@blogdiva
I always appreciated Grace Jones, for whatever that may be worth.
("Not typically feminine" is an automatic win, in my book.)
I want to get better at taking pictures of my garden. I do not want to get a special camera, just use my iPhone. Can you recommend some kind of online course or blog post or a good video i could watch that would improve my (completely nonexistent) photography skills?
Assume i am impatient and a little lazy and just want good pictures.
@midor I was, in fact, wondering about this. Thanks for the research ^.^
One note:
Obviously the original photograph will have been black and white
Actually, there was this guy, fairly early in the history of photography (a "camera" was still a giant box on a stand) who came up with a mechanism that allowed full-color photographs using entirely monochrome chemistry by splitting the image into three colors with a prism. The three resulting monochrome images could then be recombined optically to display in color.
...but I don't think it was widely available; the Romanoff photo probably was, in fact, just tinted. [/inexpert opinion]
Welcome to our fuzzy computing clowder, @autumn! :tootcat:
[sotto voce] I, too, may have operated a web site at some point. >.>
@mynameistillian This, like, really distills the pathology down to a very pure form, doesn't it.
omg, these people.
@devopscats
I heard Tr💩mp is 2 weeks away from making an unclear weapon.
Or was it two days.
Or maybe he decided not to.
Or maybe he already did.
...did I say "weapon"? I meant "statement".
(0 days since the US President did a super-cringe facepalm)
So many important decisionmaking processes have been taken over by half-clever people who happen to have money. This obviously need to stop.
It's sad, really. The potential was always there to do some really cool stuff, but deploying new tech like this takes stuff like "testing", "discernment", and "patience", which generally don't go over well at the quarterly investor call. :-P
CNSA’s Tianwen-1 mission has recently released new images of Mars, including this view of the north polar cap showing a very cool cloud formation.
Full size 4K & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2s819o9 ðŸ”🧪
Image Processing: Andrea Luck
Raw Images: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC
Those are 2 images taken on 2025-08-09
@AnarchoNinaWrites It sounds kinda like the actual Pope's job is to act the role of some idealized Pope they imagine -- and if the actual-Pope says stuff that their ideal-Pope wouldn't, then he's doing it wrong and maybe is an impostor or something.
@servelan Gosh, you mean we might go back to the pre-9/11 situation where all airport security was privately operated?
Oh noes, how terrible. How will we ever survive without the Department of Homeland Security keeping us safe from toothpaste incendiary devices.
(One authoritarian wet-dream undone by another authoritarian's wet dream...)
@blogdiva I feel like this generation of astronauts is taking a more compassionate, human approach to space exploration, and I am totally on board for that.
...well, I mean, I would be if they'd let me. :blobcatspace: 🌑
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The classic logo pin, the glittery Live Laugh Federate design, and the Mastodon Elephant pin all look brilliant. Really happy to support Mastodon at the same time.
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@burnoutqueen Many cis women even feel the opposite way, from what I've seen.
Trans women aid in the fight for women's rights by showing the lie of patriarchal narratives around femininity and gender.
@cwebber I can't even get that post to load properly. The layout framework shows up, but it gets stuck trying to load any content. :blobcatgooglyshrug:
@crooksandliars "Thinking", for authoritarians, means "finding new and more plausible ways to protect your propaganda from the enemy's evidence".
