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The Grapes of Miffed

#TooEarlyBooks #HashtagGames

Especially for photogs: I mute accounts that post recognizeable images of people if they are in a vulnerable spot or don't seem to know you're taking and posting their photo for no known reason. It usually looks like punching down or exploitation, imo. At the very least it ignores the potential privacy considerations of others.

It took me a bit to evolve in this direction and now seems like common sense in today's world. YMMV of course but that's my parameter fwiw.

• Guardian: In Iceland, people commemorated the country's first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/ecological-grief

"We know how to mourn grandparents, spouses, friends, and neighbors, but we do not know how to mourn disappearing species, damaged rivers, altered coastlines, democratic institutions, or healthy futures. We should admit non-human species and landscapes are also worthy of mourning."

#ClimateDiary #ecology #grief

A Nap of the World

#SweetDreamsABookOrPlay #HashtagGames

RIP guitarist James Blood Ulmer (1940–2026)

• Odyssey

https://song.link/y/Y_YEMu0slW8

#jazz #Avant_Garde_Jazz #JamesBloodUlmer

#SilentSunday

Sky blossoms

#photography #bloomscrolling #spring

🔅 Fountain in dappled sun

#photography #bnw #BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhite

Is this post visible? Guessing something's gone askew with either the server or with my account. Anybody able to read this?

#MstdnSocial #Mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116007434602576018

Here's a do-over of the theme #WhatTheWorldNeedsNow.

• Play On – Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno

https://song.link/y/qdsxPOC-SXI

• What's Going On – Marvin Gaye

https://song.link/y/KDK7TiEiMOI

• Tough Call – Dessa

https://song.link/y/NllarfKLiE0

• I'll Stand By You – Pretenders

https://song.link/i/118125081

• Wonderful World – Joey Ramone

https://song.link/y/Ll6ONO-ae4o

#ThursdayFiveList

Charlie Brown is an emoji

#Xmas

Another for the #VerdantVoices green/nature theme today.

• Song of The Cedars – Cosmo Sheldrake

https://song.link/y/HH_timp2S3E

It's a collaboration between musicians, biologists, and the Los Cedros Cloud Forest in Ecuador. The humans involved credit the cloud forest with co-authorship.

The song includes forest field recordings of toucan barbets, echo-locating bats, howler monkeys, crickets, rustling leaves, and a subterranean recording of soil.

#TuneTuesday

And Earth tilts again.Whether you're in the dark or in the light, happy solstice, fedifriends.

#Solstice #Winter #Summer

Sundown. Happy first night of Hanukkah to all who celebrate. It is a sad day, but it is still Hanukkah.

🌏 Rewilding to heal the Earth

"(Re-)wilding is not necessarily bringing back what was there before, but 'making wild again', so new, thriving, and regenerative ecosystems can arise and flourish. It is a looser, systems-based approach aiming to give nature the space and freedom to recover and adapt on its own terms, expecting only that natural processes will drive change, leading to better-functioning ecosystems and increased resilience."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-12/allowing-space-for-nature-rewilding-to-heal-the-earth/

#rewilding #ecosystem #climate

Jabberwock Like An Egyptian

#LoveABookASong

#FotoVorschlag Traumwelt/Dreamworld

Alt text: 39 words

#SilentSunday

Some serious fun on #caturday

#CatsOfMastodon

Mini-catio sleepyheads

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

#Tankman in #Tiananmen Square, facing down a column of tanks in Beijing, following the bloody events of the June 4 massacre. June 5, 1989

To this day in 2025, his identity and whereabouts are unknown.

📷 photo by: Jeff Widener/AP

• The story of this photograph and the events leading up to it:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos/

Alfie in the arbor

#CatsOfMastodon #BlackAndWhite #photography #caturday

Throw Edamame from the Train

#VegetarianAMovieOrShow

Happy 5/4 day, jazz nerds <3

#jazz #Brubeck

I've been Nicole'd again, 2nd time. Are we supposed to report these?

#Nicole

#photography #design #PhotoMonday

#SilentSunday

Mossy

#photography #mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #digital #ShittyCameraChallenge

#SilentSunday

He referred to music as "emotional architecture." Rest in peace Quincy Jones (1933–2024). Some good info here on his musical background and early career as a composer, arranger, performer, and producer.

The rest is history.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/quincy-jones-dead-1234809848/

#QuincyJones #music

Yann Tiersen – The Jetty, live from Ushant

on the sublime side of things

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkkFMoLiGL8&pp=ygUSWWFubiB0aWVyc2VuIGpldHR5

#music

The night sky doesn't get completely dark, thanks to airglow, the mag/arcsec² variations, zodiacal light from comet dust fragmentation, and the cosmic optical background of ultradim light from distant galaxies. "Even in space, the sky isn't totally dark."

This is a fun read from

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dark-is-the-night-sky/

#astronomy #science #NightSky

@Fotovorschlag 'Blüten ganz nah'

#photography #fotovorschlag #BlackAndWhite

Article on the new Harris-Walz campaign branding ("It’s a logo without any bells, whistles, stars, or stripes. Simple and minimalist...") and sans-serif logo fonts, which her team calls "Fearless Bold" and "Fearless Medium."

• THAT BORING NEW HARRIS-WALZ LOGO? IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY HISTORIC

https://www.fastcompany.com/91168459/new-logo-harris-walz-campaign

#USPol #design #logo #typography #branding