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Swiss brass band doing a cover of Australia's ACDC song Thunderstruck. So cool!
@Christoph S
youtu.be/J4_IOMQBT-k?si=_KNk7t…
in reply to Muse

Perhaps you like also this one:

performed by the Heimatdamisch (they play also various other tracks in Oberkrainer style e.g. ).



When the Red Alert goes off. A fine display of the Aurora last night over Kinlochbervie #Aurora #Sutherland #Scotland


*Slime mould appreciation post*

Slime moulds usually live as single celled organisms, but will occasionally perform an astonishing feat of cooperation - gathering together as a collective ‘organism’ to form structures such as fruiting bodies. They may resemble fungi, but are really a unique group of amoebozoa.

#Macrophotography #microbiology #slimemould #soilbiodiversity




Goliath Frogs are the largest frog in the world. These muscle-bound #amphibians lift heavy rocks to build nests. They face #extinction from #palmoil. Fight back against their extinction and use your wallet as a weapon #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
@palmoildetectives palmoildetectives.com/2023/10/…


#Reptiles are fascinating creatures who are sadly feared, misunderstood and persecuted by humans. It's time we stand up for #lizards #snakes #crocodiles #turtles, here's how #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/… via @palmoildetectives


Creature Aurora Over Norway

Image Credit & Copyright: Ole C. Salomonsen (Arctic Light Photo)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231105.ht… #APOD

#APOD


Creature Aurora Over Norway apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231105.ht… #APOD
#APOD

in reply to Das

The link to “The Kitchen Chemistry Sessions" no longer works, but I’d be interested to learn more if it’s still available somewhere!


Today we drove to Bellevue, MI to witness the annual fall migration of thousands of Sandhill Cranes. Turn on your sound to listen to their calls, which can be heard up to 2.5 miles away.

These magnificent #birds nearly disappeared a century ago due to overhunting, but populations rebounded & are now stable in MI.

Sandhill Cranes are among the oldest living birds on Earth with a wingspan of up to 6 ft. Aldo Leopold described them as "nobility, won in the march of eons."

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Here’s a photo from late summer 2021 showing just how large these birds are...
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

We get Sandhill Cranes all around where I live in Central Florida. They have no fear (as befitting a 4' tall pseudo-dinosaur) and their mating dances are absolutely wonderful to watch and hear. I believe they mate for life, and the usually-single child spends the first year with its parents. Seeing a triplet of Sandhill Cranes meandering down the middle of the road without a care in the world is a fantastic sight. I love these guys.




Just doing a casual #FFXIV stream playing the new #FallGuys collab event, come on over and hang out if you're bored #Linux #GamingOnLinux youtube.com/watch?v=XhaqKJWhjC…



Vampire viruses prey on other #viruses to replicate themselves

#phages

A virus that latches onto the neck of another virus

flip.it/MazmGp



XWayland's Rootful Mode Reaches A New Level #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/idbGwS_u3yE
in reply to Brodie Robertson

this might be fun to try on those Proton games that run better on X11
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I may or may not be using a *well written and polished* configuration for running dwm on Asahi...


Mr. Tot’s wife left him, and he buries his pain in shredded cheese and bacon bits




The Touch Bar is a great example of a feature that demoes well but isn’t actually useful in practice. It’s a characteristic of promotion driven development in big tech that companies foist flashy unusable software on users as part of department or senior leaders play to show their product team is innovative.

The Touch Bar primarily acted as the “fat finger bar” since I mostly hit it by accident. It could have been useful for entering emojis but that UX was too painful.

theverge.com/2023/10/31/239388…

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron The core problem with the touch bar is that you have to look at it to make much use of it but if you're a decent typist, you have no reason at all to look at the keyboard.


Installing amphibian ladders for the little buggers to climb out of the air shafts around the house. In one of them I rescued eight newts before installing the ladder!
#newt
A plastic mesh intertwined with a rope going down 1.5m A tiny newt in a hand
An airshaft beneath a metal grate with amphibian ladder installed Two more newts on a shovel
#newt





This week's comic: The things Mike Johnson has said are so over the top that I thought I might place him in the role of my flaming conservative character (hence the flames, in case anyone was wondering about that). It’s almost impossible to exaggerate this man’s theocratic worldview, so I tried to use actual quotes where I could.

#uspol #politics #cartoon #democracy #authoritarianism #republicans #theocracy #lgbtq

in reply to Jen Sorensen

Yep, Johnson and his supporters in Congress are greasing this country's slide into theocracy.

funcrunch.medium.com/house-spe…

in reply to Jen Sorensen

Thx. I wrote about him that first week and was astonished. Jim Jordan in a suit with a Clark Kent demeanor and Christian nationalismas his goal.




Happy #Caturday! This is our goofball, demonstrating why we bought that vase from a fellow Oregon Pottery Assoc. artist. He loves sleeping on his head!

#CatsOfMastodon




Not going to lie: leaning out of the window of a moving steam train, desperately clutching a Leica so I don't drop it, and hoping I've got the zone-focusing and exposure right to make this shot work was a whole lot of fun.

(#Leica Ic, Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5, Rollei Retro 400S in LC29)

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #HeritageRailway




As autumn has firmly taken hold Captain Jack has made a start on his thicker, fluffier, coat ready for winter.

The sunshine streaming in from behind him is nicely highlighting his fur and fabulous whiskers.

#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #tabby #TabbyCat



Today marks one year since I walked away from 360,000 followers on that other site and joined this incredible community here!

That was easily one of the most positive moves I've ever made, and I frankly haven't looked back. Thank you to @jerry and everyone else who keeps this place humming. Come to think of it, it's time to renew our annual support!

joinmastodon.org/sponsors

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It really is #caturday! Just picked up this little guy.

Thanks @Gargron and family!

Does he look like a Nansen to you?




Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated #viruses in the Bay of Bengal

Nice work from @scubalaina @giant_virus et al!

journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1…

#marine #oceanography #virology

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in reply to Stefan Bohacek

You can see some of the history here socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/… would be good to Wright this up better as a working example.
in reply to vagabond

This is a positive story and a strong lesson to learn from the outcome:

social.network.europa.eu/about…

tube.network.europa.eu/about/i…

As you can see they soon dumped the grassroots crew who made it happen and employed #NGO "experts" on how to run them, this lead to ossification.

The morale of the story, keep the cats onboard, is as much an issue of the "libertarian cats" as it is of the #Eurocrats.

STRONG lesson to learn from this.

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200,000 Hectares of Oil Palm Plantations to Be Converted Into Forests, Indonesia’s Government Says
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
ecowatch.com/palm-oil-plantati…


Nobody before or after this has culture. Your mind has never existed on a precipice of infinity. To know actual, true awe in beholding a thing produced at the same speed of your perception, that has never existed. That was impossible. You are empty because you have never felt joy.
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