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2026-08-29 12:20:22 CEST

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I wonder which #navy this ship belongs to.

2026-08-28 07:39:25 CEST

#Goodmorning from cloudy Fisksätra. Today: read & comment on novel manuscript, dentist appointment, game-master Trail of Cthulhu. And you?

2026-08-27 10:08:08 CEST

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I need to check with my wife if she wants to try this posish!

2026-08-26 21:38:12 CEST

My wife and I have always paid more attention to the anniversary of us meeting (6 June). But we just realised that today is our Silver Wedding Anniversary! 25 years!
#marriage

2026-08-26 07:18:15 CEST

#Goodmorning from misty Fisksätra. Mist is so rare here that I'm always happy to see it. Today: read museology, visit dentist, yacht mini-race. And you?

2026-08-25 09:10:21 CEST

There's something logically wrong about how we talk about neuropsychiatric disabilities. They are lists of symptoms. Science has little idea of what's causing them.
Yesterday I heard someone on Swedish National Broadcasting say something like "Frank Andersson's short attention span and hyperactive behaviour got an explanation when he received an ADHD diagnosis".
Everyone already knew he had a short attention span and a hyperactive behaviour. That diagnosis explained exactly nothing.
#adhd

2026-08-25 06:56:09 CEST

Realised that when people ask me what my job is, I'll have to reply "museum curator", not "archaeologist". Though I'll be curating the archaeological collection.
#museum

2026-08-24 13:32:58 CEST

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I hope not to see too much knowledge relativism of the type "museologists know objective facts about museums, but the archaeologists who create the exhibitons there don't know any objective facts about the past". 🙄

2026-08-22 17:00:59 CEST

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The Viking Period!

2026-08-21 10:30:46 CEST

I stockholmskan finns inte uttrycket "att få till mig [något]". Men jag har märkt att ute i landet betyder det "att få besked om, att få veta [något]". Var någonstans hör uttrycket hemma?
#svenska

2026-08-21 10:16:40 CEST

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Well, Swedish working men aren't actually all that despondent. Their reaction would be much more proportional in the UK. 🙄

2026-08-21 07:59:44 CEST

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In Sweden there's this enormous hatred in some corners against the Social Democrat Party, which is nevertheless the largest one in parliament.
Some working men seem to believe that the SocDems made their grandfathers prosperous, and then took that prosperity away (and gave it to the darkies). When the party was in fact just managing post-war economic trends that it had no say in.

2026-08-21 07:18:45 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Runmarö. Today: read, write, cycle, walk, cook, clean dishes by hand outdoors while listening to great music. And you?

2026-08-20 21:20:08 CEST

Here's me and Dr. Aage Sandqvist (1939-2026) last December, the last time we met before he died. Aage was the father of one of my best friends, and a role model to me because he was the only scientist I knew growing up, an astronomer! My parents are 1st generation uni graduates with degrees in economics and social sciences that led to boring sensible jobs. I miss Aage! ❤️
https://www.esero.se/nyheter/till-minne-av-aage-sandy-sandqvist-1939-2026/
#science
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2026-08-19 22:15:50 CEST

OK software people, if you're going to demand that I follow a template when choosing a password (number of characters, case, additional symbols), then you should tell me what the fucking template was when one day you ask me to remember that password.
#software #security

2026-08-19 09:03:34 CEST

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90% av nominella svenska muslimer går aldrig till en moské.

2026-08-19 06:53:44 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Runmarö. From today my wife joins me here for the rest of the week! I'm going to show her around, take a bike trip, she'll probably want a swim. And you?

2026-08-17 08:20:31 CEST

I've known T for almost 30 years. Cheerful, geeky fellow. Conservative opinions, did all or much of a theology degree. He used to live with a Chilean lady, and now he's long married to Chinawoman, and a dad.
T is now running for local office for the fascist party. The one that hates his wife and son. He must be their best-educated candidate. 🙄
#svpol #fascism

2026-08-17 07:49:25 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra. Today: ride buses and a boat to Runmarö Island and the Ruth Family Writers' Retreat. There to read, write, cycle around and study this large island's landscape history. At the time of year when you can't see anything for greenery... And you?

2026-08-16 07:22:46 CEST

Today's four weeks until Swedish voters get rid of the useless, fascist-dependent Kristersson government!
#svpol

2026-08-15 09:10:39 CEST

"Let's name our waste recycling company for Moloch, the child sacrifice of the Old Testament Canaanites!"
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2026-08-15 07:20:18 CEST

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today: water my dad's plants, cycle into town, attend opening of neighbour's art show, nap, represent Left Party at Fisksätra International Festival, farewell dinner with daughter before she goes back to tech school in Lund for the semester. And you?

2026-08-14 20:57:23 CEST

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Thanks! I think acquisitions and cataloguing have probably not been super active during these summer weeks. Stay tuned!
My 2025 Lord Dunsany is in 95 libraries!

2026-08-14 20:39:30 CEST

Six weeks after publication, my collection of R.L. Stevenson translations is now available in 20 Swedish public libraries.
#books #translation #happy

2026-08-14 10:40:06 CEST

Svante in the Wednesday boardgames group told me about a piece of news he'd read, about a badly delusional man who had rung a doorbell in his underwear and tried to kill his neighbour. Armed with a cheese slicer.
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2026-08-12 12:07:28 CEST

The plotting of the novel "Of Human Bondage" takes a sudden left turn near the middle when the bookish, artistic main character suddenly falls in love with this sickly, surly, charmless, uneducated waitress at a café?! She has no interest in him whatsoever, always dismissive and borderline rude.
#books #writing

2026-08-12 09:45:44 CEST

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*raises hand* I'm silly

2026-08-12 07:15:25 CEST

Sångerskan Fröken Snusks öppna solidarisering med SD tydliggör något ganska viktigt. Partiets väljare är inte *främst* rasister. De är lantlig arbetarklass som är fientlig till storstadsetablissemanget, den akademiska medelklassen och finborgerligheten.
Det som gav SD flest röster 2022, och som de nu framhåller i sin pågående valkampanj, är inte rasismen. Det är bensinbilsstödet.
Och visst, de har ju rätt. Jag vill förstås inte att raggarna skall ha något politiskt inflytande.
#svpol

2026-08-12 07:07:02 CEST

Somebody has made a habit of peeing on the microfilmed newspaper collection at the Carolina Rediviva library in Uppsala. Thousands of film rolls ruined. Sad and bizarre.

2026-08-08 21:52:43 CEST

By one metric, the 1980 role-playing game Space Opera is the best #scifi #ttrpg ever published.
Only in Space Opera (vol. 2, last page) are there rules for renting a cargo submarine. 😄

2026-08-08 18:46:42 CEST

Clans of Caledonia
#boardgames #Scotland @npub1904…tf7j
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2026-08-08 10:21:16 CEST

Hello world
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2026-08-07 11:13:15 CEST

Botanical excursion with Kristoffer Hahn! And I make archaeological asides.
#botany
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2026-08-07 08:30:59 CEST

Having lost all faith in the United States, including the country's large corporations, I switched from Google Docs to Proton Docs, whose servers are based in Switzerland.
But Proton Docs specifically offers *encrypted communication* as its USP. And I have a really slow computer. So their office suite, which is never functional on phones, is unusable to me. The cryptography demands too much computing power. 🙄

2026-08-06 06:25:52 CEST

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Did you know: Sweden's low-price #Chinese restaurants of the past half-century with westernised non-genuine dishes are closing down? Because the aim of them was never to start a cheap-eatery lineage. It was to support the children becoming doctors, lawyers and engineers. Mission accomplished, close down. ❤️

2026-08-06 06:20:12 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Djurö. Today: cycling home to Fisksätra, dinner at a good Chinese restaurant that is closing. And you?

2026-08-05 21:15:31 CEST

Say "fresh cheese". Good. Now you can pronounce a core phoneme of the Slavic languages, [szcz] or [ść] in Polish. And you're halfway to pronouncing the Polish name for the city the Germans call Stettin: Szczecin. The second syllable is just like English "chin". Szcze-chin. Emphasise the penultimate syllable.
Easy. Polish orthography is much more regular than the English one.
#language #polish

2026-08-05 20:32:16 CEST

Jag vet hur de vanliga lanternorna ser ut till sjöss.
Får privata farkoster dessutom ha stora blinkande blåljus på taket numera? Såg jävligt konstigt ut här nyss.

2026-08-05 17:55:20 CEST

A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for.
It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the same operation manually and compare.
#llm #ai #aibubble

2026-08-05 15:08:22 CEST

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I practice meetingless leadership on my archaeological excavations.

2026-08-05 14:32:18 CEST

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I've never made much money. But on the other hand I've barely been in any meetings at all. 😁

2026-08-05 12:11:45 CEST

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The Volpe is one of about ten luxury yachts owned by Betsy DeVos and her husband. She served as Secretary for Education in the first 4345 administration.
This makes me want to opt out of this world.
#capitalism

2026-08-05 11:14:06 CEST

The 2024 luxury yacht Volpe just went past my mom's summer house. 41 meters. I felt a strong yearning for a couple of artillery cannon.
https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-59359/volpe.htm

2026-08-05 08:20:07 CEST

It's artificial, all right. But it's not intelligence.
#ai #llm #aibubble

2026-08-05 07:43:01 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Djurö. Today: clean house, pack belongings, switch water filter, switch outhouse container, cycle 2.5 hours home with podcasts. And you?

2026-08-04 18:26:23 CEST

Heinlein's 1973 novel "Time Enough For Love" is crap. It's talky and uneventful. It's full of libertarian preachy asides. It's got this really weird attitude to women, kind of like a man born in 1907 trying to keep up with 1970s feminism. One fifth of the way through the book the preamble still wasn't finished, so I gave up.
#books #scifi

2026-08-03 07:48:16 CEST

Six weeks from today will be the day after our election, and we will have voted out the useless, Fascist-dependent Kristersson government!
#svpol

2026-08-02 14:00:02 CEST

SPYRIUM #friends #boardgames
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2026-08-02 09:02:34 CEST

I wonder if the use of old (how old are they really?) books to train language models will re-awaken old usages in English.
Like when people try to argue that the mistake they make today is legit because it's attested from 1704. And has been abandoned since. 😄
#llm #ai #language

2026-07-31 18:49:46 CEST

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"Across March and April 2026, Rebellion Unplugged ran a Kickstarter campaign for the first new edition to be created since the Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls edition in 2015. Named "Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age," the edition's campaign established a £20,000 goal, which was more than quintupled in campaign pledges by the time the campaign ended. The edition ... was planned for delivery in May of 2027."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls
#ttrpg #pnpde

2026-07-31 12:14:50 CEST

Sudden insight. There's a reason for why I consider it absolutely idiotic when Swedes incorporate English usages in their Swedish.* It's because I'm bilingual after two childhood years in the US. I've spent 50 years making damn sure that I keep these two particular languages separate.
* när det kommer till, det är hjälpsamt, spirituell = andlig etc.
#language

2026-07-31 09:53:57 CEST

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Var är det som Allard eventuellt kommer att komma in?

2026-07-30 06:52:40 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Djurö. Today: read, a walk, maybe a swim. And you?

2026-07-29 13:46:57 CEST

Archipelago
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2026-07-29 07:41:41 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra. Today: pack for a week in the archipelago and travel there, read. I came down with Juniorette's cold yesterday, luckily after the mountain hike was done. And you?

2026-07-28 09:23:32 CEST

Just rode the bus through Elfdalen. When we played Vaesen, a dialect professor from Uppsala found the elves' silver cup walled up in the church here, and they drove him demented through dancing in a fairy circle.
#folklore #ttrpg #pnpde

2026-07-28 06:39:47 CEST

#Goodmorning from Grövelsjön Mountain Station. Today: ride buses and trains home while reading, shave, iron a shirt, attend tech school daughter's common-law hubbie's 22nd birthday dinner. And you?

2026-07-27 21:33:58 CEST

The one thing that all long-lived ethnic diaspora and indigenous communities (>1000 years) have in common is a strong cultural emphasis on a refusal to intermarry and assimilate. The reason that there are no Hittites or Olmeks around anymore is not that they were all killed. It's that their descendants saw no great value in staying distinct. Swedes in the US around 1900 were also spectacularly bad at this. 😄
#ethnicity #migration

2026-07-26 12:11:20 CEST

#hiking
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2026-07-24 10:19:31 CEST

It's a bizarre sight to ride the bus through these downhill skiing resorts in July. Countless empty vacation homes, hotels, restaurants, ski rental shops. Not a soul in sight. The slopes are green lawns.
#summer

2026-07-23 14:47:10 CEST

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Oh cool, I didn't know the term "consumption wall". As an archaeologist I'm intimately familiar with what people do with clearance stones. There are parts of Sweden where you can excavate 200 untidy little field clearance cairns from before the Black Death, and then you excavate the 201st and it covers a cremation burial from the AD 400. 😄
#archaeology

2026-07-23 14:32:22 CEST

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A happy surprise! Is your back yard fenced towards the woods & marshland?

2026-07-23 07:15:01 CEST

I'm guessing that this is a good time to apply for grants to study ecosystem regeneration after wildfires.
We had a small forest fire right across the motorway from the big mall in Nacka a few years ago. A month afterwards the whole area was full of morel mushrooms whose spores had been waiting patiently for half a century or more.
#wildfires

2026-07-22 16:49:42 CEST

I am keen to start my collections curator job, which is right up my alley. But I really hope they will put me to work writing and speaking as well. I'm a grand-standing extrovert who's also really good at ticking lists and keeping order.
#museums

2026-07-20 16:10:20 CEST

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I wonder how this works for Black and Brown people. I get these 10-centimetre pink dartboards on my pale skin. No unevenness. So maybe people of colour are underdiagnosed for Lyme.

2026-07-20 15:32:10 CEST

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There's a lot of alt-med misconceptions about Lyme. It's certainly not a good thing to leave untreated. But you easily get rid of the bug with a standard antibiotics prescription. I've had Lyme several times and always regained my health just fine.
Possibly people confuse it with Tick-Borne Encephalitis, a nasty viral infection that can't be treated. In my family we take booster shots against that every five years.
#health

2026-07-20 15:10:34 CEST

Chinese friends who lived in Sweden for 15 years are now sharing alt-right propaganda videos about how murderous immigrants have destroyed the UK and Sweden. 🙄

2026-07-20 08:35:09 CEST

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Hike postponed. My poor grownup kid has 39,8 Celsius and just a light sniffle. I'm guessing Lyme disease. Visiting the doctor later today. ❤️

2026-07-20 06:52:50 CEST

#Goodmorning from hazy Fisksätra. Today: bike ride, buy #hiking food, pack backpack, ride night train. If my daughter doesn't still run a fever. And you?

2026-07-19 16:53:20 CEST

In my natural habitat
#malebeauty #archaeology
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2026-07-19 11:19:02 CEST

#TIL
Morgan le Fay means "Morgan the fairy", la fée Morgane.
I feel stupid now.
#fantasy

2026-07-19 07:17:52 CEST

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They aren't identifiable until 1000 years after the Corded Ware expansion. But since they spoke Indo-European, they probably had the same steppe ancestry. I'm not aware of the Hittites originating from west of the Bosphorus?

2026-07-19 07:09:10 CEST

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today: check gear for 4-day mountain hike with tech school daughter, bike ride, read. And you?

2026-07-19 07:07:26 CEST

My desk lamp has nice big adjustment screws designed to easily be tightened with a coin. You know, those objects that people would keep in their pockets in a bygone era. Easily tightened with a coin, and with no other object. 🙄

2026-07-18 20:23:15 CEST

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I have successfully travelled by land and sea to Kuopio and seen actual kalakukko being sold in the market square!!!

2026-07-18 16:12:58 CEST

Hovercraft'ım yılan balıklarıyla dolu!!!

2026-07-18 08:09:50 CEST

Ordet "bulle" har samma ord som franskans ord för bagare, "boulanger".
https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/boulanger

2026-07-17 20:54:33 CEST

Hey you old Goths, isn't this Swedish tune from 1985 a pretty worthy contribution to your canon?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=czZljFbdXtY&list=PL14lRZUfRC8A6fZQO-WH0HyNNr4lx1EME
#goth #rock
@npub1tqk…2tgz

2026-07-16 19:29:22 CEST

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This may be so in the US. Not here in Sweden.

2026-07-16 19:15:57 CEST

Thinking about these highly paid corporate jobs where young people are expected to put in 60-hour weeks.
I honestly can't see the appeal. Get rich and have no free time? Hello?
#career

2026-07-16 17:45:58 CEST

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It's 80% of your previous salary. I got almost enough to pay my way after we stopped making voluntary payments on our mortgage. A few lectures made up for the deficit.
I'd never figured out before what my lifestyle costs since the kids moved out. It's about $2200 monthly.

2026-07-16 17:12:15 CEST

-- Mrs. Rundkvist, how did your husband cope with his 14 months of #unemployment? Were there any signs of despondency?
-- He translated a volume of Stevenson's shorter fiction, wrote a big study of stone axes, started taking notes for an historical novel and took to bussing tables at an anarchist soup kitchen.

2026-07-16 12:31:40 CEST

I'm hoeing through a string of clearance stones along the edge of a small 20th century field that was laid out over earlier settlement remains and tilled up until the 1960s. Because we found three pieces of pre-1250 rotary querns sticking out of this feature, and I want more.
#archaeology

2026-07-16 07:31:23 CEST

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Tell me more!

2026-07-16 06:11:38 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra. It's going to be a hot day during the #climate crisis. Me: wear sunscreen, diggy hole, a swim. And you?

2026-07-14 20:18:04 CEST

They say a lot of men have trouble finding the clitoris. When we went to the lake for a swim, my wife put on her cardigan backwards to stop the wind. Now I can't even find her breasts.

2026-07-14 16:15:32 CEST

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I think they're gone by 1250.

2026-07-14 13:33:57 CEST

Half a rotary quern on the base of the rectangular hearth pit!
#archaeology
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2026-07-13 18:44:52 CEST

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Have you played Catan? And heard the sheep trading joke?

2026-07-13 12:06:42 CEST

There are native #English speakers who say "without any further adieu". 😄

2026-07-13 11:21:27 CEST

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You know those elected representatives that we find incredibly evil? They are not the illness. They are a symptom of an asshole electorate.
The US does not have a top-rank #democracy. But it's good enough that these people are pretty much getting the politicians they deserve.

2026-07-12 16:05:30 CEST

My wife has a mushroom farming kit.
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2026-07-12 06:51:33 CEST

Scandinavia was completely covered with kilometers of ice until ~14,000 years ago.
This means that every species of land life here is invasive and a recent arrival.
Humans were one of the first animals to arrive.
The current ecosystem has included us since day 1.
#ecology #environment

2026-07-11 10:06:55 CEST

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Luckily, Medieval literature is largely theological and thus of interest to almost nobody today.

2026-07-11 06:57:42 CEST

One advantage of reading Le Monde and Süddeutscher Zeitung is their strong coverage of EU news.
Another one is that I read French and German so slowly and imperfectly that I can skip all headlines about 4547 without understanding what they say. It's almost like filtering him out, like I do here on Masto.
#news5

2026-07-09 19:24:14 CEST

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I trust the intelligence and insight of voters only a little more than I trust the Dictatorship of the Proletariat... 🙄

2026-07-09 19:11:14 CEST

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I agree. Many political words have a widely agreed-upon definition. I think communist is a fully useful term, just like we have words for various kinds of right-wingers.
Though Americans use "liberal" extremely wrong. 😄

2026-07-09 09:05:05 CEST

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The reason I don't call myself a communist is that I support parliamentary democracy, not revolution. I'm a social democrat.

2026-07-09 05:58:37 CEST

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra. Today: diggy hole, launder fieldwork trousers. And you?

2026-07-08 08:34:36 CEST

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It's a problem. The best weather for fieldwork and photography is a cool overcast day after a rainy night.