midendian

@midendian.bsky.social

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Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, cyclist, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor enthusiast. More active at @midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

In an Instagram comment, the city said it made the strategic decision to paint "SAN FRANCISCO" blue instead of white because "some people confuse us with the city of San Francisco ... we figured leaving that part white would only add to the confusion."

Greyscale panorama of enormous mountains with peaks of many shapes, pointy, flat, rounded; some snow-covered, others too steep to ever be obscured. One in the center is both: rounded on the south side with bits of snow, but a shear drop on the north side where it plunges into Yosemite Valley.

Airbus Beluga XL freighter (A330 with its height doubled and somewhat disconcerting smile and eyeball painted on to look like a beluga whale) arriving at Toulouse airport.

Enormous building with angular facade, big fluffy snow falling.