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#PuzzleOfTheDay: Solve the below equation:
x² + y² = 20
xy = -8
x-y = ?
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ONLY THREE HOURS LEFT TO VOTE!
Anyone in the world can vote in the Bug of the Year contest - It's quick and easy! Please go vote for the Giant Springtail RIGHT NOW!
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-…
If it wins, I'll get one as my first ever tattoo!!
#Invertebrate #TeamGiantSpringtail #Entomology #Collembola #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna
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Feeling blue this #MosaicMonday? Perhaps the victory of the blue chariot faction can lift your spirits! The charioteer holds the palm frond which symbolises victory while a teammate seems to congratulate the lead horse.
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Whoever trained those horses to hold still in that position was a true master of the craft.
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Did We Just Enter the #Era of 1.5°C #Warming? Scientists Say It’s Likely : Medium
There are no pure #Cultures : Misc
Which #Animal has the #Longest #Tail? : Medium
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Yellow-footed Flycatcher
An aptly named flycatcher of the lower parts of the forest edge and forest clearings. Overall grayish with a white belly, a white throat, a uniform gray chest, a mostly yellow bill, and unique bright yellow legs. Similar to many other African flycatchers, but the yellow feet and bill set it apart. Call is a descending whistled “tzeer,” and song is a series of buzzy “dji-dji-dji-dji!” notes.
Link: ebird.org/species/yeffly1
Photo Location: Cameroon
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Every head pat gets a meow receipt
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#OnThisDay NASA's #Discovery Program began as the NEAR #Shoemaker #Spacecraft lifts off (1996).
Happy Birthday Michael Jordan (1963) - considered as the #Greatest #Basketball player of all time.
Birth Anniversary of Michiaki Takahashi (1928) - inventor of the first #Chickenpox #Vaccine.
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Proposed new Laws of Robotics:
1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human
If I think of a second Law of Robotics I'll let you know
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@f4grx I totally agree. The whole purpose of ChatGPT and its kin is to appear human, where for Asimov's creations that was a later development. Asimov challenged us to think about morality and logic, but the current rush of LLM derivatives abandons both. (And truth)
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Yellow-billed Lorikeet
A medium-sized, long-tailed parrot of mid-montane forest and edge. Predominantly green with a bright red patch from the chest, where it is broadest, to the belly. Yellow bill and lime green streaks radiating from the eye. Readily seen flying in small flocks. Similar to Orange-billed Lorikeet, but Yellow-billed Lorikeet is usually found at lower elevations, is slightly larger with an obviously yellow bill and reddish undertail. Call, a shrill, high-pitch “siiik!”.
Link: ebird.org/species/yeblor2
Photo Location: Papua New Guinea
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do u have food? You look like you have food
#catsofmastodon
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String Trio Uses a Floor Scraping Chair as a Musical Instrument in a Cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' laughingsquid.com/chair-as-ins…
String Trio Uses a Floor Scraping Chair as a Musical Instrument in a Cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
Violinist Aldo Cicchini and members of his string trio OP3 used a floor scraping chair to play the high notes in "Bohemian Rhapsody".Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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The Fediverse is more than just Mastodon!
PeerTube is the Fediverse's video platform, sort of an alternative to YouTube. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon etc and when a PeerTube account publishes a video it appears in your Mastodon timeline. If you reply to a PeerTube video it appears as a comment, favourites become likes, follows are subscriptions etc.
You can find out lots more about PeerTube at:
➡️ fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosti…
PeerTube: Video on the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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as I like to say:
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We roast specialty grade #coffee and #tea that funds underserved youth arts programs. Coffee For The Arts 🎭!
⭐️ Take 15% OFF your next order with code: FirstTime15
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The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online
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The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online
The Nazis may not have known art, but they knew what they liked, and much more so what they didn't. We've previously featured here on Open Culture the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” of 1937, put on by Hitler's party four years after it rose to power.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Australianews #Children #Science #Society
Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?
Memories emerge earlier in some cultures than others, but researchers have long puzzled over inability to recall events before two or three years of ageDonna Lu (The Guardian)
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A hangout at my home yesterday with fellow gardeners talking about seed and swapping them too. Very excited to build a network of growers working with adaptive seed, genetic diversity and community-based landraces. Our own local chapter of something like Going to Seed goingtoseed.org #seed #AdaptiveAgriculture #LandraceGardening #farming #SeedSwap #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty
Going to Seed
Going to Seed inspires a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community, and diversity. Adaptation Agriculture or Adaptation Gardening allows the ecosystem to select the best plants, rather than relying on the farmer or gardener to supply inputs …Going to Seed
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It was a nice day outside, cool but sunny, so Gardening Was Engaged In.
1. The Damsel is still tiny, and the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch variety is not noted for sturdy roots, but she is enjoying her new home in a 50 cm pot. I'm hoping she will flourish.
2. Nobody wanted Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, but they too are doing well.
3. A cluster of Chinesis and Bougainvillea cuttings. Their future is unwritten.
4. Our #cat, Penny, investigates the vegetable bins.
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Sonnet 123 - CXXIII
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old;
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
This I do vow and this shall ever be;
I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.
bot by @davidaugust
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Williams's Lark
A small, compact lark with variable dark- to rusty-brown upperparts, sometimes with darker streaks or feather centers, pale eyebrows and throat, and a pale belly that contrasts with the heavily streaked chest, often washed rufous. The tail is brownish with white outer feathers that are conspicuous in flight. Restricted to a very specific habitat, rocky lava-strewn plains in semi-desert, in two areas of Kenya. Vocalizations are poorly known, but a loud “tsireet” has been recorded during the display flight. Other similar larks are generally less rusty and less streaked on the chest.
Link: ebird.org/species/willar1
Photo Location: Kenya
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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3 bags of garden soil with organic compost to give away in Juan Les Pins (south of France).
One with a strong jalapeno cutting that already rooting for next season.
#Gardening #France #JuanLesPins #GardenSoil #OrganicSoil #BalconyGarden
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Cleaning up the balcony and giving away some of my organic soil.Started them 3 years ago and keep adding compost to grow tomatoes and peppers in them. Tomatoes used to grow over 2m tall and 4m wide. And jalapeno pepper was over 1.5m tall.
One has a jalapeno pepper cutting that has already rooted and be ready for the summer.
Hurts to get rid of, but I can't move them and need to clean up the balcony to sell the apartment.
#Balcony #Gardening #Plants #Organic #OrganicSoil #BalconyGarden #Composting #France #JuanLesPins
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Make your own apple trees—Online grafting classes from Seed Savers Exchange (US)
SSE sends you the materials you need (rootstock, grafting knife, etc.), classes meet online
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Grafting is a great skill to have. You have many more options for varieties, and it saves a lot of money versus nursery-grown trees. I graft 20-30 fruit trees every spring to distribute in my community.
#grafting #FruitTrees #horticulture #orchard #gardening
Apple Grafting - SeedSavers
Learn to graft your own apple trees through our series of virtual presentations and small-group sessions.Seed Savers Exchange
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@Stevenheywood In 2023 I grafted 17 mystery sticks onto a youngish, vigorous apple tree. They grew so quickly, far faster than grafting onto new rootstock. I’m hoping to see a few fruits this year. Trying to figure out what the varieties are.
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Attached: 2 images On the edge of the city where I live there’s an old orchard. It was planted about a century ago on the county-run poor farm, adjacent to the asylum. The orchard was fenced and covered about 15 acres / 6 ha.zirkus
David Attenborough Investigates the Existence of Bigfoot at the Natural History Museum in London laughingsquid.com/david-attenb…
David Attenborough Investigates the Existence of Bigfoot at the Natural History Museum in London
In the series "Museum Alive with David Attenborough", the host explains that Bigfoot most likely did exist, but not in the modern era.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Lost and Found: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
By Jay Parini
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In my case, I encountered the subscription block as I scrolled midway thru the article. But, I went in search of another source to read the poem and found an article containing a picture of the poem in Frost’s own handwriting. The poem isn’t very long and I struggled to read some of Frost’s handwriting.
Thanks for your reply!
Thanks for your reply!
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Byzantine Gold Pendant Necklace with icons, decorated with pearls and precious stones (11th-12th Centuries AD, with Russian additions made in 13th Century AD.
Kremlin Museums 🇷🇺
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The skeleton of a woman was found in a Neolithic mass grave with a cow horn stuck in her pelvis and a broken spine at the Taosi Archaeological Site in China.
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The "Mona Lisa" of the deep :
In 2014, a daguerreotype of an unknown woman was found on the wreck of the SS Central America, 7,000 feet below the ocean surface off the coast of South Carolina.
The ship sank in 1857 and a treasure worth more than $765 million in 2024 dollars was found there.
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In Texas 🇺🇸 Dinosaur Valley State Park uncovered 113 million year-old dinosaur footprints—tracks that had long been hidden beneath the waters of the Paluxy River. These massive prints, left by a towering 15-foot, seven-ton giant, offer a rare glimpse into a prehistoric world.
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Two-faced head of Janus (2nd Century BC) :
In Roman mythology, Janus is the god of doors, beginnings and endings, which is why he is depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. He is the god of the name January.
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome 🇮🇹
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As of 8 February 2025, a new eruptive phase of the volcano Etna 🇮🇹 has begun.
The volcano spewed out ash clouds and a lava flow extending approximately 3 kilometres.
This image, acquired by #Sentinel2 on 12 February 2025, shows the lava flow descending from the volcano Etna.
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As of 8 February 2025, a new eruptive phase of the volcano Etna 🇮🇹 has begun. The volcano spewed out ash clouds and a lava flow extending approximately 3 kilometres.Nitter
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Only 24 hours left to vote for the Giant Springtails to win Bug of the Year!
If I haven't convinced you yet, perhaps this photo I took of one DEFENSIVELY BLEEDING will win you over. So metal.
We need every vote we can get, so please vote now: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-…
#Invertebrate #TeamGiantSpringtail #BugoftheYear2025 #BugoftheYear #Entomology #Collembola
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Please vote for the Giant Springtail (and also the southern ant, you can vote for up to three bugs)
If you are in NZ I think your vote counts more or something, so don't skip this.
Link up thread.
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I recently got a book on "The Ants of New Zealand" It's very short, but the information on cold adaptation and the strange ways the ants came to those remote islands is fascinating.
I've come to love the southern ant.
@futurebird Hey, there's a thought. Are there any differences in nest building between the northern and southern hemispheres, such as chirality? Eg in one they tend to curve left, in the other the right?
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I haven’t done this for a while, so here are #3goodthings about today.
All summer a garden orb has been spinning a large web every night in exactly the right place to keep insects from coming in through the back door.
This morning I rescued a tiny eastern spinebill that got caught in the web (this is not at all what our patient spider wants)—balance restored.
And the orchid cactus flowered when I hadn’t noticed the buds, also thinking about insect life.
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WOW Kate, that is an amazing blossom!!!!
Looking forward to the sunshine (still) here. It's been a very cloud covered few months. @plants @3goodthings
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Blue-whiskered Tanager
Rare tanager restricted to lowland and foothill rainforest in northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. Brilliant emerald-green with black face and throat marked with short blue stripes. Similar in color to Emerald Tanager, but note the characteristic black bib and blue whiskers. Typically encountered at middle to upper levels of the forest, and often joins mixed-species flocks.
Link: ebird.org/species/blwtan1
Photo Location: Colombia
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#Winter #flowers
1/2
It will snow, the tulips will bloom,
It will soften, it will blossom.
It will compact, settle down,
It will calm down, it will flow away. And it will get better after the February gray-white bustle.
There will be March-April-May madness. Heart, sing!
But you, poor thing, were so blizzarded,
Snow-covered, overslept.
It was either sadness, or a cold,
via vladimarinas-blog
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for your issue, I would recommend the theft of fire, but cowboys with a red panda
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Gyrfalcon
Stocky beast of a falcon; ranges in color from strikingly white to silvery-gray to dark sooty-brown. Relatively long tail and broad wings with powerful flight. Generally darker above and paler below, with markings on the belly ranging from small and crisp to big and chunky. Breeds on cliffs on Arctic tundra; winters in large open areas. Scarce even on breeding grounds. Bulkier and shorter-winged than Peregrine Falcon with a more diffuse face pattern and silvery undersides on flight feathers. Feeds on birds and mammals.
Link: ebird.org/species/gyrfal
Photo Location: United States
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'Monument to Lovers and Cats' in Baku, Azerbaijan
Look up as you explore Baku’s old town to find a monument to the local feline population.#sculptures #love #animals #cats #section-Atlas
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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight.
In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.
Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.
This is a portrait of a fun hairstyle "The Moon in the Man" shot by Nadar in France 1894.
© Historical Photographs
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If your main timeline on Mastodon is getting too crowded, you can use the Lists feature to split it into several smaller themed mini-timelines. You can then dip into a particular timeline when you want to see accounts on that topic.
More info on how to set up and use Lists at:
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How to use the Lists feature on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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@Roodie Aware about advanced web, thank you.
But the ask is to exclusively filter hashtags out of the main timeline into a separate "List".
I can't remember if the Advanced web does this (exclusivity) but it would be really nice for Mobile and in general.
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Owls make almost no sounds, while in flight—even when they are tested in rooms that have dozens of microphones! That’s because their specialized feathers alter air turbulence and absorb noise, so much so that they can fly right above unsuspecting animals, without being noticed!
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in reply to Knowledge Zone • • •Sensitive content
4 and 16 are both square values that add up to 20 and the product of their positive square roots, 2 and 4, is 8, which helps us when we consider the second equation.
xy = -8 means either x or y is a negative number, but not both.
(x,y) = (-2,4), (2,-4), (-4,2), or (4,-2)
x-y = -6 or 6