bluehazy @bluehazy@qoto.org

Out a walk

Nearing the end. Fall color was incredible this morning walking along Zürichsee - this tree has already lost its leaves though, and was reflected in a puddle.

#Zürich #Switzerland #photography #walking

The OBR said despite the new support with energy bills, living standards are going to fall by 7% over the next two years. This would wipe out eight years of growth.

Welcome to #BrexitBrokenBritain

A queue of Blue Jays at the peanut feeder. It isn't always FIFO (first in, first out); sometimes a waiting Jay will be looking off in space when another one takes the next spot.

Coping with climate change: Advice for kids — from kids.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137156134/kids-youth-coping-climate-change

i am not cool and that is too coolified for you Hoties …

Checked out the back windows (harbour) and saw it was currently dry with blue skies. Right, good time to nip out to chores.

Stepped out the front door (street): rain.

FFS 😂 I'll wait five minutes!

#rain #weather #Cornwall #CornishLife

Un aplauso para todas las #admins de instancias del #fediverso.

Mantener esta infraestructura no es facil. Menos con todo el sarao de la #TwitterMigration

Muchas gracias!

Albert's Pyramid: Queen Victoria had a 35' (10.6m) pyramidal memorial cairn to her beloved Albert built after his death in 1861.

Morning all. I'm Shaun, a writer & artist based in northern Scotland. I've been on Mastodon a while, but what with Twitter becoming even more of hellscape free-for-all I'm gonna give it a proper go.

These are from my GN The Boy with Nails for Eyes, which was out this year.

An indigenous man knocks over a statue of Spanish conquistador Diego de Mazariegos on the 500th year anniversary of Columbus arriving in the Americas. Chiapas, Mexico, 1992.

A 3,900-year-old carnelian crocodile pendant. Egypt, 20th-18th century BCE. The Michael C. Carlos Museum,

Miss America, 1924

An Ancient Egyptian student's school exercise with corrections in red, 1981 - 1802 BC. Image by the Met.

Greta Garbo poses with MGM's 'Leo the Lion,' 1926.

Rules for a reasonable future: Acceptance

Each person should be accepted as an equal human being regardless of :

Disability, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Religion, Race/Nationality/Ethnicity, Economic/Social Class.

A friend asked yesterday if I wanted to talk on (a major radio channel) about the missile that fell in Przewodów from the perspective of a Pole living in Scotland. Emotive questions were suggested, e.g. will there be a war, who’s missile was it.
I mean. I’m not an expert. But I thought there already was a war? Will the war escalate? Again, not an expert. I hope it won’t, in fact I hope it will end soon and the suffering of the Ukrainian people will end soon as well. Am I scared it will escalate? Sure, I bloody am and so should you - if it escalates it won’t escalate just to Przewodów. But again, not an expert to comment on various escalation scenarios. Who fired the missile? Not an expert. Didn’t track it. Don’t have data. There was a number of press conference organised by people who do have access to data and they presented the most likely scenario.
I said ‘no’ to the request. Primarily because as a comms person I think it’s bad practice to speak to the media in a private capacity (most of the time). I also didn’t comment because (as a trained not practicing journalist) I just don’t understand why you’d ask such questions of a non-expert. And sure, I can talk about how I feel. Not sure there’s many words to describe it. Not sure there’s anything useful to say.
What I did today though was I pinned a yellow and blue sunflower brooch to my winter coat.
#istandwithukraine #ukraine

A Headdress of Ekoi people, south Nigeria or southwest Cameroon c. early 20th century

#Introduction
Most of my personality is constantly talking about #cats ❤️ I’m an obsessive reader and tend to gravitate towards #sci-fi, #LiteraryFiction, and #HistoricalFiction. I'm always open to recommendations, so do drop me a line from your fav books!

I’m a ML Engineer and worked with ML in #InfoSec and #NLP. Recently I’ve been really excited to about #privacy and #security in #ML inferences.

In my free time I make #DigitalArt though not as consistent with them. Here’s some of them: