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Software developer, community photographer and wanderer between worlds. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY. Here to cultivate growth and resilience. 狐系ケモノミミ

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Mwng has to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

06.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Now that I remember it, I got better pictures of daffodils towards the end of the season last year because the strident yellow threw off my exposure

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daffodils #spring #plants

06.03.2026 14:16 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub

#photo #photography #landscape #newhampshire #trail #hiking #manchester #massabesiclake #fall

06.03.2026 14:15 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Circular Stained Glass Window on West Side of Sage Chapel

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagechapel #religion #church #stainedglass #art

06.03.2026 14:13 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fresco In Memory of Mary Ann Wood wife of Ezra Cornell in Sage Chapel not to be confused with Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #ithaca #sagechapel #art #memorial

06.03.2026 14:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Roof-Level Window on Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagehall #ithaca

06.03.2026 14:09 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out MLS stakeholders want to turn the interest in this summer’s North American World Cup into ‘rocket fuel’ for the league. Are those realistic expectations?

🏃‍♂️ Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#sports #soccer #mls #football #worldcup #usa

06.03.2026 01:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad: 53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

#politics #uspol #politicalscience #publicopinion #usa #us #unitedstates #morality #survey #socialsciences

06.03.2026 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes Repeated military coups and short-lived civilian governments since the early 2000s have made long-term planning in Thailand nearly impossible.

🗳️ Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...

🆓 archive.ph/ynjHx

#politics #democracy #voting #thailand #asia #globalsouth

06.03.2026 01:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like...

🍊 Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#buildings #architecture #materials #paper #cardboard

06.03.2026 01:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn organ...

🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process

techxplore.com/news/2026-02...

#urine #energy #fuelcell #chemistry #waste #circulareconomy

06.03.2026 01:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dried Milkweed pod in a little patch of prairie that seems infinite

#photo #photography #plants #milkweed #bloomscrolling #flowers #seeds #plants #prairie

05.03.2026 14:05 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dried Goldenrod in Tiny Tuft of Prairie in front of Johnson Museum of Art

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #goldenrod #grass #cornell #architecture #johnsonmuseum

05.03.2026 14:03 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Old Five and Dime Store in Owego, NY from a chain that is long out of business

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._N...

#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #store #downtown #jjnewberry #blue

05.03.2026 14:02 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Susquehanna River with Ice Floes Last January Near Owego, NY

#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #river #ice #landscape #susquehanna

05.03.2026 14:00 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Historic house in Downtown Owego, NY

#photo #photography #buildings #house #architecture #owego #upstateny

05.03.2026 13:53 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

despite RSS being obscure there are a lot of RSS feeds out there including publishers like 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐿.𝐴. 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, etc. YOShInOn ingests maybe 20,000 articles every 2 weeks and picks about 300 to show me

04.03.2026 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"failing RSS readers keep failing with the same failing interfaces that have been failing for years" and after Musk bought Twitter I got sick and tired of waiting for somebody else to do it so I did it myself and boy did the technology get better in 20 years ...

04.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yeah, back in 2004 I wrote a paper about text classification and was really sure that an RSS reader with an algorithmic feed would be a great idea and kept saying like a broken record that ...

04.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

... if I put much effort at all into Sakura and Daffodils at all this year and stick to Tulips or street photography involving flowers

04.03.2026 19:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

well... i am sitting on a huge number of flower photos I developed last Spring as well as even more that I didn't develop which leads to all sorts of questions such as: "do I post them when people in other zones are seeing them?" and ...

04.03.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dreamy 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 Flowers

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomsrolling #allium #bokeh #summer

04.03.2026 19:02 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cleopatra Canna Lily

#photo #photography #lily #plants #bloomscrolling #flowers #summer

04.03.2026 19:00 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Pink flowers heavy on a rose-family tree

#plants #photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #sakura #spring

04.03.2026 18:56 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm still kind of amazed that we're going to be seeing daffodils like these in about a month and a half

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daffodils #spring #plants

04.03.2026 18:54 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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New England boulders on shore of Atlantic Ocean

#photo #photography #landscape #ocean #newhampshire #newengland #atlanticocean

04.03.2026 18:51 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

... well maybe it will make ICE come out to my farm and we'll tell them if they want to find illegal immigrants they should try the other barn down the road which is the headquarters of the Republican party for local elections

04.03.2026 18:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienn...

🪛 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

phys.org/news/2026-02...

#tools #egypt #history #technology

04.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.

✊🏿 Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left

jacobin.com/2026/02/jess...

#politics #usa #democracy #left #democrats #black #africanamerican #jessejackson

04.03.2026 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a potent pathway that begins in the brain and leads to loss of all body fat without reducing food intake. The study is reported in Nature Metabolism.

🤯 Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice

medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

#fat #brain #neurons #research #biology #hormones

04.03.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0