Thorsten S.

@thesiteabout.me

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I'm a history nerd and wannabe explorer of cold places. I also love the mountains, taking photos, playing and making video games, doing ancient Greek reenactment and occasionally Larp. he/him Vienna 🇦🇹. #IndieWeb: https://thesiteabout.me

The picture shows the tray table on an airplane, with a plastic cup of water and a single strip of berry-flavoured Fritt candy.
The picture shows a white dog with brown spots on her fur. She's lying on grass. Only her front half is in the frame. She's wearing a straw hat with black decorative elements woven in. She looks like she's smiling.
A tiny snake with yellow spots behind her ears and a striking leopard-like pattern of brown spots on a lighter yellow-brown background on its body is wriggling around on a spot of brown earth, doing the dance snakes do to look bigger to enemies.
A screenshot showing the NYT Game Strands with the Letters forming "Balrog" selected.
The video shows a computer program window. First, a directory chooser dialog can be seen. The user then selects a directory and the window loads a list of tiles, each containing a playing sprite animation. The user scrolls through the list a bit and then proceeds to enter a search term in a text field at the top of the window. The list updates accordingly, showing only the animations matching the search term.
A dog with a white coat with brown spots sleeps curled up on three mustard-coloured pillows next to a white radiator.
A white dog with brown speckles is snuggled under a duvet, its head propped up on two pillows.
A phone screenshot of the Merlin birding app. It shows a side-picture of a striking yellow and black bird sitting on a small branch above a badge saying "Your bird of the day! Discover a new bird each day", followed by the name of the bird "Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis)"
A half-shot of a white dog with brown spots sitting in front of a light-skinned man with a full beard wearing a red t-shirt. The man is smiling and the dog has her tounge stuck out.
A Lat Pull machine from Egym can be seen among several other gym machines.
A yellow and black striped dragonfly sitting on a small branch with its wings spread out.
A white dog with brown spots stands on a clinic floor. She has a blue bandage around her neck and ears and one on her leg.
The same kingfisher from the first post, now turned with its back to the camera, so the blue back feathers are glistening in the sun.
A common kingfisher sitting on a branch in the golden morning sun. The background is green from out-of-focua leaves of the tree behind it. A spider web can be seen next to the bird on the same branch.
A screenshot of the UI of the Android app Planit! showing the map view of the photo in the first post.
A rocky alpine mountain range glowing in the orange of the setting sun, behind some lower hills with sprawling pine forests. The sky is shining bright yellow. It's the Haller Mauern seen from the Nationalpark Kalkalpen.
Photo of a camera mounted on a tripod, seen from the backside. The camera is in focus and the screen shows a mountain range that is framed for the shot. The same mountain range can be seen out of focus in the background. The sun is currently setting.
A man wearing a brown coat and jeans lying on a gravel floor under a wooden cabinet that has an open front and a PC screen mounted inside it. He's fixing something inside the cabinet while wearing a headtorch.
A nighttime photo of a snowy hill with the crest of the hill being of dark rock. The silhouettes of a big boulder and a person can be seen on top of the hill, contrasted against an orange glowing horizon. Above the glow is the night sky with thousands of stars. In the left corner of the image, a faint green shimmer can be seen.
A picture of a large hut in the snow underneath a starry sky. The milky way can be clearly seen and the left side of the horizon shimmers in the green of the polar lights.
The bow of a wooden sailing ship inside a building with a white steep angled roof. There's galleries to walk around the ship in three floors. The roof and top of the ship are lit in blue and the lower sections and floors are flooded with orange light. It's the polar ship Fram inside the Fram Museum in Oslo.
A portable waffle iron in a wooden shelf. The packaging reads Tur Vaffel jern.
A golden sun rises over a snowy white landscape. The sky is blue, but drenched in a golden light. Everything casts long shadows, bringing out the texture of the snow. In the front right, the roof and wall of a wooden hut can be seen.
A photo of four rows of an airport departure list. All flights leave at 12:55 and the destinations are Florence, Zurich, Zagreb and Sarajevo.
Two buckets of yoghurt on a shelf. The brand is ÖMUR Joghurt 3.5%.
A blue background with white bars that have the text "extinction rebellion" stencilled out. To the left of the text is the logo of the group extinction rebellion, a stylised hourglass inside a circle.
An iron water pump/public well in a park. It's mounted on a base of bricks in a field of green grass.
The building of the Volksoper in Vienna. I don't know how to describe this accurately. Please just search for a better description on the internet. Alt texts are difficult.
Three sets of UNO cards in their familiar red packaging.
A wall decorated with a picture of Greta Thurnberg wearing a gas mask and a sleeping tiger below it. There's various text written on it: "People should not be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of their people. Clean air is not an optional policy objective, It's a fundalnental human right. Everyohe needs to breathe cean air. Bilions of people today are breathing dirty, deadiy air which constitutes a global health, environmnental and human rights Crisis. Pollution - if you don't kill it, it will kill you. Smok weed...reduce global wamming Extinction is forever Endangered doesn't have to mean extinct SAVE The BEES 1 of every 3 bites of food you eat depends on the honey bee www.JOHN-DOH.CO.UK"
A puppy with beige fur standing on the legs of a person while people are doing yoga in the background.
Closeup of a sandwich wrapped in white paper with a sign reading "Warm Soup + Sourdough £4.95" next to it.
Close-up of the dial of a black rotary phone. The dial is silver and has a faded paper insert in the middle with the top half printed in red: "Emergency Calls For Fire, Police, Ambulance Dial 990“ And the bottom half reading "Newent 524"in black.
Two bags of Essential Organic Quinoa in a supermarket shelf. One is labelled Quinoa Grain and one is labelled Red Quinoa.
A playground featuring two wooden platforms to climb on connected with ramps and nets.
The facade of the Vienna Opera house lies in the shade with its windows reflecting the building opposite, that is lit in bright golden sunlight.
A transparent plastic bag mounted to a wooden lamppost. The bag contains several fresh newspapers. Above it is a payment box where people insert coins. It's a common system to get your newspaper in Vienna and I'm pretty sure only half of the people actually pay.
A gumball machine in front of a chain link fence. It has a light grey front cover and a red body mounted on a concrete base.
A lake that has brown reed growing on the left bank and an artificially fortified embankment on the right side. There are a few housing blocks in the distant background on the left and the edge of the city even further back. The sky is grey and overcast.
Closeup of a brass knob with a keyhole mounted on a metal door that has its white paint chipping off at various places.
A light grey Jeep is parked in front of a building facade in a city. It has a black fabric roof cover.
A stone slab inscribed with "öSw ÖSTERREICHISCHES SIEDLUNGSWERK"
A pipe with a tap coming out of the ground in front of a grey wall. Connected to the tap is an orange garden hose.
A single faded pink glove is placed on a branch in front of a field. It has a lighter pink cuff made of artificial fur. Presumably it has been lost by someone.
A black dog pressing his head against a black fence, so the cameraman can scritch his head through the gaps.
An entry to a yard photographed from some distance away. It features three signs that read "Flohmarkt" and some big furniture can be seen behind the signs.
A grey and dirty electricity box that is tagged with a yellow graffito with a red outline consisting of two letters. The first one is clearly an E, the 2nd is solid pill-shaped with a smiley face, so it could be an O, an I or a smiley face. A little sign on the box reads ASS, Anlagen Service System. The electricity box is built into a chain link fence that has a concrete base and concrete pillars. The white facade of a house can be seen in the background.
A fire hydrant wrapped entirely in massive amounts of silver duct tape. There's a hose connected to it, which is also covered in duct tape.
A spikey conch on top of a concrete wall in front of a chain link fence. There's yellow green moss on the concrete and green bushes behind the fence.
Graffiti on the side of a barn of a Panda bear looking somewhat grim at the viewer. Instead of clear strokes, the artwork is made up in the style of paint splashes with white splashes forming the bear's head and blue splashes for what can be seen of the bear's neck and body. Neon orange, green and pink splashes are added for decoration.
An airplane in the sky approaching landing.
A snowy path winding through small trees and bushes with orange-brown leaves. Front left of the picture is a dog, walking towards the camera. The dog is a miniature Collie with a mostly black coat, white legs and a white snoot.
A thawing frost flake on a glass pane surrounded by droplets of water.
A meme captured "Bluesky", showing one happy looking person sitting on a bus watching a nice and beautiful landscape, captioned "before 2 pm" and one sad looking person watching a grey and dull looking landscape on the other side, captioned "after 2 pm".
The exterior of the Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart. A cube-shaped building photographed from one of the corners on ground level. It has 9x9 windows on each side.
Picture of a left forearm with a clearly visible red rash where the wristband of a watch would sit.
A dog with a white coat with brown spots and a brown patch over her right eye. She's standing on a wooden bridge in a forest. She's wearing a red wool jumper and a harness.
A blue banner with the Norwegian text: Ekspedisjonen til Sydpolen avslutta med litt dramatikk 2. januar. AK fekk eit illebefinnande under marsj og svima av på isen. Han fekk opp teltet og varsla ALE som er på veg til å fly han ut. Han skal til medisinsk sjekk på Union Glacier og har det etter forholda bra. English Translation: The expedition to the South Pole ended with some drama on 2 January. AK got sick during the march and fainted on the ice. He got the tent up and notified ALE, who is on his way to fly him out. He is going for a medical check-up at Union Glacier and according to the conditions is doing well
A dried out golden brown plant spread out like a series of fireworks explosions in front of a dark blue background.