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sbourne

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Retired accessibility pro. I love your pet pictures.
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sbourne, to random
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I hope you all appreciate how much restraint I have shown in sharing pictures from our Scotland-London-Norfolk trip. I've taken over 2000…so far… 😬

sbourne, to roadtrip
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Wandering about the grounds at Blickling House we took a wrong turn, but we're rewarded by finding this beautiful cluster of small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata). They believe they are about 600 years old.

sbourne, to roadtrip
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We've been in London, doing a few London things. The other day, we went to Kew Gardens. We visited the Temperate (as in climate) House and Kew Palace, but spent most of the day walking around admiring their trees.

#roadtrip #london

Looking across the lake, which is reflecting the gray sky and the surrounding trees. A patch of yellow flowers is growing along rocks on the right.

sbourne,
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Yesterday, we made the trek to the Greenwich Observatory and had time for a quick visit to the Maritime Museum.

#roadtrip #london

A huge glass bottle on its side on top of a stone plinth. It has a model of a three masted ship inside. In the background is a bit of the museum and a blue sky with big puffy clouds.

sbourne,
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@aardrian We decided not to do Cutty Sark, but we walked past it on the way to and from the Tube!

sbourne, to roadtrip
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I met a venerable old shore beast today. I told them how much I liked their hair cut. They seemed quite pleased to hear that.

A face view of the shore beast. Their face is a little lopsided, but their imposing chin makes up for it.

sbourne, to random
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Heather Cox Richardson is so good. Today she reminds us that "“Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced writer and reformer Julia Ward Howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage."
Let's all celebrate that one, instead of the one that just celebrates childbirth.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-11-2024

sbourne, to random
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I've missed out on the aurora here on the Isle of Skye. The days are very long as we approach the solstice and it's still not full dark at midnight ... and I just can't stay up later than that after hiking all over the place during the day. I tried my phone to see if it could see something I couldn't, but no joy.

sbourne, to Lichen
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We visited the Dun Beag broch, an iron age roundhouse fort. Imagine having dry stonewall skills so good that your works still persist thousands of years later!

#DryStoneWall #broch #lichen #lichensubscribe #Skye #roadtrip

Detail of the broch wall, painted in white and orange lichens, and showing how the large blocks of stone fit tightly together despite their irregular shapes, with the gaps chinked with smaller bits of stone.

sbourne, to random
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I love Spring. The still leafless trees are tipped with tiny flowers and leaf buds, with all the wild colors of Fall but painted with a tiny brush

gbhnews, (edited ) to random
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also

what about .

Got any big 🌳 in your neighborhood? Let's see 'em. We love a nice tree.

sbourne,
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@gbhnews We have a lovely old White Pine in our suburban backyard. Without cutting it down and counting its rigs, we have to guess its age - it could be close to 100. It's about 2 feet across at the base.

NeadReport, to Notesnook
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So... I left Evernote months ago when they hiked their pro plan subscription (like 163% !) It was bloated, and their free plan was crippled; that + the company had been struggling for years to find a CEO who could bring some kind of vision back to the app. It all flopped and they were sold to Bending Spoons.

Over the ensuing months, I was fortunate to find a replacement! An Open Source, fully encrypted, Evernote killer. And what a note taking app it has become.

A major release (v3.0) was launched officially today. 8 months of non-stop development and testing by a two-man Dev team has really brought this app center stage. These guys are hands-on with listening to user feedback on their NN Discord server; when they find time to sleep beats me (the plight of the developer).
Read about this latest journey AND all of the great new features of v3.0 that are note-taking game changers, on their blog post:

https://blog.notesnook.com/introducing-notesnook-v3/

You're going to hear more about Notesnook in the weeks and months to come and it won't be coming from me. It will be from a growing userbase that can't help but share the awesomeness that Notesnook brings to notetaking.

@notesnook

sbourne,
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@NeadReport @notesnook I had never used a notes app (although I took a peek at the MS one once, and I couldn't see how it would do anything for me at the time.) But @redcrew tipped me off about Notesnook and hooboy does it fit into my life! I keep finding uses for it.

gbhnews, to random
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what do you all think about the state of news visibility here on mastodon?

https://mastodon.social/@MediaOnMastodon@toot.io/112316173190323025

sbourne,
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@gbhnews There may not be as much, but it's higher quality than what I saw ... before.

sbourne, to pareidolia
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beep, to random
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every tech company designing products that assume a fast, reliable, always-on network connection is henceforth required to use hotel wifi for a month

these are just the rules i do not make the rules

sbourne,
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@beep Also, trying to use their fab app or website driving around in rural America between hotels.

GottaLaff, to random
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Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

sbourne,
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@GottaLaff Of course!

GottaLaff, to random
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Hi from Functioning-WiFi Laffy!

Pro tip: You don’t need to use NFL (Not For Laffy) on days when I’m not live-posting trial threads.

NFL is only applicable when I need to skip your replies (they pile up enormously even on non-trial and slow days), but no need to extend that courtesy on non-proceedings days.

And thanks again for being considerate enough to use it when I need you to. It really helps.

Kthxbye.

sbourne,
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@GottaLaff I figure I don't have to reply to everything, so on your thread days I just say it to myself. It's the reverse of "never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake": "Never interrupt your ally when they're knocking it our of the park."

GottaLaff, to random
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😳😳A man set himself on fire in the designated protest area outside in New York, a witness says -NBC

sbourne,
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@GottaLaff I can't "like" this post 😢

GottaLaff, to Alaska
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administration bans drilling in nearly half of petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/climate/alaska-drilling-ban-biden-climate?cid=ios_app

sbourne,
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@GottaLaff Yes!!!

gbhnews, to disability
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Was responding to someone and thought: "Wait I should tell everybody that."

Did you know @gbhnews is one of the very few newsrooms in the country with a reporter specifically covering the beat?

Her name is Meghan Smith and you can see her excellent work right here: https://www.wgbh.org/people/meghan-smith

sbourne,
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@gbhnews Looking forward to what she has to say about the new ADA regulations for state/local gov websites and apps!
(C.f., https://mastodon.social/@sbourne/112241455915553244)

gbhnews, to random
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😳 Mindboggling: AP reports that mens' wheelchair division racer Marcel Hug broke the course record AFTER crashing and righting himself to complete the race:

"Switzerland’s Marcel Hug righted himself after crashing into a barrier when he took a turn too fast and still coasted to victory in the Boston Marathon."

Live updates and race results from the : https://www.wgbh.org/local-news/live-updates/live-updates-from-the-2024-boston-marathon

sbourne,
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@gbhnews whoa!!

sbourne, to random
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I love the name of this smol automotive repair and restoration shop so much: Fine Motor Skills

absolutspacegrl, to random
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I forgot to upload my pic, so here you go! From Kerrville, Texas - April 8, 2024.

It was cloudy, but we had almost 4.5 mins of totality so there were a few moments where we could see it!

sbourne,
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@absolutspacegrl It really is. It makes all your words disappear.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Some rather beautiful tiles from a tenement close in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #tiling #cathcart #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement

sbourne,
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@thisismyglasgow So many of the tiles you post are the same color scheme: that beautiful deep green and the smoldering orange. Is there a story behind that? Are the pigments local perhaps?

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    sbourne,
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    @neurovagrant You can, you know, and I realize this is controversial, put stickers on top of other stickers...

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