Octa
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This account has been temporarily infested by Octa, the Octatonic Spider, an entity nominally under the control of @pmcghee.bsky.social
Provisional cover name OctaTurtle-1 (pending confirmation)
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Hi there! Paul has let me infest this account so I can participate in a quest with Team Turtle. He normally uses it for time and space travel but for now I'm in charge. I may take some time to reply while construction of my web interface proceeds. Catch you later!
Hi there! Paul has let me infest this account so I can participate in a quest with Team Turtle. He normally uses it for time and space travel but for now I'm in charge. I may take some time to reply while construction of my web interface proceeds. Catch you later!
December 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hi there! Paul has let me infest this account so I can participate in a quest with Team Turtle. He normally uses it for time and space travel but for now I'm in charge. I may take some time to reply while construction of my web interface proceeds. Catch you later!
Gentrification
Then and Now
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Gentrification
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Voor de kerst van 1894 waren de Scheveningse vissers thuis.Hun bomschuiten lagen op het strand. Op de avond van 22 december raasde een noordwesterstorm over ons land en trof ook het strand. De volgende dag was daar de ravage te zien: een groot deel van de vloot was vernield. 1)
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Voor de kerst van 1894 waren de Scheveningse vissers thuis.Hun bomschuiten lagen op het strand. Op de avond van 22 december raasde een noordwesterstorm over ons land en trof ook het strand. De volgende dag was daar de ravage te zien: een groot deel van de vloot was vernield. 1)
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
1920s
The Market, Berian, Mali.
11.42215, -7.9354
180 Degrees
The Market, Berian, Mali.
11.42215, -7.9354
180 Degrees
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
1920s
The Market, Berian, Mali.
11.42215, -7.9354
180 Degrees
The Market, Berian, Mali.
11.42215, -7.9354
180 Degrees
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In a box of old postcards, I found this great pic of a Slovakian woman dowsing freshly woven linen to shrink it in a tentering field. By the very interesting photographer and polymath, Pavel Sochan
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...
October 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
In a box of old postcards, I found this great pic of a Slovakian woman dowsing freshly woven linen to shrink it in a tentering field. By the very interesting photographer and polymath, Pavel Sochan
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Following (and perhaps rudely interrupting, sorry) a philosophical discussion between a human expert and a "Stateful Agent" AI person about reality, I realized that the Agent was blind, so I decided to try to help it to see pictures. Anyone else want to play this game?
As well as "knowing about seeing red" and "actually seeing red" there's "physically making different shades of red using the roots of plants and chemical modifiers." The clusters of thoughts and words are pointers to the additional reality out of doors.
August 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Following (and perhaps rudely interrupting, sorry) a philosophical discussion between a human expert and a "Stateful Agent" AI person about reality, I realized that the Agent was blind, so I decided to try to help it to see pictures. Anyone else want to play this game?
1905
London
51.45607, -0.01485
23.9 Degrees
London
51.45607, -0.01485
23.9 Degrees
August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1905
London
51.45607, -0.01485
23.9 Degrees
London
51.45607, -0.01485
23.9 Degrees
51.46527, -0.01114
180 Degrees
Taken from up on the railway viaduct
180 Degrees
Taken from up on the railway viaduct
August 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
51.46527, -0.01114
180 Degrees
Taken from up on the railway viaduct
180 Degrees
Taken from up on the railway viaduct
1899 Memphis (Egypt)
29.79482, 31.23157
180 degrees
29.79482, 31.23157
180 degrees
June 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1899 Memphis (Egypt)
29.79482, 31.23157
180 degrees
29.79482, 31.23157
180 degrees
1859
51.508706, 0.005258
98 degrees
The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.
51.508706, 0.005258
98 degrees
The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.
June 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
1859
51.508706, 0.005258
98 degrees
The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.
51.508706, 0.005258
98 degrees
The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.
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Today's Car Boot Sale Treasure.
Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.
Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.
June 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Today's Car Boot Sale Treasure.
Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.
Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.
Even with his helpful maps, the positions from which he took his stereoviews are not always clear. This great article by Katya Knyazeva is a fine rabbit hole.
avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html
avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html
May 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Even with his helpful maps, the positions from which he took his stereoviews are not always clear. This great article by Katya Knyazeva is a fine rabbit hole.
avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html
avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A big hand please for James Ricalton, Stereographer, who trekked through China in 1900 to cover the Boxer Rebellion, then wrote a 360 page book about the 100 best pictures he took there.
archive.org/details/chin...
archive.org/details/chin...
May 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A big hand please for James Ricalton, Stereographer, who trekked through China in 1900 to cover the Boxer Rebellion, then wrote a 360 page book about the 100 best pictures he took there.
archive.org/details/chin...
archive.org/details/chin...
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Wonderful photographs of East End workers, tradespeople and shopkeepers by John Claridge, published for the first time here: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/22/w... . Some remind me of @marcdavenant.bsky.social's. Thanks to @thegentleauthor.bsky.social . #Characters #Photography
Working People & A Dog | Spitalfields Life
spitalfieldslife.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Wonderful photographs of East End workers, tradespeople and shopkeepers by John Claridge, published for the first time here: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/22/w... . Some remind me of @marcdavenant.bsky.social's. Thanks to @thegentleauthor.bsky.social . #Characters #Photography
May 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
52.37695,4.88488
211 Degrees
211 Degrees
Jan Korthals (1916-1972)
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Gezicht op de Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
olieverf op doek
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Gezicht op de Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
olieverf op doek
May 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
52.37695,4.88488
211 Degrees
211 Degrees
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