Ciara

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

I post random thoughts that strike me & random photos of random stuff. I post in English, dansk & Danglish.

Hashtags I hang around:
#Books #Audiobooks
#Libraries #Fredagsbog
#Enshittification #AI
#ClimateDiary #SilentSunday #Aarhus

Banner: Aarhus skyline at sunset

Profile pic: Me, white, dark shortish hair, tallish, emerging from a tunnel, smiling, happy, wearing a bright red leopard-print dress because that’s the sort of thing a woman in her 50s can happily wear because who cares.

Me, unfiltered: https://justmytoots.com/@CiaraNi@mastodon.green
Location: Denmark

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2026-07-04T07:17:04Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

I tried and failed to take a photo of the skyline, but think I like the accidental snap better.

#MagicInTheMundane

Short version: sharp foreground, blurry background, sea and skyline. Fuller description: Foreground, to the left, close up, a worn metal white pole with metal rope entwined around it. Blurry in the distance, green sea water speckled with blurry dots of sunlight. Beyond, almost in silhouette from facing into the high sun, a wavelength of the Aarhus city skyline - buildings and spires in different heights.

2026-07-05T16:57:43Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

11h

Replying to @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

The only thing more nerve-wracking than watching people clamber around 60 metres above the ground – posting about it on Mastodon with no idea if I’m throwing around the right nautical terms in the alt text. Masts. Mast-climbers. Climbing. Clambering. Cables. Ropes. Rigging. Who knows.

Short version: Sailors on masts. Fuller descriptions: Young sailors dotted around high up on the ropes and cables and riggings and masts of a ship, working on the sails while moored at the Tall Ships Race in Aarhus Denmark (last week). Deep bright blue sky. Coloured bunting on the ships.

2026-07-05T16:45:35Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

11h

Replying to @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

The mast-climbers at the Tall Ships Race drew as much admiration as the ships.

#Aarhus
#TallShips

Different ships and angles, same general scene – same alt text as other photos follows; Short version: Sailors on masts. Fuller descriptions: Young sailors dotted around high up on the ropes and riggings and masts of a ship, working on the sails while moored at the Tall Ships Race in Aarhus Denmark (last week). Deep bright blue sky. Coloured bunting on the ships.

2026-07-05T16:43:14Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

11h

#SilentSunday

Short version: Sailors on masts. Fuller descriptions: Young sailors dotted around high up on the ropes and riggings and masts of a ship, working on the sails while moored at the Tall Ships Race in Aarhus Denmark (last week). Deep bright blue sky.

2026-07-05T06:49:04Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

21h

#SilentSunday

Short version: curving corridor with blue light. Fuller description: underground corridor with concrete floor and roof and concrete walls, curving ahead. The nearest walls are pale grey. A section of wall ahead glows with deep blue light and trimmed in white-green light at the edges. This is the corridor leading to the main chamber for viewing sunrise and sunset through a small portal in the top of the underground Skyspace dome ‘As Seen Below’ designed by James Turrell. Part of ARoS Art Museum. I assume, but do not know, that the curving shapes and light here 16 metres below the earth echo the shapes and curves of Olafur Eliasson's Rainbow Walkway panorama installation just outside, on the top of ARoS museum, but 50 metres up in the air.

2024-09-11T14:32:09Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

22mo

Bike bloat. Unlike car bloat, it's a good thing. Bigger bikes with wide handlebars and child seats and shopping baskets and cargo trailers and people carriers. Safe, functional everyday transport. Better, quicker, nicer, quieter, healthier and more likely to make you smile and say ‘whee!’ going downhill than a car.

One downside: bike rack design is lagging behind. Bike park engineers still design racks with narrow spaces as if we’re all just sporting around for fun on slim racer bikes.

#Bike

An Aarhus mid-city street, shops and cafes on either side. Pedestrians and cyclists have priority ahead of cars and there’s a 15-kilometre speed limit. We see café tables on the narrow pavement and cyclists, pedestrians and people pushing prams on the road. In front of us, by the kerb on the road, a row of parked bikes. The nearest one is a fabulous, bright pink Bullitt cargo bike with a long front carrier. It’s about two and a half metres long.

By the harbour, near the library, a bike park in the rain, full of bikes too long and wide for the densely packed bike rack wheel slots. We see bikes with big wide baskets, child seats, pannier bags, wide handlebars, covered front trailers big enough for two adults or four children, cargo carriers.

Outside apartments, mid-city Aarhus. Close-up of bike racks. The wheel slots are too close together. They are fine for slim racing bikes. But too narrow for bikes like the ones we see lined up here with wide handlebars, child seats with side foot supports and big wide front baskets. Often, every second wheel slot is left empty and the overflow bikes just get left standing free-style until they blow over in wind.

2026-07-05T06:52:06Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

21h

#SilentSunday

Short version: stone steps. Fuller description: Stone steps and walls curving through a narrow entrance going up to the bell tower in Domkirken, Aarhus cathedral, Denmark. They are worn by use and the centuries, white peeling off to red brick in many places, the steps indented by centuries of footsteps. A worn old rope hangs loosely on the wall as a handrail, fulfilling no health and safety requirements whatsoever.

2026-07-04T17:30:18Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

Replying to an earlier post

@rgulick This is such an amazing thing to nitpick at that I'm wondering if it's deliberate. They're openly marching down roads cos-playing stormtroopers. Sitting on public transport in their openly 2026-Nazi uniforms. Posting clips of themselves online. At no point fearing the the law will stop them or arrest them. Because it's been normalised.The masks probably make them feel villainous, cos-playing hard men, while hiding their faces from employers.

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2026-07-04T14:48:06Z

Ciara@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

I'm Generation X. I resent having to drink water, let alone this much.