@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

Eclectic: Humour. Art. Tech. Street Art. Thai Cooking. Trans rights. Occasional politics.

Mid-50s, ex gaming industry, ex corporate. UK-born, global traveller for decades and now Irish-resident with a special woman. European by heart.

#Tech #Art #StreetArt #WomensArt #Recipes #TransRights #BodilyAutonomy

Here for the genuine folk and chilled vibe of the Fediverse.

Housekeeping:
#noarchive #noindex #nosearch #noAI #fedi22

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JustMyToots:: https://justmytoots.com/@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt?public_only=true
#WomensArt posts mainly from: https://bsky.app/profile/womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Pronouns: She/her
Thai/Asian Recipes:: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/tagged/Recipes

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'A walk in Cork' this Saturday morning (just...)
Me in colour? Hell may be freezing over, I'm in red
The two of us, with @IsabelB@mastodon.ie
Isabel and Toto are ahead 🐶
The foxgloves are out 🌺

Have a nice day 🌞

#Transvisibility #Transjoy

A selfie of a brunette woman in a red top

A photograph of a woman on a country road patting her white dog

A selfie of two women wearing sunglasses

A photo of pink foxglove flowers against greenery

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4,000 year old pectoral with necklace, from tomb of Egyptian Princess Sithathoryunet - cloisonné enamel with gold & 372 fashioned pieces of lapis lazuli, turquoise, garnets & other semiprecious stones, flanked by falcons, as symbols of the sun god

It's also a bit stunning ...

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544232

#History #jewelry

An incredibly intricate necklace in red, blue, purple an gold of two birds facing each other, a man kneeling on the ground beneath them.

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Kärcher used high-pressure cleaners on the concrete surface of the dam to celebrate two anniversaries:

▫️the Iwayagawachi dam in the Japanese prefecture of Saga, 50th anniversary

▫️the movie figure Godzilla, its 70th birthday 🇯🇵

https://www.kaercher.com/int/inside-kaercher/company/sponsoring/cultural-sponsorship/kaercher-cleans-the-dam-to-create-godzilla.html

#StreetArt #Japan #Godzilla

A photograph of a huge dam, an aerial view. The dam has been power cleaned leaving a relief of Godzilla, with the words Godzilla and Saga above. To one side and behind green hillsides and trees flank the lake that the dam holds back.

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A post on Bluesky:

"Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.

It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.

Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.

Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up"

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Art Nouveau door and facade from 1904 in Paris by French architect Eugène Coulon (1872-1942).

#Architecture #ArtNouveau

A turquoise art bouveau door featuring brown-orange ornate floral motifs and a wrought-iron gate.

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An Art Nouveau winding staircase decorated with metal flowers and vines, designed by architect Ede Magyar, at Reök Palace in Szeged, Hungary (1907)

#ArtNouveau #Architecture

Decorative flowers and stems on balustrade of curving staircase

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For anyone interested in thai cooking, curries, stir fries, recipes and me wittering on about various chilis 🌶️ soy sauces and authentic thai ingredients like holy basil 🌿 I have added a "Featured Hashtag" of 'Recipes' to my profile ...

It should show all my (mainly Asian) foodie type recipes and posts from newest to oldest.

Or via a direct link:
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/tagged/Recipes

Happy reading.

#Food #Cooking #Recipes

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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.

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A Tom Gauld classic, scarily on track

This is a Tom Gauld comic strip about a female writer whose fictional dystopian novel becomes a reality. The essential information is:

A writer decides to write a novel set in a horrific dystopia.

Frame 1 - "I'm going to shut myself away and write a novel set in a horrific dystopia"

Frame 2 - 5 years later "Finished"

Frame 3 - she steps out into a real life dystopia of women under control and armed guards, tanks and helicopters and exclaims "Damn!"

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TIL: The earliest use of the word "terrorism" identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is a 1795 reference to tyrannical state behavior, the "reign of terrorism" in France."

The term was coined to describe the actions of the state during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, where agents of the Committee of Public Safety, referred to as "Terrorists," enforced the government's policies with violence against perceived enemies.

TERRORISM was originally defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "government by intimidation."

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After being let go from Microsoft, Clippy fell on hard times

A photo of a toilet roll holder very much in the shape of Clippy, Microsoft's assistant and precursor to AI