Raff Karva@RaffKarva@photog.socialphotog.social

Woohoo!

One year on Mastodon!

Grateful for the incredible journey of connecting with wonderful humans.

Here's my very first post:

Hi Mastodon,

Me:
#Wildlife & pet #photographer
#Linguist (MA)
Nerd (AuDhD)
Marathoner & triathlete
Environmentalist
Into #astronomy, #astrophysics, #QuantumPhysics, #technology, #ScottishPolitics, #environment & more.

My photography:
http://flickr.com/photos/raffkarva/
http://raffkarva.com

Gratitude for the connections & conversations.

My first pic on Mastodon:

Billions of people will die. Whole species will cease to exist. Yet the only language these people can speak is the economy, mortgages, investments, efficiency, and growth.

The sentence “Climate crisis will destroy capitalism” is on par with claiming that “liver failure will destroy one’s alcoholism.”

Money is our poison. Not fossil fuels, not climate change. Money. This Guardian article is written from the perspective of a (money) addict.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

YouTube has just changed its rules to allow hate speech against gender minorities

https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from

If you currently publish on YouTube, please consider putting your videos on PeerTube instead or as well:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.

(via @taylorlorenz on https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114274955775553205)

Tech that was predicted vs Tech that was not.
Interesting list by Kevin Kelly
https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-unpredicted/

A sentence I never thought I’d say:

Roy Mackal's 1970s Instamatic camera tangled in Boaty McBoatface's propellers.

https://futurism.com/loch-ness-camera

Ok, time for a thread on what I've been getting lots of interviews about. I've dropped some hints and shared some info, but here's the story!

Remember this document I posted a while ago? https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf

It casually mentions that a piece of a Starlink satellite was found in Saskatchewan in August 2024.

A real treat: On Sunday I was one of the lucky ones to attend a zoom workshop where Beth Johnson taught the Baby Grand Piano by Patricia Crawford. This is the result of a fast paced hour of folding, without additional refinement. A fun fold and a great model from the early seventies!

#origami
#irigamiart

From today, young islanders can travel for free on inter-island ferries in Scotland!

Scottish Greens secured this crucial policy for our islands whilst in government.

We are delivering for Scotland's islands.

Sweden announced a new military aid package to Ukraine worth 16 billion crowns ($1.59 billion) on Monday, the biggest package to date from the Nordic country, saying it wanted to help Kyiv strengthen its position in talks on ending the war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-announces-new-military-aid-package-worth-16-bln-ukraine-2025-03-31/

Remember...

I made a tool that converts #Nuudel from @digitalcourage to set of *.ics files where each file is one row and the calendar events represent all the columns where the user checked "Yes".

You can then use Nuudel for "booking" dates and one click import the data into your favourite calendar app.

https://nuudel-to-ics.netlify.app

Despite everything, I hope we celebrate our trans #joy today.

If you're cis, educate yourself!! Don't be complacent. No TERFs. No deadnames. Be bold. Listen to trans, #non-binary and #gender-nonconforming folks. Be prepared to defend us.

While there is a long road ahead to liberation for all beings, #intersectional change is what is needed to bring it about. #Solidarity is how we win.

#trans
#tdov
#tdov2025
#transgender
#photography
#transjoy

“Europe seems hellbent on creating the most hostile environment for bears.” Why can't Europeans live with predators?
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/people/opinion/mark-carwardine-europe-wildlife-hunting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into BBC Wildlife Magazine @bbc-wildlife-magazine-BBCWildlife

concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

Organic Maps moved from GitHub to Forgejo after Microsoft blocked their account, likely due to a contributor's location in a U.S.-sanctioned region. This enabled Organic Maps to switch to a self-hosted, decentralized development platform.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/organic-maps-migrates-to-forgejo-due-to-github-account-blocked-by-microsoft/

Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

Map shows the roads Dutch people use in holidays

While Trump is doing nothing for Ukraine, Sweden raises its military aid to Ukraine from USD 2.5 billion to USD 4 billion in 2025.

Tack Sverige!

https://shorturl.at/OZoak