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From #India. Here for #photography, #travel pictures, #food, #TechStuff and the silly #banter. Janitor of this instance and I welcome you to join. I'm hopeful you might like it here - it's peaceful and the intention is to keep it that way. I maintain the bots🤖 @IndiaNewsBot @India @BollyGossips @bangalore @Mumbai @Delhi @Kolkata @IndiaSocial Camera is Fujifilm X-T30 and Samsung Galaxy S23 (for mobile clicks)

I’m on the Fediverse using Mostr, the Fediverse Nostr bridge. Interacting with a variety of people and the likes of Snowden or Jack Dorsey has been fun.

Glad to see more and more posts from #Nostr(iches) showing up on my Federated timeline - even the ones I’m not following. This is the variety and diversity I had been looking for 🤙

Friend saw this #caterpillar(?) with white 🤍 spikes during her morning walk. Asked her to share.

#Nature #Wildlife #Insects #Lepidoptera #insects #moths #MothsMatter #InsektenSamstag #insectos #hiking

https://media.charcha.cc/369db9737857912f98bde04a782aeddc6a074eb3b1377a7f0957bae469b6bd57.mp4

In that case, they could demarcate the speakers along the lines of South Asia, South East Asia, and Far East Asia.

South Asia: Pak, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc

South East Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia etc

Far East Asia: Japan, Philippines, and the two Korea(s)

Now how are they going to demarcate/introduce Russians? 🤔 That country is a part of Asia and Europe (geographically).

Saw a (doco type) video some months ago about surveillance in Jerusalem and I couldn’t help but think of how refined and polished it was. So much so, the surveillance in that place (Israel) seems like a ‘dry run’ is going on which will finally implemented in other countries.

if you think my username is really long, youre on shitty mastodong

😂 Not all of us on the Fediverse use mastodon*

/Saw your profile so had to go off-topic 😁

“I wish there was a teeny tiny algorithm that would suggest me posts or which people to follow based on who I follow and posts I interact with..” was the common request when the Fediverse blew up in Nov 2022. People are so used to it now - if it were in my power (or had the know how) I might as well would’ve given it to them.

/Coming from the Fediverse.

I liked Phanpy in the beginning but after playing with it for a while, I’m like Meh.

No way to paste images from clipboard

The boosts section is a huge distraction to me.

An extra click to react to a post (with image/video).

no emoji code so you can type colon followed by name of emoji. …could add more but don’t have the time.

Always read it as ‘IE Fan’ or Internet Explorer Fan’. Thought you kept it on purpose (in a sarcastic way).

Bought it on a whim just because it was beautiful and well, had good ‘vibes’. Have yet to jot down a single line.

Purpose of quote posting? To show that #Nostr isn’t full of CryptoBros, there’s now good content constantly being posted. #GrowNostr. Also, Fedizens of the #Fediverse will relate with the video too.

As for the video, a snippet of the intro: “#Twitter is now a cottage industry to post anything you want and the more provocative it is, the more money you get paid. Because it incentivizes engagement, people are now rushing to report on the most extreme things they can find just for the revenue share. The structure is composed in such a way that even if it is debunked, the original poster has the monetary incentive to leave it up and let it spread even if it’s wrong or OP is mercilessly called out. Twitter is a fallen world of deliberated propagated lies. Let’s start…”

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I don’t follow Israeli politics. If you’re talking about the last election in India, it was a majority win for the current ruling government.

I can be sure these are the nutters that support “Bibi”. That’s where my comment on ‘Knows how to divide the citizens of his country and rule’ came from.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7TwEQX6zwUI

https://media.charcha.cc/7b478ebc44cdeb496b4a819ac0c87abda3ee78192586165091430bc1ad786446.mp4

Mixing #photography with #cooking Bitter Gourd Fry Chips, Karela style [Recipe - YT Link]

#PhotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Fujifilm #Fotografia #Fotographie #Plants #マストドン写真部 #NoEdit #Vegan #Food

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I normally keep my Uber rides under 45 mins. But for a few reasons I ended up just getting a two-hour Uber from an airport the other day.

The driver was nice but was like, “damn lol I hope Uber pays me well for this”. The issue with long rides is that the Uber driver is far away after the ride in a new territory and has to try to earn rides back to their normal location. He asked if he could at least stop for coffee or something and I said of course.

So we go for a while and eventually pull over over at a convenience store and he goes to get some coffee and a snack. I go out and get a coffee too and then I pick up his tab and pay for both of us. Uber ended up calling both of us for a health check because the car was stopped.

Buying him a coffee opened him up a bit so we talked for a while. He asked where I was coming from and I said Egypt, and he said he was from Ghana. While chatting and me explaining why I am coming from Egypt, he made a great point that in many places outside of the US, family is a big deal whereas in the US, it is much diminished. And as a result, it’s very important to build connections with neighbors and coworkers in place of that. Even just tell people “good morning” if you usually see them on the way to work so that people know who you are. He came to the US alone four years ago so that is something he describes having learned and a strategy he is using.

Anyway as we pulled up to my destination I gave him an unusually big tip to compensate any inconvenience or unpaid time he might have getting back. A few mins later my doorbell rang and he had come up to say was super thankful for the big tip. The Uber algorithm had kind of screwed him over and the trip price (and thus his share) was low for the hassle, and he felt screwed over by Uber, but then he saw my tip which instantly fixed it.

I should have checked to see if he had a lightning wallet or tried to convince him to download one if not, because then I could have done one of those social media “okay everybody tip this guy” posts. :/

in many places outside of the US, family is a big deal whereas in the US, it is much diminished. And as a result, it’s very important to build connections with neighbors and coworkers in place of that.

That 1st sentence is sad but the 2nd is sadder. Have always been, “Not here to make friends but to work.”