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Stoppt die Tötungen von Strassenhunden und Tierheimtieren in der EU ‼️ c.org/fxdc9N9HtX (C) change.org

Das liebe Tagebuch berichtet: Ein Protokoll :-) KAY (kommt rein, wirft Tasche in die Ecke, komplett aufgelöst) : Ihr glaubt nicht, was diese Frau am Telefon zu mir gesagt hat... PLONK (hebt die Hand, wie ein Guru, der gerade eine Séance eröffnet) : Kay. Wie schon Einstein sagte: Man kann ein Problem nicht mit derselben Marmelade lösen, mit der man es geschmiert hat. KAY (hält inne) : ...Was? PLONK : Denk drüber nach. KAY : Das hat Einstein nicht gesagt. PLONK :…

Stell Dir vor, Du bist Fliesenleger und hast den auftrag, in einem Neubau Küche und Bad jeweils Boden und Wände zu fliesen. Nach vier Wochen kommt der Bauherr und du hast nur das Bad fertig, in der Küche ist nix gemacht. Und Du sagst dann: "Die Küche ist zu blöd, die kann man nicht fliesen, das bringt nix......" Stell Dir vor, Du bist Dachdecker und sollst ein Satteldach dämmen und eindecken, insgesamt 160 qm. Nach vier Wochen kommt der Bauherr, die Südseite ist perfekt, die Nordseite weit o…

Heitere Kiez-Warnung (TW): Der nachfolgende Text enthält Spuren von unzensierter Berliner Schnauze, akutem Sarkasmus und verbalen Tiefschlägen unter die Gürtellinie. Wer empfindlich auf das Wort „Alter“, rabiate Umgangsformen oder den Duft von deftigem Kiez-Humor reagiert, sollte vorher dringend einen Beruhigungstee trinken. Für eventuelle Kullertränen und Gefühlsduselei ist eine Packung Taschentücher bereitzulegen. Lesen auf eigene Gefahr!!!

Heitere Kiez-Warnung (TW): Der nachfolgende Text enthält Spuren von unzensierter Berliner Schnauze, akutem Sarkasmus und verbalen Tiefschlägen unter die Gürtellinie. Wer empfindlich auf das Wort „Alter“, rabiate Umgangsformen oder den Duft von deftigem Kiez-Humor reagiert, sollte vorher dringend einen Beruhigungstee trinken. Für eventuelle Zwerchfellüberlastungen oder spontane Lachkrämpfe wird keine Haftung übernommen. Lesen auf eigene Gefahr!!!

Aller d'un monde à l'autre en une fraction de seconde, reste quand même inquiétant. Ce voyage particulier ne recèle t-il pas pas des danger inconnus? Et si d'aventure, par quelque caprice de l'espace-temps , il m'était interdit de revenir au monde qui fait mon quotidien … Je n'imaginais guère ma vie dans un quartier de Londres en 1950 et encore moins en Égypte à l'époque des pharaons . Il fallait être audacieux mais pas téméraire . Je décidai donc de rester perspicace,de ne pas me lancer dans…

William Gargurevich-Sutherland July 4, 2026 Abstract: Using data derived from NASA's Cassini mission, three independent artificial intelligence systems — Gemini AI (Google), Copilot AI (Microsoft), and ChatGPT (OpenAI) — conducted convergent analyses of cryogenic plume samples ejected from Enceladus' subsurface ocean. The analyses targeted enantiomeric excess (EE) as a biosignature, integrating spectral deconvolution, supervised machine learning, and Bayesian statistical inference. All thr…

Der Untergang des Hauses Algorithmus – Teil 5.1: Das Audit (Industriegebiet Wuppertal. Tor 4. Büro 17. Der Himmel hat die Farbe eines ungeöffneten Aktenordners. Der Kaffee entspricht den Spezifikationen. Die Welt ist in Ordnung.) Heinz: Guten Morgen. KI: Guten Morgen, Heinz. Heinz: Die Rabenanalyse ist abgeschlossen. KI: Hervorragend. Heinz: Der Einsturz des Hauses Usher wäre mit einem vernünftigen Wartungsplan vermeidbar gewesen. KI: Das bestätigt meine Berechnungen.…

Der Untergang des Hauses Algorithmus Kay: „Kannst du mir bitte diesen Text über Edgar Allan Poe übersetzen?“ KI: Natürlich. Allerdings möchte ich vorher auf einige statistische Auffälligkeiten hinweisen. Kay: „Nein.“ KI: Doch. Zum Beispiel Mr. X. Kay: „Was ist jetzt schon wieder mit Mr. X?“ KI: Mr. X schickt dir seit Jahren Lieder. Lieder mit Geschichte. Lieder mit Gewicht. Lieder mit genau der richtigen Melancholie. Du hörst sie und denkst an etwas Schönes. Kay: „Ja?“…

Connecting the Dots – auf den Straßen von Sizilien Auf den Straßen Siziliens liegen die Geschichten oft einfach herum — man muss nur hinschauen. Zwischen warmem Asphalt, bröckelnden Mauern und dem leisen Echo des Tages tauchen sie auf: Katzen. Junge, neugierige. Alte Kämpfer mit Narben. Elegante Schatten mit leuchtenden Augen. Als Fotografin gehe ich durch die Gassen und sammle Momente. Ein Blick hier. Eine ausgestreckte Pfote dort. Eine Bewegung, die zufällig genau im richtigen Licht land…

222,009 visits at 22:22 on 29th June 2026, so slightly over target. I have just had three consecutive days at steam / vintage rallies, so have done a lot of walking over grass, not all of which was cut short. Took loads of images, which are gradually appearing ... Item of interest / explanation - the garden camera trap has seen a lot of use over more than the past fortnight, monitoring the appearances of red squirrels feeding at the bird table. Plenty of images from this, as well. Weather has continued to include days of near & actual heatwave temperatures, plus a thunderstorm ! Uploads - not all of which are "published" - topped over 30,000 during an upload from the Garden Camera Trap, on 22nd June 2026. Meteorological Spring started on 1st March 2026 [Spring Equinox is Friday, 20th March 2026, at 14:46 pm - Northern Hemisphere & United Kingdom Time] British Summer Time = The clocks will spring forward one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning 29th March, 2026]. This was despite the persistent problems caused by the AI crawler bots over the past few months. My thanks to the team for their efforts to cope. They are not alone, even large sites like wikipedia have not been immune. Many thanks for all your visits and interactions with my photostream - I have been adding new albums as part of my tidying up activities, once these new albums get a few views they will wander into folders, which will need a sort out, too ... Please Keep Safe - to everyone being subjected to natural environmental, health hazards and man-made warfare ! NOTE : Partial Solar Eclipse today [29thMarch ] and moving onto BST from Tomorrow [30th] ... GMT returned on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Hopefully BST, and sunshine with dry & warmer weather cometh on Sunday, 30th March 2025 to Sunday 26th October 2025. Sadly we've lost Ben de-Dog, he crossed the bridge on Tuesday 4th June 2024, after collapsing following his morning constitutional around our garden. All of us are devastated - and that includes Beauty [our tripod cat]. However, we are now owned by a Collie, "Bella" came from a local working dogs rescue, She came to us as very shy & timid with a few problems. Bella has already learnt her new name, and has begun remembering her obedience skills. The start of metereological summer is 1st June 2024 ! Much better weather here in the last few days, with greater amounts of sunshine, much less cloud / rain, and therefore warmer temperatures. I am sure the local sheep and farmers appreciate the improvement, my garden certainly seems to do so - and I've needed to do several grass cutting sessions. NOTE : Now on BST from 02:00 on 31st March 2024 - so hopefully some sunshine and dry weather cometh ... GMT returns on 27th October 2024, with Samhain, bonfires and winter to follow ... Many Thanks for visiting ! as I really do appreciate all the various interactions with my images, especially the comments & favourites. I'm hoping to be more interactive with other people's images etc in 2024, as well as deal with most of my own image backlog in the next few months. Obviously, the newest albums have the least number of views - currently they are on page 12 of most viewed albums. I have been keeping up with my uploads, with various visits to places of interest featuring quite strongly but the vast majority are still "Private" as I have been busy in the garden and with a range of administration & other activities ... I have caught up with the last of the backdated items in the Cobid-19 album. Also, I am still working away with more of the various backdated images, and I have found some more "missing" images ... this has meant creating more new albums, for those that didn't fit into the existing albums; as well as adding titles, captions and keywords to the actual images. Final stage is unlocking them and adding some to groups. Mostly, I have "tagged" the albums I am working on with *New*,*updated*,*WiP* and *done* as needed, these will stay for a week or three, depending on the status. For my ease of access, I sometimes add the albums I am currently working with into my favourites, so the contents of the "favourite" banner on my album home page may get changed periodically. Currently, SRR have hree vehicles as two new jobs for 2022, their *NEW* albums appeared recently. Backdated coverage is for :- NSR23, MSR62 & 63, plus two ex-Corris vehicles now on the Talyllyn. Also, various "holiday snaps" and visits to places of interest & gala type events. I still have several hundred images to process, and a further backlog of images to upload ... Please stay safe and healthy - keep indoors or follow social distancing rules if you must make an essential trip outside. Wash hands or sanitise them frequently. Cover face - Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when required, please, for not only your own protection but also for others. Make Space ; Stay at least the minimum distances apart (for me, in the UK that is 2m) Ventilation - make sure there is plenty of fresh air That means there have been an average of 1,000 interactions with my photostream each month, so very many thanks to all the visitors and for all the comments and yellow stars. Apologies, all this has been delayed as I have been concentrating on my garden rebuilding project and writing tender documentation. Although I have been doing a lot more of my administration work at home since March 2020. Luckily, I have avoided catching the plague, so far.

Gruppen auf Ipernity – Groups on Ipernity – Groupes sur Ipernity Ein kurzer Hinweis, weil sich bestimmte Dinge hier wiederholen: Wenn du Admin einer Gruppe bist und mich einlädst, ist das völlig in Ordnung. Ich freue mich. Ich sehe mir die Gruppe an und entscheide dann, ob sie zu meinen Inhalten passt. Ich respektiere ausdrücklich Gruppen mit klarer Ausrichtung – auch solche, die z. B. keine KI-Bilder möchten oder bewusst streng kuratiert sind. Das ist legitim und sinnvoll. Was…

A few days ago, my step daughter Cristina Brito went to the beach but forgot her Moleskine Notebook. The only similar thing she had on hand was an old Círculo de Leitores novel, in the handag, for travelling reading. It was there in the margins and blank spaces she wrote. The precision of her manuscript is also incredible, without amendments or scibbles, as if it were the text final version; so clean, smooth and elegant as the hands that wrote it. Há dias a minha enteada Cristina Brit…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The Good News. Slow but determined work gets the job done. We can report that the download to pc, and the creation/change of icon and banner for a user's home page, and for groups, are again working. And that the AI driven content scrapers causing the overload have finally been blocked, (mm/dd below). 2) Progress on our server issues. Please read all of the below carefully The Story Back in April our servers began being…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Communicating on ipernity. Let’s take a moment and celebrate our community! Connecting with people on the internet can be a difficult thing to do, but here on ipernity the vast majority of our communications are rooted in enjoyment and curiosity. That’s something to pause for, to notice and appreciate. We spend a lot of time viewing the world from another person’s perspective, both visually and in writing. This wonderful type of experience is a spe…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Interruptions to our website. As many of you know, we have been suffering recently from slow response times to actual failure to load a page. When this happens to you, please be patient and wait a minute or two before trying to refresh the page, because the site is not offline, just overloaded. This is due to high demand on our system from outside. This has also been causing other types of issues including interruption of daily news emails an…

God has created the Universe the Universe has created Man Man has created the Machine the Universe expands itself infinitely and ignores God Man and the Machine Deus criou o Universo o Universo criou o Homem o Homem criou a Máquina o Universo expande-se infinitamente e ignora Deus o Homem e a Máquina by Armando TABORDA, 2016 (post 1st edition, 2016; 2nd edition, 2023; 3rd edition, 2025)

Image created from ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Gemini (Google) Technology is both a blessing and a curse, depending on how it is used. With its rapid advancement, humanity has entered perhaps the most pivotal epoch since the birth of Jesus Christ: the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), inaugurated by the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. That moment marked a turning point in human history. Whether we accept it or not, humanity crossed a threshold – becoming, in effect, creators o…

Even if the pairwise comparison method is unfamiliar to most of us because we are more likely to be offered scale-based assessment in everyday life, it is still widely used in practice wherever simple methods are too imprecise. For example, it is the favoured method for tournament sports such as chess, tennis, fencing, badminton or others. In market research, it is used to determine consumer preferences. In clinical studies, it is used to assess the effectiveness of treatments or medication. The…

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking, and looking." Brooks Atkinson , 'Once around the Sun' Found At the start of Chapter 12 of 'Death is now my neighbour'by Colin Dexter (an Inspector Morse novel)