alexa lake 🕊️🌿

quaker seminarian, tea enthusiast, warm takes on photography, 2022-vintage fedizen. come for the nature pics; follow for the exclusive, unlisted nature pics. I post on religion, but never dogmatically, and I usually CW scripture/exegesis. be excellent to others. follow requests welcome!

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2025-04-13 04:41:23

‹ flips to an endnote ›
“Ibid. 57.”
(⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

2025-04-13 04:14:59

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@nprofile…ucsy
Idk about y'all but that's what my computer sees when I upgrade it

2025-04-13 02:46:38

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some statistical model reviewed my purchase history and was like "confirmed transfemme." then the streams got crossed between the two things: being pretty and technology

2025-04-13 02:38:45

um
https://pishon.social/lxak/s/d2b5ca33bd970f64a6301fa75ae2eb22.png

2025-04-11 13:41:33

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@nprofile…40n6
If anyone is interested in an effort to make all Penn. transit agencies solvent and increase service levels back to at least 2019 levels, Pittsburghers for Public Transit is lobbying for an increase on the rental car and car leasing taxes, which I believe haven't been raised since the ’90s. This would give transit agencies enough funding for at least 6 years, without having to return to the state assembly each year.
I think they'll soon publish this plan now that the SEPTA cuts are announced. https://www.transitforallpa.org/campaign-updates/ or https://www.pittsburghforpublictransit.org/
#Transit #PA #Pittsburgh

2025-04-11 04:45:08

I'm getting self-conscious about my typography…
Do you use em (—) and en (–) dashes in writing, and do dashes make you suspect AI wrote what you're reading?

2025-04-10 17:29:49

Hmm. #snac seems to load quite slowly despite having adequate system resources. I suppose it doesn't like the slow random reads of being on spinning disks. Maybe I should try it out on solid state storage and compare 🤔

2025-04-10 13:38:33

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@nprofile…wszh
I have a presentation of the history of hell in Christianity a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure it can also be blamed on Alexander the Great

2025-04-10 05:01:02

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@nprofile…kgud
Oh that's super cool. I love btrfs. It's saved my bacon when updates go haywire so many times

2025-04-10 04:57:18

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Icing on the cake is that this system is file type agnostic. I can queue up photos to edit, papers to write, and just text reminders all together

2025-04-10 04:49:28

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One thing that eternally annoys me about to-do software is an ontology that doesn't make sense given what I actually need to do. On one hand, I need it to just be like a scratch pad with strings "take out trash." But it should also support files or whole directories for tasks like "finish this research paper."
So, hear me out, you have a to-do folder. Simple things can just be touch "clean stove" and projects could be ln -s Documents/Project-X todo/today/Project-X
I guess link type would depend on the situation

2025-04-10 04:39:59

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@nprofile…sldm
Has anyone made a hard link based to-do system? Like if some project X.docx needs to be run by Alice, link it to Alice/X.docx, then once that's done, delete it from her folder.
#UNIX #Linux

2025-04-10 04:34:42

Oh my God, I can organize photos with hardlinks!! Photos/by-person/Alexa/IMG_1234 and Photos/by-location/Taiwan/IMG_1234

2025-04-10 03:12:21

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I'm also Not A Professional, so it was all with my M10 and @nprofile…5qzs's nifty fifty and my Jupiter 37A manual. I'm getting much faster at manually focusing though!

2025-04-10 02:39:37

Wow, I just photographed a mayoral forum. (First time doing an event like this)
Having a camera makes you INVISIBLE. It's like the hi-viz jack effect but better. You can just sit on the floor and get right in front of people, and they don't look at you. Basically autistic heaven if you ask me.

2025-04-09 19:04:36

This was all priced in

2025-04-09 02:28:46

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@nprofile…q88t
Wonder if woodland creatures instinctively pose when they see @nprofile…xg97 🤔

2025-04-09 01:41:56

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Oh gosh. He has a great legacy in shape note. Really glad that we have this beautiful recording of him singing

2025-04-09 01:33:36

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No, who is that?

2025-04-09 01:28:52

Amelia (Shenandoah Harmony 246b) is almost guaranteed to get me to tear up. Linked is a cool chamber recording.
Lyrics are Cowper and Watts:
‘Tis joy enough, my all in all,
At thy dear feet to lie.
Thou wilt not let me lower fall,
And none can higher fly.
Oh, Lord, the sorrows I endure,
Are great beyond control.
No other hand but thine can cure
The anguish of my soul.
Thou wilt display that sov’reign grace,
Whence all my comforts spring.
I shall employ my lips in praise,
And thy salvation sing.

2025-04-08 22:45:41

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@nprofile…kgud If I had a nickel for everytime I had to disambiguate man (ἄνθρωπος) & man (ἀνδρὸς)...
I'd probably still have less than $5, but I'd have more than $1!

2025-04-08 21:37:35

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@nprofile…rmua
Oh that's super interesting!
My frustration is that of a student, not of a speaker or arranger 😛

2025-04-08 21:35:48

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@nprofile…kgud
Greek lol

2025-04-08 19:53:09

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2025-04-08 19:50:14

Words were not meant to be "declined"
utter madness

2025-04-08 15:44:43

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hm, inexplicable snac served the wrong photo than what I originally uploaded. Fixed now, regardless!

2025-04-08 15:44:05

putting the "bloom" in #bloomscrolling 😅
Jupiter 37A 135/3.5
https://pishon.social/lxak/s/post-15c0aab4fcf4d113acf96f2ae524a59f.jpg

2025-04-08 15:40:40

putting the "bloom" in #bloomscrolling 😅
Jupiter 37A 135/3.5
https://pishon.social/lxak/s/9f360c5ab7736510df54c882e9dbf188.jpeg

2025-04-08 04:34:58

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Releasing 2 greased pigs labeled "1" and "3" would be sufficient for the Senate. The House might require several giant sloths.

2025-04-08 04:32:03

Hear me out, I think geese are naturally paladins. Specifically oath of crown.

2025-04-08 03:54:12

Federated Rolodex when?

2025-04-08 03:50:18

Wonder if the new PIT terminal will keep the Caution! You are approaching the end of the moving walkway. I'm already mourning Hold on! This tram is departing for the air-side terminal, concourses A, B, C, and D.

2025-04-08 00:45:42

Not even Holy Week and I'm itching for some Easter happiness. Here's 236 Easter Anthem from The Sacred Harp!
From Cork's Second Annual Convention. I wouldn't quite call this "convention speed," but the leading is awesome.
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #Easter
https://pishon.social/lxak/s/9d66725ba2105f1833731ade5b7f334e.mp4

2025-04-07 23:37:55

Gender of the day: insisting on using flat files where a database is certainly called for

2025-04-07 21:01:01

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