2025-12-29 00:30:01
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite


Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor
I really feel bad for sysadmins who don’t have great English skills. There’s no way a world of LLM translator bots can ever get all the discussions amongst English-speaking sysadmins close enough to correct. Too much jargon and more importantly too much nuance in how words are used. I’ve spent a lot of time crafting technical prose, often finding it necessary to proofread and harmonize precisely how I say things. I doubt any LLM can be equivalently fastidious.
Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Es ist nun wieder Ende des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Wanda:
🎵 Bologna
#NowPlaying #Wanda
https://milemedeaf.bandcamp.com/track/bologna-english-type-creepy-lounge-version-wanda-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JOwusmP7R2h0faPG9p7SY
Im Artikel 1 des NATO-Vertrags verpflichten sich die Mitgliedstaaten, Konflikte untereinander friedlich beizulegen.
Mit seinen Drohungen gegen Grönland, und damit gegen das NATO-Mitglied Dänemark, bricht Trump seine NATO-Verpflichtungen und die Abkommen, die sein Land selbst mitinitiiert hat – um Grönland, ein faktisches NATO-Mitglied, zu annektieren.
Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400,expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
If you're looking for the federal NDP leadership debate in the original French (which, let's be honest, isn't pretty (explaining why almost everyone is switching to English whenever they get the chance)), here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/BHS6DbS8rbg
challenge: pretend im a 94yo pakistani grandmother who's kids just got enough to pay for me to come join them in america, and now im here and speak only the simplest english. sell me on as many of ur political beliefs as u can
Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
Corridors are a government priority, and the necessary resources have been allocated for the north-south and east-west routes (Imam Khomeini/Khamenei.ir)
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/12037/Corridors-are-a-government-priority-and-the-necessary-resources
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p34#a251227p34
💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…
Synchronized Eruptions on Io: Possible Evidence of Interconnected Subsurface Magma Reservoirs: #Io svela enormi serbatoi di magma interconnessi: https://www.globalscience.it/66736/uneruzione-vulcanica-senza-precedenti-su-io-svela-enormi-serbatoi-di-magma-interconnessi/ (there is also an English version of this press release which INAF/ASI mailed me but I just can't find it online).
Before I was on #Mastodon I thought most of the web and social media was in English. Clearly you knew it wasn't like that all. The ease of translating a post on the fly is a revelation / revolution. Thank you #translation
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Johann Sebastian Bach, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner:
🎵 Cantata BWV.118 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tfgmpdId7bxtsKpEJgxxP
It's the end of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:
Cyber troubles never end for KT in Korea.
An internet installation technician working as a subcontractor for KT has been accused of leaking customer personal information to another mobile phone retailer.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/1…
Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
From their debut 1980 album
⭐️I Just Can't Stop It,
the wonderful Birmingham
ska-reggae outfit,
best known for their hit
⭐️Mirror In The Bathroom,
was among the 2 Tone label's finest bands
(alongside ❤️The Specials).
They released this upbeat and unambiguous protest against the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher after her first year in office.
Although she stayed in power for more than a decade,
changing the pol…
What English translations miss about Bulgakov — and why it matters in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/what-english-translations-miss-about.html
I am trying to print a spool winder at the moment. To be honest I do this for the last days already.
(Hope I did the simple present and present progressive right on this one, so my english teacher can be proud. ;-))
Various printing failures are driving me crazy. I just want a tool to transfer the wood filament from the large spool to a small one. It can't be that difficult.
So todays hashtag is
English illogicalities. I'm sure there's a good reason for this.
She is, isn't she?
You are, aren't you?
They are, aren't they?
We are, aren't we?
But NOT
I am, amn't I?
"taugen" is not an English word
Notorious Russia-based RAMP cybercrime forum apparently seized by FBI https://therecord.media/notorious-russia-based-ramp-forum-seized
Everyone on the British left should read this from @meadwaj
"...it is the Greens today who, under the energetic new leadership of Zack Polanski, are setting the pace. Given the uncertainties of the Your Party narrative, it is the Greens who will continue to step up and set that pace. They are, as I have said, the leading force on the English left."
"[The leadership of other left forces] ave a serious responsibility not to get in the way of this advance"
…
Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
With thanks to @… who alerted me to the German-language version, this looks good & will be published in English soon (& available in Australia)
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/a-brief-history-of-a-long-war-9780593840153
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- The Solem Quartet & Mel Giedroyc
The Solem Quartet perform live in the studio for Sarah Walker and Mel Giedroyc on her debut this weekend in English National Opera's HMS Pinafore.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mbf6
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 40254 nodes and 190279 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…
Not sure why, but China is feeling the need to say that China is being attacked by Taiwan with cyber incidents rather than the other way around.
Mainland deals with almost 4,000 cyber attacks from Taiwan in 2025
http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2026-01/21/con…
#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Place name elements are always interesting (and fun) to map. Here the Old Norse 'by' and 'thorp' elements in #Norhamptonshire. Data from Digital Survey of English Place-Names
Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume de la publication scientifique : "Une analyse de 100 000 numéros spéciaux de revues universitaires révèle qu'un numéro sur huit contient des articles rédigés par le rédacteur en chef, en particulier chez l'éditeur MDPI."
For future planning purposes: what are the major electronics industry / test and measurement trade shows and conferences outside of the US (for obvious reasons) that are open to primarily English speaking exhibitors (i.e. you don't have to have your entire booth in Mandarin)?
So far my list is just Electronica in Germany, are there others I should be aware of?
DesignCon and IMS (despite the "international" bit in the name) seem to always be in the US.
from my link log —
The triumph of logical English.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-logical-triumph-of-english/
saved 2025-12-02 …
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 3826 nodes and 25269 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-substances-farming
Japan to intensify Ukraine assistance in first half of 2026 - The Mainichi
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251220/p2g/00m/0na/006000c
Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html
On the Side 🆓
在边缘
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
RE: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/115956634402331444
It's also a great illustration of the ambiguity of English pronunciation, e.g., "e" in "earth" vs "heart" and even more so "gh" in "ought" vs &q…
Urban Spots II ✴️
城市噪点 II ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
Some City Some Nature IV 🏙️
一些城一些自然 IV🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
Moody Urbanity - Old & New 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Some City Some Nature III 🏙️
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
Moody Urbanity - Stand 🧍♂️
情绪化城市 - 立 🧍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 519403 nodes and 6729794 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
Some City Some Nature II 🏙️
一些城一些自然 II 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 7381 nodes and 46281 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad
City Spot ⭕️
城市点阵 ⭕️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Some City Some Nature 🏙️
一些城一些自然 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
Moody Urbanity - Past 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 338714 nodes and 607087 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…
word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 2704 nodes and 8300 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad
RED (Ocassionally) II 🔴
红 (有时) II 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - ONE 1️⃣
情绪化城市 - 壹 1️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
RED (Ocassionally) 🔴
红 (有时) 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
US CHILDREN II 🧒
我們這些孩童 II 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
US CHILDREN 🧒
我們這些孩童 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Gloom & Bloom V ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 V ☁️ 🌺
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fuijfilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Compo 🧶
城市规则化
📷Nikon FE
🎞️ FujiFilm Neopan SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite