RE: https://lingo.lol/@amyfou/116055641451588215 I truly love the randomness of the Internet! 🤣

WaPo Editorial Board today "There may come a time when the people elected to enact laws decide the modest benefits of regulating greenhouse gases outweigh the considerable economic costs." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/10/epa-is-right-reverse-obama-overreach/ Ye Gods and […]

I had an interesting conversation on here recently that made me realize that maybe not everyone who uses Mastodon knows that you can use filters as a way to add content warning to other people's posts? https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-fediverse-content-warnings-and-filters/ #fediverse […]

Can I play #MagicInTheMundane too? A log, transformed by frost... Pentax MX, Pentax K 55mm f/1.8, Ilford Delta 400, home devved in HC-110 dilution B (1+31). #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

#SilentSunday #fuji_x10

Are there any artists on here I can commission a couple of logos from?

I am heartbroken to see that the journal First Monday is shutting down. I'm all the more grateful I got to check one off the bucket list and publish there last year. But it will be missed. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

#berlin: If you don't have ice grips for your shoes, then stay home. The whole city is like a basic physics lab where you can learn about friction - or the lack thereof. Take care! #winter #blackice

Nice to see @alexluyckxphoto.bsky.social posting about his experiences with the 7s today, when I just so happened to be carrying the one I recently picked up, at the Unique garage sale, to test it out. Never shot with one before. Seems to be working great with a zinc air 675. #BelieveInFilm

Bravo to the Spanish Supreme Court for its Sept 2025 decision establishing four important principles: "[1] Access to source code can be needed to verify automated government decisions; [2] “Intellectual property rights” do not automatically block transparency; [3] Security concerns must be […]

So I did a comedic trip on a pavement to launch my phone some distance and so need a new phone. Last time I checked the pixel 5 was still my preferred choice, its small, light, plastic back (less glass to crack), stock android and cheap. Anything better?

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf Comments due March 6. I am having a very hard time believing […]

Inspired by WA former Governor Inslee, https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/dont-let-ice-freeze-voting : the current budget bill re funding for DHS should prohibit ICE and CBP agents from being within at a least a mile of any polling place. If you live in the U.S., call your Senators and […]

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

The Vonnegut story:

Dilan Gunawardana from the State Library of Victoria LAB has written up a lovely reflection on my time as Creative Technologist-in-Residence. It was a lot of fun to work with the Library's brilliant digital team […]

Before the Alex Pretti Memorial Ride we received this email: "This has nothing to do with cycling. Please focus on cycling-related political activism." If bikes aren't political why do we keep finding ourselves talking to politicians so often to have safe streets? #biketooter #bikeden […]

Grand Union canal towpath. Here the canal enters a tunnel, while the towpath separates, up a slope, through another short tunnel, and then 400 yards later rejoining the canal.Before motors, the narrow boats were propelled through with poles, or with boaters […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

When your boss asks on behalf of great grand boss "can we do this thing"? And your only answer can be - depends on the time and budget. Engineering triad as always Features/quality Time Cost You can pick 2

The sad thing is, every time I think about how critical Zotero is to me I remember that most users, even though it's also crucial to them, do not financially support the software (although they also "sell" synchronisation storage plans). We NEED to find a better way to support such infrastructures.

Got a Ring years ago, pre Amazon. Been looking to change to something more privacy conscious that doesn't feed to ICE. Felt bad about getting rid of something that worked but the cold finally took it out. Just set up a new Reolink. Loving it so far. Better hardware, storage is local and encrypted.

Spent some time this morning looking for an old post (about HC-110) from Mike Johnston, The Online Photographer. I knew his old Typepad blog had gone down, and he's now on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/theonlinephotographer/home (but accessible free). But I had a URL for the old post, and […]

The moon sets behind the Statue of Liberty. A gift from France, the figure commemorates independence from monarchy, abolition of slavery, and hospitality toward refugees. The work continues, so pick appropriate tasks and bear down. (I apologize for repeating […] [Original post on pixelfed.social]

I’m always jealous of folks like @stevebrokaw.bsky.social posting about going to awesome garage sales at a cool local shop like Robert’s. But today I happened to have an appointment right by where it turned out MY local, Unique Photo, was setting up for a garage sale! 😅🤩🤯

📻 A collection of old radios that I have discovered inside abandoned places over the last few years. From vintage 1930s valve radios through to 80s-style boomboxes. I often wonder, did the owners know they were listening to the final song these machines would […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I'm trying to buy a replacement #TV; our 10 year old Samsung is developing dreaded white spots. But I discover that ALL the TVs you can buy these days are watching you through #acr#tv(automatic content recognition) multiple times a seond, checking what you watch against huge databases. Usual dark […]

Tonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of references […]

Planning to turn off Freeview in the UK in 8 years? No thank you from me! Please sign the petition, UK viewers... https://c.org/VWVS7khVVq

The Up Helly Aa procession is starting now, if you are not there watch it on youtube. It is pure madness

🎨 Right In The Peels - Part 1 Exploring inside abandoned buildings, I often find myself drawn to the unusual beauty of peeling paint. As time passes and decay sets in, layers of colourful curl and pull away from the wall. The texture and patterns created are […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. July, 2014. 📷 Nikon FE2 + Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AI 🎞 Kodak Tri-X 400 🏷️ #Photography #FilmPhotography

Thanks Tom. They do say, if you fall into the canal, stand up! Though TBF when you see them drained there's a muddy slippery slope at the sides.

Finally getting back around to posting #Scotland film pics - these are the first of the pics from #IsleOfSkye. We caught the ferry from Mallaig, and picked up our rental car at the ferry terminal. There were definitely a lot more people driving around on […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

"Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments […]

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

Fuuuuuck, the UK is no longer a country where measles is officially eradicated. Vaccinate your children you goddamn idiots 🤬

Discovered a setting in Mastodon advanced web client which means I've got a 1-click boost back, yeah! (I've never yet used the quote toot feature.)

"A reminder to the news media: 'conflicting accounts' is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth." - @AstroKatie on bsky

🕊️ “I’m Not Mad At You” by Harry Welty This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.” 11 […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

#filmphotography Tech note: I have very rarely taken a film photograph indoors from a freestanding position. If there is nothing handy to lean on, lean against, or prop myself up on, I'll generally skip the shot. A favorite trick when I was more flexible was to sit on a chair backwards with my […]

#photography #filmphotography #largeformat #travel

It's #BurnsNight Get your haggis, neeps and tatties in for your Burns Supper, along with a wee bit of whisky! (Neeps are "turnips", what the Scots call swedes and Americans rutabaga, I think. Tatties are potatoes of course, in this case both are usually mashed.)

Today’s Axe… (as @tamslick.bsky.social would say) The amazing, fully automatic, Ricoh Xr-P with grip AND winder and Ricoh 50 f2 AF. Loaded up for the first time in a while to compare against the rival Pentax ME-F for early 80s AF! #BelieveInFilm #WindersForLife

A fun little #cooking related thing to share... When you cut the bottom off of a #babybokchoy, it looks like a pale #rose! #bokchoy #vegetables

Inversion Sunrise, Scottish Highlands (2024). The recent cold snaps in the UK have made me think back to some excellent mornings a couple years ago in the Highlands where I explored a rewilding glen in inversion conditions. The glowing light and sub zero temperatures […] [Original post on mas.to]

Sydney 2026 New Years Fireworks trichromes Fomapan 400 sheetswith red filter FP4 sheets with green filter Catlabs 80ii sheets with blue filter Ondu Eikan 4x5 + Nikkor 135/5.6 Each sheet 15sec at f5.6 Combined in Ps #BelieveInFilm #Photography #4x5 #Trichrome 1/3

Today, Time Machine saved me from losing an important file! Doing my tax, and I start by modifying a spreadsheet I used last year. But Apple numbers doesn't really have a "Save As" button. ISTR you're supposed to change the name and then save it, but I just saved the modified file, overwriting […]

I've been hosting a local school-age kid at Antleaf to provide work-experience for them (in arrangement with his school). This kid is *so* intelligent, thoughtful and capable. The fact that this young generation includes people like him gives me real hope for the future!

Candy The new Instax back for the Hasselblad from NONS requires a diopter over the lens to bring it back to its normal range. If you leave it off, your lens becomes like a macro lens. I left it off because hey, free macro lens, right? It works […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]