The Great Communicator @hikenwoodwork@social.cleverlibre.org

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

Good friends, good 📚& a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. #MarkTwain
What’s 📖for #medbookclub this weekend ? Sometimes everyone may need some space for a little calmness after a tumultuous week . What’s are you reading for this weekend #MedMastodon ? I’m in the middle 📖 of this fantastic 📕 .Thank for the recommendation from Dr @gbosslet . 📕by A brilliant Author @BStulberg
This the time to be groundness 💗

A relic from the linen industry which used to be a major employer in Belfast.
This was taken on a tour of the Portview complex on the Newtownards Road.

#history #industry #industrial #manufacturing #fabric #yarn #factory #linnen #weaving #spinning #abandoned #disused #belfast #NorthernIreland #photography #hdr #textures #atmospheric

Probably one of my favourite pictures I've taken on my phone! The best camera is the one you have on you :)

It's portrait, so please expand to see the whole thing!

#photography #mastoart

Charles Beyer, Cordova Alaska
#photography #alaska

The Dragon Tree at Brighstone on the Isle of Wight. Local legend claims that the tree was once a dragon that was terrorising the villagers, a brave knight came along, slayed the dragon and it turned into wood.
The tree is beautiful but it took several visits for my husband to capture the sun beams bursting through the branches. The challenge is the fun part as well as wading in the stream that the oak lays across. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Charles Beyer, Cordova Alaska
#photography #alaska

I'll never forget this #sunset even though it was taken in 2007!
I was sat on the beach at Alum Bay on this April evening, contemplating the realities of becoming a parent in a few months time.
The whole scene became more and more vivid. My husband was waiting for this to happen, camera ready. We watched everyone else leave the beach as darkness wasn't far away and it's a long climb back up to the car park. The Needles looked stunning and the yacht really helped make the picture too.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

One of my fav trees. General Sherman, a giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California

Makes one seem small in this trees presence. Used to go see this wonderful trees all the time a kid.

#Introduction Hello. I'm a law prof, a philosopher, a progressive. I've deactivated #twitter and am searching for a new place to learn and to think out loud. #politics #law #democracy #elections #art #literature #history #science #books

Today's #FairyTaleTuesday theme is mountains and deserts.

A legend from Morocco says that when people told the very first lie in the world God decided to create a grain of sand every time someone tells a lie.
People did not heed the warning, and the Sahara has been expanding ever since...

#folklore #folktales

When people look for an image of Eigg the internet often shows our neighbouring Isle of Rum, taken from Laig Bay on Eigg. It's not surprising really - our west coast sunsets are spectacular. And when the tide is out, the sun reflects across the sandy beach, making our whole world golden.
#isleofeigg #eigg #sunset

One of the people I'll genuinely miss from the bird app is Dr. Glaucomflecken. If you haven't seen his videos, which center on the ridiculous nature of the US Healthcare system, take a look at his YouTube channel. It's gold:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYDVFfp_AN1WBiNwaf9522w?app=desktop

#Autumn trees by the river
#Nature

Going out to all my fellow #GenX folk on here (which is most of Mastodon, it seems).

Just figured out how to add a banner photo ! Thanks @Botany_beck (who you should all follow by the way). My banner is the whacky #fungus Orange Porecap (Favolaschia claudopus). A traveler from distant lands, which is now very at home in the mild #woodlands of #Cornwall.

#FungiFriday #Sporespondence

Loud & Proud...

#Wren #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #ukbirds #nature #naturephotography #nikon

Hi Mastodon! I'm an epidemiologist and disease ecologist interested in #scicomm, currently leading microbiological risk assessment at the UK Food Standards Agency. I have a background in vector- and (more recently) food-borne disease, particularly viruses, and an interest in food more generally. I'll be sharing interesting research and issues around food, risk and epidemiology. Please say hi - especially old friends from Twitter, it'll take a while to find you all!

Years ago, I worked for a company where one of the owners drank coffee all day, every day, and lots of it. I was the only other employee who drank some too. When he retired there wasn't enough call for the coffee machine to be used so it was put into storage but when I got married a few years later a colleague suggested the company give me the coffee machine as a gift. I still use it now, 14 years later. It's a wonderful machine and it makes the best filter coffee.

#Coffee #FilterCoffee