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Study in Blues for today's theme 'In the harbour' ('Im Hafen') #FotoVorschlag ©TonyNuspl2023 #amateurphotography #AndroidOptics #panoramic #BlueskyArtShow #photographers

Butchart Cove, Brentwood Bay, Saanich Inlet, view from Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, Canada
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"What we’re seeing in Spain and France are flames exceeding a hundred meters, so 30-story-tall flames. You can’t respond to these in a meaningful way with water. French pilots describe water bomber drops that evaporate before they touch the flames." #pyrocumulonimbus #NuvoleDiFuoco #NuagesNésDuFeu

“Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America

France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spai...

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Lancaban@theeo123.bsky.social · 2w ago

Collabora Office and Collabora Office Classic for desktop, free and self-hosted Collabora Online is the paid #EnterpriseSolution "No AI runs unless an organization switches it on first. Collabora is not peddling any specific vendor." Writer, Calc, and Impress #LibreOffice #FOSSinside #opensource

itsfoss.com/news/collabo... Collabora Online is celebrating 10 years of being a great, Open-Source, privacy first competitive alternative to MS Office and Google Workspace #Collabora #Office #OpenSource #Privacy

two neoclassical arches ('zwei neoklassizistische Bögen') for the theme: backlit 'Gegenlicht' #FotoVorschlag contre-jour #BuiltEnvironment #vintagedigitalphotography #amateurphotography #AndroidOptics #ObsoleteFormats SAMSUNG SPH-D710 📸 cell phone camera ©TonyNuspl2017

interior view, Union Station, Kansas City, built in the Beaux-Arts style, in 1914
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Photo captured using Samsung SPH-D710, a 2011 Android smartphone (better known as the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch), sporting an 8-megapixel camera, running Android 4.1.2, an o/s nicknamed "Jelly Bean'
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Recommended viewing: I prefer the director's choice of an ending: It never made much sense that Homer's tale fizzled out with the hero being told to go carry an oar to the mainland. Also, rescue scene added in Pylos! 🎥🎬 #filmadaptation based on the #epicpoem ⏳📚 #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #booksky

The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis

Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition

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stick-built ©TonyNuspl2025 proposed daily theme: 'the beauty of a construction site' ('Die Schönheit einer Baustelle') #FotoVorschlag also 'something made of wood' ('Etwas aus Holz gemacht') -- earlier suggestion #amateurphotography #AndroidOptics

Blue sky peaks through a window frame
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Authors successfully sue Anthropic for copyright infringement “largest known copyright recovery in history” "first major settlement out of dozens of AI copyright lawsuits being filed on behalf of authors and news outlets, which are still going through courts" #piratedbooks #classaction #booksky

Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work

theguardian.com

As if you were a criminal-- a #precrime database collected by traffic cameras and venture capitalists, recording “the comings and goings of every single person in the country" -- “a very un-American invasion of your privacy.” #TradingPrivacyforProfits #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #corporatesurveillance

Flock Cameras: ACLU Raises Alarm About Nationwide Surveillance Database

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Browse by music genre e.g. acoustic, folk, classical, orchestral, world, blues, country Listen online. Save to your personal collection. "AI music and AI artwork are not allowed" Subvert is cooperatively-owned, democratically-governed. #Cooperatives www.subvert.fm/discover/gen...

Discover - Subvert

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Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 2w ago

A little #envhist from the 1930s, applied to today's corporate transformation of the landscape #cautionarytale #DustBowl

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last yr.

To use Privacy Badger on an Android phone or tablet, install the Firefox for Android. #FOSSinside #opensource #nonprofit Also available for other #webbrowsers including Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and desktops and laptops running Mozilla Firefox.

Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help!

DavidB@david.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Another criterion: Which browsers can run Privacy Badger, the free browser extension made by the leading digital rights nonprofit EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) to stop companies from spying on you online. Originally a Firefox extension, EFF has been rolling out versions for other browsers.

Yes, you can use the internet without using the evil three: Chrome, Edge or Safari. davidbilla.net/web-browsers/ #Internet #WebBrowsers #Chrome

"Audiobooks bring the Odyssey to life, harking back to its original form. Ian McKellen reciting the Robert Fagles translation (1996) will do nicely." Good recommendation. #Odyssey #Homer #classics #spoilers #myth 💙📚 #booksky

A voyage of discovery: an idiot’s guide to reading The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approac...

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The entire city of New Orleans is a 'Weltkulturerbe' (World Heritage Site) Visit now, before its inundated. #risingseas for theme proposed by #FotoVorschlag #BuiltEnvironment #WorldMonumentsWatch #RiskSociety #ObsoleteFormats Samsung Array SPH-M390 📸 #vintagedigitalphotography #streetphotography

photo of New Orleans, taken with SAMSUNG SPH-M390, a 2012 smartphone, aka Cellular Slider Phone (also known as Samsung 'Montage' for Virgin Mobile or Credo Mobile), sporting a maximum 2-megapixel camera. It did not run an Android o/s; it used a proprietary operating system, now deprecated (obsolete).
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Film stills of Sam Neill in period dramas or medieval fantasy tv series #lastfourwatched 🎥🎬 I can recommend the #filmadaptation "Restoration" (1995) based on Rose Tremain's #historicalfiction novel of the same title (1989) ⏳📚 #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #booksky #letterboxd #GridArt

4 photos arranged in a grid, created with PhotoCollageMaker for Android
including stills from the movies or tv shows :
Ivanhoe (1982), based on the 19th-century novel, romance, or historical fiction by Walter Scott (1819), set in 1194AD, with a Knights Templar character by the name Brian de Bois-Guilbert (portrayed by Sam Neill);
La Révolution française (1989, The French Revolution in two-parts, les Années lumière/Years of Hope and les Années terribles/Years of Rage) with Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (portrayed by Sam Neill);
Restoration (1995), in which a 17th-century medical student is exploited by King Charles II (portrayed by Sam Neill);
Merlin (1998), in which a beardless 5th century wizard (portrayed by Sam Neill) has to do battle with Queen Mab and save his love Nimue.

Sam Neill (1947-2026) will always be associated in my mind with "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) broadcast on PBS Materpiece Theatre's sister series "Mystery!" #BreakoutRoles world film, historical drama, period piece 🎥🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky Here, with a few of his #leadingladies in the tv series

photos arranged in a grid, including the tv title card for the series "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983-84) starring Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly (d.1925), with various photo stills and a promotional photo featuring him with three of the character's various love interests, portrayed by cast members :
Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife #1)
Celia Gregory as Nadina "Nadia" Massino (wife #2), and
Laura Davenport as Nelly "Pepita" Burton (wife #3)

Sam Neill (d.2026) As an environmentalist, he campaigned for marine conservation and protection of the land from mining proposals in New Zealand. Shortly before his death, he joined the call for protection of 19 key marine habitats including the Ross Sea. #MarineProtectedAreas #Anthropocene #envhist

Neill backs bid to save ocean

Actor Sam Neill has put his name behind an international group aimed at protecting the Southern Ocean.

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Cdn Embassy, Washington DC ©TonyNuspl2008 #BlueskyMonday 📸 Casio EX-S2(Exilim) 2megapixel compact "slim" digital camera #vintagedigitalphotography #ObsoleteFormats #PalacesandGardens #AmateurPhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky

A view of some exterior detail of a government building, with white walls, contrasting against a clear bkue sky. Located on Pennsylvania Ave in D.C. and designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson (1924– 2009), the Canadian Chancery opened in 1989. Technically, it's a post-modern design, with allusions (not necessarily discernable in this photo) to the neo-classical idiom of the southern plantation house with grand columns and large front porch, according to information provided by the architect himself. The building echoes the modernist I.M. Pei wing of the US National Gallery of Art, across the street--the East Wing of the NGA, that opened a decade earlier in 1978.
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Chile moves to protect 14 species in the Humboldt Current, source of 15% of world’s seafood…a response to rising strain on the ecosystem. #overfishing pushed this fishery to its limits #biodiversity #MarineProtectedArea #MPAs #Anthropocene #Seaspiracy #envhist info via TheCoolDown

Our Work in Chile: Oceans | The Nature Conservancy

Human activity and climate change are straining Chile's coastal habitats and depleting fish stocks. We are developing innovative mechanisms to promote sustainable seafood, secure livelihoods and conse...

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Construction starts 2029/2030, starting with Ottawa-Montreal segment route controversy. naysayers. 60 years since Japan's #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #NationalPriorities #passengerrail #CriticalInfrastructure #HighSpeedRail #RailNetwork #TurboTrain #Alto

What’s going on with the Toronto–Quebec City high-speed train?

YouTube video by CBC News Toronto

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"Not very well camouflaged, am i?" Choose your palette wisely (Oklahoma wildlife photography) ©TonyNuspl2024 for today's theme 'red surroundings at this moment' 'Rotes in deiner Umgebung jetzt' #FotoVorschlag #critters #nature #photography #ColorPsychology #AmericanRegionalism