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angusm

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I play with words, cameras & computers

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angusm, to random
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I'm not much for formality, but I do feel that it's possibly inappropriate for the Director of the FBI to keep emailing me with the subject line "Greetings, my dear!”

angusm, to fotografia
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I should be writing, but instead I'm uploading more pictures to my website. Because that's how I roll.

https://disoriented.net/2023/10/october-mood-2023/

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Once upon a time, programming was about writing sophisticated algorithms to solve challenging problems.

Now, it’s mostly just Googling stuff and trying to find ways to get the linter to stop complaining about your code.

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Today's conundrum: is it appropriate to wear your Book Moon "Read Books, Punch Nazis" T-shirt when speaking to a friend's high school class about art?

Purely hypothetical situation. Asking for a, er, friend.

(cc: @KellyLink @gavinsmallbeerpress)

angusm, to fotografia
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I am slowly working through adding photos from earlier this year to my blog. This is a ‘highlight reel' of my photos from open-water swimming events organized by Urban Swim this year.

https://disoriented.net/2023/10/urban-swim-2023/

angusm, to random
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Even with single sign-on, I swear I spend about a quarter of my working day just logging on to things.

Multi-Factor Authentication has broken my will to live.

angusm, to fotografia
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It's , so here's a batch of pictures that I took back in September when my neighborhood was unusually damp.

https://disoriented.net/2023/09/fdr-drive-flooding/

angusm, to fotografia
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I spent a surprising amount of time on other people's boats this summer, seeing New York from the water.

https://disoriented.net/2023/09/new-york-from-water/

angusm,
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@BrightFlame As it happens, these pictures were taken not from boats belonging to friends, but from boats chartered by a couple of local organizations for whom I do event photography work as a volunteer. Taking pictures of landmarks is not strictly part of my job, but I can never resist …

angusm, to zwierzaczki
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wouldn't be complete without a selection from the archives, so here you go: a magnificent specimen of the breed known as the Lebanese Floof Dragon, clearly engaged in thinking important thoughts. From Deir al-Qamar, Lebanon.

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Between Elon Musk whining about how everyone’s unfair to him, and Donald Trump’s unhinged rants on Truth Social, when did it become the norm for grown men to act like butthurt 12-year olds?

People who say Millennials are infantilized are looking at the wrong generation.

angusm, to fotografia
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Here's a picture of a shattered window from the derelict hospital on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, for your pleasure.

angusm,
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@SocialistStan He'd only have seen that particular window if he'd been sick when he arrived (and sick with something that wasn't a disease such as TB, diphtheria or trachoma which would have caused him to be denied entry).

If he HAD been cared for at the hospital, you can see some of the other things he might have seen here:

https://disoriented.net/photoset/2014/12/ellis-island-hospital/

angusm,
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@SocialistStan They also turned away people with ringworm, and those they judged to be “mental defectives”, felons, anarchists and polygamists. So if your great-grandfather was an intellectually-challenged, felonious, scrofulous anarchist with multiple wives, he successfully evaded detection. Congratulations!

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Applications for the Clarion Writer's Workshop are open. Clarion was one of the best experiences of my life & next year’s instructors include 4 of my favorite people in the world (plus 2 I don't know personally, but who will probably also be amazing teachers).

https://clarion.ucsd.edu/how-to-apply/

angusm, to random
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I wondered somewhat why I had a browser tab titled “resonant sex” but it turns out that it’s a scientific paper and the full title is “A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD110067”, which is a bit more on-brand for me.

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SCENE. INT. DAY

The elevator to the afterlife. Three people get in. They are ROSALYNN CARTER, SHANE MCGOWAN and HENRY KISSINGER.

CARTER: Which floor, gentlemen?

MCGOWAN: Dunno, sweetheart … wherever there's a bar, I guess.

KISSINGER: Going down.

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Apparently this is the year that every charity I have ever given to has decided that it might be a fine idea to spam my phone with demands for money.

I don’t remember this being such an issue last year. The flood of emails, yes, but SMS? Not as much.

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Welp, ChatGPT IS good for something, after all!

(Original source: https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/111489033241587523 )

angusm,
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@cstross Tesla Metafox would make a good name for a femme fatale Bond villain.

angusm,
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@cstross @photos_floues

But heaven knows
Heaven knows
Heaven knows her recipe

(no no no)

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1/ Rebecca Solnit wonders whether one planet can support so many billionaires.

"Billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life. Disproportionately older, white & male, they function as unelected powers, a sort of freelance global aristocracy who are too often trying to reign over the rest of us. Some critics think that the supergiant tech corporations that have spawned so many modern billionaires operate in ways that resemble feudalism more than capitalism, & , certainly, plenty of billionaires operate like the lords of the Earth while campaigning to protect the economic inequality that made them so rich & makes so many others so poor. They use their power in arbitrary, reckless & often environmentally destructive ways." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/billionaires-great-carbon-divide-planet-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

angusm,
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@KeithDJohnson @cstross

Maybe we should make it legal to hunt billionaires for sport.

“It's really no different from culling deer. It seems cruel, but you have to keep the numbers down for the good of the ecosystem.”

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David Cameron identified as Patient Zero in pig flu outbreak https://newsthump.com/2023/11/27/david-cameron-identified-as-patient-zero-in-pig-flu-outbreak/

angusm,
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@newsthump It's hard to know whether that's his dinner or his date in the picture. Or both.

angusm, to fotografia
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It's , have a hat!

nixCraft, to random
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This type of thinking is precisely why we can't have nice things. It's a terrible idea that only contributes to polluting the internet. It's nothing to be proud of but rather something to be ashamed of. I really hope Google removes all of his sites from the search.

angusm,
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@nixCraft "Someone bet us a quarter that we wouldn't shit in the swimming pool, so we did. We shat in the pool so much that the pool had to be drained and no one could swim in it for a week.

We look forward to getting more quarters by shitting in more swimming pools in future.

P.S. Follow us for tips on how to shit in swimming pools.”

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For , here's a picture of two kitties from Cairo who started their own motorcycle gang.

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