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A timeline cleanser. #flowers #BloomScrolling
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A timeline cleanser. #flowers #BloomScrolling
Moving Image Archive in Glasgow City, Scotland
Here you can see more than 100 years of Scotland’s history captured by amateur and professional filmmakers.#archive #cinema #film #section-Atlas
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A log decays along the North Fork of Kanaka Creek giving life to the next generation of trees and shrubs. Photographed at Kanaka Creek Regional Park in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. One of my top 10 images of 2024.
#Rainforest #BritishColumbia #Canada #Forest #Creek #Nature #NaturePhotography
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#postdoc #jobs opportunity at Arizona State University, home of Social Insect Research Group, one of the largest centers of social-insect research in the world. Likely closes January 27!
"Postdoctoral Research Scholar: Function and Evolution of Insect Societies"
apply.interfolio.com/159179
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Richard Turere invented a solar-powered light system to scare away lions from livestock, and it worked. 🦁
It is so successful that he now travels around, installing them to protect the herds of other farmers. In doing so, he also protects the lions from becoming targets.
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=3bPlu0StTU…
📰 bbc.com/news/business-44398952
#solarpunk #wildlife #lions #happynews
What happened to the boy who chased away the lions?
As a child, herder Richard Turere invented a device to stop lions killing cattle but who benefited?By Olivia Crellin (BBC News)
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@Meg I would absolutely love to know how to block specific words and phrases! I have looked all over the Friendica.world site and I couldn't find any way to do this. I also couldn't find anything in TweeseCake itself. @Fedi.Tips Can you please help? Is this possible? I had to unfollow several otherwise wonderful people over this.
#blind #blocking #Friendica #moderation #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
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Blue-naped Chlorophonia
Small, plump bird with stout bill. Male mostly lime green with contrasting yellow belly and thin blue collar on nape and blue rump; some populations entirely blue above. Female similar but duller, with greener belly. Usually seen in pairs or small flocks, often in association with a fruiting tree. Forages at all levels, most frequently in the canopy. Listen for its plaintive whistles, usually one or two notes.
Link: ebird.org/species/blnchl1
Photo Location: Colombia
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It’s a pupperfly!
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The more I read from vegans, the more I think they're stark raving mad. Fortunately, most are not dangerous. They're just ridiculous. I suppose they create a cheap form of amusement. But if there are any level-headed ones out there, these others definitely make it difficult for them to be taken seriously.
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Milovice nature reserve receives Czechia’s top ecological awards byteseu.com/673048/ #CzechRepublic #Czechia #ecology #nature #RadioPragueInternational
Milovice nature reserve receives Czechia’s top ecological awards
In the 1990s, Milovice’s biodiversity faced a sharp decline following the departure of military machinery. To address this, the Czech Landscape Conservation Society introduced a herd of wild horses from Britain’s Exmoor National Park in 2015.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Internet Archive's founder, @brewsterkahle, spoke with
WBUR's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.
🎧 Listen now: wbur.org/onpoint/2025/01/07/in…
The Internet Archive is in danger | On Point
More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.Claire Donnelly (WBUR)
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We've opened registration for our annual BugShot insect photography workshop! This summer we'll be in Portal, Arizona for the start of the monsoon.
We're also very pleased to announce our newest instructor, Adrian Smith, whose exquisite high speed insect flight videos you may know from the AntLab Youtube channel.
#Insects #Photography #Bugshot
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BugShot Portal Arizona — BugShot
4 days in Portal, Arizona photographing cool bugs with Adrian Smith, Alex Wild, and John Abbott!BugShot
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However nasty the weather is where you are, it's worse on WASP-127b. This planet has howling winds blowing at 9 km/sec (20,000 mph). Temperatures drop 175° C (315° F) across its night side.
WASP-127b is also a weird puffball, less dense than balsa wood! What a world.
eso.org/public/news/eso2502/ #science #nature #astronomy #weather
Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet.www.eso.org
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These thrasher workshops strengthened & developed our partnerships, and now our partners in Sonora have taken the helm of #thrasher surveys in #Mexico. Their work has vastly expanded current knowledge on the Bendire’s Thrasher there, critical to their #conservation.
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My old tube radio that my dad gave me. It's quite old, ca. 1930-ish.
The middle knob isn't original and I'm always looking for one.
If you have one to give away, let me know.
#Vintage #antiquity #Radio #tubeelectronics
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Family raises rescued squirrel!
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Terracotta Warriors - the thousands of clay soldiers guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb are enduring representations of the ruler’s legacy :
Mausoleum of First Qin Emperor is home to one of history’s greatest armies, though it’s one built entirely of clay.
The massive host of terra-cotta warriors charged with guarding the emperor’s tomb for eternity was discovered in 1974, when farmers near Xi’an, China, dug a well and found a clay head—the first of perhaps 7,000 unique figures.
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If people don't do this for me when I die then I will smite them from the beyond
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1922,1926: Baltzar von Platen & Carl Munters invented the absorption refrigerator (with no moving parts). #Poetry #Science #History #Thermodynamics #Refrigeration (sharpgiving.com/thebookofscien…)
1922: Absorption refrigerator - The book of science
1922,1926: Baltzar von Platen & Carl Munters invented the absorption refrigerator (with no moving parts).sharpgiving.com
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IMDb’s CEO, who founded the site 35 years ago, is stepping down
Col Needham will become the company’s executive chair. IMDb’s chief operating officer, Nikki Santoro, will take over as CEO.
IMDb’s CEO, who founded the site 35 years ago, is stepping down
Col Needham, the founder and CEO of IMDb, is stepping down from his role after launching the website in 1990.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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Etymological Misconceptions About the 'Gay Accent' laughingsquid.com/history-of-g…
Etymological Misconceptions About the 'Gay Accent'
Adam Aleksic, a self-described etymology nerd, explained linguistic misconceptions of the "gay accent" or "gay voice".Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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The Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story and Origin of the Animals are two origin myths of the Jicarilla-Apache nation of modern-day New Mexico. #History #Apache #HistoryFact whe.to/ci/2-2612-en/
Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story & Origin of the Animals
The Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story and Origin of the Animals are two origin myths of the Jicarilla-Apache nation of modern-day New Mexico. The Apache people as a whole have many different creation...Joshua J. Mark (https://www.worldhistory.org#organization)
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Marine iguanas are the only lizards on Earth that spends time in ocean. They live only on Galapagos Islands (Ecuador 🇪🇨) and like many Galapagos species, they have adapted to an island lifestyle.
In water, they swim with a snake-like motion and hold themselves against the bottom with their long claws in order to graze. They also known for their very efficient salt glands, where they “sneeze” out salt. Because they feed underwater, they ingest a large amount of saltwater.
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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright, dies at 95
Feiffer was best known for illustrating the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth." His loopy lines left a lasting mark on art, literature and film.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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The free open source forum software NodeBB is now part of the Fediverse. You can now follow and interact with members of NodeBB-powered forums from other Fediverse servers.
For example, their co-founder's account on NodeBB is @julian and you can interact with them from Mastodon etc.
You can follow the latest news about NodeBB at:
➡️ @nodebb
Their official website is at:
➡️ nodebb.org
If you want technical details see the documentation at:
➡️ docs.nodebb.org/activitypub
Home | NodeBB | Your Community Forum Platform
NodeBB is the next generation community forum platform. Built on open source software, we've helped hundreds of companies engage their customers.admin@krftwrk.ca (nodebb)
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@marym @Fedi.Tips @julian @NodeBB @Kyle Kurth @Mary M
Would NodeBB, which now supports ActivityPub, be something that supports asynchronous groups? I'm only mentioning it because it's how someone described NodeBB to me today when I asked how it compared to Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN. Beyond this, I don't know much about it.
@Fedi.Tips @julian @NodeBB @Kyle Kurth @Mary M @marym Oh. I missed seeing that you included nodebb when I sent the message.
A Therapeutic Robotic Hand Exoskeleton That Increases an Expert Pianist's Speed and Dexterity laughingsquid.com/robotic-hand…
A Therapeutic Robotic Hand Exoskeleton That Increases an Expert Pianist's Speed and Dexterity
Shinichi Furuya and his team at Sony CSL found that a therapeutic robotic hand exoskeleton also increases the dexterity of expert pianists.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Folklore is full of tales of secret tunnels. It's claimed one runs from the George and Pilgrims Inn to Glastonbury Abbey. The tunnel, said to have been built in the late 1400s on the orders of Abbot Selwood, was apparently explored in the early 20th century by a Mrs Bilbrough. She edged down "a flight of fearfully steep steps, dark and damp and slippery' before finding the passage 'was only three feet in height, so that those who used it must have crawled on their hands and knees, resting at intervals where ledges are cut in the sides for that purpose." Another tunnel - reputed to run from the crypt of Glastonbury's Lady Chapel under the River Brue to the town of Street - is said to have been successfully navigated by a dog. #folklore #weird #gothic #psychogeography #tunnels #Glastonbury #pub #pubs #history
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Woman Uses Yummy Peppers to Lure Giant Tortoise Out of Enclosure for Evacuation From the Palisades Fire laughingsquid.com/evacuating-g…
Woman Uses Yummy Peppers to Lure Giant Tortoise Out of Enclosure for Evacuation From the Palisades Fire
Caitlin Doran used peppers to lure her pet tortoise out of his enclosure and into a tub in her truck to evacuate from the Palisades Fire.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Beau Brummell Statue in London, England
A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.#fashion #statues #section-Atlas
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From fleeing mountain lions to scorched soil, the aftermath of intense fires shows an ecosystem transformed.#biodiversity #climatechange #naturaldisaster #fires #cats #wildlife #climatedeskinternal #section-Articles
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💡The tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel
#laser #optics #light #technology #electronics
The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel
Photonic crystals are the key to the brightest semiconductor laser everSusumu Noda (IEEE Spectrum)
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Has everyone except Dreamwidth and the makers of TweeseCake forgotten how to make an edit page/option that is actually easy to use? It's an absolute mess on the Friendica page itself, so that it could take me up to ten minutes just to be able to edit a post, and Enafore, which is supposed to be an improvement on Semafore has an edit page that is completely inaccessible with NVDA. It just says "Dialogue". Whatever happened to choosing "edit" and having a normal page open, with edit boxes, combo boxes, and a "save" button? See Dreamwidth's page for a perfect example of this, both for creating and editing posts.
TweeseCake also works wonderfully, but it only allows you to go back so far in your own posts. There is no way to enter a link and have TweeseCake open it.
#accessibility #annoying #blind #Dreamwidth #editing #editingposts #Enafore #friendica #frustrating #NVDA #posting #Semafore #technology #TweeseCake #Tweesecake #Windows
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#QuizOfTheDay: According to the standard definition of #Continents, only a very small number of #Islands are not considered part of any continent.
Which of the below Island is not part of any Continent?
A. Greenland
B. Easter Island
C. Tristan da Cunha
D. Phoenix Islands
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Babies and Toddlers Discovering Snow for the First Time laughingsquid.com/babies-toddl…
Babies and Toddlers Discovering Snow for the First Time
CrazyFunnyStuff put together an adorable compilation of babies and toddlers discovering snow for the very first time.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Marbled Honeyeater
A medium-sized honeyeater of mid-mountain oak forest and adjacent secondary areas. Upperparts olive, underparts gray with mottling and some streaking on the crown. Note distinctive white crescents beneath the eye and on the cheek. Solitary and inconspicuous in the upper levels of forest. No other honeyeaters have these white cresents on the face. Voice, an often repeated, whistled “chirrup!” or more musical, wrenlike “chii-pi-dup!”.
Link: ebird.org/species/marhon1
Photo Location: Papua New Guinea
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'Apricity' is a word which describes the warmth of the sun in winter. It comes from the Latin word 'apricitas' meaning sunny.
Nearly every day during the winter there is a moment or a while when the sun glows and the warm sunlight comes racing towards you. This is the view from up the lane near us. It was a case of getting out there quickly as the conditions alter with alarming speed…
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An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan’s grapes 'Fresh' all winter :
In Afghanistan, the grapes are stored for up to six months, kept fresh in airtight mud-straw containers. Afghans developed this method of food preservation, which uses mud-straw containers and is known as kangina, centuries ago in Afghanistan's rural north.
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If you know someone who wants help using this place, feel free to ask, I can answer their questions directly. This account aims to be an unofficial help desk, especially for new or non-technical people.
If they're having trouble signing up, they can email me at email@fedi.tips
Also, please tell new people about the website at fedi.tips (especially the Quick Start section at the top). This has lots of non-technical advice for beginners and will help them get started.
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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Misspelling at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.#mistakes #americanpresidents #presidents #memorials #section-Atlas
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