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Do you know about snapplanet.io? I've been playing around on it at the breakfast table, keeping an eye on the #Greenland #glaciers I have instruments on and it's just struck me again how mindblowing it is that I can download and process *on my phone* and for *FREE* a world's worth of high resolution satellite images from #ESA #Sentinel2. The future is amazing.

Here have a free image of Inglefield Bredning in NW Greenland yesterday.
#snapplanet

(Full Res version here: http://snapplanet.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/s/A/2024/06/23/17318306767857306391/53d29bc27f3cc4c.jpg)

Satellite images of a fjord where the sea ice is a dark blue grey in the middle the surrounding mountains and small islands are brown with white snow on top and multiple glaciers flow into the fjord in whites and blues

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Just a tree
#photography #trees

a solitary, leafless tree standing in a vast field. The tree has multiple branches extending outward, creating a stark contrast against the lush greenery of the field below. The sky above is partly cloudy, with large white clouds scattered across the blue expanse, suggesting a day in late spring or early summer. Despite the season, the tree shows no signs of foliage, making it stand out even more against its surroundings.

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⚪ Bällchen fangen... ein Lieblingsfoto.
🟤 Catching little balls... a favorite
photo.
📷 by Artist: #JasonPerry / #Jsn_PDog in Loc.: #JekylIsland #DriftwoodBeach #Georgia USA 🇺🇸 2019 - Title: "Wolf Moon Rising" - #Art #Streetart #Artist #PhotoArt #Fotografie #Photography #BloodMoon #NoAI #Nature #Travel ➡️ #APhotoLove
Website: https://ogy.de/eolr

Photography. A color photo of a gnarled tree in front of a breathtaking sunrise. (IT'S a Moon!!!).An orange full moon (blood moon) appears between the branches as if the tree has captured and embraced it. On the ground, more driftwood lies on the dark ground. The blue sea forms the background, surrounded by a purple sky that fades into a blue-grey in pink and orange tones.
Info: Driftwood Beach is characterized by a spectacular driftwood landscape. It resembles a surreal tree graveyard, which is often used by photographers as a backdrop for dramatic sunrises or sunsets.
Photoinfo: Blood moon on 21.01.2019. Shot with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR lens. It was shot at 1/40 sec at f/10, ISO 64, 140mm on a tripod.

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Gilbués, Piauí, Brazil - by Araquém Alcântara (1951), Brazilian

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Probably the last Sand Martin image for this evening....

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

a bullet like bird flying fast across the bottom of the image

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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” Joseph Heller, Catch-22
#Trump #Writing #josephheller #uspolitics #Politics

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I'm going to say this again. I am totally uninterested in workarounds and hacks to try bypass Google's horrible AI Overviews. They solve NOTHING. In fact, they help make the situation WORSE. 99.999% of #Google users won't know about them and/or won't use them. They reduce pressure on Google to actually fix these systems. And of course, Google can choose to block them at any time.

My recommendation is to stop thinking in terms of "techies 'tricking' Google" and start thinking in terms of the policy efforts required to make things better for ALL users. Get off the techie high horse and start thinking about people beyond our tech communities, and the impacts that Big Tech is having on them in increasingly negative ways.

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Good Day!
The Cottage Garden by George Spencer Watson 1928
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)

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The "Man or Bear?" debate has dominated internet discourse for the past week or two (TL;DR In a viral TikTok video, a man asks eight women if they’d rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear. Seven say they'd prefer the bear). Here's a unique perspective from Laura Killingbeck, a contributor to Bikepacking magazine, who actually did leave mankind behind to live in nature with bears. "'Would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear?' is just another way of asking, 'Are you afraid of men?' she writes. "It’s the same question I’ve been fielding for the entirety of my life as a solo female traveler. It’s the same question that hovers over women all the time as we move through the world."

https://flip.it/HIYNCz

#LIfestyle #Travel #ManOrBear #SoloTravel #WomensRights

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On the hunt for bugs!

A ruby crowned kinglet hanging on a pine bough. They are a small grey bird and the pine needles are bright green, hanging down and covered in small cones. They are peeking out from the back side of one of the boughs

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Show your support for end-to-end encryption, open access to information, and free expression on the internet by becoming an EFF member today! https://eff.org/mjoin

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I sometimes forget just how many hits Jim Croce had in his too-short career. I bet he’d be one of the biggest pop music sellers of all time if he’d not been so tragically ended way too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBqYbs_Xmc

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I would like to send this to every American cafe that sells ‘chai tea’: please learn to make chai, not just tea scented dishwater

https://www.seriouseats.com/chai-recipe-8364307

#Recipes

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“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and the New York Times Opinion section will say we are all overreacting.”

Updated for 21st century America.