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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Out of Focus" The aftermath of a weekend-induced moment of questionable judgment, on a sunny Saturday morning.

A sunny morning in the countryside.
With an apparently abandoned silver-gray Ford Focus, inconvenienty parked in a roadside ditch.

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Kafka @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1. For #Caturday, let me introduce you to Leo, my late mother's loving, sweet, skittish, blue-eyed, cross-eyed, wonky-eared, mixed cuddle bug #ca that she found as a feral kitten & adopted. I need to find him a good Houston home w/o dogs & preferably where he'll be pampered as a sole 😺. 1/2 #Cats

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Three partial eclipse pics: 1. Partial eclipse with aviation intervention 2. 88% covered 3. at the end of the partial eclipse, a hot air-balloon hastened to assist the moon

A partially eclipsed sun with a contrail running over the visible top part of the sun

The sun, partly eclipsed by the moon on the left, and a hot-air balloon on the right.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Following up on this, I wrote a blog post to explain to regular non-nerd users how you can easily flag an email as unsafe (phishing or otherwise malicious). You can read it here: peterhuppertz.net/english/is-t... Feel free to share this if you think it's useful.

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Is this email safe? – Peter's blog

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My neighbour had his Paypal account hacked via phishing, to the tune of €500. I sleuthed a bit, reported the offending email with all relevant details, and raised a dispute, containing all information. This morning, my neighbour told me that Paypal reversed the transaction. I admit it: I'm proud. 😎

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In other news: Mbappe is top scorer of this World Championship, as well as top scorer in WC campaigns of all time. Autofornicate, Infantino. Life is good.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I want to see Trump having to hand the trophy to Spain.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Loose thought: Polarisation is best prevented by seeking connection. But if you only seek connection with people who agree with you, it's called 'a bubble'. "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." (Moshe Dayan)

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Red channel saturation warning - poppy fields in June.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Loose thoughts on AI (and Quality): Dynamic Quality, such as described in Pirsig's book Lila (but already foreshadowed in ZAMM, and before that, hinted at by Henri Bergsson), is completely out of reach of AI, because it's pre-intellectual, and intuitive. For AI, that's out of scope.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Loose observations on AI: REAL intelligence isn’t just the ability to produce correct answers. It’s the ability to ask the right questions -- and the ability to care about whether the answers are correct.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I lost one of my favourite watches again today. My second grandson turned 18.

A wrist watch (a very early 2005 Christopher Ward C5 Malvern Mk 1), on a wrist, partially covered by a dress shirt.

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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.” ― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Epiphany: The suffering which the Buddhists regard as only that which is to be escaped, is seen by the Metaphysics of Quality as merely the negative side of the progression toward Quality. Without the suffering to propel it, the cart would not move forward at all.” Robert M. Pirsig, 1997. 1/2

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Well have you ever... I just found out that my old BlueSky account (which I was sure I had flushed) still exists! I was checking my domain reputation, and I hit upon a Bluesky Roast page that was created AFTER I had turned my back on Bluesky! And lo and behold, I still exist! Now what to do...

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Friday, we had what, for us, was a novelty. We are on a dynamic contract, which means that the price of electricity varies with the demand and supply. Sometimes, supply exceeds demand, and then you get money to consume electricity.

A table showing that we got paid €3.99 to use 13 kWh of electricity, and an additional 59 cents by supplying back to the grid from the home battery

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Caturday: Tara. Cats are much more empathic than most people realise.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down a dead-end, that’s the end of you. That’s why you have to learn the labyrinth by heart." -- David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks #BookSky

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Granny Smith Retroperitoneal Fibrosis I'm afraid our agent might disagree.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

A cactus bowl as a doorknob.
Text:
Therapist: "You need to let people in."
Me: "It's not locked."

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

#Film "Paris, Texas" (1984). Director: Wim Wenders, written by L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard, Walter Donohue. With actors Harry Dean Stanton, Nasstassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell et al. #Music Ry Cooder, Paris Texas youtu.be/X6ymVaq3Fqk?...

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 15/04/2026

Not all cries for help are loud. There’s a silent signal everyone should know. Thumb tucked. Fingers folded. It means “I need help” Share this please! You could be the one who sees her when she can’t say a word! #SheShed

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The clouds, the moon, and Venus in the evening sky

A crescent moon and Venus, surrounded by thin wisps of high cloud, vaguely reddened by an already set sun

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Images 7, 8 and 9 of the increasingly inaccurately named tryptich This one's called "patience... any moment now... PEAK BLOSSOM".

Second photo: a branch with erupting blossom

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just for fun, I dialed in maximum zoom (560mm), and photographed Venus at 1/125, f8. Here's a 100% crop.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

(For @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social and @paulaflucas.bsky.social) Here's two boring photos of a flowering plant with a trailer tent in the background. My question for you is: in which photo was the distance between the object (the plant) and the background (the trailer tent) smallest?

A flowering plant, with part of a trailer tent in the background at a short distance

A flowering plant, with a trailer tent in the background at a considerable distance

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Peter Gabriel: Here Comes The Flood - The Director's Cut, in a way Gabriel himself liked this rendition better than the way it sounded when he released it on his first solo album. This version is much more personal, and much more intimate. youtu.be/AAYxWPJkGoU?...

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Robert Fripp - Here Comes The Flood - First Edition: Original 1979 (Exposure)

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Where else but in Turkey, where man and cat coexist as equals? That's how the universe meant it.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A moment of insight. To me, music isn't an object. It's a state. I don't listen wit my brain, I listen with my nervous system. I feel a melodic line before I understand it, I feel a harmonic colour before I can name it. 1/2

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

BBC wrote: "But if [Trump] backs down after such threats, that could damage his credibility." Seriously? 🙄

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#StreetArt Banksy, Ukraine.

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may." ― Vincent van Gogh (Letter to his brother Theo, 1880) #BookSky The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Doctor and Amy take Vincent Van Gogh - who struggled to sell a single painting in his own lifetime - to a Paris Art Gallery in the year 2010. Clip from "Doctor Who" Series 5 Episode 10, 'Vincent and the Doctor'. youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk?...

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Vincent Van Gogh Visits the Gallery | Vincent and the Doctor | Doctor Who

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

(My colleagues, who are studying lions, used to say that lions are very good at doing nothing. They said that we should add lions to the list of inactive noble gases, which includes krypton, argon and neon.)

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I am upended. We're clearing out a room which was used as a cache. In a box of relics from my mother (photos, paperwork), I found an envelope with a photo of me as a toddler, and a sheet of paper 68 years old, with 10 lines in her handwriting, each line its own paragraph. It was shattering. 1/

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Today was crazy busy, but I've spent a bit of time on addressing what each individual exposure parameter does to your photo. I started with exposure time (shutter speed) and didn't get any further than that. peterhuppertz.net/english/so-w...

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So… what’s all this about EVs and F-stops and stuff? – Peter's blog

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

One of the late Richard Thompson's brilliant cartoons www.gocomics.com/richards-poo...

Hand‑drawn humorous March calendar from ‘Richard’s Poor Almanac.’ A large lion appears at the top and a small lamb at the bottom to illustrate the ‘in like a lion, out like a lamb’ saying. The calendar grid contains many joke holidays and repeated ‘power outage’ entries. The overall style is whimsical and cartoonish.

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peter (ph neutral) @peter-18c39.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ok, @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social, whether you like it or not, I *am* finally getting around to do an even less intimidating version of "photography for the uninitiated" (see how I avoid "dummies" here? Once bitten, twice shy 🤣) 1/3 (I think)

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