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Some very unglamorous weeding and tidying at the #allotment today, but look, the raspberries are coming back to life too. Can’t wait to see what a week of milder weather brings.

(Apart from more weeds, obviously 😉)

I was looking at lichen yesterday when suddenly one of them started moving around across the moss 😱

I was so flabbergasted I couldn't properly focus on it but still got this short clip before it rolled up in a ball and played dead. #nature is really strange sometimes.

#inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148569647
#LichenSubscribe

this time last year I was hunting for coral fossils in the River Ribble. momentarily disorienting to come across coral on the Thames foreshore this morning. scooped up from some far distant beach. carried here as ships ballast. the coral of empire. I mean, it was also disorienting finding coral in the Ribble, in Yorkshire. especially as it was local. the sea above it having been displaced by deep time. finding coral in rivers is admittedly a pretty niche hobby. but here we are. #mudlarking

Ok. So. Today is that day when some athletes quest for Superman's Bowl while ornithologists seek a Superb Owl and we celebrate with unbelievably expensive television commercials. I'm looking forward to the owl pictures. Owls are cool.

He's not planning to watch the game, just the #SuperbOwl commercials.

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#scale #federation

In celebration of #SuperbOwl Sunday, I present this adorable fluff nugget of a Barred Owlet.

#owl #BirdsOfPrey #birds #BirdWatching #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #animals

Magellanic penguin peeping out between grasses at Punta Tombo in Argentina. #AYearForArt #Penguins

Racism, sexism, ableism, sizeism, transphobia, and probably at least a little US Christian nationalism* are all baked into every AI product whose team hasn’t taken time- and work-intensive steps to neutralize it all — and, honestly?, probably even those that have.

*OK, true: China has competing products of similar quality, I bet. Those would have a different kind of nationalism baked in, depending on their training sets.

A group of "Scared Scientists" created a website. Here is what one of them has to say...
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LESLEY HUGHES
Ecologist, Macquarie University, Sydney

STATEMENT:

My work on the potential impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems has made it clear that the human species is now threatened.

We need to acknowledge the time lag between what we do to the atmosphere and its impacts on the climate. What we do now affects the climate decades into the future. This means we need to drastically cut our emissions, now and forever, to stabilise the climate in the second half of the century.

MORE HERE -- https://cargocollective.com/scared_scientists

#ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityLoss #Extinction #Science

In Stable Diffusion, when you add "stock photograph" into the prompt, it dutifully tries to generate the watermarks. 😅

I hope this service is still affordable when I'm 80

One lucky dad caught a very precious moment.

#SilentSunday with echoes of #ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #fotografie #fotographie #BlackAndWhite #SchwarzWeiss #NoirEtBlanc #oronn