Sit back and watch the trains pass

Hi, I stream on twitch but on here I talk about antelopes          24, canadian he/they         twitch.tv/addaxbones

[fakezircon]

My streams are nothing if not a place to A) Find Purgatory and B) Do Math - Bones (The Guy)

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[addaxbones]

toby fox should tell me and only me when deltarune is coming out so I can book off my vacation days

[inatungulates]

Bukhara markhor Capra falconeri heptneri

Observed by andy11889, CC BY-NC

[addaxbones]

Ive been sick this past week and also had this idea as soon as I left the theater so here

[inatungulates]

Burchell's zebra Equus quagga burchellii

Observed by bartwursten, CC BY-NC

[addaxbones]

Ive been sick this past week and also had this idea as soon as I left the theater so here

[myarmcanfly]

Fat Horse No. 2

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out!

This piece and four others will be available at Furry Weekend Atlanta May 8-10!

[inatungulates]

Western white-bearded wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi

Observed by jpgalvan, CC BY-NC

[addaxbones]

NEW TOMODACHI LIFE VIDEO OUT

[addaxbones]

Watch this video on Twitch Live

ITS APPARENTLY MY AFFILIATE ANNIVERSARY COME SAY HI

[herpsandbirds]

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a male – singing for territory, or belting out tunes to woo a female. But as the annual dawn chorus reaches a crescendo this spring, a new guidebook is urging us to think again – and turn our ears to the hidden world of female birdsong. The songs, sounds and sights of female birds have historically been overlooked in field guides and sound archives. In 2016, just 0.01% of the bird sounds in the global Xeno-Canto sound library were labelled female. Another sound archive was just 0.03% female, according to a 2018 study. But the new book – The Sound Approach to Birding 2 – aims to correct this under-representation and properly explain female birdsong. Female birds sing for territorial displays, to ward off other females and to attract extra males, according to Lucy McRobert, a writer and researcher who studied the issue for the guidebook. The book comes with its own library of 300 sounds from 200 species, accessed via web or app. The clips are drawn from the larger online archive of Sound Approach, a birdsong project founded in 2000 with confirmed recordings of females for 41% of species found in the Western Palearctic, a biogeographical region encompassing Europe, north Africa and most of the Middle East...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/hidden-world-of-female-birdsong-book

[todaysbat]

@todaysbird

[great-and-small]

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

[great-and-small]

@elafire this is kinda tangential to the post but I love these tags because the cattle egret thing is on my mind a lot also. One of my favorite birders Christian Cooper has written about how the story of this bird’s introduction here makes for an interesting metaphor for the African diaspora in the United States. It’s all I can think of when I see cattle egrets now and has really changed how I think of them. Here is one of Cooper’s posts about the topic

[bovineblogger]

have you heard of the saola? i just learned about it from a book of poetry im reading (Primordial by Mai Der Vang) and i love it. (also highly reccomend that poetry collection)

hell yea i have baybeyyyyyyyyyy i LOVE the saola. their babies are veyr cute

[inatungulates]

Swayne's hartebeest Alcelaphus swaynei

Observed by manschuwa, CC BY

[arthur-bn]

Cows and cow related models made for Dairycraft by CrackedCubes.

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.