szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

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Might have had some camera motion chasing this busy bee, but I kind of like the impressionist effect on the background.

I was leaving a crowded store today, taking off my mask as two parents with a toddler prepared to enter.

"Time for our masks," said parent #1.

"We can pretend like we are going on an airplane" said parent #2.

"Yay" said the toddler.

And that's how it can be.

This is an image of ecosystem collapse.
Annual catch of North Atlantic cod, over-harvesting, and collapse.

The Albert Khan Museum in France has just made available for download thousands of early autochrome photos from around the world: Khan, a banker, had top French photographers travel the world documenting everyday aspects of global life which he believed would soon vanish as the world rapidly developed.

Such prescience.

https://www.rferl.org/a/color-photos-archive-planet-albert-kahn-history/32166970.html

@histodons #photography #autochrome

Moooning everyone - Highland Cow in the snow, Porlock Common, Exmoor National Park. #highland #highlandcow #highlandcattle #highlandcows #cow #cattle #Exmoor #exmoornationalpark #porlockcommon #photography #landscapephotography #animalphotography #livestockphotography

Apair of red #foxes nuzzling together amidst a snowy backdrop and a #polarbear cub basking in the sunlight surrounded by a mass of purple fireweed – both intimate moments of nature captured by two talented Canadian #wildlife photographers.

Martin Gregus and Brittany Crossman are among the 25 shortlisted nominees for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award run by the National History Museum in London, England.

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/two-canadian-photographers-shortlisted-for-the-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-peoples-choice-award/

After a cold night we met an old acquaintance from previous winters in the bush. He remembers our calls and whistles and came without hesitation to take our gifts.
#birdwatching #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #Ontario

May God grant me the confidence of a large language model.

Did you know that *every one* of the millions of #iNaturalist observations gets looked at by a volunteer identifier before it can reach "research grade", and get shared with the international biodiversity database #GBIF? Here's a new science paper listing some of the many important reasons why it's good for everyone with some taxonomic expertise, including scientists, to be identifiers on #iNaturalist. (I'm one of the many authors.) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843 #biodiversity #taxonomy #CitizenScience

There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Missed an opportunity to call it Hole Foods.

#naming

#Mosstodon #DogsOfMosstodon #DogsOfMastodon #RonnieBarker

@alexwild Same stock account. Interesting number of legs for a "salamander." I looked around but couldn't find a way to to report the account to Adobe. I think their food photos are real but everything else is AI.

People trying to sell AI insect images through stock photography agencies. Don't know who would actually buy these.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/large-red-ants-crawl-across-tree-in-search-of-food/547961025?asset_id=547906165