Every time someone corrects my vocabulary it just makes me think fewer of them.
Yeah the improvements in editing / changing settings before taking photos are pretty great, especially using the tone control to make the jpegs (or heifs) look a bit less HDR all the damn time
Extraordinary rainfall distribution in UK in September. Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire saw their wettest month in our 188 year series. But only 25% wetter than average overall despite many areas having 3x average rainfall. More details in Met Office press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
I try to make my phones last 4-5 years, think Iāll be happy with this one for them
Smartphone discussion is boring AFā¦ but as a hobby photographer Iām genuinely really pleased with my new iPhone 16 Pro Maxās 5x lens (~105mm full frame equivalent). Knocked it out of the park in low-light
This is such a fun story! An ecologist in Wales found a striking moth flitting around her living room. After posting a picture of it on instagram, someone realised it was super unusual and it turned out they were right - it's a new species native to Guyana š š§Ŗš¦ www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
8am: publish article saying that support for womenās rights is a fundamental value. 11am:
hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation āseven sistersā, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
Tell artists you like their work. Itās how they stay filled with life-giving art mucous.
They say the average marine biologist delivers 5 squid facts a day, but that is actually a statistical error. Sarah McAnulty, whose squid facts hotline texts 37,540 facts a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.