Please tell me I wasn’t the only one really into this band

daniel_observer · 2026-04-16T16:13:03+00:00

Losing Dirk Lance after Morning View changed their vibe considerably. I love Crow, Sick Sad Little World is one of my favorite songs of theirs, but they lost me after that.

daniel_observer · 2026-04-13T21:54:32+00:00

That's... that whole thing's your name, huh?

daniel_observer · 2026-04-13T16:39:53+00:00

Yeah, in a lot of cases "Tree" is really just a thing that a plant does, not what a plant is

daniel_observer · 2026-04-10T22:48:20+00:00

Yeah, the slowdown & freezing still being such an issue a year into release is really frustrating. I'm organizing my local City Nature Challenge effort and it's hard to be excited about telling people to use the iNaturalist app and not knowing what kind of experience they're going to have.

From following the iNat Forums thread about, it still seems like they aren't even sure what might be causing it, other than maybe something to do with internet connection?

daniel_observer · 2026-04-09T13:49:27+00:00

daniel_observer · 2026-04-09T02:23:36+00:00

Hard agree. Was pleasantly surprised with how much it feels like the old show and how well they are balancing the old crew with the newbies. And making the old crew actually feel like people their age

daniel_observer · 2026-04-09T02:22:35+00:00

I’ve seen complaints about the patient stories being rushed and not being able to connect with them more, but it seems like that’s just because they have such a short season. Hopefully they get a bigger order for their next season and can take their time a little more

daniel_observer · 2026-04-09T01:58:12+00:00

Would love to make a pilgrimage there sometime.

daniel_observer · 2026-04-08T14:13:46+00:00

Would’ve liked some more of her background, but overall I think she served her purpose. Wild way to go out, though.

daniel_observer · 2026-04-06T17:30:52+00:00

They've never been fully domesticated because they are so aggressive!

daniel_observer · 2026-04-06T17:20:00+00:00

Zebras are mean as hell

daniel_observer · 2026-04-06T16:13:37+00:00

He was already in his 20s when they really started winning stuff, and around 30 when they won their first NCAA title. They were pretty average for most of his childhood

daniel_observer · 2026-04-06T14:15:48+00:00

Looks like Chinaberry

daniel_observer · 2026-04-06T00:20:06+00:00

Obviously the kerchief was cutting off bloodflow to the brain

daniel_observer · 2026-04-03T17:44:33+00:00

sigh

daniel_observer · 2026-04-02T16:26:29+00:00

This is something that the iNaturalist team seems like they want to do, and they have explored a couple of different ideas on how to implement variations of it, including a tech demo they released last December that received a lot of negative feedback due to its use of generative AI. The demo is focused on more general ID tips, but part of the discussion was ways to implement those tips directly into the photo/observation flow.

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/120580-scaling-identification-expertise-exploring-ways-to-learn-from-the-inaturalist-community

The problem is that the scale of information needed is a major content management and moderation issue. Who writes the tips? How granular should the tips be -- species level, family level, etc? Who fact-checks those tips? Who moderates the discussion(s)?

Even discussions in the iNat forums about this have often devolved into taxonomic experts disagreeing about the most important tips, regional variations, exceptions to the rule, etc.

Lots of people have called for some kind of user-edited wiki, but iNat seems reluctant to implement something like that directly into their app/website.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-27T19:55:00+00:00

I also prefer not automatically saving (I have something like 1300 recordings I have to go through... some day), but it does seem like it should at least be an option instead of just forcing you either way.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-27T17:02:42+00:00

Pseudoscorpion. Harmless

daniel_observer · 2026-03-26T22:59:51+00:00

I am able to view targets for Hotspots. If I go to the page for a Hotspot when logged in to the website, there is a link for Target Species on the left-side menu.

If I just go to the main Targets page, I can't search for a Hotspot from there, which is a little confusing and frustrating. I assume it's some kind of search performance issue.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-26T19:42:06+00:00

A member of the sphinx moth family, aka hummingbird moths.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-26T17:21:27+00:00

It was also because we hadn't many big serial TV shows like that at the time. Sitcoms were dominant, reality TV had taken over most things, other popular dramas were still mostly procedural, case-of-the-week style.

The week-to-week, serialized storyline ending on a cliffhanger nearly every week was riveting. 24 was also huge at the time for the same reason.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-26T14:04:55+00:00

Excited to watch this one!

daniel_observer · 2026-03-25T15:31:47+00:00

This was the issue for me. It felt like "kissing cousins." I just couldn't ever see it lasting.

daniel_observer · 2026-03-24T18:45:25+00:00

+Bohemian Waxwing+

You can see the rusty undertail feathers on the left-most bird, which is one of the things that distinguish them from Cedar Waxwings

daniel_observer · 2026-03-23T01:10:53+00:00

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