Facebook/Instagram Harvests Location Metadata Before Stripping for Posts

I always expected this: Facebook/Instagram harvests photo location metadata before removing it for posts. That data is added to the poster’s data profile. Presumably for targeted ads. I presume when micro.blog crossposts photos to Twitter, locations have already been scrubbed by micro.blog?

Took a Potensic D58 drone photo today of the backyard (bottom photo) to compare against January 2020 (top photo). Looking real nice. Fun to have unusual views of the yard.

Jan 2020 photo of lawn on top and then a 2021 photo of new garden rows at the bottom

We’re finally eating our backyard Valencia oranges. Sooo good. 🍊🌳🌱

valencia orange in a handsliced valencias on a plate

We got some pea-sized hail today!

Currently reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

I finished reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman ★★★★★ 📚

How it started (Mar 2020) and how it’s going (Mar 2021) in the backyard. All lawn is removed! Garden rows are ready for our indoor started peppers and tomatoes. 🌱

Sunday dinner: Sous vide Arm Roast followed by Boston Cream Pie.

roasted brussel sprouts, popovers, medium rare arm roast, au jousboston cream pie - yellow cake

Slowly preparing the backyard garden rows over the past few months 😅 Almost time to plant the peppers, tomatoes, and direct sow the herbs. No more lawn!!!!!! Tilling is amazing at removing thatch and dead lawn. 🌱

before most of the lawn removal, showing three garden rows but not yet preparedtilled and rocked with three garden rowscompost atop the three garden rows.

This is quite the year for catchweed (aka bedstraw aka genus Galium). It is everywhere! It even manages to grow in thick mulch with impressively long taproots.

Our “Bacon” Avocado flower buds are developing nicely. Also, the fig is waking up. 🌱🌳

avocado flower budsfig showing leaf growth

First apricot bloom. Hopefully, as in past years, far more will follow. Figure this flower puts pollinators on notice. 🌳🌱

The front yard blue oak has awakened! 🌱

This should be my last nectarine flower photo. This year. 🌳🌱

pink to magenta nectarine flower

Easiest way to deal with (perhaps) hundreds of mandarins once ripe: juice them. These have brightened to very red-orange I wonder if they are closer to tangerines?

mandarins cut in half. they're very seedy.mandarine juicemandarin tree ringed by rocks

The nectarine is up and at ‘em with many glorious blooms. 🌱🌳

Pompasetting nectarine.

Not my favourite 3/4”-minus gravel as the rocks definitely didn’t come from rivers with their headwaters in the California Nothern Coast Range but it’ll do in the backyard. Just as back breaking 😝

One of these days I’ll paint the PVC pipe to hide my poor PVC cementing job and a few barcodes. 🌱

First bloom today of our nectarine! 🌳 🌱