@markmccaughrean I listened to Sue Tritton once, saying her ideal was 85F, and thought "meh". Now, after a quarter-century here, I'm quite fond of 25C; 20 is good for getting to wear a nice sweater though :)

Lovely pic - the subtleties of texture and colour.

@markmccaughrean The daft thing for me is that I stumbled on to Xitter after a friend mentioned she'd joined (but when I later said I'd joined too, she said "what's Xitter?", so I don't know who it was), and found myself drawn to the humour, photography, astronomy, and much more besides ... but it's largely froth that I can live without. That dark forces are at play, I can't dispute, but doubt they've infiltrated my main communities.

Now, I must read up on radish cultivation...

@markmccaughrean Just talking to Bluesky chums about differences between there and here, and there does seem to be different perceptions about the pros & cons.

Regarding your "your content ... manipulated by algorithms" comment: I'm possibly here more to read than write original posts, so to have dedicated astro and photography (the two most important things to me) feeds is more important than how my random posts may be handled Mr Al Gorithm and his untrustworthy rottweilers.

@markmccaughrean I hear you, but those quick-reward vibes are hard to resist, and if a platform has to convince me of its worth, well good luck to it. (I'm writing this now, but can't see the post I'm replying to, which is hardly user friendly.)

However, I'm not looking to build an audience, just to spend a little time with what might once have been called pen-pals, and maybe pick up some information along the way. If the rug is later pulled from under me, I can just move on and grow radishes.