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#photography #nature #trees #winter

Scene depicting an evergreen forest fading into the distance.

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Photo of a cedar waxwing perched imperiously on a crabapple branch, sprays of red stems and tiny red berries like flashing neurons all around em. The waxwing is, as they all are, beautifully smooth and tawny with a buttery sheen to eir lower breast. This one is stretched tall and elongated, eir tail with its striking dip of bright yellow pointing straight below em and eir face turned right towards us. Eir wide, though small, black bill looks as though it is frowning with thought and the black-masked eyes and bright eye lines give em a furrowed, Muppet-y seriousness and intensity--e is basically a beautiful and petite Sam the Eagle expressing distaste for whatever I represent on the other end of the camera.

#silentSunday #photography #nature #snow

A seed head of teasel with an accumulation of snow on its uppermost parts. The background is of a blurry forested area with some evidence of weeds in snow showing in the closer areas.

Pepper in a playful mode.
#photography #caturday

A white cat laying on a grey floor looking to attack a plaything.

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Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map

A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion.

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It is so fucking cold right now that all of my genderfluid friends are turning gendersolid and adhering to surfaces.

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żołna / European bee-eater / Merops apiaster
#ptaki #birds #birdwatching #nature #omsystem

#photography #winter #snow

Photograph of two young people and a red plastic sliding sheet taking a tumble while sliding down a snow covered hillside. There is a black chain-link fence in the background with the trunk and a few branches of an evergreen tree also visible.

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Here is 2025 in a nutshell

A screenshot of a tweet by Rev. Nenê PhD (@NeneHilarious). It reads: “You may be deciding between insulin and groceries while the CEOs decide between Paris or Barcelona, but at least that one trans girl in your state can’t play badminton anymore,” followed by a thumbs-up emoji.

#photography #winter #boats
Waiting for spring

Three boats in their cradles overwintering in the pound. Two of the boats are primarily blue at the bottom with white upper parts showing, the third is purple at the keel, with a red stripe then dark blue above. The boats are wrapped in a plastic cover to keep the elements at bay over the winter.

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I have been fighting with Enercare for 6 months to cancel a gas hot water heater rental agreement that was signed by the previous owners. It's 17 years old and based on the monthly cost those owners paid close to $8,000. Yikes.
Long convoluted story but the administration and followup of this company is unbelievably horrible.

Anyway, what's your opinion?

#photography #nature #flowers #colour
Chicory

Blue Chicory flower taken from the side. The background shows a bridge railing with another flower showing against a diffuse background of greens and browns.

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This year, skip the generic. Seek out the unique, the handmade, the weird and wonderful. Buy a comic book, a print, a piece of art that speaks to you. Give something with soul.

A cartoon illustration showing a witch dressed as Santa Claus holding a mug and standing next to a black cat dressed as a reindeer and the Grim Reaper decorated with Christmas lights, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background. The text reads "Give Art. Not Stuff."

A cartoon showing a small orange bird or creature perched on top of a Christmas tree with neutral expression. The tree has a simple face drawn on it. Text above reads: "Christmas is the season of stuff: cheap, forgettable things churned out in mass-production and destined for landfills. But what if, instead, we gave something that actually matters?"

The same Christmas tree character from the previous image, now shown with an angry expression and a speech bubble saying "He shat on my head again, didn't he?" The small orange bird flies away. Text reads: "Art isn't mass-produced. It doesn't come from Amazon or big-box stores. It comes from real people: artists who pour their hearts into what they create, who stay up late perfecting their craft. When you buy art, you're not just buying a thing. You're supporting someone's passion, not funding some soulless billionaire who can't even appreciate a good bowl of soup."

A cartoon showing a black cat sitting on top of a robot character, getting hit in the face with a snowball thrown by a dog in the distance. The word "BOOOF" appears in stylized text near the impact. A crescent moon is visible in the upper left corner. Text above reads: "And not only that. People who are getting art as presents, are scientifically proven 300% more happy with the gift!"

#photography #nature #flowers
Campanula or Meadowbell

Two blue blowers in an indistinct background of yellow and green grasses.

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Dear OSS community on Mastodon,

Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:

“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"

or

“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”

or

“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”

… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.

Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?

So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.

Tell us what your software does.
Tell us why this release is cool.
Tell us what it requires to work.

Example:

We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.

Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.

Yours truly,

Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements

#photography #nature #mosstodon #juniper #rock
Juniper growing along with mosses on a limestone Alvar pavement.

A green stunted juniper bush, grasses, and moss growing among the cracks on a limestone alvar pavement. The stone is grey, the moss a black/green colour.

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I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake news campaign out there right now! I'm guessing it's a state level actor. Be cautious and double-check anything that sounds too good to be true or too outrageous to ignore!

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Was refilling spice jars. Mostly went okay.

Don't ask.

#spices

Three spice jars are shown, one is marked cinnamon, one marked paprika, the third is marked "cinaprika."

#photography #nature #birdphotography #silentSunday

A pair of adult sandhill cranes with their chick standing in maize stubble. The background is diffuse showing the lower parts of aspen poplar trunks and other vegetation.

#photography #autumn #colour
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