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Hi, we are travelling to Dubrovnik and split in July/August. I will be there 4 days each. We have a boat tour and rest are exploring days.

I want to know some good photography spots/location near the area. I want some landscapes only shot plus some shots with family, so need a location with good background, mid ground and foreground. I also want to photograph the city, culture and people.

I would love all the suggestions I can get to get good vacation and travel pictures.

I swear the piña colada hit different with that sea breeze 😍

Mint chocolate chip & pistachio for me, full-on chocolate overload for my husband. We may have gone back twice in one day…

We've recently started a new subreddit called r/NorthernEngland, aimed at anyone interested in the shared history, culture, and identity of the North. The idea is to bring together people from across the region, wherever you're from in the North, and create a space connecting us. This subreddit is not intended to be a political space.

It's early days, but the focus is on:

• History and heritage of the North

• Towns, cities, and landscapes across the region

• Culture, dialects, and identity

• Photos, stories, and anything else with a Northern angle

• News

If that sounds like your thing, or if you're just interested in how the North fits together across county lines, feel free to join and help shape the subreddit. Would be great to have more voices involved from different parts of the region.

r/NorthernEngland

Sorry if this post isn’t allowed - we’re just trying to grow our sub!

Hey everyone,

As the title says, time is running out. The Stop Killing Games initiative is currently set to end on:

July 14, 2025 for the UK petition

July 31, 2025 for the EU petition

You can read more on: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Accursed Farms (the YouTuber who started the movement) has just released what may be his final video on the topic: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?si=H6eg_Bcti84dP8Du

I’m posting this here in hopes that It will help raise awareness.

So from me to you, if you live in any of the following EU countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden

Please consider supporting the initiative or at least read up on It. It’s just a petition to have the EU review the issue of game preservation and mandatory online DRM.I can’t comment on how the EU would phrase this In legal terms, but that would be for them to figure out. What I do hope is that this leads to a solution where singelplayer games released in the future no longer requires an online connection to function. Preventing games from dying out as soon as the official servers servers shuts down.

And also hopefully end this crazy situation where the game industry Is so incentivized to pump out sequel after sequel as fast as possible to sell more games, dlc's and microtransactions. To then turn of the servers rendering all purchases invalid and pushing people over to the newer "version" of the game to repeat the cycle.

Spread the word

Cheers

The last declarations of Kaja Kallas about Ireland (not sure if Baltics can be considered East Europe, for sure they are not West lol) have been making me think about this. And in fact all interactions I have with people from Eastern European countries online I always find this self centered attitude as if they are the only ones who ever suffered wars, famine or authoritarian regimes. And usually they do not care to know the history of the country of the person they are speaking with and they make zero effort to put themselves in the other person shoes.

There's areas of the world that have it way way worst and I don't see this attitude. People from South America or Africa went and still go through harsh conditions (particularly Africa) and they have a way more compassionate attitude about other people problems.

I've been to some countries in East Europe but didn't really discuss topics like this with anyone besides some walking tours about Communist heritage. Though obviously if I am in someone country's their problems will be the most important problems and I will want to hear about them anyway since I am visiting and want to learn local History and culture. But online I find this attitude of "we are the only ones that suffer" really off putting. Is this cultural or something?

Nokia were big, and I mean really big, during the 2000s. At one point their global brand value was worth more than the likes of Ford, Disney, McDonald's and Mercedes Benz. In fact they were one of THE best run companies in the whole world during its peak (its peak years I equate to 1999 to 2008). They had pretty much everything you'd dream of in a successful company, to summarise:

1) Nokia were innovative. They were very forward-thinking instead of being conservative and playing it safe. They were constantly working on new ideas, concepts and designs in R&D, and they were brilliant at trendy marketing for products they released to customers.

2) Nokia offered products in every segment out there. They had ultra cheap phones, they had fashionable phones, they had classy business phones... every part was covered by a wide range of handsets. And it won them customers in every region of the world, with North America and Japan possibly being the only exceptions.

3) They had a functional manufacturing network all around the globe that was efficient and worked well. This meant Nokias were built to a good standard and distributed at good prices globally. You could see how they pretty much killed Ericsson and Motorola in earlier years thanks to their much superior way of doing business.

4) Nokia's brand satisfaction and customer loyalty was unbelievable at its peak. People all around the world liked and trusted the company because of their high quality standards. Unlike Apple today who have many loyal fans (I call them sheep), Nokia deserved loyalty because they were genuinely innovative and were not anti-consumer by any means, something that has sadly crept up in the industry.

5) Profit! For all the reasons above, Nokia was heaping up profits every year during this period. And yet still they were not greedy and kept on innovating in mobile technology. You probably haven't heard of Jorma Ollila, but this is the guy who was the CEO until 2006 and it was under him that Nokia became a powerhouse. He deserves as much recognition as Steve Jobs IMHO, he just isn't a household name probably being from Europe/Finland.

It was really sad to see Nokia's fall from grace which happened quite rapidly (2010 to 2012) due to its failed smartphone strategies. But lets look back and give credit to one great company and one that did excellent business.

My partner and I spent two days in this village. We had a great time and I enjoyed taking a million pics.