“The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees”
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Samer Farha
@samerfarha@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I photograph, eat, and drink across DC; I'm obsessed with beer and Iceland; Íslandvinur; bon vivant. Measurements in metric unless noted.
🍽️ Reykjavík food guide: https://samer.is/eating/reykjavik
Some hashtags: #iceland #reykjavik #washingtondc #photography #photos #arlingtonva #tootfinder
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Just read “Muybridge”, a graphic book about the life of the photographer. I’ve never read a non-fiction graphic book before, and now I want more!
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@peter@thepit.social I’m still shocked and saddened to have discovered this personally — my cousins voted for him. But the one that sent me over the edge was the American tourist of Indian descent who I met in Iceland and who told me he was going to vote for him, and when I asked, “the guy who wants to take away your citizenship and deport you and your parents?” He just said “well, that’s just words, he doesn’t mean it.”
I think of him weekly.
It’s very spring in London
As far as annoyances go, it’s a minor one, but my struggle walk this morning was brought to you by ankle socks that would not stay put, requiring a stop every five minutes to fix.
So many people are ordering from the taco truck, that the taco truck just got a delivery of ingredients!
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@peter@thepit.social they might be uncomfortable with it but they seem to be *very ultra comfortable* with AI agents whom they know even less about how they work!
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@arianvp one time, in Brussels, I asked the front desk of the hotel if they could give me directions somewhere on a very nice day. “I can call a taxi for you…” “But it’s only 2 or 3 kilometers?” “Well, Americans don’t like walking!”
I’m on the Metro Commanders train and there’s some Nationals fans and I might have died and gone to hell? Help.
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@peter I’m thinking of the clean up phase as the “continued employment until retirement” part of my career.
New obsession from Fiska: what if Pocky was larger and exploded in your mouth?
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@fedward@distraction.party @gregatron5@vmst.io if you don’t want to deal with running PiHole, I use NextDNS.io. It’s $20/year.
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@donw@mastodon.coffee what’s the issue with shared photo albums? I’ve used them and they seemed fine. (But my needs literally amount to “here’s some pictures we can all share in one place”)
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@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza my condolences on the loss of your friend, but what a lovely tribute you’ve written. It made me wish I could have known him!