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Sunrise, sunset...its6been cool in Southern California so we actually have our fall colors exploding now & not in February like usual. But at certain times of the day it just looks magical. #photography

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It’s a beautiful morning here on Nbisiing aki.
#NipissingFirstNation

This is a photo of an orange and red sunrise over a mostly still lake (some ripples). The sky above the sunrise is blue and along the shoreline are a row of pine trees to the left, trailing off to various dried plant surrounded by snow.

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Last week I discovered that Akko - the mechanical keyboard manufacturer - had many Pepe stickers in their official Discord. I politely suggested this was an oversight and asked them to address this. I was banned from the Discord a few seconds later.

At that point I emailed support. No answer. I emailed again 2 days ago, asking why I was banned for bringing up their fascist-aligned images in their Discord and still haven't heard back. They were very responsive when I bought their switches a month ago.

At this point I'm not buying any more Akko products.

https://en.akkogear.com/

#Akko #MechanicalKeyboard

Got some empanadas from Tito's Market in #ElMonte and they were perfect.

A beef empanada spilt in haf showing the filling.

@BlackAzizAnansi 🙋‍♀️

Damn, you can't get a Black emoji on this site?

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#introduction
Hello! I'm new here, nice to meet you all!

I'm Francesca and I'm an Italian #artist currently based in London, UK.

My work is mostly #digital, painted with Corel Painter. I love #fantasy and #SciFi novels, and I love painting fantasy and sci-fi art. Recently, I paint a lot of #portraits in #oils too.

Apart from books and art, my main passions are live music and theatre and that's why I love London!

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #Dune #digitalpainting #fantasyart #illustration #nijiart

Digital illustration of an astronaut on the hand of a gigantic statue covered with vegetation

Fanart of Dune depicting Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides

Personal interpretation of the arcana minor Page of Wands, as a young man in a sci-fi environment with a window that shows a planet

Digital illustration of a richly dressed lady with an old scar on her face looking at an old broken helmet

My #GalaxyS21 hasn't been charging, wired or wireless, since Monday. It's made me realize that I do more than just play games and ignore phone calls on my phone. My 2nd phone doesn't have the same info, so I can't even do the basics because it all requires text conf. from the 1st phone.

I got this phone in Sep. 2021. There is no reason for it to just suddenly stop charging. But there had to be a fix beyond the stupidly obvious 11 steps every website seems to have.

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welp - back at it for another round of "One sunset, three lenses"

1. 20mm wide
2. 100mm
3. 300mm zoom

#photography #sunset #MastoArt

Photograph of a sunset; most of the frame is dark and in silhouette but in the center there's a band of orange light above the horizon but below the darkening blue clouds that blanket the sky
in the center of the band are outlines of trees.

A closer zoomed-in photograph of the trees; the image almost looks like a flag, with a black stripe on the bottom, an orange in the middle with tree silhouettes, and a dark blue on top.

The final zoomed in photo of one of the distant trees from the previous two photographs. The dark blue clouds are almost entirely non-existent, the sky is orange and vibrant

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Drawing + Collage is such a fun combo!! #collage #MastoArt #CreativeToots

A picture of a sketchbook with a drawing with collage bits. Surrounding the sketchbook is a hand, some paper scraps, a pair of scissors, glue and pencils. The collage features some mushrooms and flowers, with the mushroom caps being made with collage and the rest being drawn in thin black lines.

A combination of collage and drawing, featuring some red and orange mushrooms, with the caps being collage and the rest being drawn. Surrounding the mushrooms are some doodled flowers.

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4 yo refused to put on pants unless they were dino pants and I couldn’t find any dino pants so the sharpie came out

A pair of grey leopard print leggings with an angry little t-rex drawn in sharpie

@Aleums@octodon.social

From one scorpio to another, happy birthday!

One thing that has been annoying all years on this app are when people move over here from Twitter and then post ad nauseum how it's not like Twitter.

Please, just stop.

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Good morning from the UK!

This is the death warrant of King Charles I, who was executed for 'treason' against his people on 30 Jan 1649.

What many signatories did not perhaps realise was that in signing their names, they were also writing their own death warrant too, when Charles II hunted many of them down following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

There's something about the red wax & the yellowed parchment that makes the document really visceral. #histodons #history #histodon

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Another photo from the archive. A seasonal #holga shot this time, once again on my beloved, much-missed #Fujicolor Pro 160c. High contrast, rich color --- nothing quite like it left on the market today, sadly.

A square photo taken in autumn with a Holga toy camera shows vein-like vines with a few small bright red leaves creeping across a contrasting blue door from left to right. The edges and corners are dark due to the camera's signature vignetting.

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Expanded info:

Usually when people are talking about politics, no matter how mild, whether it's personal commentary on current events or a link to an article, it's placed behind a content warning that will read something like "USPOL, -" USPOL stands for US politics, and you can use a + or - to show whether the nature of your post is positive or negative.

A lot of people enjoy reading political commentary but won't boost it if it doesn't have a CW. It's not censorship, it's consideration.

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All,

I've gotten a small team together and we have started development on the Mastodon server for the disability community.

I am in the process of outlining some additional roles we will need to fill to make this succeed, and will put out a solicitation for that at a later date.

I am also making an outline for the information database we want to build, and will likely recruit people (or solicit information) for various pieces of it.

As much as I'm enjoying #BadProsecutor, I feel like it should've been a 7 ep. webseries. It seems like 80% of episodes 6 - 8 were just staring and repeating stuff, along with some action scenes and repeats of those action scense. #kdrama

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(To be perfectly clear: you're allowed to shitpost, to whine, to make silly noises, to have deep philosophical discussions about teapots - if you don't want to disrupt the timeline you can put it behind a content warning, and/or post as 'unlisted' , and we'd encourage that for any chat that leans towards being 'heavy' or negative in mood - it's totally fine to post it, but give people the opt-in to read it ^.^)

Screenshot of the post privacy options with Unlisted circled

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I'm going to share what is probably the simplest, and yet most time consuming, lesson in learning a new skill.

"How are your lines so neat?"
Practice.

"How can you hold a pen so steady?"
Practice.

"How do you get everything so symmetrical?"
Practice.

"How do you come up with all the different patterns?"
Practice.

When I first started drawing, and after a few years of doing it.

Stick with it. Like any skill, practice leads to improvement. If you love doing it, keep going. :bob_ross:

A hand-drawn mess of swirly brown ink lines decorated with black line loops and patterns on a sheet of paper. It's messy and 'loose'.

A hand-drawn half mandala in black ink with a gemstone coloured in the middle to look like the sun. Ornate, intricate patterns spread outwards to a ring of calligraphy in red ink that reads, "A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way." There's another bigger row of petals filled with intricate patterns in colourful metallic inks around the outside edge of the mandala, and then the space between the mandala and the edge of the paper is filled with black and dotted with tiny stars and comets.

The quote is a Carl Sagan quote.

It's a very intricate piece with lots of tiny detail.

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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO OBSERVE

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