The sky above my house this evening
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    Celediel
    1w ago 100%

    Wow, incredible! I'm excited to see what I can see when it gets full dark!

    edit: couldn't see anything in western Washington, and it wasn't even cloudy! :(

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  • Hashima Island, once a site for working undersea coal mines, Japan
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    Celediel
    1w ago 100%

    I guess a prison? Or maybe a penal colony.

    It sort of was.

    Before and during World War II, Hashima, like many industrial sites in Japan, was a location for forced labor.

    Korean and Chinese prisoners of war were kept here, enduring varying degrees of hardship.

    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hashima-skyfall-island-visit/index.html

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    Hashima Island, once a site for working undersea coal mines, Japan
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    Celediel
    1w ago 100%

    Love these arial shots! There's a load of pictures people have uploaded to Google Maps, and there's even "street" view throughout the island. Pretty incredible stuff.

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  • Israeli troops raid, order closure of Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau
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    Celediel
    4w ago 100%

    Whenever I see the media being silenced like this, I'm always reminded of a Tyrion Lannister quote from A Clash of Kings:

    “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

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  • https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/9062cbbf-66e9-47e8-8f35-7cc25a44b555.jpeg

    Taken ~15 minutes after sunrise, across the Columbia River from Vantage, Washington, with a Pixel 8 Pro.

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    Recommendations for music combining classical and modern instruments
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    Celediel
    2mo ago 100%

    Not quite like the albums you mentioned, but here's some stuff that all incorporates some classical instruments with modern rock instruments

    • Laideronnette or zatracenie by matryoshka - maybe the most like what you mentioned, ambient-ish with strings and piano
    • イリヤ (- il y a -) by 夢中夢 (mutyumu) - maybe a bit avant-garde, but makes heavy use of strings and piano
    • Enjoy Eternal Bliss by Yndi Halda - post-rock with strings
    • ONDA by JAMBINAI - Korean post-rock that mixes traditional Korean instruments with modern rock instruments
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  • Tahoma, framed by the bridge
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    Celediel
    2mo ago 66%

    The irony of you trying to be contrarian is that Tacoma is still derived from the native name. Good luck finding a coloniser name for our city.

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  • Shot on a Pixel 8 Pro, telephoto lens. Tahoma is more commonly known by the coloniser name of [Mount Rainier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier).

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    I just saw that [lemmy.ml](https://slrpnk.net/post/676938) has pre-emptively defederated from threads. Are there any plans to do that here? I personally want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook, and I'm sure that's not an unpopular opinion around here. edit: y'all, please pay attention to where you are when coming from all. edit again: kbin really ought to make a post's home instance more clear.

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