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  1. I just got a call from Spain. It was a crying woman who spoke Russian. When I said, she got the wrong number, she hung up. 😳

    #telephone #phonecall

  2. 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

    inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-ar
    #2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

  3. 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.


    Apertureƒ/2.4CameraCYBERSHOTFocal length28.5mmISO100Shutter speed1/1000s

    #2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #phoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #urbanPhotography
  4. Wrong number

    Each day at around 6 pm, you receive a call from someone who dialled the wrong number. It is always a different person. Over time, the callers become increasingly less likely. One time, for example, you had a ten-minute chat with the president of Egypt, who was impressed with your grasp of his language. The thing is, you thought you were both speaking English.

    Photo by Uva Rova on Pexels.comPhoto by cottonbro on Pexels.comPhoto by Sora Shimazaki on Pexels.comPhoto by greenwish _ on Pexels.comPhoto by Tara Winstead on Pexels.comPhoto by freestocks.org on Pexels.comPhoto by Cristian Dina on Pexels.comPhoto by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com

    #moodboard #mystery #phoneCall #phones #writingPrompt

  5. @futurebird

    I'm not sure a workable definition of "social media" is actually possible. The one you give, which is better than most I've seen, is still arguably stretchable to cover voice phone calls that happen to be carried over IP networks.

    #VOIP #IP #data #network #SocialMedia #voice #phone #phonecall

  6. boston, massachusetts
    november 1970

    phone call

    flickr.com/photos/dboo/5209511
    flickr.com/photos/dboo/2777965

    part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

    © the Nick DeWolf Foundation
    Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

    #photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #boston #massachusetts #people #candid #telephone #payphone #phone #phonecall #1970s

  7. Just off a #PhoneCall about an important matter. (Funding.)

    The quality of the audio was so poor.
    Syllables and words often smearing.

    Seems to happen quite frequently, but far from "all the time".

    I'm thinking the algorithims they're using to shrink the bandwidth of the audio signals are not suitable for the environment they're being used in.

    #Enshitification
    #PhoneCallAudioQuality
    #PhoneAudio
    #AudioQuality
    #ConsumingIn2025

  8. One thing I really do not understand is the obsession with messaging over a phone call.

    You have to wait ages to finish a conversation that could have taken 2 minutes, meanwhile I'm in wait mode because someone hasn't responded and can't get on with things until it's been sorted out.

    And yet people think it is weird that I would much rather call, ask a question, get the answer and get on with the rest of my day.

    It is completely bewildering to me.

    #ModernLife #PhoneCall #Text

  9. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to hold a one-on-one meeting soon, though not today, according to CNBC citing a senior White House official.
    #YonhapInfomax #Trump #XiJinping #CNBC #WhiteHouse #PhoneCall #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  10. Will they even be able to make a call?
    Gen Z vs Vintage Phones (Rotary, DTMF, IP Phone and more)

    YouTube video: youtu.be/crOixebqkto?

    feature=shared
    #phone #iphone #android #rotary #pulse #challenge #call #ip #phonecall

  11. US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Wednesday with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, as Israel weighs its response to last week's missile attack by Iran.
    #Response #Iran #Attack #Netanyahu #PhoneCall #Biden #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
    ndtv.com/world-news/israel-ira

  12. No ebay.ch just because I clean my #CookieCache I am NOT logging in from a new device.
    And I will NOT make a stinking #phonecall from Switzerland to Germany and recite a huge numerical code.
    Are you dumb? Are you really sure that you are a #modern #digital #service?

    So -> no #ebay for me.

    Or does anybody know an email adress for support?

  13. #Prison #PhoneCall Fees Are Out of Control. The #FCC Can Finally Rein Them In

    The changes are expected to save incarcerated people and their families at least $500 million a year in exorbitant phone and video call fees.

    wired.com/story/prison-phone-c

  14. It is great when some company asks me by text whether I'm ready to talk about something I want to buy. They ask "when are you ready?" I text back "Now."

    And then...

    I hear nothing back... Today, it's been like that for more than 2 hours, but it also happened yesterday. I said "Now." And nothing. I was going to call this morning, but someone finally contacted me before I made the call.

    Pro-tip: If you ask when someone is ready to do something, be sure to be ready if they say "Now" right away.

    #texting #PhoneCall #BeingReady #BeingPrepared #ProTip

  15. It is great when some company asks me by text whether I'm ready to talk about something I want to buy. They ask "when are you ready?" I text back "Now."

    And then...

    I hear nothing back... Today, it's been like that for more than 2 hours, but it also happened yesterday. I said "Now." And nothing. I was going to call this morning, but someone finally contacted me before I made the call.

    Pro-tip: If you ask when someone is ready to do something, be sure to be ready if they say "Now" right away.

    #texting #PhoneCall #BeingReady #BeingPrepared #ProTip

  16. It is great when some company asks me by text whether I'm ready to talk about something I want to buy. They ask "when are you ready?" I text back "Now."

    And then...

    I hear nothing back... Today, it's been like that for more than 2 hours, but it also happened yesterday. I said "Now." And nothing. I was going to call this morning, but someone finally contacted me before I made the call.

    Pro-tip: If you ask when someone is ready to do something, be sure to be ready if they say "Now" right away.

    #texting #PhoneCall #BeingReady #BeingPrepared #ProTip

  17. It is great when some company asks me by text whether I'm ready to talk about something I want to buy. They ask "when are you ready?" I text back "Now."

    And then...

    I hear nothing back... Today, it's been like that for more than 2 hours, but it also happened yesterday. I said "Now." And nothing. I was going to call this morning, but someone finally contacted me before I made the call.

    Pro-tip: If you ask when someone is ready to do something, be sure to be ready if they say "Now" right away.

    #texting #PhoneCall #BeingReady #BeingPrepared #ProTip