Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.
This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation.
Map of the most common surname in each country in Europe, color coded by whether it translates as Smith, Miller, Priest, etc.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/most-popular-last-name-europe
Found them! Five photos, taken in fading dusk light after panickingly searching for my camera during what I sincerely hoped was a _test_ missile. 😉
This was the October 3, 1999 antiballistic missile system test described here http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/03/news/mn-18259
Files scanned October 14, 1999, and sat around for aaaaages. 🙂
KelsonV shared a status by brion:
The milky-way-like blob from exhaust and exploding missile debris makes for lovely formations in the fading high-altitude sunlight, which were quite the rorschach test for my friends.
I recall I thought one photo looked like the starship Enterprise; the lady at the photo shop (before good digital cameras!) said it looked like an angel; my classmate said it looked like a dog. 🙂
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I might actually have a copy of at least one of those pictures. I’ll take a look.
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I found this one. No EXIF, and the text file only notes that you took it, but the files are timestamped Oct. 4, 2003.
And now it’s even more distributed!
I’ll email you the original(?) file, since Mastodon seems to have resampled it even though it didn’t need to resize it.
Finally got around to curating my photos from an August hike at Madrona Marsh in Torrance, California. This was the first time I’d ever been to the marsh that there was *no standing water left*. Usually the lowest part of the preserve still has some ponds even into fall, but this summer, it had all dried up.
Full album (12 items) on Flickr
#photography #marsh #summer #dry #nature #flowers #fungus #spiderwebs
@Gargron That always bugged me as unnecessary. When we see him in Return of the Jedi, he’s 20 years older anyway and probably using the Dark Side to prolong his life like the One Ring and Gollum.
But I guess Lucas wanted to go with the thematic revealing-his-true-face thing.
I wish I could narrow down Facebook notifications to only those that actual people send me, and not things that Facebook wants me to do.
Then I might actually pay more attention to them.
And I just know half of them are going to be “So and so looked at one of the posts on this page, you should ask them to subscribe!” and “We have a new friend suggestion for you!” (Who I’ve never heard of) and things like that. And I’ll have to go through all of those in a dropdown to find the 2 people who responded to something I cross-posted from Instagram last week.
An actual notification I received a few minutes ago. I had been planning to check in sometime this weekend, but now I wonder if I should just declare Facebook notification bankruptcy instead…
I wonder if enough water-free urinals have been installed over the past decade to offset the water wasted by all the overzealous auto-flush toilets installed over the same time period.
I honestly do not undertstand the GOP’s obsession with Soros.
@dansup I don’t use Twitter moments, so I’m not sure what that means. In Flickr terms, is it like albums (your photos), galleries (others’ photos), or a mix?
“Real Life Comics” on the Internet of Things….
https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=october-1-2018
Interesting clouds shortly before sunset. Framed as best as I could from the grocery store parking lot.
@pericat Oh, I can imagine! I drop my phone all the time at home, but most of the floors are carpeted.
@dansup Nice! Glad to know that media descriptions are in the works, too. That was the last piece giving me reservations about posting photos Pixelfed-first & boosting here once federation’s ready.
Looking forward to all the new features!
*whew!*
I dropped my phone in the parking lot this morning. It landed on a corner, bounced, and tumbled under another car to rest face-down.
Fortunately the case did its job. The screen isn’t cracked or scratched as far as I can tell, and everything seems to be working still.
Still…that was close!
A 2-3-YO kid at Target pointed to the picture of Thanos wearing the Infinity Gauntlet in the corner of the package for a Hulk Halloween costume and said, “there’s Iron Hulk, but he’s a bad guy” I figured it was a fair description.
@bethskw Totally agree. One of the first things I do when I set up a new phone or install a new app is pare down the notifications to the bare minimum.
My list is similar to yours — direct messages from actual people get both visual and audio alerts — though I do allow visual-only notices on email and social media replies (but not likes or retweets).
Misread an email with the subject, “Are you fired up and ready to vote?” as “Are you *fed* up and ready to vote?”
Yeah, that too.