Joaquim

@jaybaeta
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Thoughtfulness & compassion.

I run the Scenoptica project, where we share footage, tell stories, make documentaries, and share knowledge on ecology, science, and academia (in English and Bahasa Indonesia).

Quickly: he/him, live in #Indonesia (previously Europe/Africa); enjoy #cinema, #reading, #music, #art, and #games; played #hockey; play #drums; interested in #ecology; love #ferns but other #plants are cool too; #creativecommons member; use #linux & #kde; have a dozen rescue #cats.

personal sitehttps://joaquimbaeta.com
Scenopticahttps://scenoptica.com
YouTubehttps://youtube.com/@scenoptica
Wishing everyone Merry Christmas, a restful holiday, and anything else you wish, courtesy of this lovely image a student drew of us. 🥰
Shoutout to this student in particular (Shelma), who has been leading a practical on GIS flawlessly for the past three hours. She's amazing!

Okay, I've watched Babel after 19 years of not watching it, and 10 years of my wife telling me to. I've done it. I watched it. I did not like it.

In fact, when it wrapped, I let out a groan so loud she thought a cat was dying.

It has superb sound design and is put together well, but I knew as soon as it started that it was going to boil down to every-character-has-to-suffer, and once all of them had suffered sufficiently, its merits just highlighted how insincere and exploitative it feels.

I've had a major case of the introversion blues this year, so I haven't been as active here as much as I'd like. It's mainly stemming from family health problems that are sucking everyone into a vortex of, well, soul-crushingness, let's say. But it feels both like it's only February and like the year is already over.

What a year it's been... 🥴

Something I worked on quietly during Ramadan and am finally nearing completion: Lanterns in the Rain. I talked to people about rain and mist and turned the recordings into a video.

After nearly two months, I'm finally able to touch again! It's wild and amazing that a human body can just regrow a piece of a limp (if not a full limb) like this.

It's still not fully recovered—I think I still have a couple layers of skin to go, and the tip is incredibly sensitive and has no fingerprints; I can feel individual strands of hair with it, while cold water is freezing and anything moderately sharp hurts. But I can type with it again!

I'm at the stage of headache where letters have stopped making sense. What's an EVENT?!

Cat on my bled-upon pants. He cares more about potential food than anything on the pants. The cats were more bemused by the unfolding scene, as I called my wife and she helped to stem the bleeding and I could prepare to go to the clinic.

I have no more photos because I cleaned up the worst of it (in the kitchen basin, I'm afraid to say, and the entrance of the house). I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing those in any case, because it was terrifying how much blood there was.

It's kind of ridiculous that you can trace a path to the scene of the crime, and there's probably more to find on the trail. 🤦‍♂️
Before I knew the extent of the cut, I stood over the tower with the blood flowing like a waterfall to the cut leaves below. If that simile isn't too graphic, I bled *a lot* and once my hand was turning red from it, I knew I had to get down immediately. Afterwards, I saw how the blood had collected on the leaves below.