along the top.
Screenshot of a web form. Subject field reads "Is Labour's position on trans rights as horrific as Streeting says?" Message field (1000 chars max) reads: "Sir Kier Starmer - I'm a trans person living in [redacted]. Today I was disheartened, but unfortunately not surprised, to see Wes Streeting's comments in online forums stating that transgender people should be barred from all single-sex spaces. Leaving aside that this is plainly discriminatory; leaving aside that Labour was elected on a promise to do right by the trans community; leaving aside that adopting far-right opinions on social issues concedes that voters should elect far-right leaders and weakens Labour's own electoral prospects -- surely you can see how this accomplishes nothing but violate the basic dignity of the smallest of minority groups? Is that really who we are? I ask that you take decisive action: Make it clear that Wes Streeting does not speak for Labour by removing him from his position as health secretary, where he has overseen an NHS that deliberately under-funds transgender care to perpetuate systemic harm. I remain hopeful that a brighter future is possible." Below the message field, the form says "1 character remaining".
Picture looking far down a wide canal. The setting sun has left the sky dimmed, barely touching the leaves of trees along the side, but the water remains a light blue. A handful of boats criss-cross down the canal, under a series of brick arch bridges.
Partly cloudy sky above a sunset. The sun itself is partly obscured by a ree in the distance, and glows orange in front of the clouds, as if actually on fire. Above, there are zig-zagging layers of dark grey clouds with each edge and corner painted yellow and orange by the light. And behind it all, the sky is still a pale blue.
A gannet (a large bird) soaring against a bright blue cloudy sky. The gannet's details are sharp, muscles in its wings defined next to individual feathers - white body and wings with grey-black wingtips. Its black webbed feet are outlined in green, and its pale yellow head is tilted to look towards the ground below.
Tall rock cliffs with flat grass tops rising above the sea, hundreds of birds nestled into the cliffs and flying about. At first glance, only the bright white gannets stick out and the region around the cliff appears noisy, but zooming in shows that each spec is yet another bird. In the distance, the shorter cliffs of the Flamborough Head fade into the background with the horizon further behind.
Picture of a british telephone box at night, partially lit on the inside, and a motion blurred person on a moped going past, in the background. The telephone box has clearly been around a while; there's small pieces of moss growing on the glass outside and dirt encroaching on the backlit "telephone" label on top. Inside, there's a notice that reads "We're planning to remove this payphone. Unfortunately it just isn't used enough for us to carry on running it"
Picture of a sparrow jumping into the path of a directional TV antenna. It's a Yagi-Uda antenna, a long pointed rod with horizontal cross sections going back towards the square reflector rods. The bird is a bit blurred, wings still tucked tight as it falls.
Picture of a muddy dirt road under arching trees that are all branches and no leaves. Bits of grass, ivy, and moss pop out of the otherwise dull colors. In the distance, the trees fade into a subtle fog and a wide gate closes off the path.
Picture of a round, leafless tree atop a hill against a bright blue sky dotted with clouds. The hill has green and yellow grass, a kind of messy look that mirrors the fuzz of the hundreds of tiny ends of branches still attached to the tree.