szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

If I managed to secure a lease for three thousand years then I’d set that in stone too. Well played, Walter Kendal. Spotted in Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

Always nice to find a red bird in the snow. The colour just pops:
a male Pine Grosbeak.
Getting sharp photos while it's snowing is iffy - so many snowflakes between camera and bird. #birdphotography #snow #Ontario #Canada

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

Do you have questions about #nature? Did you find something neat but don't know what it is? Send your photos and questions my way and I will be happy to help you learn more about the wild world around us.

This site needs way more shitpostery for any chance of survival. Have a drink and post some unhinged shit, I know y’all have it in you

#SideShotSaturday: Here’s one of the four or five movie prop hearses from Terminator 3 (we briefly owned this one a few years ago). The effects team drilled 100+ holes in the car, filled them with small explosive charges, then painted over them. During the gun fight scenes, the charges were detonated in a carefully controlled sequence to simulate bullet holes.

#HisAndHearsePress #HisAndHearseRacing #Hearse #Cadillac #Car #MovieProp #SpecialEffects #Terminator #Junkyard #CarCulture #Cars #CarsOfMastodon #Automotive #Movies

Concerns over #insect #decline, and potential for #moth walls as a curated #community #science project. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/simply-science/moth-walls-and-artificial-intelligence-leads-clear-call-action/24814

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

#Google paid a city government in #Oregon to unsuccessfully try to keep its data center #water usage secret.

🚨 Today the numbers have been revealed, and the data looks devastating for the beautiful Columbia River Gorge as the company plans even more data centers.

📣 #BigTech continues to hoard billions of our tax money while destroying both our environment and our society. It's time to speak out.

#WaterIsLife

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

This is not a chart depicting Moore’s Law.

This chart is the CRAYOLA COROLLARY showing that the number of Crayola crayon colors doubles approximately every 18 years.

We have young cats (10 months old). And we have a Xmas tree. And a friend who made a meme from the picture. #mastocat #caturday #catsofmastodon

I've seen #TwitterMigration people wandering around lost with profiles showing between 0 and 3 follows weeks after joining.

You need to follow people on Mastodon. Follow people with similar interests, follow a person who made a joke you like or posted a cool photo, follow a writer, an artist, a scientist. Follow people from differing cultures and backgrounds. Follow and follow and also, most importantly, follow.

Then cull later. Prune your home timeline like a bonsai.

a good article on this
https://perfectunion.us/schumer-freezes-antitrust-bills-after-big-tech-lobbyists-bundled-millions/

I am particularly upset about the Open App Markets Act which would break the App Store monopoly. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 20-2! How often something like this happens? Yet Schumer is killing it.

The estate of Tom Lehrer has put all his songs in the public domain and will allow anyone to download them from their website for a short while until they shut down the site.

Leher was a mathematician and satirist, profiled by Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x

You may remember his catchy tunes "We will all go together when we go" (about nuclear war) or "The Elements" (sung to "Modern Major General")

Website here: https://tomlehrersongs.com/

#TomLehrer #satire #music #publicdomain

Travel back in time with the mc file manager on Linux | Opensource.com

https://opensource.com/article/22/12/linux-file-manager-midnight-commander #midnightcommander #filemanager

Cities aren’t crowded. They’re just full of cars.

Noticed that since I write about so many different topics (#climate, #China, #Tibet, #Uyghurs, #HumanRights, #sustainability, #coops, #Japan, #SEAsia, #politics), often from an intersectional perspective...

I don't get mentioned on lists of "#journalists covering X"

I guess it's not a bad thing, but I've noticed that, often, reporting in silos is, IMO, a disservice to readers because it deprives them of important context.

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests