jeridansky

jeridansky, 5 days ago to photography

A lovely story about an acclaimed 89-year-old photographer, David Hurn, whose name I’d never heard but whose work I've certainly seen — including a famous Sean Connery / James Bond poster.

“I must be one of the few people that's played Monopoly with The Beatles.”

“I've become the village photographer, so I cover little Johnny's birthday party and this and that and I do it very seriously, as though I was working for Life magazine, and I love doing that.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89zeg04w8go
#photography

jeridansky, 6 days ago to climate

I'm generally skeptical of organizations announcing their green and/or climate-friendly initiatives, but it seems like Eurostar is really doing a lot of good stuff.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/01/deliberately-ambitious-eurostar-promises-to-power-its-trains-with-100-renewable-energy-by-

h/t @primonatura
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #trains

jeridansky, 7 days ago to animals

Tennessee, being adorable. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

jeridansky, 8 days ago to random

And then there were four: “Rutgers and the University of Minnesota now join Northwestern and Brown in successfully reaching deals to peacefully end their encampment protests.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/rutgers-university-of-minnesota-protest-agreement

#StudentSpring #StudentProtests
h/t @Miro_Collas

jeridansky, 9 days ago to animals

Tennessee, giving me a soulful look. #WhiskersWedneday #CatsOfMastodon #today

jeridansky, 11 days ago to animals

Tennessee, really showing off those toe beans. You might notice a lack of floof on one part of his tummy; they had to remove some to do his ultrasound back a week and a half ago. #ToeBeansTuesday #CatsOfMastodon

jeridansky, 12 days ago to H5N1

Do you drink raw milk? You probably don't want to do that right now. @HelenBranswell has some quotes from experts who all sound horrified at the prospect of anyone drinking that milk.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/

#BirdFlu #H5N1 #milk

jeridansky, 12 days ago to random

I've written enough Postcards to Voters — I'm writing 10 right now for a Supreme Court election in Georgia — that I need to buy more postcards.

We have lots of artists here; does anyone sell postcards? I'm looking to buy about 100 with possible re-orders. The art must be nonpolitical and something that will make people want to read the cards. Pictures of animals, flowers, landscapes and such are all good. (My current ones have a bird.)

#MastoArt #FediGiftShop #postcards

APBBlue, 13 days ago to random

It makes Mr. Blue sad that when he's gone, I like to eat Marie Callender's pot pies, but I LIKE Marie Callender's pot pies.

BlackAzizAnansi, 13 days ago to random

I miss eating indoors.

jeridansky, 14 days ago to twitter

As memories of my years on Twitter fade, I'm reflecting:

What I lost as Twitter spiraled downward and I left: A few cool people and some communities, including folks doing good legal explainers.

Some of what I gained on Mastodon: So many cat and bird photos! Much more coverage of climate change. New cool people!

And on Twitter I never saw before-and-now photos from trans women, and posts by furries.

#Twitter #Mastodon #LGBTQ

jeridansky, 15 days ago to random

I don't need more T-shirts, but this one from The Onion would be calling otherwise:
https://store.theonion.com/collections/headlines/products/plan-to-be-more-positive-headline-t-shirt

#Tshirt #TheOnion

jeridansky, 15 days ago to ai

If I were creating an AI safety board it would not include the people listed here, including Sam Altman and the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon Web Services, Delta Airlines, IBM, Adobe, etc. They're just going to come up with "answers" that benefit their businesses.

Where are the researchers like Timnet Gebru? The people used to thinking about safety and unintended harms across a range of technologies?

https://therecord.media/dhs-artificial-intelligence-safety-security-board-announcement

#AI

jeridansky, 15 days ago to random

The good thing about a 6:30 am routine mammogram appointment, the first one of the day: You don’t need to worry about other unmasked patients because there are no other patients. (The medical staff members are all masked.)

The bad thing: That’s awfully early when you aren’t a morning person.

Now back home, in bed, ready to nap.

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

jeridansky, 16 days ago to animals

Tennessee in a late entry for #WhiskersWednesday. #CatsOfMastodon

gedeonm, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

If you could wave a magic wand and make one of these things disappear forever, which would it be? ATM I’m leaning towards No. 2 sadly 🤢

jeridansky, 18 days ago to H5N1

If you want to know what’s going on with H5N1 bird flu and dairy cattle, you’ll want to follow @HelenBranswell

Some of her recent reporting:
"Osterholm said that the Covid pandemic should have taught government officials that transparency and clear communications are key to successful management of outbreaks. 'That to me is being missed here. And I can’t for the life of me understand why,' he said."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/h5n1-bird-flu-scientists-want-usda-genetic-data-faster/

And Helen's latest:
https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/112317285709443895

#birdflu #H5N1

jeridansky, 18 days ago to SanFrancisco

"Reverend Cecil Williams, who until today had been a living testament to the modern era of San Francisco and its reputation for accepting all varieties of the human condition, has died at age 94."

His memory will most certainly be a blessing.

https://sfist.com/2024/04/22/rev-cecil-williams-glide-dies-at-age-94/
h/t @mikec415
#sfba #SanFrancisco

jeridansky, 18 days ago to Jewish

I'm not attending a seder (super Covid cautious still) so I went to see what I could find online.

I really liked this one: Urhatz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQOmht1SHY

#Pesach #Passover #Jewish

jeridansky, 18 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Just back from dropping something off with my neighbor and admiring her cheerful flowers. #Bloomscrolling #today

jeridansky, 19 days ago to animals

Tennessee, doing his version of sitting on my lap. This completes the "sick Tennessee" posts; he seems totally fine now, thank goodness.

Photos will continue for Toe Beans Tuesday, Whiskers Wednesday and Caturday — and any other time he's being exceptionally adorable.

#CatsOfMastodon

jeridansky, 20 days ago to Health

"People who menstruate will experience some 450 or so periods during the course of their lifetimes, so it would be nice to know the different effects they can have on the body, really.

"However, although it is something that happens to half the world's population for half their lives, research has been somewhat lacking. Who knows why. Total mystery. Seriously."

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-showed-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation

#health

fraying, 20 days ago to random

My friend Erika paints awesome chicken portraits and many of the Milk Barn flock make appearances.
https://www.chicken.pics