Rick Gaehl

@RickGaehl@mstdn.social
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Retired bloke in Devon, UK, who feels he's a European and is interested in politics, the environment, photography, the arts, history, cycling, and other stuff.
I try to post a new photo every day.

I'm also here:
https://bsky.app/profile/rickgaehl.bsky.social

All photos by me, unless I credit otherwise - except for reposts. I never use AI.
Please "boost" my postings if you like them.

I tend not to follow accounts with limited posts, bio, or followers.

Hashtags I use a lot#Photography, #History, #Landscape, #Trees, #Water, #Architecture, #Gardening, #Psychogeography, #Nature, #BlackAndWhite, #SilentSunday, #FensterFreitag

Just to put this in context: Australians don't vote out a 1st term government unless something catastrophic has happened. But Australians generally do produce a swing to the opposition.

This election is delivering a swing *away* from the opposition. That's what makes it extraordinary. #auspol #australiavotes2024

"People are going to have relationships with AI. How do we make sure these are healthy relationships?" You don't. Those relationships can't be healthy because they're premised on lies.

The single most effective thing AI companies could do to encourage healthy relationships with AI would be to stop presenting them as people, but they won't because doing so would make them less marketable.

I've seen (and smelt) a lot of bluebells during my sunny trip to Dorset this week, but this one particularly caught my attention...

#Photography #Spring #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Psychogeography

Yesterday, we visited the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born. Sitting at this window was where he wrote his first two successful novels - 'Under the Greenwood Tree', and 'Far From the Madding Crowd'.
I'd have spent all my time looking out at the beautiful garden...

#FensterFreitag #Photography #History #Literature

Yesterday, we visited the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born. Sitting at this window was where he wrote his first two successful novels - 'Under the Greenwood Tree', and 'Far From the Madding Crowd'.
I'd have spent all my time looking out at the beautiful garden...

#FensterFreitag #Photography #History #Literature

I'm in Dorset this week, and yesterday I went to Brownsea. It was glorious weather for a walk around the island.

#Photography #View #Water

I don't see what all the fuss is about. All US businesses have to do is build a few tens of thousands of factories and then hire and train 10 million specialised workers who'll be willing to work 60-hour weeks for $3 an hour.

Should take 6 weeks, tops. 3 if they use ChatGPT.

I'm in Dorset this week, and yesterday I went to Brownsea. It was glorious weather for a walk around the island.

#Photography #View #Water

A bike trip to the seaside for #MeerMittwoch.

#Photography #Seaside #Cycling

A bike trip to the seaside for #MeerMittwoch.

#Photography #Seaside #Cycling