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Starting into vacation with a nice 3h cycling loop. Followed by apple cake and cappuccino 😍
Life could be worse.
#cycling #sylvenstein #bayern

For decades, we've been going on vacation on the Baltic Sea, and for decades we’ve been renting bikes there. But the prices have gone up and the quality has gone downhill. So we finally bought our own bikes today and immediately went for a short ride to the Border Museum in Schlutup.
Also, we can now recommend “at Fahrräder” in Lübeck: https://at-f…

New international PhD student (starting tomorrow!) stopped by to sign their contract. I gave some intro into matters of bureaucracy (I always warn international people that we do love our forms here in Germany!). Stressed the importance of taking the official vacation days. Answer, without hesitation "oh yes, I'll be definitely taking those!" #academicChatter #theKidsAreAlright

While I _am_ WFH, noone seems to be in the office or online at all. "Where the heck is everyone?".... "oh _riiiight_." Dang.
Oh well. Might actully get some stuff done.
#canadaday #longweekend #holiday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Midnight Hour:
🎵 Vacation
#MidnightHour
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NGkpWYvNF7GOdp5k0wGW5

I had both monday and tuesday off from work this week and I'm still thinking that I could use a vacation.
Fuck.

The Vacation Stack™

The world most badass metal drummer on vacation :-)

"These 3 small changes to your next beach trip could save endangered sea turtles"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.…

Knock down your sandcastles. Sea turtles will thank you
Plastic litter, bright lights, and abandoned sancastles can pose threats to sea turtles. Here’s how to help.

currently on vacation due to family matters (no, not the show) so I might be a *little* less active and will have less frequent access to discord DMs (although not zero access). be forewarned!

currently on vacation due to family matters (no, not the show) so I might be a *little* less active and will have less frequent access to discord DMs (although not zero access). be forewarned!

No vacation, no excuses: The 82% winner sitting on the Senate floor (Jenny Beth Martin/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4669203/save-america-act-senate-recess-vote-photo-id-proof-vote/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260730/p114#a260730p114

What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

At the start of our recent vacation, we visited the #worldOfBricks in #munich .
It was uite nice. Not overly huge but a couple of LARGE sets, like Harry potter, Lord of the Rings, Star wars and those here as well!
Some more photos are here:

➡️ Open Press Project – The 3D-printed printing press
#bookmarks

Open Press Project – The 3D-printed printing press
Use printmaking for your art whenever and wherever you want. This little 3D-printed press fits into your backpack and gives you the ability to print outside, on vacation or in your living room! We are on a mission to make printmaking accessible to everyone, so you can get free plans to 3D-print your own press!

These NFL teams won the offseason, plus backup QB rankings and Stefon Diggs landing spots

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/these-nfl-teams-…

Spending this first day of vacation like all too many weekend days lately: in bed on my phone, with sporadic feeding and care. Showered but should go to the gym, or I could go out and do other things.
1/3

I've had to bug a colleague who's on vacation several times lately but apparently only when he and the family are at the same Italian restaurant. I keep pulling him back in?

Enjoy this week's Java Geek, special vacation edition.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/145/

#Navy SEALs used 2 boats to escort #KashPatel on a 'VIP Snorkel' next to the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona.
One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
☑️ Snorkeling at #PearlHarbor

Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.

Today feels like uphill - there are just hours before summer vacation and I'm already checking out mentally...

@…
Sorry.
I deleted it, because sometime I write something and than it gets to me, that you might have already Thursday...
But I sometime switch Thursday and Tuesday in my brain.🤦
And...Now you know I still didn't get to "working conditions" after my vacation.🤦😂

Yes yes yes, I realize that the 5/7/5 syllable count is neither necessary nor sufficient to make a poem a true haiku, and that syllable counting has very little to do with the classical Japanese form or its modern literary incarnations. But going by syllables alone makes the bit work!
Flaunting the rules
to crack a foolish joke —
summer vacation

Back home from a week of #vacation in the #FränkischeSchweiz . Now copying photos and videos ... Rest of the weeek is still vacation plus a day for a work related-conference

In Quebec’s Laurentians, I discovered the perfect lazy cyclist’s holiday
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/travel/article-cycling-trip-quebec-laurentians-ptit-train-du-nord/

In Quebec’s Laurentians, I discovered the perfect lazy cyclist’s holiday
My mini cycling vacation on the P’tit Train du Nord trail provided manageable exercise, beautiful scenery and delicious food

RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/116903968506933806
I see they caught the evening beam-up.
Even aliens vacation in West Michigan.

Fucking post-vacation depression

Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. 
He was simply trying to plan his camping vacation when he spotted something unexpected on his screen
— what researchers recently confirmed is a previously unidentified, 390-million-year-old meteor crater.
“It was quite an exciting discovery,” said Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor …

During our vacation recently, I tried to practice more foreground and composition for .. not for documenting our vacation, but to capture more a feeling that I had at this moment.
This is one of the photos. Here it felt "better" to me to set the focus to the red poppies because at this moment, they just drew more attention as we were walking towards the gate.
More of this day:

I can't even explain to you how hyped I am for the evening of today and the upcoming three weeks of vacation 🙂‍↕️

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Beach Vacation:
🎵 Time Alone
#BeachVacation
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TGyLDXlTaeAsfqvo2MoWc

Please, please. Lord, give me the strength and determination to not start a new tech project. When on vacation. 🙏
Hmm, the tech is new to me. So, why the heck not? 🤓
#habits #sidequest #geek

@… I hope you might host another session in the future, I’ll be on vacation in London during those dates :)

A quiet morning (so far) at the lake 🏖🇺🇸
#NorthernMichigan #HigginsLake

And to celebrate the end of our vacation, our refrigerator stopped "refrigerating" 🙁.
At least we could save some items to my parents...
But the vacation was good, my MTB got an upgrade On the front chain ring, we selected exactly the right time for our time off in the Fränkische Schweiz and the talk a colleague and me gave at an IT conference was good as well.

@… Thought you might be interested in this.
https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116859731748508400

vga256 (@vga256@tomodori.net)
Attached: 4 images found this hidden gem on the garden. it's a japanese hypercard game called Summer Vacation - Search for the Golden Beetle (夏休み・黄金のかぶと虫を探して, Natsuyasumi - kogane no kabutomushi o sagashite) the pixel art is just insane - such a careful balance of positive and negative space in each rendering. it plays very much like early Cyan games like The Manhole - pure exploration. thank you macgarden archivist baku for finding, buying, and preserving thi…

Apparently they're going to shove Chat Control 1.0 through next week while the majority of MEPs are on summer vacation. Ain't democracy grand?
Honestly, I welcome it. Things need to get so bad that even normies notice. The government should be more oppressive.

Uff finally! All Posts from our vacation in the Fränkische Schweiz are online.
Some of the posts also contain videos that appeared in the last couple of days on my peertube account on @…

Not as cool as your's @… but I tried a couple of shots in the fields. I guess I'll try some more versions of my corn field-photos until I find my favourite.
But meanwhile, check out the other photos and blog posts from our vacation as well ;)

Day 2 of #emf2026 recovery. Status: still tired. Very happy I took this week as vacation too.

We wanna try a reverse Resident Evil marathon in my vacation and I couldn't be any more hyped, ngl 👀

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Beach Vacation:
🎵 Quietly Drowning
#BeachVacation
https://beachvacation.bandcamp.com/track/quietly-drowning
https://open.spotify.com/track/75TKrWobrmKAFLIAUjatH6

Just finished the last but one blog post from our vacation. As it's raining, I might just start the last one during the day ...
btw there's also a short peertube video embedded.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/pretzfe

Especially cuz Palworld goes 1.0 on Friday and it'd be the perfect start for my vacation 🙂‍↕️

One week of #vacation... Not missing work too much, but still thinking about work related stuff once in a while.
But being out and about,#hiking in green forests for hours is just precious. Visited a couple of castles and caves in guided tours and I can say: a human telling stuff and answering questions is unbeatable.
Every guide has his/her own style - full of humor, empathic, educa…

Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio (Lauren McGaughy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/paxton-vacation-condos-wealth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.ThDP.YPuKNj3upD24&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p66#a260716p66

Last day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking

#ShawnWeatherly
Season 1 Episode 15 "We Need A Vacation"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Mexican man killed after ICE encounter in Florida was on vacation, officials say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-truck-mexico-florida-juan-coronilla-duran-030e77819f8832d32abd60f52b41f673
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p143#a260721p143

During the vacation, I noticed that I'm so glad I never went into the algorithm-based-influencer-business.
Every hike wuold have come with a "I *have* to create some footage for video" plus scheduling videos & photos to provide new media regularly ...
It would just have literally killed the experience of several hikes.

Just saw that the BayVista - a place where we stayed already in the past for vacations in the #BayerischerWald - have upgraded their place. - Maybe our next hiking vacation will be there again 🤔
https://www.bayvista.de

The U.S. is one of only 9 countries without guaranteed vacation time (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/02/vacation-world-us-paid-leave
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p24#a260702p24

if you are a little into caves etc, this short video might be for you. We took a tour through a cave during our vacation last month which I wanted to share with you.
As usualy, it was a bit narrow, a bit low, but overall a little adventure - and we didn't notice the short rain shower that happened while we were inside. A Win-Win
https:/…

Good morning! yesterday night I finally wrote my blog post about our vacation (Day 1). My wive convinced me to make 2 videos for the day instead of one longer one.
(More material for my pertube instance! ;))
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-a

Summer vacation has begun in earnest, and I found a nice craft beer place across from the street from our first hotel of the trip in #bergamo - #beergarage

Lot's of rocks again... Below and above the surface - and learnt about the middle ages in Europe. Now.. Reading 📚
Vacation could be worse 😉

I'll be rather silent except boosting the next couple of days. (vacation mode on)

#goodmorning today my morning walk is to the train for commute. It has cooled down and we got some long awaited rain.
Yesterday afternoon I even started cutting videos from our vacation. More to come soon.
Enjoy your day!