⛵️holly 🇺🇸➡️🇯🇵 @holly@v.st

Picard management tip: If you lose one crew member, mourn appropriately. If the whole ship explodes, don't worry; time travel will fix it.

Fun fact: I meant to post this two hours ago but I got distracted and ended up cleaning out my kitchen cupboard. #adhd

Don't forget to indulge in a few real luxuries this weekend 😸

I am crying I am laughing so hard at the #AI generated colours from @janellecshane 's blog: https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-ai-paint-colors/

Undulations of color

#CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #glsl #shaders

Photos: Mulberry St., NYC's Little Italy, in the 1910s and 1970s.

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I'm leaving Substack, because of their failure to turf many white supremacist, Fascist, and pro-Nazi sites.

I'm a supporter of freedom of expression. (I dig deeper into the issues in the post below.) But I can also freely choose to leave a publisher—and Substack is a publisher—that profits from expressions of hatred.

https://www.straphanger.blog/between-the-bibliotheca-and-the-bonfire/

Remember how my previous employer denied my WFH request so that I could flee the state of Ohio to take care of my trans kid while still working for a company I loved?

I just heard they did it to someone else today.

When you insist people come in to an office a few days a week because you want a "hybrid culture" not a "remote culture" and then tell them to just fuck off when all they want to do is get their kid somewhere safe that makes you an absolutely shitty person.

I'm done hiding who it was.

The company is #OverDrive, based in Cleveland. They make ebook lending software for your local library called #Libby. They say they care about their LGBTQIA+ employees and families but that is clearly a lie.

Ohio lawmakers are turning my home state into absolute garbage and companies like this one are playing along.

Tell your local library to #DropLibby

#Trans #TransRights #Ebooks #Libraries #Bookstodon

Terrifying snow leopards

Hi there, folks! We have had a pretty tough week here in Norway. The Norwegian parliament approved deep sea mining, and we lost the first round of a lawsuit against fjord dumping. Hard times. We are looking to connect with marine ecologists, marine biologists, and other ocean scientists that are willing to stand and be counted in this. Please contact us, or wave in some way at us. We must protect the depths of the ocean. #deepseamining #scientistrebellion #Norway #norsktut https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/norway-to-allow-mining-waste-to-be-dumped-in-fjords

Is #Britain stuck in an #immigration paradox? High numbers, economic benefits, yet public unease. Stephen McNair asks, can we bridge the gap?

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration-we-know-what-we-need-but-we-know-its-impossible/

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Loren. I live in Illinois, USA and I like taking pictures of birds and other things in nature like bugs and turtles and muskrats and mushrooms and moss and frogs and flowers and opossums.

I use a Canon R7 with a 100-400mm lens for most of my pictures and occasionally a 100mm or 35mm for macro. I don’t like doing most dramatic edits and don’t digitally remove branches or “clutter” from my pictures.

I have many of my photos posted on here but for my full portfolio or if you’d like a print that can be found here: https://lorennaturephotography.pixieset.com/birds/birds/

#nature #photography #birds #wildlife #turtles #opossums #mushrooms

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