@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-09-14 00:30:01
On The Road - To Xi’An/Before & After 🌬️
在路上 - 去西安/之前之后🌬️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:32:39
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/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-14 10:15:57
“We are now in the heart of danger.”
Just had a message from Yousef, Nouran’s brother, on Signal.
Please help @… and her family is you can.
https://…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-14 16:30:00
@ber@osna.social2025-09-15 13:06:16
#Klimademo am Samstag den 20. September in #Osnabrück, 🕖14 Uhr Kundgebung, dann 🕖15 Uhr Demo mit Zwischenkundgebung. Start und Ende: Theatervorplatz.
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@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-10-14 13:56:57
Digitaal Volkskrant-abonnement gratis voor studenten: ‘Regie over hun eigen nieuws terug’ | de Volkskrant
#DPG #Studenten #media
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-08-16 08:56:46
We have to fight with everything we have against the awful "Chat Control" proposal. It is very easy to explain why it is a very bad idea but because the subject is child abuse, everybody loses rational thinking capabilities it seems. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-contr…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-08-14 15:21:13
The #IntraclusterLight of Abell 3667 - Unveiling an Optical Bridge in LSST Precursor Data: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade8f1 -> ‘Bridge’ of stray stars reveals active merger of two galaxy clusters: https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-05/galaxy-merger - in a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence indicating that a galaxy cluster is merging, a first for a nearby (astronomically speaking) cluster.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-14 11:20:37
Vom Influencer zum Steuersünder? Vielleicht! 🫠 Berlin nimmt jetzt die Finanzaktivitäten von Social-Media-Sternchen genauer unter die Lupe. Dem Finanzamt für Fahndung und Strafsachen liegen aktuell etwa 4.000 Datensätze im Zusammenhang mit Influencern vor, die nun gründlich geprüft werden.
Zum Artikel:
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-14 13:12:00
Überweisungen hängen fest: Die Tücken der Empfängerverifikation
Sie sollte mehr Sicherheit bringen – doch die Empfängerverifikation sorgt vor allem für Verunsicherung, Banken kämpfen mit der Umsetzung.
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