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The Linker

@diagonist.bsky.social

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Student of language(s), birds, zen, jazz, art, Britcom, wildlife photography. Left big tech consulting years ago to teach English to refugees. Let's celebrate life together. NC native, met Texas wife in Boston, now live in blue spot Austin. 🥄

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

I had to drop everything and share this incredible public domain photo on Wikimedia Commons called rat_selfie_1:

"A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

"A rat in an operant conditioning chamber presses a button to take a selfie."

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Lyn Maccallum @lynmac.bsky.social · 16h

Windows on reflection
From my archives

#windowsOnwednesday #wednesdaywindows #windowswednesday #photography #reflection

A puddle between a wet footpath on the left and wet road on the right. A yellow line runs alongside the curb, broken only for a street drain. Windows from across the street are reflected upside down on the surface of the puddle. One window in arch shaped, two are square. Some fallen dead leaves are on the footpath, floating on the water and also under the water.

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The Linker @diagonist.bsky.social · 21h

A fun hobby!

LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 22h

I am rich in vintage salt and pepper shakers

Found in the Red Shed

The Linker @diagonist.bsky.social · 22h

Reminds me of the haunted house setting in an Angry Birds game. Not to belittle a a great artist…

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Steve Bezner @bezner.bsky.social · 1d

Speak up for those
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9

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Karen P. Stevens PhD, RN @nursepub.bsky.social · 2d

"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make...
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.

A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning Blue Sky

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Nuntius Photographicus 📷📱🇳🇱🍀 @fotokoerier.bsky.social · 2d

Winterwonderland

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 4d

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Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 4d

I think anyone can learn (excluding Chuck). The fact Dem leadership hasn't recruited a talented media teacher (or 20) and run boot camps for everyone in service of fixing the "Dems are ineffective and/or don't care" brand problem is appalling. #BetterDems

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

This feels like a trap.

Massachusetts Mom Shocked After High School Sends Sons Home With 'Military Consent' Forms

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful voice

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The Linker @diagonist.bsky.social · 5d

Didn't realize you had such lovely blue eyes. Nice of you to remind us.

The Linker @diagonist.bsky.social · 5d

Bluest glacier shot I've seen. @twistopherrobin.bsky.social

mitchseaver.bsky.social @mitchseaver.bsky.social · 5d

South Sawyer Glacier

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#photography #PhotographersUnited #photography
#WestCoastKin #Alaska #landscape
#landscapephotography #scape #ForestFriday #fjord #iceberg #glacier

Tidewater glacier at the head of Tracy Arm, Southeast Alaska

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etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thought I posted this back when I joined, but can't find it. It remains my favorite, most fortuitous photo, maybe ever. Chandrashila, where Rama meditated to atone for killing Ravana, in northern India.

#WorldPhotographyDay #India #photography #mountains #travelmemories

The foreground is a narrow, rock-strewn ridge with a small white temple on top. A man dressed in a pale robe and turban is climbing up beside it. The background is many layers of low hills and snow-capped mountains, and a dark storm-filled sky.

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etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social · 23d

Leading #lines in the supposedly longest hall in an Indian temple, Ramanathaswamy Temple. Very old digital pic enlarged way beyond where it should be.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #architecture #travelmemories

The photo is one of the four outer corridors of this temple. Square-ish grey-ish blue columns stretch into the distance, both side standing on a raised yellow-ish platform, each topped with a golden lion. Far into the distance is a bright band of light - this is half way down the hall. Beyond that is hints of more hall and eventual darkness. Overhead is a long, brightly painted strip of a green background with circular patterns. Small human figures are far down the hallway, with a few lying or sitting on the raised platform.

This is an awesome temple to visit - it is like a water park for the devout. Traditionally, many holy rivers and streams pass through or end here, and your job as a devotee is to get some water from all of them dumped on your head, in a particular order that is not orderly. Since the priests get paid by the whole experience, you end up running, and slipping and sliding, and being drenched as fast as possible, at wells all over this large complex. It was hands down the most fun temple experience I had in India. (FWIW I had a private "tour" and a local Hindu fixer.)

Honestly, though, there is a final stage, after you have been purified by the water (and if you're lucky, a darshan), where you go into the sea outside the temple and throw something away, and never think about it again.

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The Linker @diagonist.bsky.social · 5d

Perfect bumblebee!

Bug Eyed Photography @scottlively.bsky.social · 27d

#ColorADay #YellowThu #nature #photography #macro #macrophotography #bees #pollinators #eastcoastkin #photographersunited

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IdahoLark @idaholark.bsky.social · 7d

The first Barbie doll I ever bought was this Jane Goodall one a few years ago. I planned to give it to a grandniece this Christmas but the value just skyrocketed. Mattel should do another run of them.