Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

You have to understand that Twitter only functions by having people to attack. You sticking around there to "fight the good fight" is GIVING THEM EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. They WANT YOU THERE, FIGHTING. You're not changing a damn thing. You're playing a roll they want you to play for their amusement.

DON'T DO THAT.

There's a day for everything here at sauropods.win, but I've always struggle with Thursday because of the obvious you-know-whats....

So I've decided it will #ThoseWhoShallNotBeNamedThursday.

Here's one, a preening Velociraptor.

#art #dinosaurs #velociraptor

Read my lips:

An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.

An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.

Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.

A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.

Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.

Which do you think #consciousness is?

#philosophy #mind

Psychos out there boosting things without liking them.

Lots of people were upset by a recent NY Times article that said alcohol isn't healthy. I'm sorry to report that this is not news: the reason you thought a glass of red wine was good for your heart is because of the booze industry buying bad science https://skepchick.org/2023/01/sorry-to-be-a-buzzkill-but-no-alcohol-has-never-been-healthy/

Our treatment of the people who sacrifice family, time, health, and life to protect us is abhorrent.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/supreme-court-barrett-ruling-disabled-veterans-compensation.html

Just in case you didn't know, the Smithsonian has a HUGE collection of free 3d scans you can download.

https://3d.si.edu/cc0

soooo where are all the black people on mastodon?

#introductions #blackmastodon #blacktwitter

This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid in Forbes. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople #cities #cars #streets #urbanism #Spain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/

My cousin took the Pfizer booster shot 3 days ago and now his house is filled with classified documents.