I've visited the ruins of Fountains Abbey quite a few times, but this is the first time with the 360 camera.
Love the pattern of the vaulted roof.
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Keep Going Pin. Motivational cat posters are out; pins that remind you of your soul-crushing, nonconsensual obligation to contribute to our capitalist society are in.
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1. assume every camera has film unless you personally verify otherwise
2. never point a camera at something you're not willing to photograph
3. never put your finger on the shutter button until you're ready to take a photograph
4. always be aware of the subject of your photograph and what is behind the subject
RE: https://things.uk/@eclectech/110117502467818244
Not quite back online yet, but hello, and please accept an old bouncy post for this #TransDayOfVisiblity x
484) Hopebot. Finds you in the darkness and tells you that at the end of every tunnel is a light, no matter how bleak the future looks it is still unwritten, you are alive and a human being with mind, the universe's last defence against entropy. Rise. Continue. Be. #SmallRobotsRemastered
Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026
Oracle’s share price since they went GenAI nuts:
The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on it, that they had to approve it even though it wasn't able to actually meet the security criteria.
just noticed it's How DNS Works' 4th birthday soon! https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/
it's still one of my favourite zines, and it comes with a free ★★ playground ★★ at https://messwithdns.net where you can create DNS records and see what happens!
So it's TDOV again apparently.
Which means it's five years that I've been out publicly.
There's about 1 or 2% of us in the population, so you probably know at least a couple others.
I tend to be more visible than other trans folks, in part because I can be. There's a lot of us who aren't as obvious or as loud about it.
A lot of us tend to be shockingly competent and capable, tho at least some of that is survivorship bias.
Most of us want to be able to live our lives in peace, tho there's some really loud assholes who have unreasonable objections to this.
Ultimately we're people, just like you - with our own hopes and fears and joys and challenges.
And if you ask me - I think we're pretty fucking awesome. Why don't you get to know us and find out why?
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.