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Abhijit Menon-Sen
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer.
Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.
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@mattblaze@federate.social It is politically especially convenient to blame the recent string of disasters (floods, landslides) in the state on a CIA plot than on climate change and unrelenting and unregulated ongoing construction/dams/mining/etc. Anyway, here's what Nanda Devi looks like from "our" angle, further to the south-east (the photos in the article are from the south west, and much closer-up).
I feel bad that sea lions (the animals) are associated with sealioning (the human behaviour). However, I have not actually met a sea lion (the animal), so there's a small chance that they deserve it.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai If the CIA had thought to put a hashtag on the nuclear device, they would never have had trouble finding it again.
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@mattblaze@federate.social I have seen lots of wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, but I realised that I don't understand how big they are only when I started seeing vanes being transported by road on enormous trailers. I still can't really fathom how something that takes thirty seconds to overtake on the highway can spin so fast (or the wind that makes them spin that way).
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@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world For me, the one thing that stood out most is that mice prefer to eat sweet sugary things over cheese.
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@kde It's just nice to see three young people looking so happy about anything to do with free software.
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@bisonrimant@piaille.fr I love the sculptures! but the posture of the armoured goose and the word "commission" made me think of https://www.oglaf.com/folk-art/ 🙈
The innards of an old Kingston 4GB USB stick that doesn't work properly any more. (It's detected at first, but then keeps getting reset and spewing errors a few seconds later.)
I don't know what I was expecting, but there's not much to see other than the flash controller, flash chip, and the USB connector.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Here's a photo from almost the southernmost tip of India.
I can't say anything about the safety of these pixels, because right next to these windmills is the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudankulam_Nuclear_Power_Plant)
The nuclear power plant has 2GW of operational capacity (with another 4GW expected any day now since 2016). Meanwhile, there's more than 2GW of installed wind turbines all over the same area.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Just out of curiosity, what was the process of taking this photo like, or in general many of your buildings-in-the-street photos? Do you have trouble finding a place to take the photo from? Do you spend a long time dialling in the movements etc.? Do people come and talk to you while you do it?
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@mattblaze@federate.social I'm not an election expert, but it's interesting to compare this with the electoral apparatus in India, which is considerably larger, but also more federalised (and presumably more recent) and now completely dependent on electronic voting machines. (It's also been pretty thoroughly subverted in recent years, but that's as an aside, because I'm not mentioning it to disagree with your point about US elections.)