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I assume I won't see Spotify Wrapped posts from people berating others they use platforms that support right wing extremism. Right?

To me Spotify is still cancelled. I'm surprised how normalised it is again among others.

AI noise reduction in bird photography: I hope all these photographers spending hours in the wilderness to photograph a bird, know that when they apply AI noise reduction to remove the noise from the bird's feathers, it instead removes the noisy feathers and inserts completely made up feathers without noise. Is it even the same bird? Why not stay home and draw a bird instead?

Wednesday season 2 wrapped filming, now we can start waiting for it to be released in 2025.
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in gothic surroundings, because when is she not.
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday

This video of Corina Bradley singing a cover is very beautiful, as is her voice. As far as I know she didn't publish anything like this before.
youtu.be/LmhV3gVWbKY
#CorinaBradley
#CorinaBradley
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I also love how this video is shot, with the Corina on the right doing backing vocals for the Corina on the left.
#CorinaBradley
Split video with on the left Corina's face seen from the front and on the right Corina's face seen from the side. She's behind a microphone with screen. The lighting is very cinematic. She looks very tranquil.
#CorinaBradley
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I can't add it to my music playlist due to YouTube being weird, but it reminded me of this other video on that list of a slightly more famous actress also showing her gorgeous voice in a beautifully filmed studio setting in a video for her YouTube channel.
#MirandaCosgrove
youtu.be/dAfYBOsQQY8
#MirandaCosgrove

It's around freezing outside, so it's a great time for the heating in my flat to not be working.
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It's fixed! It took a few days but it's so great to be able to be in a living room where I can raise the temperature above 15 degrees.

Glow is also in Best this year, as last year, side-Glow as it were.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm. cc-by.
#Photography #Glow2024

Saint Odulphus, or his statue, stands guard in front of the church which is brightly illuminated with many colours for the Glow festival. The statue catches some of the light. The photograph looks steeply up, the wide angle exaggerating its prominence.
#photography #Glow2024

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More of Glow in Best, with the Windmill, the cemetery and eyes at the train station. The main Glow festival is of course in Eindhoven.
#Glow2024
The windmill illuminated with playful colours, as part of the Glow festival.
In the dark, people walk over a footpath past the cemetery, itself hidden behind a green hedge. As part of the Glow festival the hedge lights up in bright changing colours and sound can be heard coming from that side. Or maybe it's not Glow, but the cemetery's ghosts acting up.
Two large glowing eyeballs for Glow, seen in context of the traditional illuminated tree art work.
#Glow2024
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I had also taken photos in Best some days earlier with my RF 50mm 1.8 lens. Nothing wrong with those results, but I haven't processed these to jpeg yet. The 50mm, on an APS-C camera, didn't allow me to capture whole buildings, yet the aperture difference of 1.8 vs 4.5-6.3 makes itself felt in the dark...

Glow Eindhoven 2024.

I tried to take some photos with my Canon EOS R10, with the RF 50mm 1.8 lens, some with the RF 28mm 2.8.
#Photography #Glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

A stream of visitors of Glow walking into a tunnel, the entrance illuminated with red lights.
The bridge over the Dommel illuminated with led lights that change colour. At the moment they are green and red. In the dark, people walk by.
The ground is also illuminated while people are watching another light show. Only people's feet are shown, the ground has abstract shapes projected and drawn on it.
#photography #glow #GlowEindhoven #Glow2024

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For the second one of these two I needed the other lens (building too big, etc).
Sign with an arrow showing the route of Glow. The arrow points upwards. Above it are the word Glow and a glowing street lamp.
Illuminated building with a light show as part of Glow 2024.

Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.

Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
#Photography #Birds

Small predatory bird perched on a branch, looking for prey.
Pigeon perched on a small branch, looking back to see where that sound of the shutter is coming from.
#photography #birds

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If your world view consists of white cowboy hats and black cowboy hats you may want to check whether your white cowboy hats aren't just black cowboy hats that have been spray painted white.

So the US has openly voted for fascism. The first time there was the excuse of populism, but this time the mask was off.
#USPol
#uspol

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Just remember, we're not 1930s Germany. WE ARE HYPER-ARMED. There will be no house to house harassment. 8/10 houses will present a serious fire fight. Nazis didn't have to deal with that. It's time the left recognizes what the 2nd amendment is actually for.

Fixed my @F-Droid app on my tablet as I found it had a radically different idea of which versions of several apps were available than my phone had. Both were also behind reality, but that is normal. I noticed this because the @Tuta app failed to download, maybe because such an old version (August) no longer existed. Somehow going into the 'nearby people' function triggered a new wifi permission popup, or maybe it was me toggling wifi off-and-on that fixed it. But after that thumbnails and screenshots loaded again and new(-ish) app versions were shown.

In researching this I found the remark that F-droid has supported unattended upgrades for a while. That is a feature I was really waiting for, as clicking Install on each separate update then wait a minute then click the next etc was getting really annoying. But it is not happening for me. Turns out that this is only available for newer Android versions, which neither of these devices has... See f-droid.org/2024/02/01/twif.ht… .

@Tuta @F-Droid

The more a certain presidential candidate comes out as fascist and racist, rather than just hinting at it, the more the billionaires are standing behind him, rather than just hinting at it.

Being in an office building where all the lights are on motion detectors. It's late, everybody is gone home already. Everywhere it's dark, the only light that's on is around my desk. Suddenly a light switches on in another corridor. I look up. No one's there.

I still don't understand how a commercial company can claim to own the name of a community project and blame another company, its direct competitor, for using (or hinting at) that name. Neither should own that name, or control the community website.

The trailer for Stephanie Leonidas's new film Marching Powder is out, here on her Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DBMnkugMWKz… . Warning that it's quite violent.
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder
#StephanieLeonidas #MarchingPowder

You may have my body but you'll never have my mind.
-- Kes

#StarTrekVoyager

#startrekvoyager

So there are people in the US who are undecided between a clearly unqualified openly racist candidate, and a clearly qualified person of colour. Sounds to me they are not undecided at all.

The playbook of create a crisis to invoke a crisis.
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Could be WordPress, could be the Dutch extremist government, could be something else. Who knows.

Made it to the start of the Eindhoven City Run (5km, this year relegated to the Saturday and not on the actual Marathon day). Also made it to the finish, but I was too tired to take another photo. My time was 34:29, not the slowest ever despite having to hold back due to an injury (the uphill bits were difficult for more than the normal reasons). Made it back home too and added to my collection.

I'd wish they had changing facilities near the finish line, or at all since on Saturday nothing is available. It was a long cold walk back in my t-shirt... Sitting here now trying to warm back up.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven

Selfie at the start of the Eindhoven City Run. Many people can be seen as well as the start banner in the distance.
Selfie of me back home from the 5km City Run, wearing the starting number and the medal.
The 40th edition medal of the 5km City Run during the Eindhoven Marathon, hanging on top of my other medals of previous editions. The number 40 is prominently visible. Other text says ASML Marathon Eindhoven.
#EindhovenCityRun #ASMLMarathonEindhoven
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My position was 1879 out of 3937 participants. There I was worrying I would not be able to finish before the closing time.
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