ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Since most invertebrates are deep under snow right now, here's one from the summer for #InverteFest. Dogbane beetle. Shiny.

What I'm listening to today: "La Jet​é​e", Sines of Exquisite Pleasure

I somehow, happily, managed to wedge YouTube in a state this weekend where it recommended me nothing but albums from the early 80s artists self-published on cassette tape. S.O.E.P. was a particularly exciting find from this; their 1981 album "Modular Systems" is *amazing*, but this one serene track from their 1984 tape stands out to me for its retro-invocations of Godspeed You Black Emperor! and Air.

https://candlefam.bandcamp.com/track/la-jet-e

TIL that if I open the meatballs menu on a post I can just click "filter post" to make a post dissappear from my timeline forever and I've been making good use of this to get rid of some posts I've seen boosted 50 times by now

@eniko @MaddieQuestions
I knew the "Hamburger", but didn't know the Meatballs... I think I'll start calling it by that name now. actually, there's more food names:

Frozen Spider’s Web–Pete Sais

Last night on Christmas Eve TX Gov Abbot sent asylum seekers to DC with no winter clothes or shelter. What "Christ like" behavior.

If only the Bible had a story of a mother fleeing tyranny w/her infant for refuge in a foreign land—maybe GOP would welcome refugees fleeing tyranny w/their kids for refuge in USA. Amazing how the same GOP extremists who demand the Constitution be based on the Bible, suddenly forget ever Biblical principle about serving humanity.

The dangerous hypocrisy of it all.

For this year's gingerbread I made... Curiosity!

#space #gingerbread #nasa #mars #curiosity #baking #astronomy

Also, the reason "Mastodon" is *not* a synonym for the Fediverse is precisely because other services can do things that Mastodon can't.

You absolutely need quote boosting?

Then don't use Mastodon.

Instead, use Calckey, Akkoma, Friendica—a host of services that aren't Mastodon.

I have a ? I saw that you can import your Bird community here. But that assumes your community is here or will move over. Many of my Black community is still there because they don’t know who they can trust. What suggestions do you have to help encourage them to move here vs staying or going to others like Tribel, Post, Counter Social? #blackmastodon #fediverse #POC #black #community #questions

This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.

#histodons #TIL #WeirdHistory #AncientHistory #DYK

I'm listening (on the recommendation of @anderspuck - I think?) to Timothy Snyder's lecture series podcast on the #MakingOfModernUkraine - I am learning a huge amount but I admit I had not really considered the #Vikings to be as important as he suggests in this episode...

#Ukraine

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vXbBJHFs1ChdD2ATcVkl2?si=ZUJht-ijSfmRpVkjm28Ckg

"AI is gonna replace programmers".
Meanwhile the AI:

#ChatGPT

Hi, in 2018, I made history as the youngest and first #Hasidic #jew to be elected as District Leader in the #Brooklyn Democratic party.

I'm so fed up with the antisemitism coming from the far right and fueled by #ElonMusk on #Twitter.

Can you BOOST this post and FOLLOW my new account here on #Mastodon?

#xkcd No. 2717
Date: 2022-12-27
Title: L6 Lagrange Point
Alt text: It's difficult to orbit L6 stably due to gravitational perturbation from Akron and Toledo.
https://xkcd.com/2717/

Friendly reminder that 99% of my Patreon donations will go towards buying treats for these two lovable goofballs.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood.

From @rainmaker1973

Redoing my #introduction, this time with hashtags. Expect posts on a wide variety of topics, especially ones that relate to the list below.

#Type1Diabetes #T1D #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Disability

#LGBTQ #Ace #Asexual #Aromantic #AceAro

#Denver #Colorado

#Choir #Singer #Alto1

#Cats

#Writing #Freelance #Copywriting #Ghostwriter

#Hockey #NHL #GoAvsGo

The Beale Isoud at Joyous Gard, 1894 #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau https://www.wikiart.org/en/aubrey-beardsley/the-beale-isoud-at-joyous-gard