For #ThickTrunkTuesday a big old spruce at the park. I go out of my way to visit it sometimes to see what birds are among its branches and also at a certain time of summer to look for shed cicada skins. It must be a cicada favorite. #tree #spruce
The old days

Over the last few days, I’ve been rummaging through my digital photo albums and found a few old works from the times when I used to stroll through the Westphalian forests together with Jan Philip Scheibe and we just made art for the sake of art. For this one we mounted a photo wallpaper ("Paradise") onto panels and staged it in the forest. There were more spruce trees back then.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Fototapete, 2008, temporäre Installation]

#art #conceptualart #konzeptkunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #fotografie #photography #photowallpaper #fototapete #wald #ostwestfalen #westfalen #westphalia #fichten #spruce #spruces #paradies #paradise #wald #forest #fichte #spruce #fichtensterben

#GreenOps isn't just about carbon — water matters too. 💧

Data centers consume enormous amounts of water, and AI is intensifying that demand. Yet most cloud dashboards (and even some commercial #greenops tools) don't measure it at all.

We just merged a PR in #SPRUCE to add water consumption estimates — including regional water stress data from WRI Aqueduct. A litre used in Canada ≠ a litre used in South Africa.

As far as we know, no other #greenops solution does this. We think it should.

Meet Bruce. He’s Got a Long Line of Advertising Mascots to Honor in Quest to Sell for Procter & Gamble

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/procter-gamble-bruce-spruce-commercial-tv-mascots-1236675945/

Meet Bruce. He’s Got a Long Line of Advertising Mascots to Honor in Quest to Sell for Procter & Gamble
#Variety #News #MarchMadness #ProcterGamble #Spruce

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/procter-gamble-bruce-spruce-commercial-tv-mascots-1236675945/

Procter & Gamble Debuts Bruce for Spruce, Latest in Line of Ad Mascots

Procter & Gamble, famous for launching ad characters like Mr. Clean and Mr. Whipple, is debuting Bruce, a dog who will help pitch Spruce to consumers

Variety