szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

How Britain produces its electricity in emoji:

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http://electricinsights.co.uk

Anyone able to decode this…

The names of some places ring with the echoes of birds of the past.

https://aeon.co/essays/british-place-names-resonate-with-the-song-of-missing-birds

Ulcombe, Ulgham, Outchester, Oldberrow, Ullenhall, Ullenwood, all derive from 'ule,' the Old English word for owl. These places were named after the owls that medieval people associated with the landscapes:

"The onomatopoeic potency of 'ule' implies not only how owls themselves materialised and existed as sound for our ancestors, but that this also affected how people experienced the places in which they heard these sounds. On some level, those places named after owls ... were identified as soundscapes as much as landscapes, imagined and responded to through sonic texture and colour. It was sound that reified and situated place."

A friend who is a historian sent me a link to this fascinating essay which reflects upon the symbolic role that birds and bird sounds played in the naming of English places before landscapes were altered by 19th century industrialization, as well as the traces that still linger after those landscapes have been transformed. I have owls on the mind this week.

#hauntology #history #owls #birding #birds

Computer, enhance. #DogsOfMastodon

I agree that AI content generators should be subject to copyright.

However, all you gotta do is look at OpenAI's list of investors to understand that nothin' is gonna happen. The wealthiest just found a way to pay humans less. They won't let that go.

#mosstodon
Moos auf Holz

Sometimes you get lucky, but I also believe you make your own luck.

I was walking down the hill to escape the harsh sunlight engulfing the area I was in. The conditions were sublime, but the light was too harsh. I then found a shaded pocket of the woods covered in hoar frost. Upon turning the corner this scene appeared.

After organising my composition and setting up, I had time for a couple of frames before the moment passed.

#woodland #trees #winter #art #photomonday #landscapephotography

For those who know …

40%+ of vehicles sold in the EU are SUVs, with a *900%* increase relative to 2001 https://eupocketbook.org/

If a company pretends to care deeply about its workers only to then treat them as disposable, that should tell you something about what they mean when they claim to value you as a customer.

Super pleased with how this quick field photo turned out.

It's a Calomela leaf beetle, feeding on Acacia, in Yarra Ranges National Park, Australia.

The trick to the lighting: camera settings to expose for the moody grey background of the wet temperate Eucalyptus forest, and then bumping the diffused foreground flash for the right level of zing.

#photography #insects #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Australia

🎶 Dancing in the noonlight...🎶

#DogsOfMastodon #DogsAtPlay #BorderColliesOfMastodon #BorderCollie #JackRussell #JackRussellTerrier #TerriersOfMastodon

Travelling on train listening to guy next to me talk on phone wondering whether he picked up covid from his friend who has covid (he’s unmasked of course)

Really makes you appreciate your fellow human beings and how wearing a mask is just too much to ask

I wish controlling risk of exposure to an infectious disease on my commute would be slightly less down to someone else’s ego

if you're like us, and you love to get DOOM running on every dev board in your collection https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/24/is-this-one-of-the-smallest-playable-doom-devices/ or kitchen https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/21/parents-please-carefully-inspect-your-kids-halloween-candy/ then this new 'doomgeneric' project is gonna save you a ton of time! instead of poring through the code to find what functions need to be restructured to support the display/input you've concocted, the UX is defined in a single C file. we have A LOT OF DOOM COMING!

https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric

https://youtu.be/6V_ofcX9cic

https://youtu.be/rQdX9u-WM2M

The Sun's northern hemisphere is filled with many active sunspot regions this morning but the largest sunspot region, AR3190 in the southern hemisphere, is unstable and may produce X-class solar flares!
#solar #observation #flares #Sun #Astronomy #telescopes

Ah, the late great Senior Assistant... She was right. This would have been a dull, cold and unappealing seascape without a large black dog looking down the lens in an intimidating manner.

#isleofskye
#dogsofmastodon

My friend's cat has been watching this moose all day as he feeds on the branches of a tree.
#MondayMoose #Alaska