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@Wetrix Thanks! That just made my federated feed a lot more palatable. :)

@dankwraith Ultimately the failing here is that people as whole will readily adopt rapid changes to society when it is seen as progress (200 years ago we not only didn’t have iPhones but were still using horses as a primary means of fast transport), but are far too ponderous about making changes that are essentially downgrades, even when such downgrades are empirically the only way to preserve society against an existential threat looming only a few generations downstream.

@glitcher32 There is research into such things, but basically... no. Not without looking very odd, which will make you stand out like a sore thumb. Unless you are a Juggalo - then go out looking like normal, because Juggalo makeup works pretty well at defeating face recognition.

Is there a way to block instances yourself? If you block it from the web will those settings take on your mobile app? Seems like 95% of the most annoying crap comes from just a few instances.

@sym Thanks!

It's national photography day! Here's my photo of the day, one of my favorites so far that I've shot this year.

Today's picture of the day.

Today's picture of the day.

@hafnia If you didn’t sign a release then it’s likely any kind of advertorial use can be avoided just by letting the agency and end users know you don’t approve.

@Mayana Sure, why not! :) Is there is an audience here that can benefit from them, it’s worth doing.

Pic of the Day - for more, see https://bigstormpicture.com

@dankwraith I honest to god don’t know what the sudden obsession with plastic straws is.

@Mayana Also, as you are blind, I will describe the image for you - it is a photo of an ominous storm. On the right, a wet gravel road stretches into the distance. To the left, a field of brownish tallgrass. Hovering above it all is an oppressive grey and black sky, with a large lowering almost touching the ground in the distance. Under the lowering there is a tornado. At the far left of the image a second funnel is reaching down from higher up in the lowering.

@Mayana Anyhow — here is the caption for this image: “Two tornadoes spin south of Dodge City, Kansas, May 24, 2016.”

@Mayana At least for me, sometimes I click a picture to find out more about it. But when I’ve asked around on other platforms in the past very few are interested in the caption (in fact, the less I enter the more likely the image is to go viral — which is weird!) and the caption takes time to enter. Putting the website at least gives a bit of context and makes it harder for large companies to say “Oh, I didn’t know that image wasn’t free to use on our corporate homepage!”

@Wetrix Thanks!

Picture of the Day

@doctorow We live in a world now where peeps will happily live in their own bubbles, though. That guy will go off into his life and keep on consuming the same media and talking to the same echo chamber social group.