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@lyse wow, 31 is truly a telling! Interesting facade on that building on 10! And that roof on 51, oh my! The golden Jesus and tower on 7 are something else too.
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@bender@twtxt.net Glad you like them! :-) Those colorful roof shingles are absolutely stunning. The golden building has quite a few folds in the facade skin, from the other sides a bit more. Check out this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Rems_in_Schw%C3%A4bisch_Gm%C3%BCnd.jpg Luckily, there weren’t this many people around today. :-)
Don’t think this is the norm, though, most stuff here is also much more modern. There are not a whole lot of historic buildings left. And if there are, they’re not necessarily kept in good shape. But some are. So, don’t be fooled by my biased preselection of typically photographing the nicer ones.
The people photos are not for the internet. ;-) But I get your point, the reason why I ended up in that town is irrelevant and misleading, I should have introduced it differently. :-D
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i went to a rilo kiley concert the other day and it was so special to me... i teared up at some of the songs but when "a better son/daughter" came on, i full on cried. what an amazing experience.
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ten stories or more are already very tall in my books. Not sure at which height I would start calling high rise buildings sky scrapers, but Wikipedia suggests around 150 meters, depending on region.
Oh, I just found https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Pier_17_2018-03_jeh.jpg and this really does not look all that high. I thought that this would be at least 50 or 100 meters up. I was completely wrong. :-D
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I was drafting support for showing “application icons” in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png
And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png
I like the looks of your window manager. That’s using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)
This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don’t get it how people can work like that. You can’t even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there’s 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There’s the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a “regularish” 16:10 monitor and don’t see shit, because it’s resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D
Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn’t serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don’t recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D
Dois vencedores portugueses no Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, na categoria dos prémios regionais “Northern & Western Europe”!
Os #Caretos de Lazarim e o Carnaval de #Lazarim, em #Lamego, foram premiados nesta competição, pela qualidade e originalidade de 2 fantásticas imagens. Muitos parabéns aos autores Filipe Salgado e António Alves Tendim!
Vê todas as fotos vencedoras: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2025/Winners
A #WikiConPT terminou com a inauguração do #WikiLovesEarth 2025, um concurso fotográfico para o qual podem participar durante todo o mês de Junho!
Num evento a ser já aliciado para o próximo: o segundo dia da #WikiConPT começou com o anúncio da #GLAMWiki 2025, que vai acontecer em Lisboa:
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@eapl.me I wouldn't call it natural, it is the way Bluesky decided to handle handles (not meaning to make a pun, or anything). There is no other way, but that.
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@bender@twtxt.net Great tits always makes for lovely nick names!
10 Strange Traditions and Rituals on Transatlantic Ships
Featured Image: Wikimedia Commons Transatlantic voyages weren’t just about getting from point A to point B—they were rich with traditions, rituals, and customs, many of which reflected the anxieties, superstitions, and camaraderie of life at sea. Whether designed to ward off bad luck, celebrate milestones, or bring passengers together, these rituals paint a vivid picture […]
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Who is this dude? ‘https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_gives_an_update_following_COBRA_(53906942809)_(cropped).jpg’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MajorZeman.jpg
@shizamura olha! Tampas de saneamento!
RT by @mind_booster: Apoio esta carta aberta da @wikimediapt, que também é assinada pela @ANSOL, @communia_eu, e outros, dirigida ao @cultura_pt @padaoesilva, porque a Cultura também se promove e valoriza promovendo o acesso e utilização pela sociedade de forma aberta e livre.
https://blog.wikimedia.pt/2023/06/02/carta-aberta-medidas-para-facilitar-o-acesso-as-coleccoes-museologicas-nacionais/
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023
Elbe-Sprint Hamburg 2023 - _Source: Wiki Commons, Container terminals in port of Hamburg_
A new sprint is being organised within the XMPP Community: The Elbe-Sprint Hamburg!
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RT by @mind_booster: Prontos para WikiCon? O programa já pode ser consultado na página da conferência! @nova_fcsh @Wikimedia @fcshrossio @emcandre @wmnobrasil @technetempire @wikieditoraslx
https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCon_Portugal_2023
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**RT by @mind_booster: My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.
First one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fig_6_Le_Telephone_by_T_De_Moncel_Paris_1878.png**
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RT by @mind_booster: No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam como assistir ao lançamento no link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event #Patrimonioimaterial #Portugal @cultura_pt
No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Objectivo: compreender as necessidades de capacitação da comunidade cabo-verdiana relativamente ao uso das plataformas @Wikimedia, de modo a potenciar parcerias de #cooperação e #formação com grupos interessados. #caboverde #capacitação 🧶🧶
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RT by @mind_booster: Este encontro vai ser no próximo sábado (18 Março), para fazerem um aquecimento podem participar no workshop desta tarde das 14h às 18h via meet. Basta que nos enviem um email para: sofia.matias@wikimedia.pt @EurovisionsConf @antena1rtp @nova_fcsh href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23wikilovesmusicaportuguesa”>#wikilovesmusicaportuguesa**
Este encontro vai ser no próximo sábado (18 Março), para fazerem um aquecimento podem participar no workshop desta tarde das 14h às 18h via meet. Basta que nos enviem um email para: sofia.matias@wikimedia.pt [@Eurovis … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: O prazo de inscrição no Youth Hacking 4 Freedom, foi alargado até ao final de Janeiro. Para participarem têm de ter entre 14 e 18 anos e viver na Europa. @fsfe #YH4F #SoftwareFreedom #softwarelivre @ANSOL #wikidata #wikimedia
https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/
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RT by @mind_booster: Inscrições e outras informações: https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_do_Dom%C3%ADnio_P%C3%BAblico_2023
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RT by @mind_booster: Na sexta, primeira a palestra terá como orador @tcarrondo da @ANSOL, que irá falar sobre “O Dia do Domínio Público em Portugal”. A entrada no evento é gratuita mas sujeita a inscrição. consultem o site para mais informações: https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_do_Dom%C3%ADnio_P%C3%BAblico_2023
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RT by @mind_booster: Já está publicada a lista de autores portugueses que entram hoje em #DomínioPúblico. Podem consultar aqui https://blog.wikimedia.pt/2023/01/01/dia-do-dominio-publico-2022-2/
No dia 6 de janeiro, há um evento organizado pela @wikimediapt Biblioteca Nacional e @ANSOL Link no mesmo site. Se puderem, partilhem!
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RT by @mind_booster: O dia do #DomínioPúblico está quase, quase aí 😍
A @wikimediapt, a @ANSOL e a Biblioteca Nacional vão celebrar no dia 6 de janeiro e as inscrições já estão abertas:
https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_do_Dom%C3%ADnio_P%C3%BAblico_2023
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O dia do #DomínioPúblico está quase, quase aí 😍
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Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
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Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Executive Director Interview https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/katherine-maher-wikimedia-executive-director-interview.html