Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

I was a bartender for many yrs before I started working in advertising. I still hate St. Patrick's Day. I think I always will. This yr, it falls on Friday, which is exponentially worse. Let's have a moment of silence for all the #bartenders across the land (& across the water, too). The rest of you, tip well, tip often, keep your stomach contents to yourself, & pls try to restrain yourself from asking strangers if they have any Irish in them. #AMEN #StPatricksDay #DailyGiggle

Got myself a new camera to play with today. Stepped into the garden, in between rain showers, to test it and this little fella virtually landed on my foot, begging to have his portrait taken 😏

##DailyPhoto #GardenBirds #BirdPhotography #Robin

I just used white out to correct a note on a physical piece of paper. Am I a time traveler? What year is this??

Dagger for a sword & sorcery mercenary/barbarian

(Tagar culture, 6th-5th century BCE, southern Siberia)

The patriarchy is the reason you know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, but you've never even once heard the name Evelyn Berezin.

Instead of moaning that things aren't as good as they used to be, celebrate how amazing right now is compared to the shit show well be experiencing in our future.

The International Criminal Court has issued the first official arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes. Specifically for kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children.

Anyone who sympathizes or is soft on Putin's heinous invasion is officially now in bed with a wanted war criminal.

Peacock.

My hobbies are birds and photography, so this quilt is an appropriate toot for me.

This is another of my wife's quilts. I personally like it better than the first that I posted today. I can tell this was harder to do, plus it has a bird; finally, it has a lot of blue which is my favorite color.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #quilt #quilting #sewing

YouTube announced today that it’s unbanning Trump from their platform, ensuring they remain the market leader in radicalizing and recruiting for the far-right

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

#MST3K #MysteryScienceTheater3000 #StPatricksDay #Irish #Ireland

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a measure to ban gender-affirming care for trans children

Kentucky ranked as one of the worst places to live in the United States:

44th and healthcare
48th in fiscal stability
Consistently in the bottom 10 for education

Number 2 in the nation for domestic violence

But your problem is trans children? Republicans are nothing but evil.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Twitter has "permanently suspended" a 165-year-old newspaper in #Iowa for unknown reasons. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2023/03/16/twitter-elon-musk-mason-city-globe-gazette-banned-not-clear-why/70016392007/

“Trump Media executives worried over murky $8m loans, emails reveal

Exclusive: financing with suspected Russian ties came at a critical time as company was running out of cash after a planned merger”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/trump-media-executives-worried-over-murky-8m-loan

Should we also consider providing examples of what we really don’t want out of Te Ara Paerangi? Cause this would be an absolute nightmare
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RT @gulayturkmen
A suicidal move from German academia👇🏼Rather than increasing the # of exceptionally few TT positions this “reform” proposes to limit postdoc periods up to 3 years, after which postdocs will either have to find a permanent position (that are almost non-existent) or leave academia…
https://twitter.com/gulayturkmen/status/1636797257537159195

For today's #FollowFriday we recommend curators: people with a knack for finding the best content.

@mariapopova — "Curator of interestingness" & creator of Brain Pickings.

@Sheril — Curator of stories of diverse trailblazers in science & the arts. Host of PBS Serving Up Science.

@miaq — Curator of creators & maker of "The Art of Curation" podcast

@KaSaPo — Travel photographer who boosts other photographers.

@janettespeyer — Curator of travel, food, art & history stories.

#curation

"Stop overusing the word Nazi"

No, you stop facilitating Nazism by pretending it's a phenomenon unique to 1930s Germany.

When you say shit like that you are downplaying the monstrous actions of Christofascists who are in power and copying directly from the Nazi playbook as we speak. You're basically saying "well sure they're bad but not as bad as Nazis."

That's you giving yourself an excuse to do nothing. That's you letting Nazism fly under the radar because "it can't happen here."

It is happening. And if you're waiting for people to be put in literal gas chambers before you are willing to call it what it is, you're gonna be way too late to stop it.

The true danger of #drag shows.

'Critically Endangered'
Brown Spider Monkeys have lost 98% of their natural habitat because of logging, land clearance, agriculture and cattle ranches. Around 3000 individuals remain in the wild. An illustration for the @wildlifewednesdaychallenge to highlight the plight of endangered species through art
#MastoArt #ArtGallery #Monkey #illustration #endangered #drawing #art #WildlifeWednesday

I've been busying myself a bit with #ethics of #StreetPhotography lately, in particular concerning people being recognisably featured in them.
I usually try to avoid catching people in my shots or try to picture them in a way that they're not recognisable. On the other hand, when I took this picture here (yes I know it's not the best edit, additionally I still had the CPL mounted which could've very well ruined the whole shot), I tasted blood.
I was lucky it was such an (objectively) easy and rewarding encounter. I saw him, decided the scene's really just worth it to battle my social anxieties and ask that man if it was okay to take a picture of him. He happily agreed, just because I was one of a handful out of maybe a hundred or more who ever cared to actually ask. My adrenaline levels were through the roof and I literally was on the brink of crying after that - partly out of being proud I decided to overcome my anxieties, partly out of relief for righteously being able to leave the situation again without it being awkward, partly out of self-hate for being so fucked up I have issues with such trivial things as asking a stranger a truly simple thing, partly about the story told by that, how terrible we as a society treat homeless people that I get so much gratitude from him simply by asking permission, thus showing at least a minimal set of respect from one human being to another.

To get to the point, I came to realise ethics - at least as far as street and urban photography is concerned - aren't so much a matter of law or legality, but primarily a matter of decency and mindset. And it's something I need to sort with myself before I can go out and portray people like in that shot of mine. I have to become clear on things like where I stand in relation to my subject, if I'm an external "documenter", if I see myself as "same kin" and if that's actually true or I'm committing cultural appropriation, if it's okay to buy myself out of responsibility by giving the guy a tenner just because I can.
Those are questions no one can answer for anybody but themselves.

Unfortunately I HAVE to work out my own answers to these questions, because there's such a rich treasure of emotions buried in that box - if not in the pictures then for myself while taking them.
But no matter how good of a street portrait I might take in the future, this will always be special and probably my richest treasure because of all the emotions it triggered with me and how it forces me to define how I see myself while taking pictures.

#photography #UrbanPhotography #Fotografie #StraßenFotografie #UrbaneFotografie #SocialAnxiety

EOS 70D, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM, CPL, f/6.3, ISO100, 1/25

Of all the #Slowways I have done this was definitely my favourite - Ystradfellte to Glyn-Neath.
Beautiful woodlands in a steep valley with lots of waterfalls.