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When I go on my wanders I come across beauty, everywhere, of all kinds. There are specific places in the forests near our home where there are perfect moss gardens. I return to them often. To admire their richness, their deep eloquence. #mosstodon #moss #forest #森　＃苔
Detailed photo of a small dense surface area of forest floor covered in different patches of moss, lichen, and likely liverworts. Mixed in the moss are small rounded leaves that look almost like succulents, a plant called stonecrop. The mix of these mosses, lichens and plants is varying shades of mostly dark green. There's also a variety of textures. Some of the moss looks like fluffy carpet, others more branch-like. An overall image of rich dense verdant life.
#forest #moss #Mosstodon #森

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One of my favorite pollinator photos, and the bee isn't even in focus. Which is why I love it. (Bombus sp., Illinois)
#bees #Bombus #pollination #Solidago #Nature
Macro photograph of a cluster of goldenrod flowers, one at top left crisply in focus, while a blurred bumble bee approaches in face view at upper right, its wings spread.
#nature #pollination #bees #bombus #solidago

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「@tante's decision to block LLM scrapers is consistent with his own logic, but it ended up reinforcing the asymmetry between readers who are fluent in English and those who are not. This is not just an irony. The asymmetry operates across the whole of technology discourse. Whose viewpoint is set as the default? What social relations produced that default?」
- @hongminhee
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Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations

This is a follow-up to last month's Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them . Cory Doctorow celebrated the sixth anniversary of Pluralistic…
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@tante @洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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Huh? You don’t need an LLM to translate something. We had DeepL and Google Translate a decade before LLM was a concept. And what does it have to do with scraping? You just paste text into it or use a browser plugin.
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@Gargron currently, both DeepL and Google Translate are 100% LLMs now. Before that they were using other types of Machine Learning architecture (that also used large datasets of translated language to do statistical analysis on)
@Eugen Rochko

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A new episode of This Week in Linux has dropped! 😎🐧▶️ thisweekinlinux.com/337

KDE Plasma 6.6 is out, new update to Lutris, Asahi Linux updates for Apple M3, LFS-based distro: NuTyX, Valve fights against a Patent Troll & more Linux news

#opensource #technology #podcast

337: KDE Plasma 6.6, Lutris Update, Asahi Linux, NuTyX, Valve vs Patent Troll & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital

This week in Linux, was a HUGE week for Linux news and it was also a HUGE week for me because today marks the 10th anniversary of TuxDigital. That's rig...
TuxDigital
#opensource #technology #podcast

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An online game I need to check out: Castle Light

Castle light

Uncover hidden images by illuminating fragments at a time. Use observation and strategy to reveal details and bring the mystery to light, navigating between light and shadow.
Castle light
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Jay Bryant
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I shared that on to my RP group. 🙂

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After a relatively brief colder & snowier interlude, we've re-entered a period that will be characterized by sustained anomalous warmth in U.S. West. Today, daily record high temperatures are again occurring across portions of Southern Rockies and interior SW. #CAwx #COwx
Map of locations currently experiencing record or near-record temperatures (from coolwx.com). There are many such locations, indicated in red and orange colors, across the Southwest and Southern Rockies.
#cawx #cowx
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Nathan Schneider
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Today in Boulder people keep saying "Beautiful day" to each other on the street with dread in their voice.
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A symbiotic origin of the ribosome?

"The origin of life is one of the great mysteries of science. Of the multiple unsolved problems, the origin of the translation system (the means by which the genetic code inscribed on chromosomes is converted into reliable protein sequences) remains the most enigmatic"

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#biology #evolution #microbiology

#Evolution #biology #microbiology

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Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-le…


An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...
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#floss #android #Google #fdroid #keepandroidopen @Marc Prud'hommeaux

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We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: keepandroidopen.org/open-lette…
First page of the open letter opposing the Google Android Developer Verification program.

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
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Keep Android Open
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See also the complementary blog post: f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-le…

An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...
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Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.

lyra.horse/x86css/


x86CSS

x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!
lyra.horse

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🤖 "Somos ciborgs": Donna Haraway lo dijo en 1985 y 40 años después sigue siendo radical

Su Manifiesto Cíborg propone un feminismo que rechaza los dualismos que han servido para dominar. El ciborg es bastardo del militarismo y el capitalismo patriarcal, pero los bastardos suelen ser infieles a sus orígenes. “Las máquinas están en todas partes, pero son invisibles”.

🔗 lavanguardia.com/neo/sociedad-…

¿Qué fusiones peligrosas y poderosas siguen explorando para tejer "un mundo monstruoso sin géneros"?


Donna Haraway, la filósofa que en 1985 se anticipó a Neuralink asegurando que todos nos convertiríamos en cíborgs: “Seremos quimeras, híbridos de máquina y organismo”

En la década en que Blade Runner y sus replicantes cambiaron para siempre la forma de imaginar el futuro, una bióloga con vocación literaria sacudió los cimientos de la filosofía feminista. Su nombre: Donna Haraway.
Manu Collado (La Vanguardia)
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Si Haraway suena interesante, échese un vistazo también a la "ecosexualidad" — un movimiento similarmente radical altamente influenciado por el manifiesto cyborg. ^~

De especial relevancia también en una sociedad que cogería alegremente el manifiesto de Haraway como propaganda superficial (para la IA, probablemente) e ignorara todo su contenido real…

XR publicó un pequeño hilo al respecto por (como no 😁) San Valentín; sirve como introducción muy ligera y contiene los enlaces para quien los quiera:
🐘 social.rebellion.global/@rebel…


Rebelión o Extinción España (@rebelionoextincion@social.rebellion.global)

Attached: 3 images Hoy es San Valentín — un día ampliamente reconocido para celebrar el amor. No es para amargarlo hablando sobre el planeta, biodiversidad, decrecimiento… … ¿O sí? Compartimos esta pequeña joya y concepto un tanto obscuro: la ecos…
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"Differences lead to diversity;
It exists within any given species;
it is just natural."

A beautiful message for this moment from the 2024 winner of the AAAS dance your PhD competition, WELI's 'Kangaroo Time' youtube.com/watch?v=RoSYO3fApE… #art #science

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#art #science
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I have been entertained by so many of the Dance Your PhD videos but this one is definitely the best I've ever seen.

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Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/disc…

#Discord


Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options

In the ongoing crazy saga of the internet getting gated behind new age verification laws, Discord are putting on the brakes temporarily.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#Discord
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Dirge
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Stuff like this always feels like it reads as "We're going to wait until this fades from the public conscious so we're able to implement it without as much fuss and loss of revenue. Thank you for expending your laughably limited reserve of outrage now, so that we may bypass it in the near future."

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:drone: Jusqu'au 26 février, Aéropoly vous propose de découvrir le pilotage de drones dans le cadre de Fly Indoor!

Des démonstrations, des simulateurs et des initiations au pilotage sont proposés de 10h00 jusqu’à 19h00 à la salle polyvalente CE 1 515.

#plushtodon #epfl #drone #Aeropoly #FlyIndoor

Plushtodon, avec un drone et sa télécommande, au milieu de la salle polyvalente de l'EPFL
#drone #plushtodon #epfl #aeropoly #flyindoor

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Critically endangered #Malaysian Giant #Turtles 🐢💚 of #Borneo face serious threats from #palmoil #ecocide and illegal capture for the #pet trade. Fight for them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife every time you shop 🙌 @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/…
#palmoil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #ecocide #borneo #Turtles #pet #malaysian

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FINAL FANTASY VII arrives on GOG with a new edition live on Steam too gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fina…

#FINALFANTASYVII #FINALFANTASY #PCGaming #GOG #Steam


FINAL FANTASY VII arrives on GOG with a new edition live on Steam too

Square Enix today released their slightly upgraded version of FINAL FANTASY VII, along with making it available on GOG too.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#Steam #gog #finalfantasy #pcgaming #finalfantasyvii

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Fanatical's Play on the Go Elite Collection Bundle for Feb 2026 has some gems in it gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fana…

#GameBundle #Fanatical #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux


Fanatical's Play on the Go Elite Collection Bundle for Feb 2026 has some gems in it

Want some more games to fill up your handheld with like the Steam Deck or Legion Go? Check out the new Fanatical Play on the Go Elite Collection.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #steamos #SteamDeck #gamebundle #fanatical

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Death Stranding 2 PC specs have been revealed, along with a "Portable" preset for handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/deat…

#DeathStranding2 #DeathStranding #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamOS


Death Stranding 2 PC specs have been revealed, along with a "Portable" preset for handhelds

We now have the official PC specifications released for Death Stranding 2 and they actually seem pretty reasonable, so plenty of people should be fine.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #steamos #pcgaming #deathstranding #DeathStranding2
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Que
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portables and their market share are going to save us from poorly optimized games and bloat. Now that it’s a market share it matters. Ultimately everyone gets a win too.

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Copilot can whine all it wants. 🤭

#copilot #ai #privacy

Microsoft Copilot watching you try to remove it from your computer. There is a red-filtered picture of an angry-looking Denzel Washington below.
#AI #privacy #copilot
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Stech Linux
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Wait, there are people who can't uninstall Copilot or Edge on Windows?

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My friend needs to re-home her cat sadly, a lovely black and white kitty, she's in Newcastle (England) if anyone in the north east here is looking for a sweet little cat?

update: the cat is called Lola! not "sadly"

A small black and white cat sitting on a purple cushion, with her legs folded neatly beneath her
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Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/use-…

#Fogpiercer #Godot #IndieGames #Demo #PCGaming


Use your train to smash bandits into a cliff in the updated Fogpiercer demo

Your train is your deck in Fogpiercer, with an updated demo available in Steam Next Fest this is a turn-based strategy game worth your time.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#demo #indiegames #godot #pcgaming #fogpiercer

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my Mastodon server is down 🙁

#merchtodon

#merchtodon

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Firefox 148.0 arrives with AI controls gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fire…

#Firefox #AI #GenAI


Firefox 148.0 arrives with AI controls

As Mozilla promised they would, Firefox version 148.0 has been released and with it you now get to control what generative AI features are enabled or disabled.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#AI #Firefox #genai
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Thommy
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this is the way AI features for end-users should be, optional and on-device (or you specify the provider if not, for the chat panel).

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#News: #EU plans to ban palm oil and soy biofuels by 2030. These crops cause massive #deforestation for animal feed and #airline fuel. 🌴🙊🔥🚫 @palmoildetect.bsky.social #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife bioenergytimes.com/eu-proposes…

EU proposes phasing out palm and soy biofuels by 2030 - BioEnergy Times

The European Commission has opened a public consultation on a draft amendment to EU rules that could gradually exclude biofuels made from palm oil and
Vivek Waghmode (JK Group)
#News #EU #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #airline

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A European view of our low taxes / for profit healthcare system.

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Inspired by the classic DOOM RPG, the Dungeons of DUSK demo is out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/insp…

#DungeonsofDUSK #DUSK #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck


Inspired by the classic DOOM RPG, the Dungeons of DUSK demo is out now

Taking the retro FPS Dusk and turning it into a retro dungeon crawler with a big sprawling skill tree - Dungeons of DUSK has a demo out now.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck #pcgaming #dusk #dungeonsofdusk
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Boost your productivity in Linux Mint with these essential keyboard shortcuts and custom keybindings.

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#linux #linuxmint #productivity


Master the Essential Keyboard Shortcuts in Linux Mint to Feel Like a Pro User

I am sharing some essential shortcuts to get you started. I will also briefly share how you can set custom shortcuts for all actions.
Sreenath (It's FOSS)
#linux #linuxmint #productivity

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Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/batt…

#Wanderburg #Demo #IndieGames #PCGaming


Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing

Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#demo #indiegames #pcgaming #wanderburg
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[ade]
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This was certainly 20 minutes of delight (but I've got shared-libraries to wrangle and build-systems to prod, so .. no more than those 20 minutes)

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😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

#usa #HumanRights #housing #NYC

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Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivor dev is promising but not quite there yet gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/vamp…

#VampireCrawlers #VampireSurvivors #Gaming #PCGaming


Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivor dev is promising but not quite there yet

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors has a demo out now for Steam Next Fest, and I've given it a run through to see the chaos.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #pcgaming #VampireSurvivors #vampirecrawlers

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Grizzled Tree Kangaroos 🦘 are looked after by @Tenkile they are vulnerable from #palmoil #deforestation in #WestPapua and #PapuaNewGuinea. Help their survival! When you shop #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔☠️🤮🧐🙊⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…
#palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #westpapua #papuanewguinea

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Ladybird is slowly moving towards Rust.

itsfoss.com/news/ladybird-web-…

#opensource #ladybird #web


Ladybird Browser Just Ported C++ Code to Rust in 2 Weeks Thanks to AI

Turns out AI is pretty handy when you need to port C++ code.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
#opensource #web #ladybird
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BoloMKXXVIII
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Won't be using this browser. At least without a thorough code review.

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Long run 16km, sadly achilles didn't hold and the pain got elevated so much that I had to stop the run.

Only 7 weeks till my next marathon and with the current situation I'm not sure if I can make it to the start line.

**Anyway, my next video is out, enjoy: youtu.be/mFi0b5X49pk **

Oh! I'm cutting down my mileage even more this week with the hope that I can recover on time. Any tips for managing achilles recovery?

#runnersofmastodon #running #marathontraining #marathon

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#running #marathon #runnersofmastodon #marathontraining
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"Any tips for managing achilles recovery?"

Swimming makes for a great low-impact substitute until it heals.

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Moha
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@cricket_bacon
Hmmm, why didn't it cross my mind?🤔
That's excellent advice, thank you!
@cricket_bacon

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Long run 16km, sadly achilles didn't hold and the pain got elevated so much that I had to stop the run.

Only 7 weeks till my next marathon and with the current situation I'm not sure if I can make it to the start line.

**Anyway, my next video is out, enjoy: youtu.be/mFi0b5X49pk **

Oh! I'm cutting down my mileage even more this week with the hope that I can recover on time. Any tips for managing achilles recovery?

#runnersofmastodon #running #marathontraining #marathon

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
#running #marathon #runnersofmastodon #marathontraining
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Web preservation is now mainstream: "Britain’s Victoria and Albert Museum displays first-ever YouTube video and watch page"

straitstimes.com/world/europe/…


Britain’s Victoria and Albert Museum displays first-ever YouTube video and watch page

The clip, first posted to the video-sharing site in 2005, shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim talking about elephants. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Eileen Ng (ST)

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I'm crying my eyes out here 😂

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Mastodon Engagement Viewer 🔥

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Fossilized Goniatite shell, with it's internal flotation chambers, and their divisions, clearly displayed.
When alive these gas filled chambers enabled them to move up and down in the water column using similar physics to the submarines we have today.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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Famed #toothpaste maker #Colgate-Palmolive uses so-called “sustainable” #palmoil yet continue buying #deforestation and ecocide. Tell them you don’t want dirty palm oil and #BoycottPalmOIl 🦧😿🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…
Famed #toothpaste maker #Colgate-Palmolive uses so-called “sustainable” #palmoil yet continue buying #deforestation and ecocide. Tell them you don’t want dirty palm oil and #BoycottPalmOIl 🦧😿🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/colgate-palmolive/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Famed #toothpaste maker #Colgate-Palmolive uses so-called “sustainable” #palmoil yet continue buying #deforestation and ecocide. Tell them you don’t want dirty palm oil and #BoycottPalmOIl 🦧😿🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/09/colgate-palmolive/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Colgate-Palmolive

Despite global retail giant Colgate-Palmolive forming a coalition with other brands in 2020, virtue-signalling that they will stop all deforestation, they continue to do this – destroying rai…
Palm Oil Detectives
#palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #toothpaste #Colgate

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#News: #Indonesia leading the UN Human Rights Council? Activists call it a "mockery" while #WestPapua suffers military occupation. 🛑🕊️ With reports of torture, displacement. How can Jakarta lead on #humanrights? ✊🏾🏝️ #FreeWestPapua #UNHRC @palmoildetect.bsky.social
nit.com.au/19-01-2026/22149/oc…
#News #HumanRights #indonesia #westpapua #freewestpapua #unhrc

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Heading to SCALE 23x? Well, you should be.

This is the largest community-run #opensource conference in North America and it's happening in Pasadena, CA. SCALE is packed with talks, workshops, and everything #Linux.

Use code TUX for 40% off tickets! - socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

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#opensource #linux

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