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kristiedegaris

@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot

#Photographer // #Writer // Drystone Waller // Keeper of bees // #Scotland

My first book (an unconventional memoir about rebuilding, connection to the land, the past and to oneself) should be out next year!

#Neurodiverse // #Covidisnotover // Pronouns She/Her

(Banner image is of a person with their back to the camera, looking out over mountains on a sunny day.

Profile picture is of a woman with short brown hair, wearing a brown jumper & standing in front of a field of wheat.)

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xylophilist, to Scotland
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Craignavar Deserted Township, Glen Almond

Comprising the stone ruins of at least 22 rectangular buildings and a corn-drying kiln with associated stone-walled enclosures and fields, Craignavar was deserted in around 1820. It's unknown whether it was part of the forced Highland Clearances or just a voluntary departure due to economic reasons.

Prints, cards etc via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Craignavar-Deserted-Township--Glen-Almond-fe9cbc8eec03195d00819070de1f9cd6

#perthshire #scotland #ruin #landscape #photogrammetry #WebODM #blender3d #drone #photography

hennige, to photography
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Mud bank at Humber Estuary in Yorkshire, England

#MudBank #Humber #Yorkshire #BlackAndWhite #Photography #SchlammBank #iPhone

MartinVuilleme, to random
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based on likes and boosts in the past year ✨ (English, no bots, slight curation)*

Academia
@DrSuzanne
@StephenBHeard
@theADHDAcademic
@NurseMich
@StephZihms
@deevybee
@hildabast
@RichardShaw
@ct_bergstrom
@andersgranholm
@brian_gettler
@ndporter
@chartgerink
@alexh
@albertcardona
@wrigleyfield
@debruine
@KatyElphinstone

medlibs
@kdnyhan
@msjennmo

Activism
@RavynWitch
@biplanepilot
@JessTheUnstill

Self-care
@coachgowron

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MartinVuilleme,
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Stories
@MicroSFF


@nealcurtis

Health
@MerritMD
@Hunter

Mastodon tips
@feditips

Comics
@Chrishallbeck

Scotland
@kristiedegaris


@Hagukh


@RavynWitch

Misc
@oliphant

Special mentions to hashtags:

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alex_roddie, to random
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Outtakes from a weekend at the Centre of the Universe / place where the laws of space and time do not apply / Glen Coe. The full story will told in print (and full colour) in TGO magazine in due course.

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kristiedegaris, to random
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The finished garden feature. No mortar, every stone placed carefully by hand, unbeatable sustainability credentials, and guaranteed to last hundreds of years. What's not to like?

The niche is also a very unusual design. I've never seen a niche with a vertical stone backing and wanted to try to make one. It worked a treat, and our clients have something really unique.

I also love how the colours of the stone really come through after the rain.

VaylLarkinPoet,
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@kristiedegaris

Here is a photo my cousin took from the interior, where the church aligns to catch, I believe, the solstices. I think you could find other photos online. Look for stacked stone structures in Wexford County.

nancylwayne, to mastodon
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It’s and here’s some people I've enjoyed talking with over the past two weeks on (no repeats):

David @DavidPB – Allotment life, mostly no dig raised beds, and chickens, too
mizblueprint @mizblueprint – architect, gardener, retired politician, dog and twin mom
nellie-m @nellie_m -- chicken keeper, dog lover, photo enthusiast, seed saver, writer, publisher, and more
Lydia Schoch @lydiaschoch –science fiction author, social media assistant, and rabbit admirer

(1/3)

nancylwayne,
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It’s #FollowFriday and here’s some people I've enjoyed talking with over the past two weeks on #Mastodon (no repeats):

Ahmed @ahmedbutt – likes books, movies, and writing
Jake @StatePharmJ -- hopes to transition to cyber/Infosec from pure IT
Brian O'Meara @omearabrian – biologist studying diversification, species delimitation, trait evolution & other macroevolutionary questions
Kristie @kristiedegaris – Scottish photographer, writer, and drystone waller

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kristiedegaris, to random
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The letter yogh was used in Older Scots, representing 'y'. It looked like this Ȝ ȝ, so when printing took off, printers often used 'z' when yogh was not available in their fonts.

A famous example is the name 'Menzies' which is pronounced like 'Ming-is'. Based on that, please enjoy 2 different ways to read this rhyme.

'There once was a lassie named Menzies,
Who askit her aunt whit this thenzies.
Said her aunt wi a gasp,
"Dear Me, it's a wasp",
An you're haudin the end whaur the stenzies!'

stephenesherman,

@kristiedegaris I got brownie points in a #medieval #english #history course for fitting my IBM Selectric #typewriter with custom-bought ‘yogh’ and ‘thorn’ keys.

kristiedegaris, (edited ) to random
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My dad's side of the family were Travellers. This is an image of my great (x6) grandfather and his family, and I feel very fortunate to have it. To be able to see the faces of my relatives from so long ago is a rare privilege.

woodsbythesea,
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@kristiedegaris @kel The motley crew. My Mum's parents front and centre; her Dad's parents (my Great Grandparents) to their left. And I'm pretty sure that's my Great Nan on the right with her fancy-man.

PaulHenni, to edinburgh

A shaft of sunlight.

_thegeoff, to random
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In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe

nr, to art
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Mastodon feels a more familiar but I like the opportunity to being introduced to new folk. Wanted to share some accounts I’ve liked, check them out, especially their media’s & you wont be dissapointed!

@wilfreeborn - #Art🎨 #watercolours & #landscapes

@thisismyglasgow - #Photography📸 & #Architecture

@andycatlincom - Folk 📸

@xylophilist - 📸 & Landscapes

@catmcintyre - 📸 Scotland & Brittany

@kristiedegaris - 📸 & #drystone!

robertelectricity, to random

One of the main problems with Capitalism is that it does not follow my mom’s rule of “everyone gets firsts before anyone gets seconds.”

MichaelPorter, to Geology
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Just got a pic from my sister, vacationing in Iceland. This crazy beach.

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to politics

George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, warns of critical, life-threatening dangers just ahead...

"With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats vs life on Earth"

We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers the other.

There are plenty of signs suggesting that the global food system may not be far from its tipping point, for structural reasons similar to those that tanked the financial sector in 2008. As a system approaches a critical threshold, it’s impossible to say which external shock could push it over. Once a system has become fragile, and its resilience is not restored, it’s not a matter of if and how, but when.

So why isn’t this all over the front pages? Why, when governments know we’re facing existential risk, do they fail to act? Why is the Biden administration allowing enough oil and gas drilling to bust the US carbon budget five times over? Why is the UK government scrapping the £11.6 billion international climate fund it promised?

The underlying problem isn’t hard to grasp: governments have failed to break what the economist Thomas Piketty calls the patrimonial spiral of wealth accumulation. As a result, the rich have become ever richer, a process that seems to be accelerating. In 2021, for example, the ultra-rich captured almost two-thirds of all the world’s new wealth.

The richer a fraction of society becomes, the greater its political power, and the more extreme the demands it makes. What the ultra-rich want is to sustain and extend the economic system that put them where they are. The more they have to lose, the more creative their strategies become. As well as the traditional approach of buying media outlets and pouring money into the political parties that favour them, they devise new ways of protecting their interests.

Corporations and oligarchs with massive fortunes can hire as many junktanks (so-called thinktanks), troll farms, marketing gurus, psychologists, and micro-targeters as they need to devise justifications and to demonise, demoralise, abuse and threaten people trying to sustain a habitable planet. The junktanks devise new laws to stifle protest, implemented by politicians funded by the same plutocratic class.

It could scarcely be more screwed up. The effort to protect Earth systems and the human systems that depend on them is led by people working at the margins with tiny resources, while the richest and most powerful use every means at their disposal to stop them. Can you imagine, in decades to come, trying to explain this to your children?

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.li/CW5E5

NOTE: This Guardian column, linked above, is an expanded version of a Twitter thread Monbiot posted a couple of weeks ago. (See https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110667019643740948)

#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

kristiedegaris, to BelieveInFilm
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Glenshee, Scotland.

Medium Format Film
Portra 400

nathanlovestrees,
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@kristiedegaris these are poor quality, taken from a cheap digital camera back in the day at Denali National Park, but I think they get at what I mean when I say that picture reminds me of Alaska

Denali National Park in Alaska, mountains in the distance, glacial till and runoff leading to the bottom right of photo. Small bridge over the water in the distance.
Photo taken from a bus window while driving. Mountains with snow in background and gentle hills in the foreground, light is low and casts shadows and gives a golden hue to everything

kristiedegaris, to Women
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Bees (that are not our bees) took over the shed. My daughter (a beekeeper) had to remove them. As she was working, a small child passing on a trike looked terrified and shouted 'Bee Men!'.

Bee women too, my little Dude. Bee women too.

#BeeKeeping #Bees #Women #Portrait

abananabag,

@kristiedegaris

A bee woman strides along and then looks horrified by the words "bee men". The camera pans across a multitude of horrified bee people and then back to the bee woman and the text "Bee Women, too, my little Dude. Bee Women, too."

DavidTanner, to BelieveInFilm
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Clennell Street, Cheviots
📷 Canon 300V 🎞️ Fomopan 200
#BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Northumberland #Cheviots

helenczerski, to ocean

One of the biggest habits that humanity has to kick is that of seeing a human-free space and assuming it’s worthless/empty unless we fill it up with something. It’s happening with plans for the ocean, deforestation for “development”, talk of delivery drones filling the future sky, cube sats that will hide the stars. This “space” is the planetary engine, and it’s incredibly valuable NOW. doing all sorts of things that keep us alive & enrich our lives. We should protect it.

riedlr, to pnw

Hiking along #pct #silentsunday #pnw #mountains

haldecraft, to Artist

Really, really, really still trying to find My People here on Mastodon. Am I on the wrong server or something? I'm a self-employed #artist / #maker / #writer ... I make #ceramics ( #pottery )... dye #yarn ... #knit ... read #sciencefiction ... have two #dogs and eleven #cats ... am a recent #widow who loves to talk about what a wild ride #grief is ... and I'm a #Floridian scared shitless for my #BiPOC and #lgbtqia friends and family. Is that enough tags? Hello? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

breadandcircuses, to environment

No one saw this coming, right? 🙄

"UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record"

The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control” as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.

“If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into a catastrophic situation, as the last two records in temperature demonstrates,” António Guterres said, referring to the world temperature records broken on Monday and Tuesday.

FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/07/un-climate-change-hottest-week-world

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

ngaylinn, to mastodon

The psychological safety I feel here on Mastodon is really something special. It's the first social media platform where I've felt I could really be myself. It's encouraged me to let loose and be authentic in little ways, even when I log out and return to real life.

There's a lot of cynicism and dark subject matter, too. But, honestly, it means the world to be in a community that's as concerned about these things as I am, and supports each other through tough times. Even the painful rants here feel more like genuine catharsis than fodder for doomscrolling.

:blobcatheartR: :mastodon: & :techlgbt:
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