szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

*looking at birds through survey instrument viewfinder while killing time between observations*

To myself: “Huh, is that a shrike? Why can I never remember what shrikes look like? Seems like it’s a shrike but I’m not sure.

I don’t have a guide handy or internet access, how will I be sure it’s a shrike??”

…

*2nd bird returns and sticks something dead onto a thorn.*

Me to self (satisfied): “Whelp, guess that answers that!” 🤦‍♂️

#SmallStories #Shrike #mastoprompt

#DailyOwlUpdate - and here’s a video of the mama bringing food to the babies!

It’s still so amazing seeing her head rotate around like that!

#Owls #Cute #Outside #Trees #Nature #Video #AltText

If you're getting excited about Eurovision tonight, spare a thought for the great French composer who wrote the fanfare that was chosen over half a century ago to represent Eurovision. He was Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a brilliant composer who was completely screwed by his contemporary Jean-Baptiste Lully. 1/n

Luxembourg want to rejoin #Eurovision next year aw bless. Still wish STV would declare Independence in Eurovision and put a #Scotland entry together. #ESC

Interesting and informative post from George R R Martin - in the context of the US writers' strike - about the nature of writing for television

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2023/05/08/writers-on-set/

Przełamałem się i dziś kawka bez mleka tak jak eksperci tutaj polecają.

Are there any thoughtful podcasts or writing about the causes and history of homelessness, especially in North America? Would love some recommendations. Thank you!

I am very happy to help

#Robin #Birds #Wildlife #Garden #Photography #Vogel #Rotkehlchen #Garten

#Python 2 is dead since 2020. If you continue to support it in your projects, you're not doing your users a service.

What you're doing is forcing a lot of backwards compatibility baggage to your users, discouraging people from contributing and effectively burying your project.

So please stop. It's time to move on and stop requesting changes to submitted patches because "this doesn't work on a Python release from 2019".

@mcnado Saw a screenshot this morning that went something like this:

Person A: How come McDonalds cashiers are better at de-escalating than the cops?

Person B: Because we get fired if we can't.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly blurry

#Photography

Wish I took a screenshot before closing the tab. Just saw on Amazon's "Frequently bought together":
- Fiskars shovel
- Bleach cleaner
- Nightvision goggles

The heck?!

Coś takiego jest w ogóle legalne? Jeżeli tak, to jakim cudem?

#las #myśliwi #ambona #paśnik

Sometimes you just need to be satisfied with what you *can* achieve

this week's @tomgauld cartoon for @newscientist

#pragmatism
#science
#politics

Noah told the animals he'd saved: "go forth and multiply".

And they did, but he noticed a couple of snakes just sitting in the corner, looking sad.

And Noah asked them, "what's the matter"?

They said: "sorry, we're adders. we can't multiply".

Hearing that, Noah fetched his tools and a few planks from the ship and made them a wooden table:

"Here, with a log table even adders can multiply."

Deep.

You'd never know what a little terror he is. #MaxTheDog #DogsOfMastodon

Someone took a #Raytheon video with a dull description of ADM-160 MALD decoy missiles and made this:

#mosstodon thick moss on a living branch in the local bluebell woods