szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

We got banned from Twitter! Oh well…

Re-posting this picture of the Milky Way over Crater Lake because I like it.

#photography #stars #MilkyWay #CraterLake #astrophotography

The future of #biodiversity…

✨Have you ever seen a bird fly without its head moving?

The Eurasian Kestrel has a natural ability to stabilize its head, allowing it to stay focused on its prey as it moves. 🪶

Look at this slow-motion close-up of a kestrel hovering.

🎥@leedsbirder@twitter.com

I have created a Bees of Ireland Calendar 2023 highlighting some of the most beautiful Irish bee species of which you may not have even heard...

Each month is a photo of a beautiful Irish bee close-up and personal.

https://beesofireland.com/product/bees-of-ireland-calendar-2023/

All proceeds go to support my ongoing recording and public education undertakings.

Nie można zmuszać uczniów nieuczestniczących w zajęciach z religii do obecności w bibliotece, jeśli oni sami lub ich rodzice sobie tego nie życzą – interwencja fundacji w ZSE w Poznaniu
wolnoscodreligii.pl/2022/11/30…

Check out the new USGS webcam pointed towards Fissure 3 on #MaunaLoa: https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/m5cam-mauna-loa-fissure-3-eruption-northeast-rift-zone #volcano #eruption #Hawaii

Anecdote about some bad planning and nobody checking with a water engineer restoring some habitat:

Close by to me they built a superfluous four lane road, with all requisite earthworks etc. They didn't take into account how the watershed and nearby water reservoir would react and unintentionally flooded a huge amount of desolate land. Land that had been swamp, but had been dried to make room for suburban development decades ago.
It rather quickly went from slightly soggy to perpetually wet and lush with every snowmelt, and now it's wetlands again!

Developers: we would like profit and more cars here, please
Water: you get a a SWAMP

It brings me so much joy. I would assume it brings joy to all the native flora and fauna now living there. I hope it brings you joy, also

#nature #photograph #swamp

My new hobby is gonna be adding the missing last panel to the motivational infographics posted on LinkedIn

Should we be putting important Public Health information re Covid behind a CW? Are we pandering to the Covid denial lobby? Just wondering.

The front desk just posted a message to the library chat that a visitor had a question about our classification system and could somebody come help. I have been training my whole life for this moment.

remember, the Salvation Army is no friend of the LGBTQ community and giving them money helps them pass legislation which stamps out people like me

What I'm saying is that there's only one creative team that has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to produce adaptations of literary classics. And that's why The Muppets should have been allowed to make the Dune movie.

I thought I would do a thread here on Mastodon on one of my favourite ecosystems and why I think they are important: SWAMPS!

(Photo credit: Melinda Martinez: Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge)

@pluralistic Alas, "Gaslighting" chosen as Merriam-Webster's Word of Year 2022

When

" Enshittified "

Was already right there, all year long.

| #WordOfTheYear

Study Finds Plants Communicate Using Underground Network Of Spies https://bit.ly/3gNy6Zr

Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.

Source: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book