I just posted a new blog from amazing Hanoi & beyond - northern Vietnam has so much to offer, I really had to cut down and still ended up with 100 photos haha!

Check it here: https://theflore.com/blog-posts/2026/02/16/vietnam-hanoi-catba-mountains

#photography #vietnam #travel #blog

New worst person just dropped

The billionaire philanthropist making hundreds of Londoners homeless

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-mass-eviction-billionaire-landlord-criterion-capital

How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#english #language

Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#android #opensource #keepandroidopen

Interesting. 4K is mostly a lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0H_WfWOp4

Shots from the field.

#Midtones #FilmPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #MediumFormat #BehindTheScenes #MamiyaRB67 #NikonF801 #Aotearoa

Come on

A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.

Two babies

📷 #leicam3 #summicron DR #50mm
🎞 #kodakvision500t

#analog #analogphotography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #catsOfMastodon #cat #leica #m3 #kodak #vision3 #500t

My "No, your use-case does not negate all of the horrifying externalities" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

What you working on there?
#Plushtodon is here to keep me motivated on a Friday afternoon. 💜🐘

#Mastodon #EU #socialMedia #EuropeanCommission

#plushtodon is the newest addition to my desk, alongside slowpoke and Kevin the wizard

If I was meant to respond to them they would have been called YEStifications.

It had come to that. #grickledoodle #duck #shame #consensus #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.

How am I supposed to get anything done? #catsofmastodon