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There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.

It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.

We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.

Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.

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.

Pinned post, about following from multiple addresses

Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.

I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.

Fediverse
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The manual of the new old car. Normally I'm the kind of person to read the manual before using a device... maybe I have to resist that urge otherwise I won't make it to work tomorrow...
The manual of a car, but it's exceptionally voluminous.
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Annie G
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as someone who worked for a while as an auto mechanic, I find that most new car manuals now don't seem to be written by, or for, actual users. Last time I was looking for specific info I couldn't find it in the manual and ended up going to YouTube: I haven't even opened the one for my newest car.

Celina Bhandari on her solo trip to Guatemala: youtu.be/FChH6-pzmK8?si=PLuEtb…

#Guatemala #SoloTravel #TravelVlog

#guatemala #SoloTravel #TravelVlog
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"Everyone drinks tea, ma'am."
-- Mrs. Wilson

#Bridgerton

#Bridgerton

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Humans domesticated dogs before they invented written language... and now they never will.

(via tumblr)

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My camera shoots fascists
My camera shoots fascists
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It's taking me a while to wake up this morning. Had to read it a few times 😆

Episode 1 of season 4 of Bridgerton introduces us to great new characters. I love Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek, Katie Leung as Lady Araminta Gun and Michelle Mao as Rosamund Li. I suspect the tension this season is going to be in that household...

imdb.com/name/nm8485169/mediav…

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Shot by Quan Jing (unsplash.com/@greedwolf97)
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Photo by Quan Jing on Unsplash

The product photos on the shopping platform were misleading. I thought it would be small, but it turned out to be even bigger than my face. – Download this photo by Quan Jing on Unsplash
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I follow Korean foodie Doobydobap on YouTube and noticed that despite having visited many Asian countries, she had never done a video about food in India before. That is fixed now and resulted in over two hours of video.

Part 1 is Delhi:

youtu.be/PjNLVgwLOJs?si=cjB6_1…

Part 2 is Mumbai:

youtu.be/7tataOP0ME8?si=ppG2Gp…

She's planning to go back to visit more cities.
#Doobydobap #FoodBlog #India

#India #foodblog #Doobydobap

Went to Eindhoven today to photograph some of the famous statues as a very small photography project. The intent was to make the photos somewhat different from the norm, using just one lens. Canon RF 35 F1.8 on Canon EOS R10.

First Anton Philips in front of the train station.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #Statue #AntonPhilips

Statue of Anton Philips, which is located in front of Eindhoven Central Station. The angle is close, from the side and looking up, so no background is visible. The subject is an old man carrying a hat in his hand and wearing a long overcoat.
#photography #statue #eindhoven #canoneosr10 #canonR10 #AntonPhilips
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Finally the statue by Rodin in front of the Van Abbe Museum (not in the frame).

To me the statue always seems to be twisted, distorted, against the norm, and I tried to do that justice in the photo.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #statue #Rodin

Statue by Rodin, which can be found in front of the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. It is rough, of a man standing but leaning backwards, similar to the tree in the background. The angle is a closeup looking up and from the side.
#photography #statue #eindhoven #rodin #canoneosr10 #canonR10

Dating app experience for men:

  • you don't even open the matches page, there's never anything there anyway
  • no new profiles in your area today


Dating app experience for women, as I understand it:

  • don't even swipe, because there are too many messages waiting to reply to

It's that time again that people should invest in Samsung shares, i.e. I bought a new phone and tablet. These things are way too expensive nowadays.

Optimism is opening a can of pringles, taking out one chip, and closing it again. See also delusion.
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By far the coolest symbol of protest I've seen in many years. As a woman in Iran, lightening a cigarette on a burning picture of the ayatollah without wearing a hijab is about as punk as it gets. I hope you win!
a young woman with dark hair lightening a cigarette on the flame of a burning picture of Ayatollah Khamenei.

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So Greenland was named that way really as propaganda...

Here's an episode of a history podcast, from a year ago, about the history of Greenland and its current status.

youtu.be/mmhg6Eunl2Q?si=BU_myA…

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be

Fun quiz by Crystal to check whether your job is right for you. (Just keep the results to yourself...)

youtu.be/jnrV3mrJT0Y?si=Mxpk6P…

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"She says 'Hey'"
-- Hugo

#Lost

#lost

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I'm home this New Year's Eve, so these are my homemade, mutant, 'oliebollen'.

A bowl of 'oliebollen' covered in powdered sugar

Happy New Year!

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10 years ago: Apps are going to revolutionize health care and research. Apps are going to collect all your data. Get used to apps because they're the future of everything and you can't fight it

5 years ago: Blockchain is going to revolutionize health care and research. Blockchain will contain all your data. Get used to blockchain because it's the future of everything and you can't fight it

Now: Generative AI is going to revolutionize health care and research. Generative AI will—

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"Please rank all options", while there are 15 of them, is going to cause some selection bias in the survey results... Only a certain type of person is going to do all that...

Microsoft Windows: Great news! The latest security update was installed without a restart.

It would be really good news if this was the norm.

Glow Eindhoven 2025.

Canon R10, RF-S 10-18.

#Photography #Glow2025 #GlowEindhoven

An elaborate light projection on a church, in many colours and probably the most prominent a white dove.
A light projection on the white Light Tower building in Eindhoven, which is a very short building, not much of a tower. The projection was animated but the photo freezes the moment a mermaid like woman appears with an outstretched hand.
#photography #GlowEindhoven #Glow2025

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Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
#Paris #ChampsÉlysées #Photography
Avenue des Champs-Élysées through a long lens, which compresses the nearly 2km and shows all the traffic coming. Many people have taken this picture. Meanwhile two pedestrians are crossing the road, as well as two cars. The Arc de Triomphe at the end of the road is seen between the rows of trees at the side of the road.
#photography #Paris #ChampsÉlysées

Arc de Triomphe.
#Paris #ArcDeTriomphe #Photography
Arc de Triomphe on a cloudy day, with traffic in front of it. The photo is a long-ish exposure, so the cars are blurred. A woman at the side stands perfectly still on the edge of the pavement, admiring the Arc. It is as if she contemplates crossing the road, but don't worry she is just looking and walked away to the foot tunnel later on.
#photography #Paris #ArcDeTriomphe

Eiffel Tower.
#Paris #Photography #EiffelTower
Eiffel Tower at night, from very close up looking up at an angle. The tower is bathed in its night time illumination, which turns the low hanging clouds red. Bare branches of a tree are in the foreground.
#photography #Paris #eiffeltower

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Miakoda :neurodiversity:
Miakoda :neurodiversity:
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You hear about the guy who slipped at the top and died? Tragic. His last words were "Ah, Eiffel!"

Aparupa Dey catching bird catching fish.

I love how she's immersed in the water herself with her camera.
#Photography #wildlife #India #AparupaDey

youtube.com/shorts/fF3xeDq6590…

#photography #India #wildlife #AparupaDey

I felt bad about not using redundancy features in what I'm running online. Well, only a little bit bad, I'm only a single person doing unimportant stuff. But apparently major corporations are also not running redundancy either, so I feel a bit better.

What is worrying about the AWS outage in New York however, is that it seems to have affected critical things in EU and UK as well. And wordle.
#AWSOutage

#awsoutage
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I don’t know the details, but it’s easy to do stuff like this when it’s DNS. The DNS infrastructure might not be down or non redundant. If you publish the wrong DNS record, or you accidentally delete a record that is vital to a lot of services, it looks like this. The infrastructure can be up and running perfectly, but just providing the wrong answer.

American lives in Europe for 13 years and gives an update about the differences.
youtu.be/M1QvVnjiegE?si=_WvT8r…
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He just posted a follow-up to that one regarding some of the moronic American responses. Pretty amusing in a horrifying kind of way.

Justine's experiments with film photography: 'The art of getting it wrong'. Includes the quote: "If you're deep in the phase where nothing is working, stay there a little longer".
youtu.be/yl7CqKggMYo?si=vEPjLZ…
#Photography
#photography
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Still recovering, but happy I did a better time than expected this year on the quarter marathon, at the Eindhoven Marathon event. 1:17:10, though friends did almost the same time on double the distance... Anyway, for me it was ok.
#EindhovenMarathon
My selfie at the train station on the way back from the run. I'm wearing a tracksuit, the start number and the medal.
#EindhovenMarathon
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I love the photos from this shoot. The styling is out of this world.

A portrait of Lian from our 2021 shoot.

#portrait #photography #portretfotografie #fotograaf #fotograafgezocht #portretfotograaf #baarn #utrecht #fotografie #captureone

Photograph of an orange haired woman.
#photography #portrait #fotografie #Utrecht #captureone #fotograaf #portretfotografie #fotograafgezocht #portretfotograaf #Baarn

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I really love seeing Joséphine Jobert in Saint-Pierre. Almost makes up for her not becoming the inspector in Death in Paradise.
#JoséphineJobert #SaintPierre
#JoséphineJobert #saintpierre tv
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She brings such a strong physicality to her roles that goes beyond the beauty actresses are often selected for.
#JoséphineJobert

IMDb: Joséphine Jobert

#JoséphineJobert
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Setting: Classic Tintin and Captain Haddock meme, modified Wednesday Addams: What a week, huh Sergeant? Captain: Wednesday, it's Captain

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Doobydobap does London and it's an amazing multicultural food experience. She finds all the special places. What I would like to know from people that know London, did she cover some foodie experiences that you didn't know yet?
youtu.be/nXeFDt1_Ud0?si=B9-mn5…

#Doobydobap #London #Food

#food #London #Doobydobap

Today is Jenna Ortega's 23rd birthday, Happy Birthday!

I am at the moment not able to do the usual birthday rewatch, but will make up later this week.

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Dafne Keen & Sophie Nélisse’s WHISTLE Sets Release Date With New Poster
Dafne Keen & Sophie Nélisse's new cursed object horror film WHISTLE has set a 2026 release date. Check out the film's new poster here.
#movies #Dafne Keen #whistle #nick frost #sophie nelisse
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🌎 AI works hard for you, but the earth is working even harder 🌎

In today's in-depth article, we take a look at how bad AI really is for the environment.

Read more 👉 tuta.com/blog/is-ai-bad-for-th…

Tuta Guides: Is AI bad for the environment?

Is AI bad for the environment? | Tuta

Most people don’t think twice when they ask ChatGPT a question or to summarize an email but they should. AI is working hard for us, but our planet is working even harder.
Tuta

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Snow
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Yes AI is horrible for the environment just look at the amount of pollution caused by it
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Why is Tuta advising people to reconsider their use of AI in the blog post while also promoting and supporting a AI project?

Gnoppix AI Linux identified Tuta as a major donor on their website.

#Tuta #TutaMail #Tutanota

Screenshot of Gnoppix AI Linux website, Tuta is identified as a major donor.
#tutanota #tuta #tutamail
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Now I've thought of this I can't un-think it
"Better than Drake" meme with captions: "Move fast and break things" and "Breakfast and move things"

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PaulaToThePeople 😷
PaulaToThePeople 😷
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:LeVarDislike: move fast, break things & be evil
:LeVarLike: live mov[i]e, be[d] & breakfast, things
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The space elevator project was funded by the world's billionaires, who were offered exclusive luxury tickets on the first ride up into space.

After the launch, the project announced a second funding round, to start looking into the feasibility and advisability of installing a "down" button.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#SmallStories #tootfic #microfiction
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Celina Bhandari explores lesser known tourist spots in Italy.
youtu.be/BwCErFyZ1fU?si=9QgTh4…

Today was the first time I forgot to put a cup under the Senseo and tested the efficiency of the collection tray, despite fearing to do that many times before. The test results: that collection tray works really well, holds at least a full cup of coffee, and its design is such that there is no coffee splashed anywhere. Much impressed.
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No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise

sciencefocus.com/comment/adult…

A frustratingly-still-relevant article I wrote for Science Focus magazine

#ADHD #Autism #ND #diagnosis

#ADHD #autism #diagnosis #nd

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Vickie Gray 🍁
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#ADHD #autism #audhd #gifted
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