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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

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For the second one of these two I needed the other lens (building too big, etc).


Birds. Possibly a sparrowhawk and a pigeon.

Canon EOS R10 with Canon RF 100-400mm.
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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

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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… .



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



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.

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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



Today it's exactly one year ago that an unthinkable massacre was committed by a terrorist organisation against ordinary people in Israel. I'm still hoping the people responsible will be handed over to international courts to face justice.

During this year unthinkable war crimes have been committed in what followed as a response to that massacre. So much so that they overshadow the massacre itself in the public debate. These war crimes have to stop immediately and unilaterally. For both sides there should be no need for negotiations or agreements to stop war crimes. Stop bombing civilians, now. Stop involving civilians in your fight. I'm also hoping these war crimes go to the international courts.

These are the more immediate things I'm hoping to see happening. More idle hope I have is that someone realises that by always retaliating, the fighting never stops; a brave leader (so not one of the ones in power today) is going to decide to not hit back, breaking the circle of violence.



Apologies to the people taking the train in the south east of the Netherlands: I decided to take the train today, so naturally everything is cancelled.


It should be illegal for predatory birds to be flying overhead when I have my ultra wide lens on the camera. And I'm too lazy to change it.


"And now a word from our sponsors"

Wouldn't it be great if it really was just one word?

Brought on by the in-video advertisement being interrupted by YouTube's advertisements.



Walked in the woods near sunset. Found some trees.

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18.
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Most rains may have been a while ago, but some paths are still flooded.
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The human eye is really much better at dynamic range than electronics is...