NehaKhazanchi @NehaKhazanchi@qoto.org
Former Biotechnologist/Biomed Science. Current Photography/Videography (freelance). Interests - Science, Food, Travel, Wildlife, Pop Culture, Current Affairs, Memes.
📍Bangalore, India.
Joined Nov 2022
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We have a way to find #Indians on here. Follow the group @mastodonindians and tag your India-related posts with it.
A group will boost all posts tagged with it to the people who follow it.
And lastly, boost this.
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When it comes to Mastodon, I’ve had higher than usual unpleasant experiences of men trying to explain things to me or men asking me leading questions so they can explain things to me (usually that thing involves why Mastodon is better than all the others). Has anyone else has that experience?
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@deavid A bunch of us are a syndicate that operate a remote telescope in Spain (darker skies and fewer clouds) @ roboscopes.com. This is a widefield rig (California Nebula is about 2.5 degrees across - 5 times the width of the full moon). Think of it as a 400mm telephoto lens on an amateur digital camera. The scope is a Takahashi FSQ106 mounted on a Paramount MX (that controls the pointing). The big disk at the back holds the filters and the red cylinder is the camera. More to say if interested.
Bangalore Weather
This was #bangalore weather yesterday, and today feels no better! Thanks to #chennai rains and a depression in the Bay of Bengal.
If THIS is just what November looks like, I wonder what December and January are about to throw at us? I cannot describe in words how unequipped we are to cope with this!!
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Mastodon doesn't show what you've favourited on your profile (for now), send those flirty likes, like that nsfw photo, live a little
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Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Fragments of the chimney.
We need to remember that those buildings did not fall from the sky. They were designed by educated people who accepted the Nazi ideology and used their knowledge and experience to design efficient infrastructure of murder.
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I went hiking in the Ozarks on Saturday morning and stumbled on a small patch of frost flowers!
This is the first time I've seen them, and I was surprised to see them this late in the year. Frost flowers typically form during the first few hard freezes of fall when sap in certain small plants freezes, rupturing the stem and forcing water out. The water freezes on contact with the air and builds up into distinctive flower-shaped petals!
From what I've read, the original stone columns and woodwork have been retained and the walls painted with lime scale, as they would have been in the early 20th century. Some parts, which I didn't manage to capture, had wooden flooring, which I read somewhere was also the original flooring that had been #restored.
The viewing galleries are now balcony corridors leading to various rooms within the #samsung experience center.
This place is definitely worth a visit, especially considering how very few #colonial buildings in #bangalore are actually restored with this painstaking detail!
For most of my life growing up in #bangalore, I remember quickly walking past this building without giving it a second glance. Standing at the junction of Brigade Road and Resicency road this #building was in a largely disheveled condition through most of the 80s and 90s; and known for shady activities (it was used as a theater to play B-grade movies at one point).
This is the Bangalore #operahouse built in the 1930s, for the colonial residents of the British Bangalore cantonment. In the early years it was used as a theater, opera and also a space where boxing matches were held between troops who arrived during #ww2.
One of the few #colonial Goth buildings of Bangalore that hasn't been razed to the ground, thanks to a court order, this building has been painstakingly restored by the Korean electronic company - #samsung.
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I did this #Hindi #vocabulary test from IIT Kanpur's #language lab and scored 79.13% it was weird and fun to do and helps with their research. Takes 10 mins. Try it out and tell me what you score!! Do Boost for reach.
PS. Results take a couple of hours to arrive by email. So a very Mastodon experience, if you ask me.
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On a clear night in Kinlochleven in November, the Milky Way is visible down the loch. This shot took several attempts as the high road to the village runs to the left of this image. A 30 second exposure meant it took a bit of good timing to avoid light trails from the few cars which did venture down that night. This image was taken next to the slipway area in Kinlochleven.
#Photography #LandscapePhotography #AstroPhotography #ScotlandPhotography
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This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
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#FediTips Think differently about DMs
DMs seem weird in #Mastodon at first. They appear in the timeline and sometimes look like posts if you don't check the icons! But try to think differently about them here. As an admin I assure tell you there is no UI to read DMs. No admin has time for db digging. 😂 But don't think of them like DMs. elsewhere. Instead try to use them for taking a conversation offline when it's no longer of value to other people's timelines. So not private per se but discreet.
Was I the only one waiting for more from the #FIFA opening ceremony? I certainly expected it to be longer! That got over a bit too quickly if you ask me.
Also, Nora Fategi ka kya hua?!
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I have an important request.
Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.
So if you run an account for an organization, please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.
If not, please boost.
Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/
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What if the universe is set up just like the Fediverse, but we don’t know about the existence of any other life because our Earth instance was preemptively blocked for hateful conduct.
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Former Biotechnologist/Biomed Science. Current Photography/Videography (freelance). Interests - Science, Food, Travel, Wildlife, Pop Culture, Current Affairs, Memes.
📍Bangalore, India.
Joined Nov 2022
