In the Netherlands there's one point where two highways cross with traffic lights. To solve this, they are "pushing a tunnel for the A59 underneath the A27", within 100 hours.
I mean, what?
Apparently they dig a gap in one highway, drive the concrete tunnel in that gap, and restore the highway over that new tunnel...
All these steps happen in one weekend, this weekend. This is a time lapse of the tunnel being driven into that gap, which has just finished. It's quite amazing.
I've disabled the Activitypub feature of my WordPress while I investigate the regular server overloads over the past few days. I'm not really suspecting these plugins to be the problem, but the only increased traffic I can see is of Activitypub. Even though that is still only a few requests per minute, a pittance in normal server terms, it may be too much for a simple WordPress on the smallest shared hosting.
These Activitypub requests are always coming from the same Mastodon server, and don't seem to relate to normal interactions with my posts. So blocking that server on the firewall is another thing I can try.
There are of course a lot of requests from search index and ai bots, and blocking these is also a next step, but that doesn't seem increased lately.
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix
Looking through my feed of followed photography hashtags and being inundated with (cis?) white male photographers - as is the way with photography, it can be an expensive hobby that's definitely more accessible to people at the top of the income ladder. Yay patriarchy! 🙄
Where are the fem and femme photographers, the transmascs, queers, the Global Majority folk? Tag yourselves, say hi!
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Oh, cool! :D In that case, hi! 👋
I don't post my pics here terribly often (and come to think of it, I should probably post with my personal tag more consistently), but I always make sure to post with ALT in Japanese and English when I do
Here are some examples from when I get my DSLR out:
songbird.cloud/@niji_limbo/110…
songbird.cloud/@niji_limbo/114…
For more consistent posts, @dillyd takes and boosts some lovely ones ✨
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Attached: 4 images 今日公園で撮った #自然 の #写真 のベスト４✨ (Eng ALT after Jpn) Some nice shots I took at the park today✨ #NaturePhotograpy #nature #photograhySongbird
Wednesday is trapped in a Netflix ad... instagram.com/reel/DMeAOcryu5D…
Very funny. Out next week.
#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #EmmaMyers
Wednesday Netflix on Instagram: "Wednesday will always rain on your charade. our little storm cloud returns in ✌🏻 weeks!"
463K likes, 1,959 comments - wednesdaynetflix on July 23, 2025: "Wednesday will always rain on your charade. our little storm cloud returns in ✌🏻 weeks!".Instagram
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Roxy Furman updated her reel for 2025 so now you can get all the brilliant wildlife clips she makes in a single package:
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This finch couple was sitting high up in a tree where normally much bigger birds are sitting.
Canon EOS R10 @ 1/500s ISO 800, RF 100-400 F5.6-8 IS USM @ 400mm F9, cropped.
#photography #bird #finch
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Another extraordinarily beautiful cover by Corina Bradley with her extraordinarily beautiful voice.
#CorinaBradley
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I was checking what a 800mm focal length looked like, by cropping from 400mm, for reasons. I seem to have caught suspicious looks from the local bird-life, they think it is all rather weird.
That Jay on the ground in the second photo apparently only shows up when I have a 200mm lens with a 2x extender on my camera. That's not ideal. One day I will get a better photo...
- Both photos: Canon EOS R10, 400mm.
- Pigeon: Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 1/200s, F9, ISO 250
- Jay: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM II + EF 2x Extender III, 1/640, F5.6, ISO 3200
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For related reasons I was checking whether F11 would be useable on a cloudy day. This turned some heads.
- Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, 1/125 s, F11, ISO 250
I started to put some photos on Flickr again. E.g. here is that Jay (or similar) showing up a few days ago when I had the same lens combination which resulted in so much chromatic aberration I had to turn the photo to black and white.
Wednesday season two will start in just under two weeks. I guess the Netflix bosses have seen it already and where impressed, since they renewed it for season three before release.
Crystal doing one of her Oddly Specific flowcharts, about how to get to 100k subscribers on YouTube, and as always it's a ride.
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Korean food tuber Doobydobap recreates anime dishes, and surprisingly it's mostly a success. Apparently the on screen recipes are detailed enough to follow. It helps that she knows what she's doing.
to be fair, this reads like an Onion article. How long has PuTTY been around, and been awesome, for it not to have its own actual domain for a few bucks per year?
putty-term.org? putty.org.uk? Just anything other than someone's tilde account on an obscure subdomain!
> Many search engines list putty.org above chiark.
Of course they do! That's how SEO works.
This sounds like a really interesting programme/series coming up on the BBC, about new discoveries around human origins:
youtu.be/73NQuGXaM_w?si=ceBuXm…
Ella Al-Shamahi is also one of the best science presenters you can get.
I'm back from walking around and taking pictures in Genneper Parken, which is a large park inside Eindhoven that I had somehow never been too, despite having previously lived in Eindhoven for six years and now in the region for several decades.
From the information I read I had imagined it to be a park like Central Park, or St James Park, where people gather on a sunny day. I had brought sandwiches and a towel to sit on. Yet it's more a nature area with bicycle and footpaths, and lot of bridges over the two rivers that meander through it. So more a nice area to go through rather than to gather. I did a lot of walking and I'm now very tired.
But dinner to eat and photos to sort through. The above is my icecream break at the water mill.
Very interesting video about how crushes by someone who is autistic are even more intense.
"A homosexual in ballroom dancing. It's unthinkable!"
-- Bestwick
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Welcome to the US, where citizens are grabbed and arrested for going to work while Hispanic.
Is this seriously where they want to host the World Cup in 2026? Will that be a whites only tournament, or what is Trump's plan?
youtube.com/watch?v=T_HNgE7Kx4…
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
The fair is in town and I took some pictures, that I still need to sort out. But also as a first since a long time I actually went into some attractions rather than just looking at other people having fun. For the bumper cars I took some time looking how people paid for the ride, expecting that nowadays you would tap your phone on the car, or type in some code. But no, it is still exactly as it was when I was a kid: you buy a plastic coin that you insert in the car.
Then I went into one of these high-g-force rides and am still feeling it...
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@ramsey @pluralistic Mastodon has a history of using its popularity to unilaterally control the direction of the Fediverse. If a new spec is proposed that Mastodon doesn't care for, it gets killed. If Mastodon wants to change the rules about how something works, now everyone is forced to accept it or things break.
e.g., There is no such thing as a "Content Warning"; that is the subject field in ActivityPub but Mastodon abused it for another purpose and now we all have to treat it that way. It is probably the perfect field for something like Lemmy to be using as the subject for a thread, but nope -- it's a content warning so they had to invent the title of a post being some <p><a> HTML on the first line of the message body.
Gargon pretends to be a supporter of an permissive, interoperable, federated ecosystem shaped by open democratic processes but in reality all he cares about is what is good for "Mastodon the project".
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Spain-based Korean Foodie Doobydobap does Coachella, which she describes as Christmas for influencers (fully acknowledging that she is one), rating the food and adding up the prices.
youtu.be/0GZ7KKBN_8U?si=mhU8Bp…
My further takes:
- how does she manage to not get a single stain on her white dress, eating all that food?
- inventive microphone handling, clipping it on the plates and food boxes
- give a foodie one piece of bad food and she won't forget it, even among all the other tasty things
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Canon EOS R10 + Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro, handheld and I couldn't really see the screen so I was guessing focus a bit.
#Photography #Macro #MacroPhotography
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YouTube video title auto-translations are getting more and more annoying.
They are by definition unnecessary: if I'm watching a video in English, why would I want its title translated from English?
And they are also very bad, a jumbled mess of random Dutch words which hides what the original title could have been.
The reason we know that Google knows how bad they are? The fact they provide no switch to turn them off.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •I'm not fully understanding the overall plan and the website is unclear about it, but here's more info and a live blog:
a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…
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