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Young Coot.

#CanonR10

Duck.

#Photography #CanonR10

Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.

I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.

Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.

Diana, Luudida, on being alone travelling and content creating. She's very honestly showing how uncomfortable it makes her, and she does it anyway. I'm so proud.

youtu.be/Wq5hFZrZJvc?is=nklozA…

I'm not doing content creation, but I have experience of my whole life going to places alone where people normally go with others, and she's already handling it better than me.

Crystal showing mathematically that dating apps don't work: youtu.be/9-VcIwUqKpI?is=SBFVmQ…

I think her maths is even too optimistic. It's quite a lot worse if you're a man, in one of these lower categories, and in your location N=3. E.g. she's talking about not all matches leading to a date and I'm thinking 'are there actually people who have any matches?'. I didn't know that if I were to eventually match with a (non-scam) person, there were more hurdles to take.

A super interesting video where Mithuna Yoganathan explains what would be involved in AI doing biological scientific discoveries and why the claim that it will cure cancer is unlikely at best. Mithuna is a super smart person (PHD in quantum physics) who doesn't have a simple knee jerk reaction against AI, like I do. She really gave it a go, as you can see on her channel. So, if she says this... And I really trust her opinion anyway.
#AI #MithunaYoganathan #Science

youtu.be/zFcyWFK1q8I?is=0KFt7D…

Amy-Leigh Hickman is going to be in the new series (7) of Line of Duty! On the BBC.

#AmyLeighHickman #LineOfDuty

Crystal explains what your favourite social media says about you: youtu.be/GspQt10qrgs?is=_NCo16… . Unfortunately she only does commercial social media. And even though she helpfully mentions that people should just start their own blog if that's a certain itch they should scratch, it is then tied to the sponsor of the video, Squarespace.

Me: I used to hate Tumblr for years, but then I stopped using it. I felt seen in that segment...

Fragments of Eindhoven

Canon EOS R10, with the Laowa 65mm 2.8 manual focus macro lens.
#Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #Laowa #Photography

Photographed the full Moon tonight, this time actually using a tripod. Cropped, Canon EOS R10, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 with 1.4x extender. F11, 1/200s, iso 200.

#FullMoon #Photography #CanonR10

Post production sound in wildlife documentaries, by Roxy Furman, taking her own beautiful film of a pangolin to be released as an example.
youtu.be/bOdxK4WfSEM?si=eeWasg…

#RoxyFurman

Here's Celina Bhandari explaining her creative workflow for her cinematic travel documentaries: youtu.be/4Ub365sf13g?si=qji-pQ…

#CelinaBhandari #FilmMaking #Vlog

Microsoft Windows: Great news! The latest security update was installed without a restart.

It would be really good news if this was the norm.