On The Road - To Xi’An/ Urban Spots 🟤
在路上 - 去西安/ 城市的点 🟤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/
As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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You know, I’m sorry, I really appreciate that at least Spain and a few other countries are doing something now but if you’re a fucking whole-ass country, your “threat” in the face of genocide being committed as we speak if you want to stop said genocide being committed isn’t to pull out of a fucking song contest. It’s to send your damn army – ideally along with a few others – as a peacekeeping force to stop the sons of bitches who are committing genocide.
But hey, pulling out of a song…
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Blessed Bakkhos, god of wine . . . Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care augments the fruit that banishes despair."
Orphic Hymn 50
🏛 Roman mosaic of #Bacchus giving a libation, National Museum of Beirut…
🔥 This isn’t HOLLYWOOD– it’s Russian OIL going up in flames!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/this-isnt-hollywood-its-russian.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Mei Semones:
🎵 Dumb Feeling
#MeiSemones
https://meisemones.bandcamp.com/track/dumb-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/4HPd9WMnQqp3xXAOYeGexw
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines
The rain has topped up the pool pond! 🙏 🌧️
It is overflowing at the overflow and only at the overflow, that I can tell :). I powered the pump up from its 40% (34W) to 75% (120W) to get things moving in the filter while we have the rain.
I might as well use it to allow it to clean the gunk out of the system naturally!
Still feels like I got rushed into filling it, but it is really satisfying nonetheless to see it functioning as designed in my head! lol
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject
South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (Junhyup Kwon/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/