Phil
WenA bad hair day
A soggy male splendid fairywren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_fairywren) at Banyowla Regional Park near Perth, Australia
Photograph Vikrant Deshpande
I know how he feels, but without the plumage.
megabyteGhost@Wen That bird looks like he wants to fight me
@megabyteghost He does looks annoyed. I have a memory of a great cartoon of an angry sparrow with the caption ‘come and get me if you think you are hard enough’. This is the same bird in real life, I must try and find the cartoon.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@Wen How can a Fairy Wren Superb, looking like this? I ask you!
bupigIt’s beautiful, but photos like this always make me a little sad. There was a time when we could "trust" what we saw; now, with LLMs, I can’t help but wonder whether an image like this is 100% real or not.
Katzentratschen@booboo @Wen For starters, it would help, if we actually l i n k e d to the content we find worth sharing.
Vikrant Deshpande| Bird & Wildlife photographer on Instagram: "That post-shower look when you realize there’s no towel nearby 😄 Splendid fairywren………still looking splendid! 📷 @sonyalpha.anz A1 ii and 600mm f/4 gm #splendidfairywren #wrensday #australianbirds #birdphotography #abcmyphoto"
21K likes, 363 comments - vik.d_wildlife on May 5, 2026: "That post-shower look when you realize there’s no towel nearby 😄 Splendid fairywren………still looking splendid! 📷 @sonyalpha.anz A1 ii and 600mm f/4 gm #splendidfairywren #wrensday #australianbirds #birdphotography #abcmyphoto".
@katzentratschen @booboo That was not the source of the photo when I saw it. I simply like it, and credited the photographer.
@katzentratschen @booboo It is credited in The Times to the photographer and the agency. I would be very surprised if they did not pay to use if from the agency
@katzentratschen @booboo It was a casual observation. Lighten up and get off your high horse
@katzentratschen @booboo It actually came from a daily newspaper. So crediting the photographer (as the Times does) was in my opinion adequate. I don’t have time to fossick around beyond that.
Theriac@katzentratschen @Theriac @booboo Give it a rest. An obsession with ‘purity’ - what is that when she is at home? I was not writing for an academic journal, or even a financial or technical report. All of which I have done in the past. 500 letters to work with - would you like the inside leg measurements of the photographer to be included?
@katzentratschen @Wen @booboo
We'd probably get along on discussing AI, but you're inferring the OP acted in bad faith while appearing to insist people visit a predatory website.
Instagram and data privacy are mutually exclusive.
Google and facebook laid the legal foundations for data robbing, which simply pushed boundaries of the grey area of profiting off the backs of creatives enough that AI found its space.
So lets not conflate not wanting to visit a closed predatory website with AI practices. AI couldn't give a tinker's cuss about its user data, where as I, a human, do.
We'd probably get along on discussing AI, but you're inferring the OP acted in bad faith while appearing to insist people visit a predatory website.
Instagram and data privacy are mutually exclusive.
Google and facebook laid the legal foundations for data robbing, which simply pushed boundaries of the grey area of profiting off the backs of creatives enough that AI found its space.
So lets not conflate not wanting to visit a closed predatory website with AI practices. AI couldn't give a tinker's cuss about its user data, where as I, a human, do.
@Theriac At no point I said or implied OP was acting in bad faith. @booboo commented: "There was a time when we could 'trust' what we saw; now, with LLMs, I can’t help but wonder whether an image like this is 100% real or not." To which I offered a way to rebuild trust: link to your sources. The thread could have ended then and there. @Wen
Edit: Fixed mixed up mentions.
@katzentratschen @Wen @booboo
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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/katzentratschen/statuses/116605819979261265
@katzentratschen @Theriac @booboo When did I ever say “There was a time when we could 'trust' what we saw; now, with LLMs, I can’t help but wonder whether an image like this is 100% real or not."
I think you might be hallucinating.
marzuq märzenbecher
marabilles, smala libre@Wen
On dirait qu'il est déguisé en bleuet ^^
On dirait qu'il est déguisé en bleuet ^^
D. G. Marshall
George Andrew@Wen beautiful ✨
Zeno
Armchair Epistemologist
ScubaET
ShivvinessI'm perpetually scruffy and so also identity with this bird.
I can easily see myself having become a "birder" because birds are such fascinating creatures and it looks like such a great hobby.
Brynawel
Sam (yes, that ravenbait)@Wen Some of his other bird photography is also fabulous!
dch 
Mensch, Marina@Wen oh it does look like a bad hair day! 
Ulrich Auer 
@Wen 🤣 🤣 🤣