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Nicol Wistreich · @nicol
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The ever brilliant has an 👀 report on rolling out the world's first national digital system to all its citizens using – restofworld.org/2023/south-asi

I get the blockchain backlash, but find user-controlled/owned for personal ID compelling, be it proving (pseudonymously) I'm not an AI/sockpocket/content-farm, or saving time with online signups. SSI doesn't need a cryptocurrency but normally has some kind of .

#RestOfWorld #bhutan #identity #selfsovereignidentity #verifiedcredentials #distributedledger

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AllQuakes - EMSC · @emsc
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() M2.8 strikes 34 km NE of () 17 min ago. More info: m.emsc.eu/?id=1542085

#earthquake #भूकमप #trongsa #bhutan

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GregCocks · @GregCocks
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The Kingdom of Bhutan [1965 cartography]
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collections.lib.uwm.edu/digita <-- link to map and details
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doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.19 <-- shared paper’s note, 2010
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H/T @evan Applegate
[a “yam between two boulders.” (China (Tibet) and India)]
“Contained in (work): Association of American Geographers Annals of the Association of American Geographers…
Relief shown by shading and spot heights…”

@americangeo

#gis #spatial #mapping #bhutan #kingdomofbhutan #map #cartographer #cartography #topography #relief #transportation #seasia #hydrology #historic #historicmaps #landform #geomorphology #terrain #gischat #aag

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Ralf Bergs · @r
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can't be verified anymore due to a bad ?! 😮

validating bt/SOA: verify failed due to bad signature (keyid=9021): RRSIG has expired

#bhutan #tld #dnssec #signature

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Can a fly on a leaf be art? I think so, I think it can. Just needs the right presentation.

#bhutan #photography #greenscene #lumix #littlethingsmatter #lightandleaves #fliesasfriends

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Stephen · @mister_goldfish
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BBC News - Tiger population growing in Himalayan kingdom Bhutan

Wild tiger numbers in both India and Bhutan have increased.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-6634

#goodnews #india #bhutan #tigers

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I'm back home now after a month in Bhutan. Still have a few terabytes of pix and vids to crunch. Feeling a little "all at sea", with my head still stuck somewhere between the Himalayas and home.

#bhutan #photography #greenscene #lumix #littlethingsmatter #lightandleaves #frondsasfriends

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AllQuakes - EMSC · @emsc
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() M2.7 strikes 40 km N of () 5 min ago. More info: m.emsc.eu/?id=1537166

#earthquake #भूकमप #trongsa #bhutan

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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These guys have been our constant companions while staying in this patch of forest near Paro. Rain or sunshine, they are flitting about and adding a touch of joy to the landscape.

I wish I'd spent a little more time capturing them now. Instead, I let the fancy ones distract me too often! I have the same problem with donuts.

#bhutan #paro #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #ypthima #notadonut

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Squirrel News · @squirrelnews_en
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BBC News - Tiger population growing in Himalayan kingdom Bhutan

& report a marked increase in their wild tiger populations, according to new figures. India recorded an average total of 3,682 tigers whilst Bhutan reported 131. The new figures coincide with .
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-6634

#india #bhutan #internationaltigerday

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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These fellas were more interested in licking rocks, for salt or minerals or whatever, than flying away from my lens. A real treat for my walk this morning.

Western Courtier (Sephisa dichroa).

#bhutan #paro #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #sephisadichroa #saltlickers

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Gonna try to get some clearer pics of this guy tomorrow. I saw a pair of them looping around that same patch of forest today, I think I can find them again tomorrow.

Might be hard to get an ID than get a photo though. Crazy gorgeous stone-like lower wing, then electric blue streaks on the upper.

#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #weirdbugsarecoolbugs

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Me in the morning vs me in the afternoon.

#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I'll wrap it up there. I could have spent hours at the site observing all the moths and trying to capture them with a little more art. Bhutan throws all manner of surprises at me, but rarely something so impressive and unexpected.

Hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse into this world too.

10/10

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I just can't express how much I love those 60s and 70s designs on some of these critters. Pure art. I couldn't paint something beautiful if I tried.

9/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight #NatureIsArt

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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A hint of yellow in the colour range too. I can dig it.

8/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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There was more than months too. Beetles were drawn in by the light, big ones! Many of these were still alive. One in particular was so feisty, even flipped upside-down.

I righted him up and he tried to murder me. Nature is dangerous people!

5/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#beetles #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I can tell you the Chendebji is covered in white lime. The stupa and shorten at very very white.

But in recent times they repainted and added some super bright flood lights. When I stepped closer to these, I found literally thousands of dead moths.

Not to say they wouldn't have died somewhere in the forest anyway, but it seemed very sad.

4/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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The sheer variety of moths in one tiny little space was amazing. But why?

I did notice that a lot of them were white. And one particular species far outnumbered the others. The doorway was awash with moths.

I know next to nothing about moths myself. I've only just tuned my brain into being more aware of butterflies.

3/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I want to tell a little story about a stupa in Bhutan called Chendibji, a beautiful place I have visited many times but has a sad story.

It's a special place for Bhutanese, a spiritual place surrounded by wild forests. Recently they restored the stupa and chorten and installed immense flood lights to illuminate at night.

Moths flock to it.

1/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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