Hooded Merganser

I took this photo in Georgia, November 2022. There were hundreds of these birds in a small pond across from the hotel where we stayed.

"Hooded Mergansers find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birdwatchingphotography

Dr. Patricia Era Bath, 1981. Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe, used worldwide in eye surgery to remove cataracts. Bath founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.

She restored sight to millions of people suffering from cataracts. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon

i finished the swamp! 😎🎉
it's a nice big part of the world that you can explore, and it breaks up the repetition of the forests beautifully... i love how it turned out.
i will be putting the same thing in a couple other areas.
screenshots of it...

#unrealengine #unrealgamedev #unrealdev #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Yonah Schimmel, a Romanian immigrant, used a pushcart to start his knish bakery Yonah Schimmel’s in 1890. It is currently located on Houston Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The bakery has been serving knishes, kugel, latke and classic New York drinks like Egg Creams and Lime Rickeys since its opening. It is a real slice of #NYC #history.

This #painting of the bakery was done by Hedy Pagremansky. It is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

#Art

An ivory chesspiece, part of a set gifted by the Abbasid Caliph Haroun al-Rashid to Charlemagne in 797. Possibly carved in Sindh (in Pakistan), this piece was a rook, which were war-elephants at the time, not castles. Along with this chess set, the Caliph sent a real elephant as a gift. [683x1024]
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We absolutely loved “The Family Man” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9544034) on Amazon Prime Video (which incidentally does some great Indian content) and so I was delighted to see a new show from the same team on Amazon today: “Farzi” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15477488)

We haven’t watched it yet, but we are looking forward to it since it has got a great cast.

#TV #Indian #Streaming

“Dil To Pagal Hai” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118983) was a movie I absolutely loved when it first came out way back when …

It was probably one of the movies my wife and I watched together after we got married when I introduced her to Hindi movies 🙂 That too was a loooong time ago …

We watched it last weekend again and the magic still remains. The songs are so captivating that just don’t let you go and keep playing over and over in your head … or at least, my head 🙂

Reminiscenses …

#Movie #Hindi #Memories

I’ve spent the past I-don’t-know-how-many weekends coding and totally lost to other things. I finally have a weekend where I don’t have the urge to code. But of course, that means that I have to do other things like cleaning, accounts and other stuff that I’ve neglected for so long 😛

But still, I’m hoping for a more relaxed weekend — let’s see how it goes …

#AmazingNature

#AmazingWorld
#Canada
#YohoNationalPark
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Night time at Scotland’s Dunnottar Castle with the Milky Way. Photo by Connor McLaren.
#Scotland
#UnderTheMilkyWay

@mastodon.au was having problems so I'm here and it's time for a new #introduction. I was a software developer in a previous life. I spent most of my time with C, C++ and Java. I'm retired now but I really miss it and would be willing to volunteer a few hours a week. I spend my free time with my family, my dog, and #gardening these days. My favorite word is cavorting. I renounced my #US citizenship a few years ago and live in Australia full time but still follow #uspolitics (#politics).

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There's still time to apply for the MA in Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

For best consideration, apply by March 1st at: https://www.calstate.edu/apply

I'm happy to answer questions about the program: https://www.csusm.edu/ltwr/facstaff/fac_profiles.html

Please boost, it would be much appreciated!

#GradSchool #Academia #AcademicMastadon #AcademicChatter #MA #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Fiction #CnF #Literature #elit #eliterature

The Electronic Literature Organization is looking for new Fellows! Come collaborate with us #elo #elit #eliterature

https://eliterature.org/2023/02/elo-fellowship-call-for-applications/

“Gender trolling” of women, esp political opponents and journalists, is becoming an increasingly common feature of rightwing movements. It is a deliberate strategy to silence women and “keep them in their place”.

The design of digital platforms is responsible for the hellscape experienced by women online. Harmful narratives are boosted & amplified via algorithms that make such content sticky & viral, through systems built to maximize attention & widespread distribution.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/17/gender-trolling-women-rights-money-digital-platforms-social-media-hate-politics

Is it too late for ‘Thick Trunk Thursday’?

I took a walk today, made .3 of a mile at a slow creep and found this wonderful tree by the dog park so of course I had to photograph it.

It is a truly magnificent tree!

This pastoral idyl was snapped with no filter by my rubbish cheap phone in the middle of Knightsbridge, London. To me that feels like a miracle. But then spring is always a miracle.

#spring #daffodils #cadoganSquare

Dusk over Lake Superior

I got a little carried away with the alt tag/image description. That's the meat of the post. There are like a million characters to use there. Mastodon should allow x4 the characters in toots. That'd be cool. Call it a Super Toot or a Massive Toot. Everyone gets one a day. Anyway, I digress.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #winter #LakeSuperior #Minnesota