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CStamp

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I'm still here, I have photos to prove it. (All photos I post are mine unless specifically stated otherwise.)

Proud Canadian. (mostly)

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I periodically go through old jpegs folders looking for something and end up posting what might be a lot of images. If this might be annoying, please put #JPegsFolder in your filters.

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@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

I did not realize Australian culture and Danish culture was so different. This article describes a decades long swim wear war in Australia with all kinds of initiatives to make Australians hide their bodies with more clothes in the summer.

Meanwhile in Denmark we can literally lay stark naked on the beach and no one even raises an eyebrow.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/travel/sydney-beach-bikini-ban-bus-intl-scli

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@randahl Do you take public transit dressed for the beach?

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@randahl Well, that’s the thing. A lot of bare skin on public seats is unhygienic and the oil would make harder to clean, attracting more dirt.

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@randahl I think shower rooms have curtains. Don’t like chlorinated water myself or open change rooms.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

This would be funny if not do serious. Dr Oz had a true crimes show, one that featured Epstein in 2019. In it he talked about frustration around finding those who had enabled Epstein. In the Epstein files, there is an email of Oz inviting Epstein to dinner a few years earlier. The fact he can talk about this as if he didn’t know him is just another look at what shameless liars they are.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10462416/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUr3r45EbBr/

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

I turned off copilot but I still like AI writing my commit message. It's better then "Did stuff".

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@grumpygamer “Did stuff” takes less environment resources…

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@Crystal_Fish_Caves Well, a good number of those are just corrupt.

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Not much more Canadian than this.

We are looking down a snowy road on a clear, sunny day. Bare trees and shrubs are on both sides of the road, and, coming towards us, a man is riding a bicycle, wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt and shorts.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

While the American male skater is getting attention for performing the 1st legal backflip landing on one skate, let's acknowledge the 1st person to have done this: a Black French girl, Surya Bonaly. She, however, lost points for doing it.

"Regarding the criticism she received during her career, Bonaly said she was “born too early,” ...

“I broke ice for other skaters,”...“Now everything is different. People welcome anyone as long as they are good & that is what life is about.”

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

The three most expensive Netflix films are Electric State ($320m), Red Notice and The Gray Man ($200m each). If you're looking at top 5, you've got The Irishman ($160m) and 6 Underground ($150m). I love film. I love art. But if you removed those 5 films from the public consciousness would anything be any different? Would they even be missed? Over a billion dollars on films. Three quarters of a billion quid in real money. 750 times the amount I need to rescue my life and thrive. And for what. Does Michael Bay need that million? The Russo Brothers? Ryan Reynolds? In a 2016 Rolling Stone interview, Bay said that his net worth was around $500 million. He owned a $50 million Gulfstream G550 jet, as well as a Bentley, a Range Rover, an Escalade, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, and two Camaros from the Transformers franchise. If anyone knows Michael, can they please let him know that I don't bear him any ill will, but I would be really ever so grateful if he would gift me a million pounds ($1,364,900). I would super appreciate it and would really genuinely go out of my way to let everyone know how terrific he is and to encourage them to watch his films even whatever the shit the Transformer franchise is supposed to be. I'll even offer to appear in any upcoming projects free of charge. Totally waive the upfront fee (as long as I get 5% on the backend and any distribution, and I will need my own trailer, and staff - a personal trainer, chef, acting coach, dialect coach, masseuse and hype-person). Hooray for Michael Bay who did NOT direct Heat as I thought - that was actually Michael Mann, Bay instead did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but for a cool one million I will happily say that is a better movie than Heat. Booo, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and ensemble cast. Hooray for whoever was in TMNT the movie.

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@TheBreadmonkey That dress looks practical compared to that worn by Teyana Taylor, who had to prove she had boobs AND abs and was prepared to walk like a penguin with tiny feet to pull it off. 😀

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/grammys-2026-fashion-live-from-the-red-carpet

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@TheBreadmonkey Yikes. I was just looking for that first dress in the list, didn't look past that. Well, I guess she didn't have to worry about anything falling out since they were already, well, hanging out. Though, yikes if that dress got caught by anything.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Is it okay to beg for money on Mastodon?

Every week I see accounts asking for money, often tagging me or others directly.

I support recognized aid organisations, but these direct requests make me concerned, because as a Mastodon user I have no way of verifying if the requests are legitimate, or some nefarious person is pretending to be a person in need.

So my question is, should Mastodon servers have a policy about begging, and if so, what should the policy be?

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@randahl I think it would be too much work for the hosts of the instances to verify. I think folk can ask, and it's up to responders to verify. It would get complicated otherwise, as people also market their businesses. It's easy to mute and block if annoyed.

@verge@mastodon.social avatar verge , to random

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

@verge "Beginning in March, all accounts will have a ‘teen-appropriate experience by default.’"

Who determines what a "teen experience" is, and this is what folk have been saying when protesting this ridiculous age verification thing: it affects everybody and is a privacy issue for everyone, which is a bigger deal than the pretended "what about the children?" They will now be collecting data on children as they grow up.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

A look at the faces of a couple of the men murdered by the US government while out on a boat.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/us-boat-strikes-lawsuit-9.7065587

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

LOL. So finally watching Starfleet Academy. First, I love that Holly Hunter has a forehead that moves. I have a hard time watching the uncanny valley fashion.

Secondly, I see why the rightwing brains are exploding. A woman commander with a woman second. The bridge has a Black & Asian man, lots of women, lots of aliens, a token White man?

And, look, more women! 😀

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Finally, writers with some knowledge of first aid! Do not remove the thing, you’ll do more damage. :)

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I am confused as to why there aren’t more grownups as crew…

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Holly Hunter sitting with legs up on the command chair—can so relate. Love her individuality shining through.

San Francisco has changed a bit since I saw it last. What a lot of work! :)

Overall, I liked the first episode, even with the odd cadet doing all the work during the crisis part.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

Can you play a musical instrument? Even if you just know a c chord and can putz around and have fun. You don’t need to be a concert pianist or a master, just acquainted.

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A female cardinal is nestled in a cedar tree, with a bright piece of light shining through the branches onto her. She's facing left, but looking at us, and we can just seen her head and shoulders.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

A reminder to remind your less informed friends and family that Israel is not the Jewish religion.

So tired of seeing vandalism of synagogues here because Israel, the country, that doesn’t represent the Jewish religion, is committing atrocities.

Jewish people are also appalled. Find other ways to speak against Israel.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

This was a test shot, to make sure my settings were working for snow. As I walked past the group of boys we see, I was hearing them discuss who was going to hold the camera.

"Why don't we just prop it up on the bench, so none of us has to hold it?"

I continue onwards, then hear music, so turn and look and the Indian boys were doing Indian dancing. :)

I really think immigrants appreciate this weather more than most locals. :)

Ahead is a yellow iron gate to a trail through a woodland. Standing just on the other side is a group of young teenage boys. Snow is in the foreground and the trees are looking resplendent in their covering of snow.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

I missed this: “The first Canadian in space, Marc Garneau, passed away on June 4, 2025 at the age of 76“

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/bobs-blog-top-ten-2025-9.7025731

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

I would suggest that Americans start watching international instead of US news sources.

Edit: see suggestions in the comments. Feel free to add more.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

I think a very real concern is that Spanky et al will be using all this starting wars around the world to do what Netanyahu did with Gaza. He was facing being ousted, so put the country in a state of war to suspend elections and consequences. :(

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115764444733354552

Sigh. I am old enough to remember airlines caring about customers. This modern age sucks.

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

Do you identify as (and identify rather than fit the definition as I know vegans/vegetarians who eat fish, for example, but mostly are vegan, so identify as such. Also, there are only 4 options. If other, please leave a comment.):

@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

Was almost inside my minimum focus distance. And stayed in place just long enough for this. :)

Full frame image of a chickadee, perched on a curving branch, facing left. There is a very narrow depth of field, so everything but the bird is out of focus. Beyond it, we can see a grey patch in the midst of the otherwise golden background. It is yet another chickadee.
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A male cardinal is sitting on a branch, back to us, but head turned facing left, its eye catching the light. The branches around it are red, with a few dead leaves, and the soft background is made up of snow on distant branches.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

The image is soft colours of maple seeds hanging off of leafless branches, snow making the grey of the trees fade in the distance and the sky grey. The punch of colour comes from a black squirrel hanging upside-down from a branch to reach a clump of the seeds.
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The edge of the bluffs is not far from the left, waves are crashing down below, wind is blowing up and over.

Looking up a snowing path, with big trees to the right, overhanging the trail, with a fence made of wooden posts to the left, with smaller trees. A slow shutter speed is showing the the wind is blowing strongly from the left, snow creating long streak, pretty much horizontal. The snow is causing visibility down the path to drop to white with shadows of trees ahead.
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    Today was mostly a day for dog walkers. :)

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    @CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

    These critters were flitting around so quickly, it was amazing that one stayed still long enough to let me focus. :)

    A chickadee is perched on a vine wrapped around a thorny branch.
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    A cardinal is sitting on a branch on one foot, facing left. Its other foot, the one closest to us, it snug in its body feathers and we can see one of the claws peeking through. It's a bright cloudy day, with lots of snow around and we can see snow on parts of the thicket that allows accumulation, red berries to the left, and the red of the bird is almost glowing.
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    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    Dr. Phil is not just an a-hole..

    He's a Dr. Asshole

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Il7IVkIm8

    CStamp ,
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    @stux Well, PhD Dr, since he surrendered his medical licence.

    @bittner@hachyderm.io avatar bittner , to random

    Some days I truly miss the unbridled techno-optimism of the 80s.

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    @bittner Phone modems and noisy connections, bulletin boards...it was a nice time. :)

    @BobHorowitz@sfba.social avatar BobHorowitz , to random

    September 7th, 2011: a delicate dance of light trails weave their way through the night sky above the runways of San Francisco Airport. This photograph was created by merging eight photos of planes taking off from SFO over the course of an hour and a half. Each photo was approximately 105 seconds long, so the total time of the combined result is about 14 minutes of exposure. For the visually impaired: the orange and red tinted trails of plane lights twist their way up from a horizontal band of orangey runway. The horizontal streak of runway also includes a brightly lit Terminal 2 on the left and streaks of planes that have landed over the course of the hour and a half. The planes in the sky snake like Medusa's hair, buffetted by strong winds above the airport and San Francisco Bay. The sky has a bit of purple haze from nighttime moisture and light pollution from nearby Oakland and San Francisco. The purple gradient fades aways at the top of the photo, higher in the sky. Finally, the bottom 20% of the photo is black. That black is water... aswampy inlet just south of the airport, standing between me and the runways.
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    @BobHorowitz Very cool!!!! What was your shutter speed?

    CStamp ,
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    @BobHorowitz Oh, so sorry, I should've looked at the alt text. I was too busy admiring the air trails. :) Thanks. :)

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    @georgetakei He's been fired.

    @tylersi@c.im avatar tylersi , to random

    Hey all! My name is Tyler. I want to share a little post. It's so nice to be here! My interests include and more. Can you recommend accounts to follow? In any case I've heard good things about Mastodon and the fediverse so I'm looking forward to connecting with folks.

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    @tylersi If you click on those hashtags, you’ll find people using them. You can follow those of interest and can even follow the hashtags. See who people of interest follow. Someone who jumps to my mind and covers both history and buildings is @AbandonedAmerica and a great one for astronomy is @sundogplanets

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    @tylersi sorry for all the typos. And welcome. There are a lot of interesting people here. :)

    @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

    A lesser known Mastodon pro tip:

    Want to mute a conversation, but the mute conversation button isn't appearing on the post?

    The only way you can mute a conversation is on a post you have made in the conversation.

    But the secret part - Say you want to mute it without actually participating in the conversation:

    Reply to a post, set the visibility to "Private Mention", remove everyone's username from the post. Post it.

    Then you can click "mute conversation" on THAT post, and it silently mutes you from the conversation.

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    @JessTheUnstill That seems a power tip. :)

    @CStamp@mastodon.social avatar CStamp , to random

    If you'd like to see something beautiful, Aaron Blaise's "Snow Bear" is currently on YouTube!

    https://youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Not everyone has friends and family to spend Thanksgiving with. I don't want any of you to feel lonely, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Ask Me About Bugs" pin. Ask me any bug-related questions and I will answer them all, keeping you company during the holiday.
    https://collabs.shop/psvl3t

    A round pin with a happy green caterpillar in the center. It says "Ask me about bugs".
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    CStamp ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This would be such a perfect gift for @futurebird . Even better would be "ants." :)

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

    Screenshot of a CNBC headline that reads: “How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy.” The subtext says Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever, which may be smart for consumers but can reduce productivity.
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    @georgetakei With regards to work productivity, if a job requires a phone or a computer, then the damn company can provide those to their staff. This whole thing in which employees are now expected to pay for and maintain equipment at their own expense is ridiculous.

    As is the whole concept that everyone must update everything immediately, regardless of their needs.

    Especially when these "poor, suffering" companies hold the wealth of nations, continue to expect growth instead of profit.

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    Buy Art From People Who Are Alive

    A sign on an NYC utility pole. It reads Buy Art From People Who Are Alive
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    CStamp ,
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    @raganwald @pluralistic I can’t imagine current music store workers having that same level of knowledge. Sam’s was a good time.