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Dreamed that Lily Potter had survived Godric’s Hollow, completely obliviated. Unable to find any clues …

Dreamed that Lily Potter had survived Godric’s Hollow, completely obliviated. Unable to find any clues to her previous life, she built a new one as a muggle. Harry found her in his late teens, and they tried to reconnect, but the curse had left her unable to form long-term memories of anything magic, including Harry. Knowing she had new holes in her memory terrified her. Her muggle husband wanted to help, and started trying to develop technology to enhance memory charms.

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Interesting #geology read: There’s a break in the rock layers in many places worldwide, ending …

Interesting #geology read: There’s a break in the rock layers in many places worldwide, ending 700 million years ago. One hypothesis: an ice age with enough glacial activity to scour the crust worldwide. As it turns out, they’ve found signs of a massive surge in rocks being recycled through volcanoes around that time…

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-snowball-earth-geology-20190103-story.html

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Still embedded in the Google ecosystem on other devices…

(Commenting on a post about LineageOS)

I’m still embedded in the Google ecosystem on other devices, but I’ve used LineageOS (and its predecessor CyanogenMod) to resurrect my old Galaxy S4 – twice! It’s now functioning quite well as a backup phone with a kid’s profile for camera, games, etc.

I’d like to use it on a 2015 vintage Galaxy Tab A, but there don’t seem to be official images, which means I may need to figure out how to build it on my own.

Asking for advice on entry-level DSLR/mirrorless

I’m a hobbyist, not a pro, &shoot with compact cameras & my phone. Digging out the old film SLR has got me thinking about a DSLR or mirrorless.

I’m looking for something a step up from entry-level, maybe like the Nikon D5600 or Fujifilm X-T20. Has anyone had experience with these, or recommendations for something else?

Looking for decent quality & auto, plus ability to do manual settings when I want to.

Thanks!

#photography #cameras #advice

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I went back to the same marsh I’d visited in early December, after a few …

I went back to the same marsh I’d visited in early December, after a few more rainstorms. The ponds had spread, covering trails I’d walked along just a few weeks earlier. Ducks and geese had arrived in force.

I could also swear I heard a frog, but I couldn’t see it, and even with the weird southern California seasons, I don’t think it’s the right time for frogs to be out. I should’ve asked at the visitor center.

#photography, #nature #geese #marsh #pond

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I swear none of these turtles moved at all the entire time I was there….

I swear none of these turtles moved at all the entire time I was there.

Another one nearby pulled its head into its shell, but this is a stabilized animation using several photos of these three, and the pond ripples change, the turtles don’t move a pixel as far as I can tell!

#turtles #photography

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We’ve finished off the “Brown Cheesey Cookies” that my wife baked, inspired by @janellecshane’s list …

We’ve finished off the “Brown Cheesey Cookies” that my wife baked, inspired by @janellecshane‘s list of AI-generated cookies.

They were quite tasty, despite being made with actual cheese! (Babybel, specifically.)

She wrote up the inventing process and final recipe here:
https://feraltomatoes.com/brown-cheesey-cookies/

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@nolan I wonder if this is a factor in why I get spam asking to …

@nolan I wonder if this is a factor in why I get spam asking to do guest posts on my personal blog (rather than a topic-based blog). It seems weird, like doing a sponsored toot or a guest personal FB post…but people *are* doing sponsored Instagram posts, and if they’re doing it on their personal accounts too, maybe it doesn’t seem like such an outlandish idea to let someone write a guest post about casinos on your personal site. 🤷‍♂️

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Comparing Voldemort and Grindelwald

Voldemort’s basically about power: people follow him because they see they’ll gain in the power structure he’s setting up, or figure that if they get on his good side, he’ll protect them.

Grindelwald is a demagogue, telling people what they want to hear in order to get them to support him. He still wants to oppress people, but his power base is built on persuasion rather than intimidation.

#HarryPotter #FantasticBeasts

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But since both villains draw on WW2 parallels, both wizarding wars have a strong element of metaphoric racism. Grindelvald’s followers & Voldemort’s both believe their genetic group is superior and should be in charge.

And having said that, now I’m reminded of the line in Catherynne Valente’s “Space Opera” about how *all* wars are about deciding who counts as a person, and who’s just meat.

It tracks.

#HarryPotter #FantasticBeasts #SpaceOpera

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Whenever someone complains about newer Star Trek being “ruined” by social justice…

Yep. Whenever someone complains about newer #StarTrek being “ruined” by social justice or progressive issues, unlike the older series…I have to wonder whether they ever actually *watched* the show they claim to remember so fondly.

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I was listening to the Broadway album…

Oddly related to the post I found earlier: I was listening to the Broadway album of #LesMiserables for the first time in ages.

1. I know this version of the show well enough that the gaps in the recording are as distracting as the changes in the current production & movie.

2. On My Own & A Little Fall of Rain still hit me.

3. Bring Him Home hits me now. I wasn’t expecting that. But now I associate it with the moment in the movie when Javert finds Gavroche’s body.

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