Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

I love the fog. Turns any city into something far more mystical. Or something resembling the Silent Hill video game, depending on your point of view.

#Bristol #photography #fog

Countdown to the Mastodon Instance Wars.

A small selection of early carboniferous marine invertebrate fossils from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils #AllMyPalsAreRocks

Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist and cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 and the results are mesmerizing. They also beautifully illustrate geology’s Law of Superposition: newer and younger sediments are deposited on top of older sediments. We see thousand of years of course changes. You can unravel the layers by eye by noting which layer cuts others

Hello people on Mastodon! ❤️

I'm Luisa and I illustrate fantasy book covers for various publishers and self-publishers as well as card art for MTG. Above all, I love to portray strong women in dramatic lighting.

#introduction #MastoArt #BookCoverArt #Fantasy #Digitalart #art #illustration

Prayer for the Tide
#digital #illustration

So this is happening

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Dear Space Karen,
No thanks.

Why did the astronauts who landed on the moon, not do more acrobatics?

Young engineers tend to crunch and binge like crazy (I've done it, pretty much everyone around me has done it, I see junior folks continue doing it). They feel like they have to, because of stupid cultural tropes, because they think they have to match seasoned professionals' performance right away, because they want the result of decades of experience within months. But most of all they can afford the mental and physical price of it.

During my decade in tech I've quit twice. Both times due to incompatibility with new leadership ideas of how to "steer the ship". Both times over things dramatically more subtle than what's happening over at hellsite. Both times I ended up at better paying jobs where I felt happier and more fulfilled with what I do.
Tech is (still, even now, with all "the economy" stuff going on) a massively privileged sector where people, have pretty good options all the time.

#riptwitter

#30DayMapChallenge 19:Globe

This is what Topi meant by Globe, right? 😉

Helsinki, Finland. Data from https://kartta.hel.fi/, overlays © OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered in #rayshader #rstats

YOU CANNOT STOP ME

#30DayMapChallenge — A map without a computer

Middl Earthcadia

Hit up the @observablehq notebook for details.

https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr/2022-30-day-map-challenge-day-17-a-map-without-a-computer-midd

when you boost your own post, it's a "boast"

As long as the topic of image description has your attention, I'd like to try & reproduce on Mastodon something I & several other volunteers organized on Twitter. It’s 2 hashtags to assist with image description.

The first is #ALT4me — blind & visually impaired individuals can reply to an image that lacks ALT text with this tag, so that sighted volunteers can then reply with a description. The strength of crowdsourcing this is that each person adds unique details from their own perspective, that when combined, form a detailed & meaningful conception of the image. It also allows one person to give a quick triage description, & then others can fill in details as they see fit.

The 2nd is #ALT4you — if you come across an image that is particularly striking, or one that you believe will quickly become iconic & part of a shared visual imagery/memory, please describe that image & tag it with this tag. This is particularly important during unfolding news stories that quickly break & change, leaving behind indelible visual impressions, that then shape most peoples memory & consciousness of the event. Obviously, for the blind/VI, without a description, search images, no matter how important, remain perceptual and informational black holes.

Thank you all again for the outstanding image description I have encountered so consistently in my limited experience on Mastodon.

Figured I should explain this here in case folk are wondering why my finger is often in my photos - I have scale bars tattooed on my index fingers, the lines and dots are 5mm apart and they’re super useful for quick field photos 😅 Demonstrated here with some gorgeous crinoidal limestone from Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

tl;dr why all the crypto co's are long fucked, not just FTX:

all the crypto co's are broke because the dollars all left in May, and the co's now have to pretend these billions of dollars in illiquid cryptos are worth their book value, when they just aren't