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Abhijit Menon-Sen

@amenonsen@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer.

Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Uttarakhand, India
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026
Bracket fungi growing on a log in the rainforest. #fungi #nature
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One World Trade Center (and Neighbors), NYC, 2019. All the pixels, stacked sky high, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49291055921 #photography
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This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens. A large image circle allows room for considerable movements, used here to swing to selectively focus on the WTC tower. A polarizer dar
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Jan 15, 2026
@mattblaze@federate.social Just out of curiosity, what was the process of taking this photo like, or in general many of your buildings-in-the-street photos? Do you have trouble finding a place to take the photo from? Do you spend a long time dialling in the movements etc.? Do people come and talk to you while you do it?
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Wind Turbines, near Tracy, CA, 2010. All the pixels, none of which actually cause cancer, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497 #photography
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social Here's a photo from almost the southernmost tip of India. I can't say anything about the safety of these pixels, because right next to these windmills is the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudankulam_Nuclear_Power_Plant) The nuclear power plant has 2GW of operational capacity (with another 4GW expected any day now since 2016). Meanwhile, there's more than 2GW of installed wind turbines all over the same area.
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Wind Turbines, near Tracy, CA, 2010. All the pixels, none of which actually cause cancer, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497 #photography
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This was captured near the Tesla substation (no relation to the car company) near Altamont Pass with a DSLR and a 400mm lens, compressing the turbines in a way that made them resemble a histogram. The
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The scale of these wind farms is beyond what we're equipped to process in day-to-day human experience. They conquer the landscape in ways we can't fully comprehend even when they're in front of us. In
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social I have seen lots of wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, but I realised that I don't understand how big they are only when I started seeing vanes being transported by road on enormous trailers. I still can't really fathom how something that takes thirty seconds to overtake on the highway can spin so fast (or the wind that makes them spin that way).
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I can only imagine how much more successful I would have been in life if only had had been more diligent with my use of hashtags. Oh well.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Never too late to start!!!
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@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai No, it's too late for me. I am forever condemned to hashtag-free obscurity. I have made my peace with this.
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Dec 14, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social @WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai If the CIA had thought to put a hashtag on the nuclear device, they would never have had trouble finding it again.
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Utterly wild story about a nuclear generator lost atop a Himalayan mountain by the CIA 60 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.h
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social

Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer. Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a constantly-growing heap of DIY projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.

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@amenonsen@mastodon.social · Dec 14, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social It is politically especially convenient to blame the recent string of disasters (floods, landslides) in the state on a CIA plot than on climate change and unrelenting and unregulated ongoing construction/dams/mining/etc. Anyway, here's what Nanda Devi looks like from "our" angle, further to the south-east (the photos in the article are from the south west, and much closer-up).
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