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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

We went kayak in the lagoon again today, and ran into a sail boat race with no wind, an angry crap, a very nice canal inside a lagoon island, and a less than clear traffic sign. #kayak #VeniceInKayak #Venice #lagoon

A woman in a blue kayak, sitting still while watching a series of sail boats, which are hardly moving, not moving past. The sky is blue with streaks of white, the almost placid water reflects the sky, and the kayak is bright blue, with a red spray-skirt. She wears an orange hat.

The view of a canal on a lagoon island, with boats moored on the sides. The land on either side is full of trees and other vegetation, which reflects in the water. So does the almost clear blue sky. The bow of an orange kayak is in the centre front.

An underwater photo with an overall olive-green ting, with a large angry crap waving its pincers and the camera.

A traffic sign, placed in the middle of the water, simply with a large exclamation mark. In the far background, a forested lagoon island.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is Stella. She's fifteen and a half, and she's been with us for fourteen years. Her little heart is giving up, and her breathing is difficult. She's dying in front if our eyes, and we're dying inside too. This is so difficult, beyond words.

An elderly dog, half beagle, half jack Russell, on a Venetian terazzo floor.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Can anybody from Finland confirm this ?

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

We value you privacy. 1745 partners!

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The view from the non-public parts of the first floor of the Palazzo Ducale, the Loggia Foscara. #venice #PalazzoDucale

The lion of St Mark between two columns.

The Basilica of St Mark from the loggia Foscara.

Francesco Foscari kneeling in front if St Mark, over the Ports di Carta.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Ten times the normal daily traffic on my main website, all requests from different IPs with a dash for user-agent People ask AIs questions, the AI retrieves the answer from my website, anonymously, passes the answer on to the user, without sending them to me […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

A graph of day-by-day web traffic, very regular, but with a tall spike for yesterday.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

TFW somebody just copied your entire website. #AIsucks

Graph of website traffic, with a very large spike on the last day.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Fascism can also look like this. The stand in the right advertises the Biennale. The president of the Biennale in Venice is a fascist, who opened the event for russia, which caused the EU to block €2m in funding for breaking the sanctions. The #Biennale in […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

A park with hedges and plants, to the right a large rectangular publicity for the biennale, and in the background, behind a hedge, a large white yacht.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Has the Text app locked the file? That didn't happen earlier.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I take too few photos of our dogs, and I'll regret it soon because they're old. This is Giubba enjoying the shade in our local public garden. #dogs #dogsOfMastodon

A mostly black dog in the shade, resting on a layer of wood chips.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

TFW somebody copies your entire website while you're out for a walk.

Graph of 14 days of website traffic, with a huge spike for today, ten times normal traffic.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

On my way home from work, I find this. I expected problems with the police, but they let me pass. The demonstrators on the bridge, on the other hand, attacked me, shouted abuse at me, pushed me, pulled me and what not. I managed to get across amidst the howls […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

A line of police facing a bridge full of demonstrators.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

The annual circus is on. We'll all draw a sigh of relief in November. #biennale #TheWorstNeighbour

A long line of people though a park, under a light rain.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context. From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907. #footnotes #curiosities […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

A composite image of five pages from a book, three of which are entirely taken up by a single footnote.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

I have made a translation of a Venetian letter from 1576, written during one of the worst plague epidemics ever to hit Venice, and I'm looking for proof-readers. The letter is a first-hand eyewitness account of a very severe plague epidemic in Venice, written […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Extract from the titlepage from 1577. Two woodcuts, one of St Sebastian tied to a tree, pierce by arrows, the other of St Roch, showing the plague buboes on his thigh.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

TFW somebody would like a copy of your entire website, but prefers not to ask politely. Two IPs did 90% of site traffic, one a Swiss online website copier, another some hacker brute-forcing various SQL injections. Why can't we have nice things any more? Thanks for @dvk for Koko Analytics.

Screenshot of a traffic graph for a website, all very fine and steady, until yesterday when there's a spike ten times normal traffic for no obvious reason.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

This is what I use to put my feet up in the evening. I have no idea how it made its way to Venice, or how old it is. Its from the piles of old stuff my father in law never threw away. #Venice #Scotland #Whisky #FootRest

The side of a wooden crate, with the text: Black & White blended scotch whisky James Buchanan &Co Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

We've ventured far away from home, and the dog is scared of these large four wheeled monsters. #venice #dogstodon

Photo is a sidewalk, with a bus stop, a single person and some cars. In the background, a church.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Sono finalmente riuscito a convincere la mia dolce metà che si sta meglio nel Fediverso. Mi date una mano a darle un benvenuto che si rispetti? Boost molto graditi per trovare i suoi futuri amici. @solasmartins fa #uncinetto , gioca a #pingpong , fa […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Foto di una bella donna sorridente, a tavolo, che guarda su da suo pranzo. Lo sfondo a sinistra è la laguna di Venezia, a destra il verde di un'isola. Il tavolo è pieno di bicchieri, piatti, con un'insalata verde in bella vista.

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René Seindal @seindal.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

The Venetian carnival is 80% photographers, 20% people in totally ahistorical costumes, all of the tourists. The locals who can, flee the city for carnival. This was once a community event, but the community doesn't exist any more. The event lingers, without […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

Close-up of a photographer shooting a sitting person in costume.

Left, in the foreground, a photographer with a large backpack and some very expensive gear, taking photos of two female costumes, to the right, in the background.

Foreground, left, a photographer in a yellow jacket, half-way kneeling, photographs a group of four persons in costume, to the right, in the background.

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