MJ

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Interests: #Music / #sound / #audio, #fountainpen + #ink, #media, & #weather / #climate phenomena
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@Floppy @pauljrobinson I've been using a few burn-failed CDs/DVDs as coasters for many years. Not particularly worried about using them as they clean off easily.
@Ameboid @Gargron your #Plushtodon XL is working undercover -- looking for the next #CatsOfMastodon featured star

Meet a winner! 🎬 "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by Queline Meadows took home the 1st place prize in the 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest!

Let its poetic mix of film, music, and text reflecting on the passage of time inspire your entry for the 2026 contest!

πŸ“† Deadline: January 7, 2026
πŸ’° First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details πŸ‘‰ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest

#PublicDomain #Filmmaking #Contest @internetarchive

Christmas night approaches after the rain in Ripon, California

An analemma is a plot of the position of the Sun as viewed from a fixed position on Earth at the same clock time every day for an entire year.

The lowest point of the analemma occurs close to the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ap130922.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
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@nygl retainers are what they're sometimes referred as
@AndrewHenry and it truly is -24 in Winnipeg. This is a potent system heading east. #mbstorm
@mike can confirm, but #mbstorm could have been worse

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

πŸ—³οΈ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semifinals

Although we've officially been in winter mode here the past couple of weeks, the #mbstorm outlook for tonight into tomorrow will certainly make it a blizzard-y winter wonderland. Enough snow for plenty of snowballs but will be kinda cold for them to hold together very well as snow becomes more grainy or powdery the colder it gets.

At least @emmamckeon had some fun with them during her recent visit to Switzerland (she needed to wear her entire wardrobe to keep warm):

https://mastodon.social/@emmamckeon@kilogram.makeup/115701106795643877