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Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

About last night.

I haven’t got to processing the short time lapse yet, so here’s a small taste. #CabinLife #Nunavut #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

Across a star filled dark night curtains of green light paint ribbons across the sky. A cabin lit with an outside light stands in the foreground.

@weirdestate
I think this is this home:
https://youtu.be/iwP454ioQSw

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

This place is only weird due to the sheer scale of its wastefulness. No one needs that much empty space in their house.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151378802#/?channel=RES_BUY

An absolutely gigantic closet with tan carpet and the walls surrounded by white shelves and rods for clothing, and islands in the middle with cushions for lounging and some drawers. There is a ton of empty space in it and there is no reason why there should be.

A large white kitchen in a huge open plan room with white tiles. There is an inordinate amount of empty space.

A gigantic bathroom clad in grey tiles, with a round standalone bath, toilet, and shower at the far end. There is a lot of empty space and the overall effect is rather soulless.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

The philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked that the fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I think the discourse has broken this relationship. It's not that intelligent people have become stupid. It's that the incentive structure of public conversation rewards cocksureness regardless of actual intelligence...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/

@jimbob
and so far I am having none of it.
not sure how long that will last though.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

#lapland #landscapephotography #snowscapes #silentsunday

@NiceBastard "Don't blink! Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And most of all, don't blink. Good Luck."

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

Was on my way home and came across a snow plough that had stopped in the middle of nowhere and couldn't quite understand why... then I glanced out the window to the north sky and OMG.

#EwenInNorway #Lumix #Photography #Norway #Aurora #Nordlys

Nordlys lighting up the night sky, making a silhouette of the birch trees.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

Okay, I have just demonstrated in my own replies that if I try to explain how Northern Ireland is weird about flags I am going to absolutely go off on one.

So instead, for the interested: Northern Ireland Is Weird About Flags exhibit A:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_City_Hall_flag_protests

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

You know what's sad? Displays don't go "twongggggggggg" as you turn them on anymore.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

Hab mir gedacht ich fange jetzt auch mal mit diesem Server Rack Zeug an, mache ich das richtig? #fedihelp

Ruckus SmartZone 124 in einen Backofen gesteckt

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

This is a must-read.

https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/

#python #cryptography #crypto #openssl #opensource

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

Droplets on a puddle - comme il faut. Always a spectacle.

#layering #photography #monochrome #rainyday #puddle #rain #streetphotography

A close-up view of water droplets creating ripples on a puddle, with reflections of light and patterns visible in the water.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

Sassnitz Stadthafen, Rügen

#UrbanGaze #streetphotography
#photography #bildbeschreibung
#edelsuesz #Classicmono

Aufnahme in schwarzweiß, geschwungene Fußgänger Hängebrücke mit Zugang zum Hafen, von unten mit starkem Gegenlicht der Sonne fotografiert, zwei Passanten nur in Umrissen erkennbar, hellgrau verlaufender Himmel im Hintergrund

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

I hacked terminal.shop, an SSH-based coffee store, into giving me free coffee. Now that the bug is patched, here's a writeup of how it worked and the adventure of discovering it!

https://breq.dev/2026/01/14/infinite-coffee-glitch

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

"What radicalized you?"

Nothing radicalized me.
I was born with basic empathy.
Somehow the world decided that was radical.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

obey yellow box, says yellow box.

A mobile roadside dot matrix display, mounted on a yellow trailer, currently showing the text "obey yellow box". There is a very worn crosshatched region in the road next to it.

graphic designers are such nerds

(yes. I just re-watched the movie Helvetica (2007))

Poster of film Helvetica, showing all capital letters of the alphabet, followed by the word "Helvetica", der in the funny Helvetica.

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

"There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear."

"We simply find ourselves in an early period of trying to understand the potential human health impacts of micro- and nanoplastics and there is no recipe book for how to do this."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt

Benno :flan_ski: boosted:

I love the clear skies in winter. We've been super lucky this year, and have gotten out to enjoy the scenery even though there's no sun to go with it.

Here's a few scenes from the next fjord around from us.

#EwenInNorway #Lumix #Photography #Norway

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