#coincidence — Public Fediverse posts

Her dad died in 2018. He’s in her wedding photos anyway.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-mia-chard-father-camera-wedding-double-exposure/

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! Remember when I said I wanted to get back into piano?? The reservation I put in for a keyboard at the library many moons ago came in today! AND I had planned on going to read at the library tomorrow! There's surely a way for me to construct some meaning out of all these random coincidences!
#piano #library #libraries #coincidence #coincidences #fate #destiny #synchronicity #music #instruments #musicMaking

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment. In 2004, Ireland

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-are-you-2/
#2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment.

In 2004, Ireland was in the midst of a mobile phone boom. The average Irish person was sending lots of text messages per month. The phones of the era were mostly Nokia models and early flip phones. The iPhone wouldn’t arrive for another three years. Making an actual voice call, as this woman is doing, was still the primary use of a mobile phone, rather than the app-launching, social-media-scrolling pocket computers we carry today.

A Rare Alignment Is On The Move. 🧭 [Three Norths]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-norths-departing-england <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/18kQrt3KCbM?si=a9fXvjAbrgTU8ylx <-- shared video overview
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“On 13 December, the rare alignment of true north, magnetic north and grid north - known as the three norths - leaves England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, bringing a remarkable three-year chapter to a close.
Magnetic north is monitored using geomagnetic data from the British Geological Survey, combined with Ordnance Survey’s National Grid to track how this alignment shifts over time..."
#truenorth #magneticnorth #gridnorth #UK #coincidence #navigation #threenorths #alignment #GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #globe #north #model #modeling #magnetism #geomagnetism #England #survey #triplealignment #NationalGrid
@Ordnance Survey