firekeeper
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One of my first ever big expeditions with a Camera was, against all good reason, was to climb the 3-4 miles to the top of Pilot Mountain - after working 10 hours that day.
Thursday, I had it in mind to come back to the mountain with fresh eyes and some experience.
Well... ehhh, I also didn't plan the timing of the day very well, as, as you can see, I don't have an actual photo of the mountain.
"Firekeeper, why do you not have pretty picture of Mountain?"
BECAUSE THE SUN WAS BEHIND IT!
Ughh, Charlie Brown. Well, I suppose my next visit to this splendiferous Mountain will be had at 7:00pm rather than 7:00am next round, but nonetheless, I did walk the top and grab shots as I went, and made the most of the morning mist down below, or as much as I could of it.
I took WAY more photos than I thought I did Thursday so these first four will be the first of eight to twelve from that trip. Right now, 8 seems more definite, so here's the first 4 that I've edited thus far.
tagdump:
#photography #landscapephotography #mountain #pilotmountain #MtAiry #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #blueways #greenways
Why Statesville, plaid-clad camera-person?
Because Statesville is the new location of my cousin's tattoo parlor, that just opened, and I got to photograph it!
It's called "The Parlor", go on, go there, he's awesome.
While those photos aren't public, Statesville very much is, so here's some photos I took yesterday of downtown.
As usual, my goal isn't as much to document where I am like I'm trying to prove it exists to a speculative audience, I just took a few shots while I was there.
#photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #statesville #blueways #greenways
This is a very manecured place. It's part golf course to keep the Tesla and Corvette drivers busy and off of the highways during the day, but if you walk out far enough, you can still find some rustic rather untouched wilderness, my kinda stuff.
I did end up walking out of the woods and finding Mallard lake right in front of me and beyond it, part of the golf course itself, but it was a pleasant surprise to walk out of the woods after half a mile of walking and "BEHOLD... LAKE".
Oh yeah and happy first post on the new instance. Holla back y'all, my ego needs it.
#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #highpoint #greensboro #tanglewood #trees #flowers #plants #blueways #greenways #summer #forestphotography #forest #thewoods
Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
| CD (Redbook): | 26 |
| Cassette tape: | 11 |
| Vinyl record: | 13 |
| 8-track tape: | 0 |
Does no one speak for the humble spork?
Adult gaming routine:
✓ Spend 8 hours earning money
✓ Spend 1 hour deciding what to play
✓ Start a game
✓ Play through exactly one loading screen & 10 mins
✓ Suddenly remember you're 40+ and exhausted
✓ Close game
✓ Sleep
Repeat tomorrow. who is with me? 😭
@nixCraft you miss the following:
- start the game
- download game update
- download console firmware update
- download controller firmware update
And when all this is finally installed:
- download game update
- play the game
This guy wins best homophobe prize for Pride
The runner up is the guy I just saw complaining about having to see Pride flags at work when his wife just left him for a woman
@skinnylatte "Snowflakes", I believe is their term for themselves.
@mattblaze They are the meltiest snowflakes. They would melt in an Arctic blizzard. I hope he is charged for wasting the judge’s time. If he gets away with this, anyone will be able to sue for every church, billboard, anything they pass when out snd about. @skinnylatte
@CStamp @mattblaze @skinnylatte All that suing of outdoor signage might have an unintended positive effect: all that crap goes away 🤞
@distinctdipole It’s a frivolous lawsuit that can’t go anywhere without a LOT of repercussions. I really hope he is fined. @mattblaze @skinnylatte
"No daughter of mine is leaving the house dressed like that! You're a Batman, goddamnit, not a slut!"
@skinnylatte I sadly didn't save the video, but a very angry, shirtless man was filmed from a car ripping down Pride flags outside an infant school here in England. The was reportedly arrested moments later and his house searched (presumably because he was already on police radar so his vandalism just gave them an excuse). He was done for drugs and firearms offences on top of the criminal damage.
Gotta love karma sometimes, hey? 🤭
i know its wednesday but it feels like a monday
what is the opposite of a vampire?
@ira injects blood into you
@catmisgivings @ira Transfusionist?
@edsullivan @ira I was thinking like a wrongly hooked up snake that injects its blood into you instead of (in addition to?) venom
RE: https://urbanists.social/@danwentzel/116687813273957732
Is it Weekend At Bernie's time again? 😀
No wonder my password is insecure.
With all the strict requirements upon it, it’s difficult to maintain confidence.
More than two but no less than three special characters.
Divide the number of special characters by the square root of 9...Keepass: "Homie, back up"
#BBCNews - Instagram AI chatbot tricked by hackers to give access to others' accounts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98rzr72dpyo
"If I boost this, more people will know about it."
... "If I boost this, more criminals will know about it."
yolo
The 7 golden rules of not being a dick on the internet
1. No quote dunking. If you disagree with someone, reply to them directly. Broadcasting their post to your audience with a snide caption turns a disagreement into a pile-on. Which is the entire point, I know. But we're better than that, right?
...right?
2. No snark-and-lock. Don't fire off a smug "cutting" reply and then limit who can respond. If you can dish it, you can take it; turning off replies after a dunk is the social media version of ringing a doorbell and running. Don't be a fucking child.
3. Read the kind version. Most takes that look outrageous are clumsy phrasing or missing context, so when something reads badly, go back and find the more generous interpretation before you reply.
4. Screenshot in good faith. When you repost someone to criticise them, show enough of the thread that people can see what they actually meant, because cropping out the context to make someone look worse is lying with extra steps.
5. Don't subtweet, say it. Vague callout posts about "some people" are passive-aggressive theatre; either name the issue and talk to the person or let it go.
6. Correct, don't humiliate. When someone's wrong, you want the truth out there, so share the correction and skip the victory lap that only shames them.
7. Log off before you escalate. When a thread gets your heart racing, close the app, because you'll type something worse while you're angry and the post will keep until tomorrow if it's worth making in the first place.
as someone who often engages with trolls because it's so stupid it's funny:
don't feel threatened
they can't bother you if you don't let them in
you default to good faith engagement
so when someone reply guys in bad faith, you feel anger
no
keep your composure and *code switch*
laugh at them
remove their power
the realm of the troll is simple: entertainment over truth
so flip the script
be entertained at their expense rather than they entertaining themselves at your expense
@Daojoan this. So much.
My ADHD has me doing this a lot. I’ve worked hard over the years to improve my own reactions by pausing, breathing, and re-reading.
It’s not perfect — and I’m not perfect — but it helps to try.
@Daojoan Well, you got that right. Except for that last part maybe! Be mindful though that some of that dunking may actually be synthetic agent clusters. See my most recent pinned post on the Ru disinformation engine's newest hotness. They're weaponized LLM's & human indistinguishable. Organized along loose packs that riff off each other., I speculate that if they're not doing something similar already, they will be soon. It's an obvious next step to spread their reach more rapidly.
@Daojoan no, that's why mastodon didn't have quotes originally, after years of Twitter was obvious it wasn't worth the effort
@Daojoan I have to disagree. Don’t quote dunk DOWN unless the other party has gone full racist/sexist/fascist or bot propagandist and even then very rarely. But always,always quote dunk UP when it’s some high follower account influencer type and their audience needs to know to rethink. It’s accountability.
Meh. There is a place and time where it's appropriate.
If a chronically online billionaire fascist does something reprehensible - I'm not obligated to address them directly. I do reserve the right - indeed, obligation - to mock them behind their back. If they want better treatment, they can earn it.
The real deal is to not punch down when you do it.
Finished "Before they are Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie. Good middle-book. Lands a bit flat but carried well, well set up for the end. Starting Tad Williams's "The Dragonbone Chair" since I'm sunsetting Abercrombie's series in one more book.
It's um,... a bit jarring to go from cynical backstabbing to whimsical tale starring a young hopeful teenage lad, but rather than shun it for more hopeful and optimistic outlooks(which ain't happening), I'm trudging on with the hope it grows with maturity as the protagonist ages, if Simon even is the protagonist - NO SPOILERS.
On the backburner, and why I refuse to watch the film right now, is Andy Weir's "Hail Mary". I'm halfway done, but it keeps getting sidetracked by the fantasy novels... and...
Last night I read "Careless People..." by Sarah Wynn-Williams, in pseudo-entirety, a biography from a leading Facebook executive. I skipped a lot of info dumps I already knew from other sources, but a lot I did not know, especially anything pre-2016. I'm 38, but I wasn't politically "engaged" until around 2015.
So that's that!
no Sanderson!? No PRATCHETT?!Not yet, not yet, but maybe soon. I only have two eyes, you know. 😊
#books #literature #scifi #novels #fantasy #reading #kindle #kobo
FollowING count matters to me. More people, more news, more content, more stuff, more more.
@Akki@toot.lgbt @BonehouseWasps@mastodon.social @nixanadoo@mastodon.social @Wallflower@beige.party @saltywizard@beige.party @Iwillyeah@mastodon.ie @surdfish@beige.party @catmisgivings@stranger.social
Build a nonprofit Hospital dedicated to trans and minority care.
His ancestors would seethe from the grave... perfection.
Why Statesville, plaid-clad camera-person?
Because Statesville is the new location of my cousin's tattoo parlor, that just opened, and I got to photograph it!
It's called "The Parlor", go on, go there, he's awesome.
While those photos aren't public, Statesville very much is, so here's some photos I took yesterday of downtown.
As usual, my goal isn't as much to document where I am like I'm trying to prove it exists to a speculative audience, I just took a few shots while I was there.
#photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #statesville #blueways #greenways
Putin and Trump, both hating their lives and wanting to hide out in bunkers until it all goes away.
#Putin #Russia #VladamirPutin #Trump #Authoritarians #Fascists #GeoPolitics
They should be bunker buddies, then they could hide and hangout all the time..
@maddad locked together in a room with each other seems like the most fitting punishment for them....
you can see why Melania advises Trump against pantomiming like this. yikes
(Roberto Schmidt/Getty)
That hand's looking preeeetty parallel to that mouth, graphic artists.
I'm not saying take advantage of this situation, you do you, but, you know, one notices opportunity when it arises.
Don't start chopping vegetables after your third glass of wine. Do not ask me how I know this
@jalefkowit don’t start chopping vegetables / please stick to the napa cabernets that you’re used to
Just a nice pastoral scene for your Friday afternoon.
#Landscape #Nature #RoadTrip #Travel #Photography #Darktable
RE: https://topspicy.social/@guffo/116617713694124130
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live:
- Iron Maiden
- Deftones
- Alcest
- Nightwish
- Green Day
- Manic Street Preachers
- Sabaton
- Babymetal
- R.E.M.
- Runrig
keep the chain going, I wanna find new bands. list ten bands you've seen live.
Another look at the emerging summer garb. For folk who know, that is the tower from the water treatment facility next to East Point Park.
I like Logen, Luther, West, Glotka certainly, and I love Frost, bro is just employed, does his job, lol. Dogman's my dude, all the characters rule.
Witty, funny, dramatic, tense, even, dare I say... hot?
I'm halfway through, started Act 2 but I digest media slowly. I might skip back to Foundation 3 before finishing TFL trilogy.
This is a very manecured place. It's part golf course to keep the Tesla and Corvette drivers busy and off of the highways during the day, but if you walk out far enough, you can still find some rustic rather untouched wilderness, my kinda stuff.
I did end up walking out of the woods and finding Mallard lake right in front of me and beyond it, part of the golf course itself, but it was a pleasant surprise to walk out of the woods after half a mile of walking and "BEHOLD... LAKE".
Oh yeah and happy first post on the new instance. Holla back y'all, my ego needs it.
#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #highpoint #greensboro #tanglewood #trees #flowers #plants #blueways #greenways #summer #forestphotography #forest #thewoods
I genuinely believe that the Fediverse offers the best chance of recapturing the friendly, optimistic Internet I loved as a kid.
We've got flaws, sure. I've been critical of aspects of fedi culture, and will continue to do so.
But this place represents hope, and hope is where we start.
You need some #yggdrasil in yo life. Small web vibe all the way.
What also do we think of #neocities?
RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116610268796045193
Any site that implements Google's QR reCAPTCHA goes on my PERMANENT block list.
Don't care what site it is...
@catsalad Its fucking evil, and they're working with apple, and various "high security" companies like financial stuff.
The web will be closed to anyone who doesn't have a verified android or ios device, you won't be able to use online banking without a verified android or ios device, your verified android or ios device will be your dystopian "multi-pass"
@catsalad wait how does this even prove something is human? Machines read QRs better than humans do...?
@catsalad since "scan" is the operative word that determines proof...
Step 1: buy a burner
Step 2: burninate
Step 3: humanity restored
Warning: may not be as effective without a bonfire
Edit: in hindsight, I have realized how retarded this actually is, but the risk of someone having already seen it prevents deletion. So just pretend this did not happen.
The web is large. I have already walked away from yahoo, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, reddit, digg, and several others. I have never even been tempted to return to any of them.
I was an adult when the web got going. I don't need to know what people I grew up with are doing. I don't need to know the next dance craze. I don't care what is popular. I will not prove anything to your site.
If your site is not frictionless, I'm not interested.
The web is large. I have already walked away from yahoo, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, reddit, digg, and several others. I have never even been tempted to return to any of them.
I was an adult when the web got going. I don't need to know what people I grew up with are doing. I don't need to know the next dance craze. I don't care what is popular. I will not prove anything to your site.
If your site is not frictionless, I'm not interested.
@catsalad Very easy to fake to get mindless rubes to scan your QR codes and load malicious code I would think. This is such a bad idea I don't even know if the people who designed this even thought this through, consequences and all.
@catsalad
i want to agree.
but for some important sites, i need to use workarounds.
if the site is not crucial, avoid or boycott it.
@zetabeta Personally, I am way past the post of compromise, and will even switch banks if I must.
Worse case, I'll use my sole Google enabled phone, but anything short of life dependency can sod off. 💢
@catsalad 'owns a smartphone' does not imply, nor is implied by, 'is a human'.
This reCaptcha is bullshit.
PLEASE BOOST
*taps mic* check...one..two...
Hi everyone! I'm new here, so I guess I'd better introduce myself. I'm pansexual, polyamorous, a performer, pluvophile and petter of cats. I love the moon. I'm a witch, and a generally creative kinda girl.
If you think any of that might be interesting and you're an adult, please give me a follow, and help me to get started here by giving a girl a boost please(also you're most welcome to share pics of your cats)😘💜✨
@moon_girl This is Alphie. He loves to lay on my shoulders. Right now he is on the other side waiting for me to meet up with him.
We're cookin', y'all.
I'll be done soon, but just you wait, it's getting brown on the edges.
back in 2022 i found a bug that would let me, with no user interaction, turn any chromium-based browser into a permanent js botnet member
in edge, you wouldn't even notice anything out-of-place, and would stay connected to the c2 even after closing the browser
today, almost 4 years later, the bug is finally public:
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40062121
OH NO I JUST REALIZED THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY PROPERLY FIXED AND STILL WORKS 💀💀
even worse, edge no longer even makes the download menu pop up, so it's completely silent js rce that keeps running even after you close the browser !!
all from just visiting a single website once !!
Hmmm....
"If I boost this, more hackers will know about the exploit, but also, more affected people may be attacked..."
boost
They installed it, yolo.
Log in.
Log on.
Log off.
Log ere.
Log into.
Log unto.
Log amid.
Log upon.
Log about.
Log herein.
Log thence.
Log betwixt.
Log whence.
Log whereupon.
HEY HEY HEY, NO VIOLENCE. We're back on selfhosted territory! No more moving, I swear lmao! This gets me what I had with gotosocial without draining all my bandwidth and space to do it.
You'll all forgive me in your next therapy session lol.
@firekeeper gotosocial drained bandwidth?
Is this why my bandwidth usage is up 🤔
I had like 600GB of data coming and going weekly on an M.2.
When we federate, we federate around here.
@firekeeper ok my 60gb in my lxc is doing fine then 😆
I certainly don't have that much cycling in and out.
Something running an lxc? Nah this was a tiny sbc PC running it on docker... through a reverse proxy... over wireguard to a Canadian VPS.
Latency? What Latency?