Dancing Lights 💃🏻🪩🕺🏻

I managed to snap about two hours of 10 second images from a dry lake last night, between 10pm and midnight.

This is all of them compressed into a time lapse, with the stars rotating around the south celestial pole.

Other than the horizon being weirdly bright and there being a *hint* of a vertical pillar from time to time, this was pretty much not naked eye visible.

Nikon D750, ISO8000, Nikkor 14-24 F2.8 lens at 24mm f/4, 553 x 10s.

#AuroraAustralis #astrophotography #astrodon #aurora

#modern : of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past

- French: moderne

- German: modern

- Italian: moderno

- Portuguese: moderno

- Spanish: moderno

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The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchism #quote #bot

"It probably goes without saying that Luxon’s asset sales plan is a throwback to the 1980s, and to the privatisation excesses of the fourth Labour government that continue to cripple our economy ... Talking of which, we sold Air New Zealand and then had to buy it back when the private sector ran it into the ground. Christopher Luxon used to run the same airline. He knows the history of failure behind what he is proposing."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00…

#AssetSales

Irina Werning: Table of Hair (from the series Las Pelilargas), 2024

Irina Werning arranged her sitters’ hair across a table in Octavalo, #Ecuador, where #Kichwa men keep their hair unshorn as a symbolic link to their ancestors and an extension of the self. The central figure looks out at the viewer, perhaps in resistance to the history of forced haircutting during the Spanish Inquisition.

#photography
#portrait
#men
#hair

50 year mortgage
50 year mortgage
we want the 50 year 50 year mortgage

in a 30 year mortgage one often pays the price of the home more than twice over. This is not enough interest. MOAR

I’m now at the age where I’m sent ads for sexy senior singles.

And they’re living in my area.

Google announces the start of Early Access for the new Android Developer Verification program which according to Google helps protect users from malware, scams, and repeat bad actors, especially through sideloaded apps. All, developers now need to provide government ID and other documentation to verify their developer verification and only verified developers apps can be installed on Android devices.

android-developers.googleblog.…

Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

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Former Obama Official Sought Jeffrey Epstein's Advice on Courting Woman (Charlie Nash/Mediaite)

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memeorandum.com/251112/p159#a2…

Former Obama Official Sought Jeffrey Epstein’s Advice on Courting Woman

Lawrence Summers, who served as an official in the administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on how to court women.

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Giles Duley: Ivana and Fatima, 2024

This portrait of Ivana and her daughter Fatima was made two months after an Israeli-guided bomb hit the family’s home in #Lebanon. Ivana and her sister suffered severe burns and were left homeless; the family have since been supported by the No More War foundation, established by photographer Giles Duley in 2017.

Despite incomprehensible suffering, a deep joy can be seen in the tender bond of mother and child

#photography
#portrait
#women
#children
#war