Clement Tahershamsi @Clementulus@social.cleverlibre.org

#photography #nationalparks

@freemo Dawn, northern Norway #photography #sunrise #sky #landscape

#Astrophotography may be the ultimate hobby for introverts.

I've been doing it for about a year now and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. My ADHD normally makes me end hobbies after three months tops; not so this one.

You don't need to live in the boonies either, with camera sensors these days you can make amazing images even with light-polluted city skies.

And if you do want to be social, there's star parties and other events with fellow amateur astronomers. By necessity outside, so COVID-safe!

Cederblad 214 as seen from my driveway, around 54 hours total exposure time.

#astrodon #astrophotography

@lavenderlens

Agreed. The back story is long and crazy. But in short the LGBTQ and others in the community at the time were being mass banned simply for following bad actors, even when they didnt boost, promote, or in any way show sympathetic leaning towards those bad actors.

The reason they were following them was to watch their account for violent threats and then disseminate that throughout their community for safety. But many instance admins didnt care and blocked/banned anyway.

As a result the LGBTQ community in masse migrated here for their safety.

We added a feature for them called subscribe. It lets you follow a person without them knowing you are following them. BUT it only lets you access the posts that person gives you permission to view (basically public posts, you cant see follower-only posts on a subscription). We did this so members of our community could follow these bad actors without alerting them and putting themselves at risk of violence or retaliation.

People again twisted this feature into being privacy violating despite the fact that it honors the privacy rules set by the poster.

Needless to say a lot of people were very mad that their blocking and banning abuses were coming back to bite them in the ass and ultimately distorted and lied the truth about QOTO and our feature to try to make it sound like something evil when it wasnt... those lies persist to this day.

@trinsec @War_Kittens

#SelfPromotionSaturday is a thing here? Ok, I’m giving a webinar on my research on #TrashyStreams on Wednesday and it’s free and open for anyone interested in #geomorphology of #UrbanStreams or #PlasticPollution. Details & registration here: https://csumb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdu-qqDsuHNKh4-95Lfd4zJLYpwwcEHBg

Frodo: I will take my account to Mastodon, though—I do not know the way.

Aragorn: you have my server

Legolas: and my boost

Gimli: and my toot!

John beat his addiction to chocolate, marshmallows and nuts.

But it was quite the rocky road.

My phone just fell down a flight of stairs, but it's ok, it was in my pocket.

Yay! Voting is now open for this years #holgaweek Holga Select winner

https://holgaweek.com/2022/

These are my 3 entries so if you see them there don't forget to vote for them! 😉

- Yew Tree Trichrome
- Street multi exposure
- Tree and Church multi exposure

#holga #holgaweek #filmphotography #believeinfilm #squarephoto #trichrome #multiexposure

Banksy’s powerful new works in Ukraine

Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.

If you want to install solar panels more power to you.

A very interesting study by Matt Chambers on photoinduced H-atom transfer by a bpy-Mo-dioxo complex

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c09235

Why was the baby strawberry weeping?

Her parents got in a jam.

What people coming to Mastodon from Twitter now don’t understand is how to unify relativistic physics and quantum physics

@freemo - Greetings! I’m very glad to have stumbled on this instance as there were a lot of choices. You have a great community here and it’s technology/science orientation will be an awesome home for me! Thank you for your support! I’m looking forward to interacting with everyone. Yes, let’s chat sometime! I see your interests align with mine, particularly in astrophotography. I’m excited to learn about your setups and experiences! See you around the ‘verse!

Not all construction work is equally enjoyable. For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.

Thinking of opening a McDonald's where the ice cream machine works but everything else does not