Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

Art from a few months ago of a #Drepanosaur a weird animal from the #triassic period. Like a lot of Triassic animals it looks more like a sci-if creature than an actual animal 😂

#art #paleoart #MastoArt

34) The war on #Libraries by “conservatives” is just another front stoked up against the #LGBTQ community at the behest of those exploiting #CultureWars for political gain.

In truth the #GOP which has been fully co-opted by #Trumpism has nothing to offer on making lives better for #Americans beyond cultivating rage and fear directed at smaller less powerful groups. It is classic #RightWing behavior from the 1930s

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html

Just listened to @pluralistic's "Let the Platforms Burn" #Podcast. A total recommendation. https://craphound.com/news/2023/07/16/let-the-platforms-burn-the-opposite-of-good-fires-is-wildfires/

Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

#fediverse #openscience #openaccess #infrastructure

This morning, as a wee hover fly landed on the flower I was taking a photo of, I realised I am never going to tire of adding shocked expressions to flowers with bugs on them. Never. I am a simple being.

#photography #nature #flowers #bugs #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles #BloomScrolling

Random insane thought: is it reasonable to describe Roko's Basilisk as a transhumanist egregore?

I somehow missed this version of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, re-imagined in 2017 as a story of human migration by filmmaker Major Adin. Powerful.

#refugees #EltonJohn

https://youtu.be/DtVBCG6ThDk

I'm assuming that 403 years ago this person died very unexpectedly.

The more I learn about the Saudi regime, the more convinced I am that "the U.S. can just let Saudi Arabia die" is almost as important a reason to decarbonize the economy as "we need to stop frying the planet."

You know, Nixon called Watergate a witch-hunt, too.

When you think about it, it's the worst possible place for her to sell seashells.

This is like dinosaurs having their picture taken with an asteroid. #funny #climate

#StarTrek #SNW #Spock

My husband is driving us on a little road trip and he just abruptly sighed and said “that was a good nap!”