Ciara

I post random thoughts that strike me & random photos of random stuff. I post in English, dansk & Danglish.

Hashtags I hang around:
#Books #Audiobooks
#Libraries #Fredagsbog
#Enshittification #AI
#ClimateDiary #SilentSunday #Aarhus

Banner: Aarhus skyline at sunset

Profile pic: Me, white, dark shortish hair, tallish, emerging from a tunnel, smiling, happy, wearing a bright red leopard-print dress because that’s the sort of thing a woman in her 50s can happily wear because who cares.

Me, unfiltered: Ciara (npub1nj9…jsvm)">https://justmytoots.com/Ciara (npub1nj9…jsvm)
Location: Denmark

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2026-03-24 06:21:29 UTC

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Yes it's been quite a while now, with all accounts actually deleted.
@npub1t2c…laxq @npub18qx…9a9r @npub19tf…k280

2026-03-24 06:05:06 UTC

Oh my there was so much Monday yesterday. A most Mondayish Monday. Tuesday's barely started and I am already thinking What A Week. And that's before I even start getting nervous about how the highly visible right-wing parties will do in the general election here in Denmark today. Nothing for it but to go cast my one vote, I suppose. Here's a byway where I assume the birds are singing and the bees are buzzing, not caring what day it is or what humans are up to.
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2026-03-23 05:20:42 UTC

Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.
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2026-03-22 08:22:42 UTC

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Ditto:
'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'
'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'
’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’
It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.

2026-03-22 08:11:07 UTC

Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.

2026-03-22 07:54:56 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-20 08:22:45 UTC

Spyhole
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag
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2026-03-19 17:28:36 UTC

I'd love to see more joy in conversations about leaving Big Tech. More focus on the good stuff, especially when chatting to someone who's never thought about the problems and doesn't want to hear about them.
"Hooray, I never have to see that bloody unturnoffable AI circle in Whatsapp again."
"Hey look! My map has no ads and it shows the hammocks in the park.'
"I have not received one single spam mail since I switched to a new email 11 months ago. Literally not one. Imagine!"
#DanmarkSkifter

2026-03-18 20:53:16 UTC

I know it's rude to brag, but I saw the world's fanciest vent
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2026-03-18 20:22:26 UTC

"Denmark Switches - take back control of your digital life'
A nice information stand at the library in the run-up to Skiftedagen, 'Big Switch From Big Tech Day', on Friday.
'Settle in. Read the step-by-step guides to switching things like your browser, mail and search engine. Be inspired. See other people's digital resolutions. Share yours.'
Kind of the librarians to put out cosy armchairs so you can make yourself comfortable as you make the switch.
#DanmarkSkifter
#Aarhus #Dokk1
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2026-03-16 05:38:36 UTC

It is Monday. And so it goes. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to wish you a good, calm week.
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2026-03-13 11:09:22 UTC

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Tillykke!

2026-03-13 06:00:38 UTC

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Still life with bicycle
#WindowFriday
#FensterFreitag
#Aarhus
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2026-03-13 05:54:49 UTC

Still life with container ship
#WindowFriday
#FensterFreitag
#Aarhus
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2026-03-09 16:52:38 UTC

Librarians always know how to read the room
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2026-03-09 05:24:31 UTC

Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.
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2026-03-08 14:27:37 UTC

I deactivated Google Play on my phone. The electricity company app was the first to be bricked. 'You must update.'
I wrote to them: ’I don’t have Google or Apple. Where else can I update the app?’ Nowhere else, they replied.
I wrote (politely) back: ’I can’t use your app any more then. It’s an odd requirement to make of your customers. A Norlys customer can only access all Norlys services if they are also a customer of one of two specific private for-profit US companies.’
#DanmarkSkifter
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2026-03-08 10:04:39 UTC

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I told local friends who know the area that I would get the bus from the bus stop near the Squirrel In A Top Hat.
What are you babbling about, what squirrel, there's no squirrel, they said.
The map says there’s a squirrel in a top hat, I said.
No it doesn’t, they said, showing me squirrel-less Google Maps.
Yes it does, I said, showing them the Squirrel In A Top Hat annotation in Organic Maps.
I sent back this picture from the bus stop.
#OrganicMaps
#DanmarkSkifter
#Enshittification
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2026-03-08 09:55:24 UTC

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Organic Maps. Another example of an app I found in F-Droid that turns out to be nicer than the BigTech one I switched from. Not disenshittification, but enhancification. It's great for walking & cycling. Nice to use. Works offline. Feels 'human-sized'. First time I used it was to find a bus stop. It showed me the right one & noted 'shelter + bench'. To compare, I looked the same up on Google Maps (web). The actual map was barely visible behind ads for local businesses.
https://organicmaps.app

2026-03-08 07:34:09 UTC

I have things to do today that I don’t want to do so I will be procrastitooting. No time like the present to start. Here's a picture of Paddington.The smile on my face when I turned a corner and bumped into him! I thanked him for all the good books and all the marmalade sandwiches, because as a child, I refused to eat any other lunch and I always ate it while reading one of my Paddingtons even though we weren't supposed to read at the table.
#Procrastitooting
#MuteMeNow
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2026-03-08 07:07:24 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-08 06:51:47 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-07 08:53:04 UTC

"There's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996."
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
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2026-03-07 07:42:45 UTC

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One day, Middelfart is going to open an art museum and the sign pointing to Middelfart Kunst is going to make visitors so happy.
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2026-03-02 18:45:36 UTC

This struck me as a lovely idea. A citywide book club for people who read on the bus. The Dublin Bus book club selects a book by an Irish author every six weeks.
Also a lovely idea: instead of partnering with a company like Amazon, they’ve partnered with a beloved local independent book store, Chapters, for discounted books and events for the book club members.
#Books #Bus
#Bookstodon
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2026-03-02 05:05:05 UTC

Glædelig mandag. Another Monday. Another week in a world in which events keep happening, endlessly and relentlessly. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a dull, boring, uneventful week.
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2026-03-01 15:21:29 UTC

I hope everyone is having a nice day, but especially whoever knitted little outfits for the statues at city hall
#Aarhus
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2026-03-01 07:53:58 UTC

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Thanks. Oh dear, I do hope she's okay.
@npub18qx…9a9r @npub19tf…k280

2026-03-01 07:13:52 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-03-01 07:11:47 UTC

I wish there were a symbol we could put at the end of a toot about something inconsequential or irrelevant-in-the-big-scheme to indicate: I know world events are awful. I am not ignoring it or untouched by it. I am just right now reacting to the overwhelmingness of it all by tooting about something insignificant and harmless and maybe even nice.
This thought springs from the fact that I just hesitated to share this random call to dance as a Silent Sunday photo because it seemed too frivolous.
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2026-02-27 18:02:02 UTC

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Am sorry to hear that she has needed to do that before. I hope she's just having a nice break and is okay.

2026-02-27 17:48:47 UTC

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I stopped using Booking.com ages ago, tired of the spam and Big Corporateness of it. Now I only book directly with hotels. Every time, it's cheaper and the experience is better. If I need to contact a hotel, I communicate with a human. When I needed to make a date change not covered by the booking: 'no problem!' They changed it instantly for free. I'd forgotten how actual customer service used to be. I also forgot to actually delete my account. #DanmarkSkifter reminded me. I just deleted it.
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2026-02-27 17:31:04 UTC

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I'm enjoying the results of disenshittifying my digital life so much that I need a more celebratory word for it than 'disenshittifying'. So far, every solution I’ve switched to is better than the Big Tech one I left. Not ’better’ as in ’not enshittified’, but better designed. LibreOffice: does what I need and only does what I tell it to do. AntennaPod: much better features than Spotify. Tuta: functional and calm and 10 months later, I still haven’t received a single spam mail.
#DanmarkSkifter

2026-02-27 16:57:27 UTC

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I hesitated to ask, as it feels like personal prying. But her disappearance seemed sudden, right after she was chatting to people as usual, which raises a concern if she is okay. I hope so.

2026-02-27 16:30:52 UTC

I am never sure of the etiquette of asking a question like this, not wanting to pry about someone or to question their right to just leave the Fedi-café if they don't want to hang out here any more, but does anyone know if the lovely MiniMia /
https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17 is okay? Both her accounts seem to have been deleted fairly suddenly.

2026-02-23 05:20:39 UTC

Well well well, look who's here. It's my old friend Monday. Just waltzed right in, didn't even knock. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.
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2026-02-22 13:55:48 UTC

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Wow 💚 And your Alt Text is so lovely.

2026-02-22 13:35:31 UTC

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Terrific sight and photo. And thanks for the great Alt Text.

2026-02-22 09:19:57 UTC

“This flood of low-quality and fake content from AI is particularly affecting minor languages. AI acts as a type of hyper machine translation. These minor languages then become overwhelmed by AI translations and other fake AI content.”
Reading this with Danish-speaking eyes, I realised that this problem had never occurred to me. Hvor dejligt. A whole new consequence of contemporary AI to dislike.
From '99th Day: A Warning About Technology' by Gerry McGovern
#AI #Books
#Language
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2026-02-22 08:34:39 UTC

#SIlentSunday
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2026-02-22 08:15:17 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-16 05:31:15 UTC

With no regard whatsoever for my personal wishes, the calendar insists that today is a Monday. Another Monday. Another week. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from ⁨#Aarhus⁩, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.
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2026-02-15 20:52:55 UTC

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Beautiful. The colours and the lines.

2026-02-15 15:14:58 UTC

‘Oxveckorna.’ Now there’s a word I needed, but didn’t know existed until now. ‘The ox weeks.’ The long, dark, featureless weeks between New Year and Easter when there are no public holidays, and everything’s dull, and the weather is harsh, and you just trudge to and from work, day in, day out. The weeks when you slog through every day like a toiling ox. Tack, my Swedish friends, for naming the concept.
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2026-02-15 08:29:21 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-15 08:06:37 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-09 06:02:57 UTC

There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news: it is Monday. The good news (for me - I never said it was good news for you): I have the day off. Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope you have a good day and a good week.
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2026-02-08 06:01:43 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-02-06 15:43:06 UTC

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Each time I see cycleways & paths still treacherous hours after the roads have been cleared, I recall this 99% Invisible episode.
"In Sweden, the council reversed its approach and plowed side-roads & paths first. It had a huge impact, reducing number of people admitted to emergency centres, particularly women. It had an economic impact from lower healthcare costs. Driving through a few inches was less dangerous than walking through snow, particularly if pushing a pram."
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/

2026-02-06 15:40:31 UTC

Two-tier society
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2026-02-04 17:00:49 UTC

Taking a wooden footbridge across a sea of ice feels like the right way to enter a library
#Aarhus
#Libraries
#Icetodon
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2026-02-03 14:11:12 UTC

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So cold. So peaceful.
#Aarhus
#Icetodon
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2026-02-03 14:08:44 UTC

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If you think I only took one photo of the pancake ice, then you have another toot coming.
#Aarhus
#Icetodon
#MuteMeNow
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2026-02-03 14:07:03 UTC

Pancake ice. Only the second time I’ve ever seen it. It's mesmerising to watch it bob gently on the surface of the sea.
#Aarhus
#Icetodon
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2026-02-02 14:40:04 UTC

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Brilliantly! I had wondered about that too in advance. One of the features of the newer Penguin Random recordings is that Bill Nighy is the voice of the footnotes in every book. (And Peter Serafinowicz is always the voice of Death.) The same little chime signals the start and end of each footnote and it works perfectly.
@npub1faz…vc22 @npub1v8s…u5an

2026-02-02 05:10:40 UTC

It's Monday. But for the first time in 17 years, it's not a Monday in January. So that's something, at least. Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.
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2026-02-01 14:37:41 UTC

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I was a print-edition Pratchett purist for decades. Then about a year ago, I chanced one of the new Penguin Random House audio editions. What a revelation! Stunning, laugh-aloud performances by outstanding narrators. You feel like you're watching a film, or are in the story. Might be worth a try, if you still want to check out his work. (If I had to choose: The Truth read by Mathew Baynton or any one read by Indira Varma)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/campaigns/discworld-in-audio

2026-02-01 07:50:48 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-25 19:47:28 UTC

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Stay safe!

2026-01-25 19:01:13 UTC

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Gorgeous

2026-01-25 11:57:54 UTC

”Are you sitting uncomfortably? Then I’ll begin.’
If I wasn’t sitting uncomfortably before, then I am now, and so I should be. Uncomfortable in the good, better-informed way, This is a constructively angry, clear-eyed account of what we’ve done and are doing to the planet. Not just the oligarchs, AI techbros & mining firms, but all of us as we consume, consume, consume. The witness accounts from ordinary people affected by mining, data colonialism & climate collapse are awful & moving.
#Books
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2026-01-25 08:21:14 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-25 08:07:10 UTC

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#SilentSunday
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2026-01-25 08:04:22 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-24 08:06:20 UTC

Am not sure if a thumping great ship falls within the spirit of #MagicInTheMundane, but this lightfall caught my eye.
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2026-01-20 20:12:14 UTC

I was about to Have Opinions about the threats the US is making to Greenland, Denmark and Europe, then realised I have nothing useful to add, so I pressed Delete. Instead, here's a picture I took of a bridge because it had splendid umlauts.
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2026-01-19 14:49:06 UTC

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'I IMPLORE YOU TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS TRUE'
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2026-01-19 14:43:05 UTC

Photographers Lee Miller & David Scherman in Hitler’s bathtub, 1945. While there, they heard Hitler was dead. They'd come straight from Dachau. They washed its dirt off in his bath.
"He'd been an evil-machine-monster all these years until I ate and slept in his house. He became less fabulous and therefore more terrible."
I saw these photos recently and thought: will a similar photo be taken one day, in a gold bathtub? Then I thought: imagine that I can even imagine that.
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2026-01-19 06:16:29 UTC

The way things have been going so far this year, this years-long still-January year, I think we're gonna need a bigger #MagicInTheMundane. Especially on Mondays.
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2026-01-18 15:34:27 UTC

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Done
#DanmarkSkifter
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2026-01-18 15:26:27 UTC

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I've added a new 2026 Digital Resolution to my 'Denmark switches from Big Tech' goals.
I had already switched from Patreon to Steady. Thanks to @npub1j05…n8qa for making that possible after he added Steady as a Mastodon.green payment option.
Now my Microsoft subscription is the only thing left on PayPal and I'm almost deMicrosofted. So I'll be cancelling, not renewing, that. So now I commit to deleting my PayPal account. Today. Inspired by @npub1r8y…9r2v, who just did this.
#DanmarkSkifter
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2026-01-18 14:41:43 UTC

The #MagicInTheMundane tag has reminded me of the time I'd just finished a book and was looking at the shelves, wondering what to read next. Suddenly the setting sun turned vivid orange and hit one section, as if it had poured through the narrow passage of a megalithic chamber to show me what to pick. The effect lasted bare seconds. Just long enough for me to snap a photo and to choose the Tore Renberg novel it shone upon. Because obviously I was not going to defy the gods.
#Books
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2026-01-18 11:08:32 UTC

I hope everyone has a nice day, but especially @npub1tpt…kvpg because she started the hashtag #MagicInTheMundane
Between that and #SilentSunday and #TinyBalancingSheep, we may yet get through another day of world events without losing our minds.

2026-01-18 09:09:07 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-12 05:26:12 UTC

Gingerly stepping into a new week, looking nervously around at world events. It is, allegedly, only the second Monday of the first month of this year. This years-long year. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a calm and uneventful week.
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2026-01-11 18:38:15 UTC

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Before I could pick my 2026 goal for #DanmarkSkifter, I did a digital status. I was mildly surprised when I saw my 2025 digital changes together. I looked at the list and thought: ’Tell me you hang out in the Fediverse without telling me you hang out in the Fediverse.’
From Outlook to Tuta
From Office to Libre
From MS Authenticator to Ente Authenticator
From Google Play to F-Droid
From Spotify to AntennaPod
From Firefox to Vivaldi
From DuckDuckGo to NoAIDuckDuckGo
And I bought a back-up drive.

2026-01-11 18:21:30 UTC

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”42% of Danes want to try alternatives to Big Tech. 68% would like to reduce their screen time. But far fewer act on it.
Habits hold us back. Network effects bind us to the same platforms as everyone else. This only changes if we shift collectively. When we shift together, new habits become easier to maintain.
When enough of us shift simultaneously, alternative platforms gain the critical mass they need. When we act collectively, change is possible.”
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/
#DanmarkSkifter

2026-01-11 18:20:40 UTC

’Denmark Switches.’ A national campaign to collectively move off Big Tech. March 20th is Big Switch Day. I’ve named my goal now. I’m already almost deMicrosofted, except for my photo archive. I moved to Libre & Tuta mail and have been purging photos as I await the release of Tuta drive. Now I’m committing myself to just get the photos off OneDrive and on to my computer, that I own, in my house, by March 20th. Then I’ll delete Microsoft. Then I’ll boast about it on the Fediverse.
#DanmarkSkifter
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2026-01-11 10:24:23 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-11 08:11:05 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-11 07:58:24 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-06 18:29:55 UTC

Everything is so awful. Here's a contrary brick I saw in a wall. It intrigued me and made me smile.
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2026-01-05 05:22:30 UTC

I cannot believe today is the first Monday of the year. I literally just checked the calendar to be sure. It feels as if it’s already been a long year and that every day of it has been a Monday. And yet here we are, still at the beginning. Oh well. Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good week with at least a little bit of twinkle in it.
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2026-01-04 20:45:47 UTC

I think I will keep the Literature Clock open on my screen whenever I read the news. It’s like having somebody hum a soothing melody to me as I doomscroll. If you don’t already know it: it’s a real-time clock created by Johannes Enevoldsen at Aarhus University using crowdsourced literary excerpts. Each minute displays a quote from a book that mentions the corresponding time of day.
https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

2026-01-04 11:02:07 UTC

The Fediverse taking care of us.
Our neighbours in the Fediverse, anticipating our needs in a worrying world. Thanks, @npub1ht0…fdqd and @npub1xfv…cqs4
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2026-01-04 09:11:54 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-12-30 08:57:16 UTC

I took a photo. My pocket took a better one.
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2025-12-29 06:42:47 UTC

Glædelig mandag. Happy 'I Think It's Monday' Monday. Here's a postcard from #London, just to say that I hope this last week of the year treats you well.
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2025-12-26 17:02:47 UTC

Shortcut
#Aarhus
#WindowFriday
#FensterFreitag
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2025-12-26 15:00:00 UTC

Nobody wears sunglasses harder than Danes on a December day when the sun shines
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2025-12-24 10:08:23 UTC

Santa sighting!
If you know any children who are tracking Santy, a bit nervous about him making it to their house on time, tell them we’ve spotted the reindeer in the skies over Denmark. They’ve left the North Pole, all is well – they’re on their way!
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2025-12-23 14:10:29 UTC

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If you can't be respectful and decent to strangers, you could always just scroll on by without saying anything. I don't understand your need to be voluntarily and actively disrespectful and unpleasant to someone. In any context, let alone the context of grief.

2025-12-21 22:45:15 UTC

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That sounds plausible. I think you're right. An immediate block is the right move then, so.

2025-12-21 19:48:11 UTC

Strangers, purportedly men, sending a private message that just says 'do you mind if I ask you something?' or 'can I ask you a question?' Is this some new scam? I’ve just blocked my third in two days. I blocked them quicker than a reply guy on a 5000-character instance who lectured me about Linux, so I didn’t notice if the messages were all from the same server. The wording was similar but the profiles were different. Strange scam, if it is one. There were no dodgy links.

2025-12-21 19:33:36 UTC

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We're not going to get a chance either, I fear, if radical leadership doesn't start happening soon. Collective action, imposing necessary climate measures that we may dislike, like when the lockdowns and pandemic restrictions were announced.

2025-12-21 19:21:20 UTC

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That shouldn't sound as possible as it does. What have we done to our world!

2025-12-21 18:56:12 UTC

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Clematis blooming in winter. Christmas clematis. Yikes.

2025-12-21 18:52:55 UTC

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💚

2025-12-21 12:29:32 UTC

”How did you spend the Winter solstice back in the 2020s, Great-Aunt? Before the Great Heat, back when people still lived above ground?”
’Well, child, we sat on the balcony on the shortest day of the year, not wearing a coat, admiring the pretty flowers that had bloomed on the rosemary and oxalis, taking photos of the tomatoes that had started to grow again in Denmark in December.”
#WinterSolstice
#Vintersolhverv
#ClimateDiary
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2025-12-20 07:42:56 UTC

Just when I thought I couldn't love the library's Christmas tree even more, I read the sign.
'Come and pluck our book tree! Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on the 22nd, you can pick free books from our Christmas tree and give them a new home. Bring a bag - enjoy your new reads!'
#Dokk1 #Aarhus
#Bookstodon #Libraries
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