And then there's me photographing this person photographing Vermeer's Milkmaid #photography

Life is hard aboard ship below decks

I shot this through a gauze curtain covering a window looking into the atrium at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The colour is entirely from the tones of the curtain.

This is the era when people scream, denying the knowledge that almost everything they’re doing and everything they’re buying doesn’t satisfy them where it itches

I feel there is a certain desperation in the Black / Cyber offerings.

How many of the million new signups to BlueSky are Swifties?

After all, we are living in the biggest communication network ever.

The setting is right for us – we humanity – to find out how much truth and forgiveness we can handle.

The biggest question in Elon Musk‘s free speech manifesto is whether it will eventually be an inspiring rise to the top or a race to the bottom. How long can he hold his nerve? Is he naive or visionary to have faith in humanity?

What does it matter to Twitter that people have run away from the platform because they believe it’s toxic? Nothing at all.

The wording on the window says ‘Perfected Icon’

That's neat - something I didn't know - that it's possible to set up an app password for Bluesky and give it to Buffer without giving the actual Bluesky login password. Is this new, or just something new to me? Meanwhile, going back over old India photos:

In the UK the status of Uber drivers was settled on 19 February 2021 by the Supreme Court. It ruled that Uber drivers are employees, not self-employed. Meanwhile In California the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Uber and other app-based drivers are not employees but are self-employed.

In the Department of Justice’s claim against Google, as reported by Yosef Weitzman from Big Tech on Trial, Google ad executive Jerry Dischler added that the concept of a "purchase funnel", referred to in the DOJ's complaint, is obsolete.

US honeybees suffer second deadliest season on record Nearly 50% of US bee colonies died off last year… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/us-honeybees-second-deadliest-season

How to change login email?

How can I change my Bluesky sign in email?

In Rome the gulls are less wary than at home

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Villa Borghese public park, Rome - stone pines

The sun is shining, there’s a gull sitting on the water in the fountain - a rebel.

Do I aspire to be like them? Am I inspired by what they are inspired by? Am I invited? Do I invite them? Might we become a we.

Is there a head, is there a tail, is there a point, a vision, a goal - do I aspire to it, am I interested ?