I post random thoughts that strike me & random photos of random stuff. I post in English, dansk & Danglish. Hashtags I hang around: #Books #Audiobooks #Libraries #Fredagsbog #Enshittification #AI #ClimateDiary #SilentSunday #Aarhus Banner: Aarhus skyline at sunset Profile pic: Me, white, dark shortish hair, tallish, emerging from a tunnel, smiling, happy, wearing a bright red leopard-print dress because that’s the sort of thing a woman in her 50s can happily wear because who cares. Location: Denmark
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Last Notes npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/262/469/717/364/192/original/65963438c67615c0.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Wow 💚 npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara My apologies for lying to the Fediverse. Here comes one more toot. I was just packing away my photos from the Viking church and spotted the door frame. I don't want it to feel overlooked and under-appreciated. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/571/493/126/217/original/0f49908d74cca315.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I'll stop now, I promise. Last one. As well as the bell, I just think the door deserves a look-in too. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/294/318/426/951/original/88d0cb14a3e68dff.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I didn't mean to start an actual thread of photos of the Viking church, but now that I've accidentally done so, I feel I should include the bell. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/229/021/488/704/original/8013b688d488da3a.jpeg https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/237/813/377/403/original/443b4a38f786df0b.jpeg https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/271/743/959/242/original/a2deed30a34c6be9.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/183/821/537/635/original/086aa6a20891b7c4.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara There's a sacred feeling inside this reconstructed Viking church, not in any religious sense, but because it's impossible not to 'see' the ghosts of the people who used to worship here, sitting there in the small, gloomy space. A congregation of forgotten names and stories. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/047/861/471/235/original/4f66a7fab77a1c43.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/117/183/020/797/467/028/original/2b10801798e30747.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Inside the museum of ethnography, you ascend a Stairway of Origin. On it, you meet 3.2m-year-old Lucy and 6 other reconstructed figures from the human species we’re descended from. You continue on a Stairway of Evolution that leads to the film exhibition ‘Human’. It explores where humans come from and where we are heading. Outside the museum of ethnography, you meet Robot No. 3 relentlessly cutting the dead brown grass in scorching heat while humans huddle in the shade. #ClimateDiary #Aarhus https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/116/939/371/802/386/940/original/65fef974cb21de93.jpeg https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/116/939/378/573/374/264/original/af4525c75a54178b.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I've just realised that I never mentioned the temperature in the toot or in the Alt Text. I didn't think to specify why there are so few people around. I took it for granted. I think I have normalised the scorching heat. #ClimateDiary npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Mid-afternoon, mid-city, the middle of the Summer holidays. This is usually one of the most bustling streets in the city centre. Always lots of people walking around, parking bikes, waiting to meet someone, cycling by, window-shopping, standing while doing something on their phone, hanging out, going in and out of the busy supermarket. Unsettling to see it almost deserted, the few people around all walking in the thin line of shadow on one side of the street. #ClimateDiary #Aarhus https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/116/928/241/499/123/026/original/cfb551a231990e1a.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Celebrity status in the Fediverse is rightly reserved for fungus caught in especially nice light. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I never saw a single toot about Taylor Swift getting married. I didn't know she got married until I saw a photo on the national news broadcaster's website. I was away from Mastodon for a few hours today. Within minutes of logging back on, I knew Bonnie Tyler had died and was nodding in agreement at all the toots paying respects to that excellent singer. I feel this illustrates something about the Fediverse. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I was a print-edition Pratchett purist for decades. Then about a year ago, I chanced one of the new Penguin Random House audio editions. What a revelation! Stunning, laugh-aloud performances by outstanding narrators. You feel like you're watching a film, or are in the story. Might be worth a try, if you still want to check out his work. (If I had to choose: The Truth read by Mathew Baynton or any one read by Indira Varma) https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/campaigns/discworld-in-audio npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara 'I IMPLORE YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS TRUE' https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/922/297/613/244/503/original/477fe7ff0ad0e939.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Photographers Lee Miller & David Scherman in Hitler’s bathtub, 1945. While there, they heard Hitler was dead. They'd come straight from Dachau. They washed its dirt off in his bath. "He'd been an evil-machine-monster all these years until I ate and slept in his house. He became less fabulous and therefore more terrible." I saw these photos recently and thought: will a similar photo be taken one day, in a gold bathtub? Then I thought: imagine that I can even imagine that. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/922/216/435/398/384/original/4cfc772cf13364b1.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara The way things have been going so far this year, this years-long still-January year, I think we're gonna need a bigger #MagicInTheMundane. Especially on Mondays. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/920/269/072/010/055/original/ca471928b0b3d675.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara The #MagicInTheMundane tag has reminded me of the time I'd just finished a book and was looking at the shelves, wondering what to read next. Suddenly the setting sun turned vivid orange and hit one section, as if it had poured through the narrow passage of a megalithic chamber to show me what to pick. The effect lasted bare seconds. Just long enough for me to snap a photo and to choose the Tore Renberg novel it shone upon. Because obviously I was not going to defy the gods. #Books https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/916/613/502/414/539/original/5975c0460ed0c51b.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I hope everyone has a nice day, but especially @npub1tpt…kvpg because she started the hashtag #MagicInTheMundane Between that and #SilentSunday and #TinyBalancingSheep, we may yet get through another day of world events without losing our minds. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/915/313/032/803/898/original/12265fb124796d5c.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Gingerly stepping into a new week, looking nervously around at world events. It is, allegedly, only the second Monday of the first month of this year. This years-long year. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a calm and uneventful week. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/880/451/037/929/640/original/c831ee7ed1ad55ba.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara ’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse. #DanmarkSkifter https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/877/815/723/732/684/original/6e4c6d7cf7fecf6b.png npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/875/959/531/634/602/original/1212d899cee80048.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/875/439/951/674/825/original/4543dd73df05976a.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/875/389/317/384/620/original/699d9f8c9744c9bb.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Everything is so awful. Here's a contrary brick I saw in a wall. It intrigued me and made me smile. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/849/548/837/290/049/original/8699d962c989e095.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I cannot believe today is the first Monday of the year. I literally just checked the calendar to be sure. It feels as if it’s already been a long year and that every day of it has been a Monday. And yet here we are, still at the beginning. Oh well. Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good week with at least a little bit of twinkle in it. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/840/807/870/476/330/original/73c55da7ec599c8d.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I think I will keep the Literature Clock open on my screen whenever I read the news. It’s like having somebody hum a soothing melody to me as I doomscroll. If you don’t already know it: it’s a real-time clock created by Johannes Enevoldsen at Aarhus University using crowdsourced literary excerpts. Each minute displays a quote from a book that mentions the corresponding time of day. https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara The Fediverse taking care of us. Our neighbours in the Fediverse, anticipating our needs in a worrying world. Thanks, @npub1ht0…fdqd and @npub1xfv…cqs4 https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/836/476/180/726/258/original/aae1199c25bd7409.png npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/836/047/663/913/005/original/26c5171ff0b415ec.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I took a photo. My pocket took a better one. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/807/681/446/239/289/original/36bf787ef6695869.jpg https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/807/681/490/236/527/original/1e6c2b6cbb3f8938.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Glædelig mandag. Happy 'I Think It's Monday' Monday. Here's a postcard from #London, just to say that I hope this last week of the year treats you well. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/801/470/843/751/284/original/0ff6e8c1e663c8c3.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Shortcut #Aarhus #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/786/911/911/017/812/original/099047b5fe79ec39.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Nobody wears sunglasses harder than Danes on a December day when the sun shines https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/786/459/304/110/988/original/ba1cf080cfff8cc2.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Santa sighting! If you know any children who are tracking Santy, a bit nervous about him making it to their house on time, tell them we’ve spotted the reindeer in the skies over Denmark. They’ve left the North Pole, all is well – they’re on their way! https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/773/980/386/780/333/original/1fc39795febd2f7f.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara If you can't be respectful and decent to strangers, you could always just scroll on by without saying anything. I don't understand your need to be voluntarily and actively disrespectful and unpleasant to someone. In any context, let alone the context of grief. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara That sounds plausible. I think you're right. An immediate block is the right move then, so. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Strangers, purportedly men, sending a private message that just says 'do you mind if I ask you something?' or 'can I ask you a question?' Is this some new scam? I’ve just blocked my third in two days. I blocked them quicker than a reply guy on a 5000-character instance who lectured me about Linux, so I didn’t notice if the messages were all from the same server. The wording was similar but the profiles were different. Strange scam, if it is one. There were no dodgy links. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara We're not going to get a chance either, I fear, if radical leadership doesn't start happening soon. Collective action, imposing necessary climate measures that we may dislike, like when the lockdowns and pandemic restrictions were announced. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara That shouldn't sound as possible as it does. What have we done to our world! npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Clematis blooming in winter. Christmas clematis. Yikes. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara 💚 npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara ”How did you spend the Winter solstice back in the 2020s, Great-Aunt? Before the Great Heat, back when people still lived above ground?” ’Well, child, we sat on the balcony on the shortest day of the year, not wearing a coat, admiring the pretty flowers that had bloomed on the rosemary and oxalis, taking photos of the tomatoes that had started to grow again in Denmark in December.” #WinterSolstice #Vintersolhverv #ClimateDiary https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/757/509/360/691/897/original/1112e3584e274e96.jpeg https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/757/509/403/552/318/original/ec174d4ea3c8e47d.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Just when I thought I couldn't love the library's Christmas tree even more, I read the sign. 'Come and pluck our book tree! Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on the 22nd, you can pick free books from our Christmas tree and give them a new home. Bring a bag - enjoy your new reads!' #Dokk1 #Aarhus #Bookstodon #Libraries https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/746/699/972/730/906/original/5f5d35c5fe191c9c.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Thank you. Say I, as if I were the sunset. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Sunset skyline #Aarhus https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/747/350/091/444/024/original/e45e5e0dc6fa2059.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara As if to compensate for the fact that it arrives so late and leaves early, the sun does like to make a dramatic exit. #Aarhus https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/747/327/378/784/408/original/2cb49d9f73648f26.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara "Age is just a number," #Fredagsbog #Books #ShortStories #Bookstodon https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/745/803/845/882/135/original/6b63ee6ae70df676.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Glædelig mandag. The shortest days lie ahead, but so does Christmas. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good week with light & bright spots. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/720/136/894/009/633/original/f1aa5175876628b3.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Oh my Goat, you're right! npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Did, did ... did a goat write this? npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara This is a good result. I see the octopuses representing Earth, each one with a High Counsellor crow on one tentacle, whispering advice into their ears. I for one welcome our new over-octopuses. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights. “Ask This Book." “Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.” Enshittification is too polite a word for all this. #Books #Bookstodon #Enshittification #AI https://writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/kindles-new-gen-ai-powered-ask-this-book-feature-raises-rights-concerns/ https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/717/260/462/296/370/original/b26bcddf6761b5e5.png npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/717/169/842/476/350/original/0d0cf2ea6e62d47e.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara In September, I put in a purchase request for Enshittification at the library. In October, I was notified that Aarhus library now has it in stock. I reserved the audiobook. I just got a notification that it's ready for me to borrow. In one click, I have borrowed it. The library's simple, free, reader-oriented process is like the opposite of enshittification. #Books #Libraries #Enshittification https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/711/210/930/847/690/original/5dc58664e13ff05e.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara It is Monday. Glædelig mandag. Everything has been a bit hectic. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you an unhectic week. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/682/157/817/246/081/original/fc216bcc40b4d115.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara 'Post pending. We’re waiting on the person who wrote the original toot to give their consent.’ This shouldn’t feel so revolutionary, but it does. Slow social media. Considerate social media. Social media conversations by consent. A new feature that actually makes something better. The opposite of enshittification. Kudos to the Mastodon developers. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/644/467/256/668/843/original/d6d79b3b5751660a.png npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara That is a beautiful, if tricky, trick of the trade! npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I was so busy admiring the angle and composition that, even though I'd read the Alt Text, I forgot to think about the added difficulty of getting that shot from a canoe. I love the image of you trying not to drift out of angle while taking it so low down 🙂 npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Gorgeous! npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Someone used ChatGPT to generate a reply to me. I think GAI is unethical. I don’t use it. I don’t want anyone to use it for me. You can smoke outside, but please don't smoke in my home. I replied: ‘Please do not use ChatGPT to get information for a conversation with me. It's an individual choice for you to use it, but I do not.’ They (a mutual) promptly blocked me. Ok. I sounded so pompous, I'd probably block me too. Suggestions for a nice way to ask people not to use GAI on behalf of others? npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/637/811/462/556/750/original/dfee22657df2433a.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/637/807/299/278/104/original/b0d344734d236039.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara There's something extra Mondayish about a November Monday. But just ahead, from next Monday: tinsel and terrible jumpers! Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good last-week-of-November. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/603/193/778/989/460/original/a8eedcecad5b609c.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I’ve come to the conclusion that people who say they are against AI, but use ChatGPT every day to create scenarios that demonstrate how useless AI is so that they can show them to everyone with a delighted smirk, are not, in fact, against the chatbot but are addicted to it. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/598/119/736/565/739/original/cdcba4931823ab08.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/563/349/591/929/719/original/f5f3715239183d0c.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara That must have been a demanding work environment, deep down in the earth like that. A lunchbreak outside and, even better, outside playing with dogs - now that's a healthy working environment 💚 npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara We need the opposite of a siesta for Northern latitudes in Winter. A go-esta. A few hours off in the middle of the workday when you go outside and do stuff in daylight. Because we go to work in the dark and come home in the dark 5 days a week. Saturday, we rush around doing stuff that needs to done in daylight. Sunday, you want to recharge. To read. To scroll. To nap. To relax indoors. But there's a few hours of sunshine so you feel obliged to go outside, dammit, before the next 5 dark days hit. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/558/462/657/575/799/original/b3acc0baabdadee8.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/558/418/875/668/653/original/737eeabd8f484701.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara It is Monday. It is November. Not late November. Not mid-November. Still early November, somehow. A November Monday needs a bit more light. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope you have a good week. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/523/713/748/615/854/original/5afe10d56d8fea87.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Spectacular npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Beautiful. Gives me that same feeling that the whole world is at peace for a few seconds as those few sacred silent seconds between a conductor raising their baton and the orchestra playing the first note. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/518/971/970/941/624/original/c81dfd1a73682172.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/518/933/211/570/785/original/6da5d1081f609f75.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/518/786/406/607/672/original/2827798d28fdd9b6.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara If we ignore for a moment the fact that it was ten minutes past two in the afternoon, wasn’t the moon nice today! #Aarhus https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/498/538/177/133/829/original/d137c0d85c159a14.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Sublime npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara It is Monday. I suppose we'll just have to put up with that. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/484/056/607/963/358/original/71cbade258e86ee6.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I saw the fattest rainbow I have ever seen today. It looked fake. Like a rainbow drawn by a toddler with no sense of scale. It was amazing and beautiful and I took a terrible picture of it that in no way conveys how fat and fabulous it was. But I'm still going to show it to you anyway. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/448/088/942/018/126/original/59a3ee4e41fd32a2.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Well, well, well, if it isn’t my old friend Monday again. Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/444/462/132/379/313/original/c1ec7e00c7a87740.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara The light! npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara It’s a year since I posted the ninth of 17 murals that promote the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. I was just lulling you into a false sense of security. This thread ain’t over yet. Here’s the 10th. #10 Reduced inequality. Mindre ulighed. ‘Life on the edge’ by French artist Mantra. On Frederiksgade. “What we've lost is represented by a multitude of dead butterflies. What remains is a single butterfly. Life still weighs heavier than death.’ #17Walls #StreetArt #Aarhus #ClimateDiary https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/439/893/192/897/326/original/54660e80822ce0c4.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/439/447/908/845/489/original/1c5debafaab8382e.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/439/407/817/555/893/original/4812b055fdb805ab.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I'm not sure I understand - it's a standard upright phone shot, I can't see that it looks wider than normal. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/400/036/353/325/952/original/d5d5310737a83765.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/399/897/852/920/636/original/c0db9f79447eaa6d.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/399/812/726/528/586/original/b3a5a8a80faecd12.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Nature's table centrepiece #Mosstodon https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/393/946/146/070/521/original/842acbe5c2cd34fb.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Digital coercion bothers me greatly. I avoid apps. I have a travel card & code generator. It bothers me that they nudge everyone towards the 2FA app and ticketing app. They don’t advertise the non-app solutions loudly. We shouldn’t do their work for them, telling each other that the non-app alternatives don’t exist. Then people will get the app, thinking they’ve no alternative, which makes it look like fewer people want non-app solutions, which makes it easier to justify downgrading them. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara This is a Kodeviser. A code generator for the Danish 2FA system. It is free. You activate it on a website. You do not need an app or smartphone to access digital services in Denmark. This is a Rejsekort. You tap it to pay on buses & trains. The new ticket system will include a card. You do not need an app or smartphone to travel on Danish public transport. I keep seeing a viral toot that says you’re excluded from 2FA & public transport in Denmark if you have no app or phone. This is not true. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/383/089/827/718/050/original/50633e8c615588c8.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I have three Fedi-crushes and, by chance, each of them is in a different timezone. This means that one of them will be always be posting in my morning, afternoon and night. Unbeknownst to them, they're doing shift work. They should really unionise. npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara You'll need to bring your kayak when you come to collect it npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara Impressive parking https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/373/341/637/763/105/original/c34f10449c726b6f.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara I hope everyone had a nice weekend, but especially the anonymous nice people who have been leaving buckets of apples from their garden on the street for any passer-by to share. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/362/911/676/776/367/original/5ad12c77be088a58.jpg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'. Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages. https://pixelfed.social/p/Rudini/881293271414254882 npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara #SilentSunday https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/359/472/367/495/671/original/53c36ac8e3be5745.jpeg npub1nj9yvf5urfps44y5sv3pndqmlnt2kl4vhdz32f6msjc6e8s40kaqm0jsvm Ciara And suddenly it was Monday again. Again again again. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to send you good wishes for a good week. https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/325/300/263/648/568/original/2daaca475df38b34.jpg