Milenko Budimir
@milenkobudimir.bsky.social
The guy from the old Twitterverse, ya know — adjunct philosophy prof, tech writer/editor, curious human...Balkanalia, photography, architecture, poetry
The Lake Erie monster, like it’s close relative in Loch Ness, is real
It's widely accepted that there is a sub base directly below the Perry monument at Put-In-Bay, but what are authorities going to do about the cassowary I saw in my suburban Ohio backyard?
It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models.
There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
July 23, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The Lake Erie monster, like it’s close relative in Loch Ness, is real
Greetings from Smokeland 😷
July 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Greetings from Smokeland 😷
Some post-game reading for French fans
July 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Some post-game reading for French fans
A Gorenje ad at the World Cup 😲
June 23, 2026 at 11:40 PM
A Gorenje ad at the World Cup 😲
Now here’s something you don’t see every day ☄️
www.wkyc.com/article/news...
www.wkyc.com/article/news...
March 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Now here’s something you don’t see every day ☄️
www.wkyc.com/article/news...
www.wkyc.com/article/news...
Yugoslavia enters the conversation …
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...
www.science.org
February 19, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Yugoslavia enters the conversation …
Scenes from a morning frostbite hike 🥶
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Scenes from a morning frostbite hike 🥶
Look what arrived in the mail today — my new chapbook of poems!! It’s always a special day when that box arrives and you hold the book in your hands for the first time.
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Look what arrived in the mail today — my new chapbook of poems!! It’s always a special day when that box arrives and you hold the book in your hands for the first time.
Reposted by Milenko Budimir
We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
Ok, so maybe some chatbots are not so bad after all
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ok, so maybe some chatbots are not so bad after all
I’m increasingly coming around to the idea that a new dark age is inevitable, pockets of normalcy here and there notwithstanding, with how long it will last and how bad it will get being the only unknowns.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I’m increasingly coming around to the idea that a new dark age is inevitable, pockets of normalcy here and there notwithstanding, with how long it will last and how bad it will get being the only unknowns.
I have some news — a new chapbook of poems from yours truly is forthcoming in January 2026 and I couldn’t be more excited!! 🙌🏼
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I have some news — a new chapbook of poems from yours truly is forthcoming in January 2026 and I couldn’t be more excited!! 🙌🏼
Back into the breach we go! #fallsemester
August 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Back into the breach we go! #fallsemester
Had a garden visitor today
July 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Had a garden visitor today
Garden report 👨🏻🌾
July 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Garden report 👨🏻🌾
Happy 4th of July
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester,...
www.democracynow.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy 4th of July
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
First full day of summer 2025 garden report
June 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First full day of summer 2025 garden report
It’s summer time and the reading is easy
June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It’s summer time and the reading is easy
Looking forward to the Flyover Finals™️
June 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Looking forward to the Flyover Finals™️
Grades are turned in! 🙌🏼
Now, what to do with wild and unruly summer time? 🤔
Now, what to do with wild and unruly summer time? 🤔
May 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Grades are turned in! 🙌🏼
Now, what to do with wild and unruly summer time? 🤔
Now, what to do with wild and unruly summer time? 🤔
Simic’s grandma knew
April 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Simic’s grandma knew
Really enjoying this book from @roadsidepress.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Really enjoying this book from @roadsidepress.bsky.social
