Once in Russia, recruits are shown contracts in Russian,
threatened if they refused to sign,
have their passports taken away,
and are sent to the front lines with little training.
Get all the details here:
https://skywriter.blue/@africacenter.bsky.socia…
Oh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading
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某种物质 III 🧪
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#FootpathFriday Near Walberswick.
#silentSunday
Broadtailed hummingbird. May 2026
A twelve-spotted skimmer, Libellula pulchella, perched by the patio pond at Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #wildlife #insect
𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 crane rises over Collegetown, this time in the lot next to the Greenstar market
#photo #photography #cranespotting
I suppose it is quite nice here, yes.
It started out as an exploratory bike ride in neighboring Botetourt County (locals pronounce it “bot-uh-tot”). The ride itself was a disaster of constantly getting lost in trying to connect from the Cherry Blossom Trail onto the Greenfield Trail. You have to take a few horse trails. They’re marked, but only so far as to tell you that you’re on a horse trail. Intersection? “Horse Trail” 😐
Finding a bee sanctuary right off the trailhead was cool. The raggedy looking cabin in the backgrou…
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某种物质 IV 🧪
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Yeah, so I suck at #astrophotography when all I have is a handheld mobile phone camera. 🌙♀♃
#Moon #Venus #Jupiter
Sunrise on Kangaroo Island #sunrise #straya
Trans Sky 🏳️⚧️ (2026)
(Picture not taken in the US, but on the 4th of July to boot...)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
The #Niobrara National Scenic River, northern #Nebraska, at the Hwy 183 bridge. It flows eastward to join with the Missouri.
Four incredibly intense days… amazing conversations… useful sessions… dinners at 10:00pm 😱… wonderful people!
#ICANN86 is over… time to return home!
Gooood moooorning, lovely people in the #Fediverse. 🌤️
Treat yourself well, stay hydrated, and don't forget to breathe properly. 🌿
#Birds #birdsOfMastodon #naturephotography
A Dickcissel (who decided that was a good name for a bird?) and a Blue Grosbeak.
Naughty ASNs get the @… 👊
It's an anime landscape in the outskirts of Munich!
(sound by DJARTMUSIC on pixabay)
#GhibliVibes
Dusk on the Fourth of July at my neighborhood before the fireworks went off.
Quite happy with how the page/component lifecycle log messages are coming along as part of my push to get the new stateful components over the line in Kitten¹.
This should make it very easy to ensure that things are happening as you think they are and to conceptualise the behaviour of your stateful component hierarchies. (You can also use stateless components, of course, as is the currently documented workflow.)
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Bloody typical! Working all weekend, and the weather is really nice now. Currently 67°F (19°C), a real gorgeous blue sky day.
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on the river with lynn and max
Today, we had dinner in our old hood and afterwards had a stroll through the Ueberlandpark on top of the enclosure of the A1L freeway.
#ZüriNord #Zürich
AT2019ijn, A Fast-rising, Slow-decaying Blue Optical Transient with Exceptionally Bright Radio Emission: #BlackHole Lights Up the Radio Sky: https://public.nrao.edu/news/vla-at2019ijn-relativistic-jet/
Firework with red white and blue streaks that are a little irregular, maybe because the exposure was long and the camera didn't quite cancel out the motion of my hands
#photo #photography #fireworks
Good morning. We had some fog, but blue sky is waiting already.
#goodmorning
Watching all the posts go by on my social media feeds, it’s easy to lose myself in the flood-river. What to do?
For more than a year now I’ve been re-imagining and re-writing some of the posts I encounter — it’s a form of play that reclaims my attention and sense of self.
https://salrandolph.substack.c…
The opium harvest will be good this year. Or the Mohnbrötchen ;) #Uckermark
For those in Toronto, it's looking like peak bloom may happen over the weekend.
#sakura #BloomScrolling #Toronto
Sitting outside after work with a drink. How civilised 🍹
#silentSunday
Lazuli Bunting. May 2026
One year ago today
#sunset #clouds
07:16 AM
What a morning and long day it was last week! Was already out & about for 3 hours when I got to this place, earlier mostly taking hundreds of images of the nearby (~500m away) Breslauer Hut and vicinity during sunrise... The first large (and loud) group of people already got up at 4AM, getting ready for climbing Wildspitze, another group left an hour later, as did I. Maintenance/repair works on the hut continued at 08:30, taking lots more pictures to document, interviewin…
Westwood Marshes, near Walberswick, East Anglia, UK. #SilentSunday
Looking at a blue sky with planes flying by.
Every 737 burns 3,000 litres (25 bathtubs) of kerosene per hour. That's as much fossil fuel as three gas-heated homes consume in a year. But with twice the climate damage, by the indirect warming effects of burning it in the stratosphere.
Greetings from #Cologne #Köln
Office garden coming on nicely!
There have been a few wonderful conjunct holidays this year, like Ramadan and Easter, but tomorrow for us is excellent indeed: Beltane/May Day and Buddha Pūrṇimā.
So here's the moon at dusk, viewed through our glorious ornamental cherry tree.
1/2
#Buddhist #fullmoon
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某种物质 II 🧪
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These two crows have been dive bombing this red tailed hawk the past several hours.
The hawk is super chill about it 😂
#nature #wildlife #birds
There are lots of red kites around Reading in the UK because it is where they were first reintroduced back in the 80s.
🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait
How it started / how it's going
(Climbed Ben Ledi, a Scottish mountain that is not a Monro, fortunately the top was above the fog and clouds!)
#Scotland #BenLedi #Hiking
Nebraska Sandhills, north of Arthur.
these tapes are ready to go (to ann arbor, ann arbor, chicagoland, and denton texas) as soon as i print the mailing labels
this makes 250 tapes mailed out (so far!)
Small village on the Fife coast. Can't remember which one. If anyone knows, please say as I forgot to make a note of it at the time. [Turns out it's Crail]
#SilentSunday
My wife went swimming in Footscray this morning so I had her drop me off by the pool and then I ran home along the Maribyrnong river and up the Stockyard trail, back through Royal Park to the inner North. Brilliant day for a run and a nice change of scenery. #melbourne #running
'Touri-Hotspot' #FotoVorschlag
Here you can see two hot spots: The mountain from where the photo is taken is a very well known destination for quick hikes as it's well reachable from munich.
And also the lake down there: the far left-shore is also a very well known destination for recreation, bathing etc. In Summer, sometimes the road along the shore is closed as th…
I tried a different (and, it turns out, fractionally quicker, huzzah!) route home today and was rewarded with this fabulous entity - a lavatera? #bloomscrolling #florespondence
Fireworks at Groton drew a crowd that felt big and intimate at the same time: dig the clover in that big lawn!
#photo #photography #groton
#MapleLeafs
Outside my bedroom window.
It’s been an extremely dry winter, only a few inches of snow since the beginning of Fall. Lawns are mostly brown except where some watering has been done, but grasses are hardy and can withstand the dryness better than trees, especially nonnative varieties that are all over the place. I haven’t paid attention to when leaves have appeared in previo…
Quite hot in Amsterdam today. But the people seem to be cool.
Steps Into The Unknown (2025)
(Actually a lie, since this was taken on the way back, just before sunset, but it was "into the unknown" a six hours earlier... These steps of the only partially secured path are leading up to around 100 meters above/along the increasingly more steep and narrow canyon. The rocks/slopes on the left go up almost another 2000m [out of view, of course]...)
#FootpathFriday
My wife and me both have commitments during the day. So we just did a 2h cycling to our beautiful reservoir and back. It went really well and it felt good to be on the bike.
Especially as it's not so hot any more.
Enjoy your weekend!
#cycling #BikeTooter
Early firework at Little York when there is little smoke to be illuminated by pyrotechnics
#photo #photography #fireworks
Reading in front of the Forth Bridge.
#SilentSunday #Scotland
The Story of the Two Towers II 📖
双塔故事 II 📖
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Spider suspended on string I saw at Little York; after Groton I felt the need to improve how I explain myself-as-a-fox and spent the drive up thinking about how to explain the magic of blessings which made me highly responsive to the goodwill which was so abundant
#photo #photography
#silentsunday #birds
Bullocks Oriole. May 2026
Greets from today's #cycling loop. It's been a great time outside. Friendly cyclists, super views. Some rests to have a snack and refill water.
And at the end some cake 😋
#kochelsee #dasblaueland
Inside-out corner between Mann Library and Plant Science Building
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture
Beam me back, Scotty!
(To one of my favorite places on this planet... We went till the foot of the 1000 meter tall vertical ice fall in the very back, past the beaten paths... #FootpathFriday and belated #ThrowbackThursday time)
Lovely fireworks cap July 4 celebration in Groton NY yesterday -- thanks again to the organizers and the people who showed up to make this a great time; heading out this evening to Little York Lake north of Cortland to do it again
#photo #photography
I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
Art Rave 🕺
艺术锐舞 🕺
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That bunny got to see how I look when I haven't shaved in a few days and wearing off-brand blue: a selfie I took cradling my Sony with the Zeiss 16-35mm in my arms
#photo #photography #selfie
Good morning! It's a sunny day today
#goodmorning #morningwalk #bayern
Wide-angle shot of crowd watching Ithaca Ballet at Ithaca Festival on the Cayuga Street Side of the Commons
#photo #photography #crowd
I have seen squirrels climbing up and down this poplar snag, particularly underneath the bark which has become detached from the trunk
#photo #photography #landscape
Summer fireworks radiate in different directions over Groton Sky
#photo #photography #groton #fireworks
Crowd embraces dragon sculpture with drum in center at opening for new dragon boat mural
#photo #photography #ithaca #mural