🇱🇻🇱🇹 Soviet era mosaics and murals left at long-abandoned locations across Latvia and Lithuania.

Oh, and these are all shot on 35mm film on a 1970s USSR camera. Developed by me at home in my "darkroom" (bathroom, at night 😂)

Check out the last image in this post for a photo of the camera in action 💙

Full gallery - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/blog/kodak-ektar-35mm-review-photos/

#Latvia #Lithuania #FilmPhotography #History #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Soviet #USSR #Photography

#latvia
She's been told gestures are good, do more gesturing, hasn't she. Pointless hand waving.
Ouch. Out of tune.
Now I'm no singer, musician, sound engineer or whatever, but if I can hear it's out of tune there has to be something wrong.
Like the "Ooooooh-aaaaaah" bit. Don't like the rest.
#eurovision

An empty tank at an oil depot in the city of Rezekne was damaged. #Latvia

I would like to follow some accounts from the #Baltics and eastern Europe, so from #Latvia, #Estonia, #Slovenia #Lithuania

Tips? #Mastodon Fediverse #Baltics

This Soviet diver training tank sits inside a narrow, decaying three-storey building in Latvia.

A tight spiral stair wraps around a tall concrete tank with portholes for monitoring trainees. At the top, the open tank drops three storeys and still holds water, with a radiator fixed to prevent freezing.

Abandoned suits, masks and other equipment remain. Documents reference the SVU-3 diving system from the 1970s.

#Latvia #Diving #History #Soviet #Scuba #Photography #LostPlaces #UrbanExplorer

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Circular pit with low wall around it, inside a ruined room

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Old diving suit

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Gas mask

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Old floats

Ok, who ordered orbital delivery from #AliExpress

11 tons, probably a mid-size excavator.

https://www.eusst.eu/newsroom/news/eu-sst-closely-monitors-upcoming-re-entry-space-object-zq-3-rb

NB: times are in UTC, so ETA is in about 1 hour from now ± 48 minutes

#Latvia #Lithuania #SpaceDebris

Thanks to @richlv, we updated three more MEPs from Latvia who are still on X. The country now has 100% of its MEPs on X, rather than 67%.

We should create a ranking of which country is leading the way in endorsing this disinformation tool that is trying to undermine democracies.

https://leavex.eu/politicians/

P. S. This is a repost because the previous one was mistaken due to the browser cache.

#LeaveX #EU #Latvia

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The Leave X tool is showing that all MEPs from Latvia on X.

Deeply disappointed to read this.

"The Latvian Parliament on Thursday voted to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty [1] aimed at supporting women who are victims of violence."

Another populist win against the values of the European Union. Putin smiles. Latvia becomes the second country to leave the Istanbul convention. The first country to do that was, ironically, Turkey.

https://www.dw.com/en/latvia-votes-to-exit-treaty-opposing-violence-against-women/a-74564065

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Convention

#Latvia #IstanbulConvention

#Latvia picks of the day (continued):

The account below is a discussion group. Follow the group to see its discussions in your timeline, mention the group to post to it. (More info about how to use Fediverse groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse)

➡️ @latvija - Discussion group about Latvia

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUP.

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#Latvia picks of the day (continued):

🌤️ Weather accounts for Latvia (in Latvian, continued):
@kraslava
@kuldiga
@liepaja
@ludza
@madona
@ogre
@olaine
@preili
@priekule
@rezekne
@riga
@rujiena
@sabile
@salaspils
@saldus
@sigulda
@skrunda
@smiltene
@stende
@subate
@talsi
@tukums
@valka
@valmiera
@vangazi
@varaklani
@ventspils
@viesite
@zilupe

You can find Fediverse weather accounts for cities and towns around the world at https://fedimeteo.com

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🇱🇻 #Latvia picks of the day:

➡️ @mikrotik - Manufacturers of computer networking equipment etc based in Latvia

➡️ @aviofotolv - Aviation photography in Latvia (in Latvian)

➡️ @www.lsm.lv - News feed of the Latvian public broadcaster LSM (in Latvian)

🌤️ Weather accounts for Latvia (in Latvian):
@aizpute
@akniste
@aluksne
@ape
@baldone
@balozi
@bauska
@cesis
@cesvaine
@dagda
@daugavpils
@dobele
@grobina
@ikskile
@ilukste
@jekabpils
@jelgava
@jurmala
@karsava
@kegums
@kekava

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