anomalocaris

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Biologist & educator in the Netherlands. I've got a column somewhere but I'll never tell. I like (palaeo)botany, anthropology, free & open software, Chinese tea, old hifi tech and writing alt text. He/him.

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profile picturethe face of lieutenant commander Data, laughing on a background of fern fronds.
header imageto the right, a tree trunk, top and bottom cut off by the frame, with a small leafy bough sprouting from it. The rest of the image contains verdant trees and shrubs, backlit by the setting sun.
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A coworker has sent me a message in Microsoft #Teams! Time to open this message - only a few hundred bytes worth of text, it'll just take a sec... oh

Picked up a very mouldy, broken, dirty #cassette in #KualaLumpur: a collection of songs by Frances Yip, an absolute #cantopop legend.

Someone had been inside before, fixing a snapped-off leader tape by just connecting the magnetic tape directly to the reel. The card insert was bent and fox-eared and the jewel case cracked. Parts were covered in insect droppings.

Replaced the felt pad and rusty screws, spliced in a new leader, straightened the tape shell with heat, cleaned, steamed and pressed the card, replaced the case and slip mats, reglued the labels... the mould came off with a few plays and now it looks and sounds great. It has its battle scars but it's alive and kicking, ready for another 46 years.

#fixed #cantonese #CompactCassette #repair

last minute #SilentSunday from a vineyard in Champagne where we went to pick some leftover grapes
can i offer you a pigeon in this trying time
Gentle light after October rain #SilentSunday
me reading the news every morning
Getting an early #ThickTrunkTuesday in under the guise of a #MushroomMonday - there's bracket fungi here so I'm within the law. Picture taken in the Hoge Veluwe last week
last minute pic for #SilentSunday
day's over, time to have a leisurely surf and see what's going on on the ole corporate Web... oh