Notices by Monsieur Ralph (ralphbassfeld@swiss.social)

'50 shades of green'
Seealpsee, Appenzell, Switzerland

#FotoVorschlag

I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe,… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate ...Easter bunnies riding motorcycles on the German autobahn

From a US consumer perspective, Temu is the new Gucci.

‚Am Ende des Regenbogens‘
#FotoVorschlag
Calheta/Prazeres, Madeira.

#Fotovorschlag zwei Farben
Two colours

“Internet of Things (IoT). We keep talking about it as something achievable. Perhaps it’s time we started talking about what it really is: one of the biggest consumer scams ever invented. For a generation, we’ve been sold a vision of seamless automation, of homes that would adapt intelligently to our needs. What we really have is an overpriced, overcomplicated mess that makes simple tasks unnecessarily difficult.”
https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/the-illusion-of-a-smart-home/

@skinnylatte you mean the original SLR version? This is the new digital one, but design and body have much in common.

Oooh, look what arrived today. #omsystem #OM3 #M43

'Treppen'. Stairs.

#FotoVorschlag #Photography

Have a MS-Teams meeting.
*starts Teams*………start-up screen starts…
*waits*…..- nothing happens
*restarts PC*
*waits* …………..…*enters password* …..
*restarts Teams*
“We logged you out for your security”
*opens password manager*
*enters password for password manager*
*searches for password and types password into MS-Teams*
“Please use Microsoft Authenticator iOS app”
*doesn’t want to re-download app from App Store, so rereads blurb to find alternative authentication methods*
*chooses sms*
1/2

“In 1970 the four of them went on a couples’ holiday to Cyprus, where they marvelled at the combined effect of their voices during evening singalongs. Within three years they had pooled their individual careers, and names, into Abba – with permission from the original Abba, one of Sweden’s biggest producers of herring.” The London Review of Books on their authorized biography “The Book of Abba: Melancholy Undercover” by Jan Gradvall. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/chal-ravens/twinge-of-saudade (probably paywalled)

My favourite street photo of 2024. #Bern #streetphotography

#MountainMonday #Zermatt
The first rays of sunlight hit the top of the Matterhorn.

#Fensterfreitag #Zermatt #adventskalender #ArtAdventCalendar
Das 13. Türchen ist auf. The 13th window of the advent calendar is open.

@annika sound a like something from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe

„About 80% of the excess carbon in the atmosphere has come from us burning fossil fuels, she points out. The rest comes from the destruction of carbon-storing ecosystems like wetlands and forests. “No matter which way you want to look at it, it’s the burning of coal, oil and gas that’s really cooking the planet“

About half of all of that planet-heating carbon accumulating in the atmosphere has been pumped out since 1990 – the year the very first IPCC report was released.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-09-2024/what-one-climate-scientist-wants-everyone-to-know?utm_source=spinoff-share-button&utm_medium=spinoff-web-mobile

“The default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are not prepared for what happens after.”
https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/08/googles-ai-photo-tools-may-be-too-easy-and-too-good/

One of 12 reading benches with attached book box in Davos and Klosters, Switzerland. 🥰
#bookstodon #bookloversday

#silentsunday #MountainMonday #alwaysreadthealt

Sam and Frodo passing through Cirith Ungol into Mordor.
#MountainMonday #LOTR
(Actually the Strelapass over Davos)