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As my #selfhosted #Mastodon instance is more needy than my #GoldenRetriever #puppy (picture for shameless follower-scoring attached), I am trying #GoToSocial now. Currently mainly on @choyer but may move to here once #GtS fully supports hashtags, hoping that my vserver can handle GtS’s ram and storage needs a little better. #dog #dogs #dogsoffediverse #fediverse #followfriday

Golden Retriever puppy sitting in a flower pot looking into the cam with dirt on her nose.

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The two have posed beautifully for me
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#iceland #sheep

Two sheep, a black and a white, standing head to head.

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Forgot to share this here, but 6 August is the anniversary of the discover of #Pulsars by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

She was looking through the roll of data from the telescope she helped build and noticed a little bit of ‘scruff’.

Her discovery changed our understanding of the Universe but sadly her male supervisor took credit and got the Nobel prize for it!

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #SpaceAustralia

Cartoon image of a woman wearing glasses and staring out into space. The caption reads: Pulsars we’re discovered by then phd student Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967

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My niche is between angry politics, inspiring calendar mottos, and touchy-feely kumbaya. It‘s a very small space here in the Fediverse.

#fediverse #politics #kumbaya #mastodon #shitpost #philosophy

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Just a reminder that registrations for Elsica.Social are now open: Elsica is your cosy home in the fediverse with a mild thematic focus on #botany, #nature, #wildlife, #horticulture, #bio and #earth #sciences, nature #photography, #exploring and #travel. If you know Latin names of random #plants, get up at 3 a.m. to walk into remote valleys to take #landscape #photos, spend all day in your #garden, like reading #science books or watching the latest #documentary about the #birds of Patagonia, you will feel at home here.

Come and join our friendly community: elsica.social/register

Please kindly share, boost and spread the word.

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Carl Ritter was born #OTD in 1779.

Carl Ritter's 19 part (21 volume) masterwork, "Erdkunde im Verhältnis zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen" (Geography in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), is one of the most extensive works of geographical literature written by a single author.

Ritter unfolded and established the treatment of geography as a study and a science. His treatment was endorsed and adopted by all geographers. via @wikipedia

#books #geography

Carl Ritter (German geographer), lithograph after a photograph by Rudolf Hoffmann, 1857.

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As the song on the radio played, Arnold couldn’t help but wonder if this poor Taylor Swift girl would ever find true happiness. He made a mental note to send her one of his tennis balls when he got home.

Golden Retriever with a wistful look rests its head next to a rain-streaked car window.

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I wasn’t well enough to take photos this week, but here are four from earlier in the summer, #Dartmoor #Devon. #photography
Footpath near Peter Tavy
View from Combestone tor
Beeches near Burrator
Sheep near Cox tor.

A pastoral view of fields and moorland behind .

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Pollinator party
#photography #butterfly #bees #naturephotography #wildflowers

Butterfly on purple wildflower. Dark wings with brightly colored spots, black and yellow spotted body

Butterfly on purple wildflower. Yellow-green wings with black stripes

Bee touching down on purple wildflower. Wings are a blur of motion but body and legs are sharp

Butterfly in tall grass, with black and white spotted body, wings with panes of multiple colors, black and white dotted borders.

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Tree of a Kind.

I like trees. And moss. Not that keen on rain, but without it we wouldn't have the other two.

#Mosstodon #Moss #Photo #Photography#Treesday #Tree #Mistodon

a photographic study of moss covered tree limbs. The shot is green, very green.

a photograph of the lack of a view. Looking out through leafy tree limbs branching out into the misty beyond. The shot is green and grey.

a photographic study of a moss covered tree limb branching out into the mists beyond. The shot is green, very green.

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I had no idea that there were hairy snails, but here is a German hairy snail, and it lives in the Thames in London (having arrived during the last Ice Age when the UK and the rest of the European continent were connected by land).

For any Londoners out there, this book is great - a lovely exploration of the nature that exists in the city and where to find it: https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/news/announcing-our-new-book-london-wild-exploring-nature-city

#London #wildlife #Thames

Picture of a hairy snail on a life, and the cover of the book London in the Wild

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File: BubbleBobble1.ay
Misc: (c) Firebird 1988
Author: Tim Follin
Tracks: 7
1 - Bubble Bobble (intro / in-game)
2 - Bubble Bobble (in-game - Hurry!)
3 - Bubble Bobble (bonus)
4 - Bubble Bobble (end of game - Guardian)
5 - Bubble Bobble (game over)
6 - Bubble Bobble (SFX)
7 - Bubble Bobble (SFX)
#ZXSpectrum
#chiptune

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Ich beschäftige mich mit Mietangelegenheiten meiner Tochter und es beruhigt und beunruhigt mich zugleich, dass die meisten Provinzanwälte noch nicht mal fähig sind, rechtssicher unwissende Laien abzuzocken. Drafting Desasters allenthalben.

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@choyer Poor Baby, the mudgnomes attacked her!

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What an incredible human being. Via James Hawkins on the bird app. 🥺❤️ #SineadO’Connor

I was greatly saddened by the death of Sinéad O'Connor. She was a very different person behind her fame. In 1991, my 20-y.o. daughter, Louise, was suffering from terminal cancer, when she received a phone call from Sinéad out of the blue. Sinead had heard of Louise's illness from some source, probably the press as we were raising funds for our local hospice. My daughter was a great admirer of her & loved her music. During this long call, Sinéad invited my daughter to travel to London to spend some time with her. Needless to say, Louise was thrilled. A few days later she met Louise at Euston station & Louise had the best week of her short life. They dined, they drank, they danced, but most of all they laughed irreverently. Sinéad was at the height of her fame at this time & found it highly amusing that when they were out people were asking for Louise's autograph. Louise returned home exhausted & happier than I had seen her since her devastating cancer diagnosis. It didn't stop there: this lovely, compassionate woman always stayed in touch. She sent Louise wine & flowers & letters right up until her death in 1992. On Louise's last visit to London, Sinéad gave her her platinum disc for her song Nothing Compares 2 U & dedicated her Christmas record Silent Night to her. During all this time, Sinéad never sought any publicity for these acts of love & compassion. Today my thoughts are with 2 remarkable women who, I have no doubt, will be somewhere still laughing, dancing & singing.

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Bei INSA Umfragen hat die AfD oft Spitzenwerte.
1. Könnte es daran liegen, dass der INSA Chef seit Jahren die AfD berät?
2. Kann es sein, dass konstant höhere Werte für eine Partei auch die reale Stimmung beeinflussen?🤔Also Wahlkampfhilfe hintenrum?
3. Wäre das eigentlich legal?

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A new 500 million year old #sea #jelly 🪼 #fossil, and the first sea jelly from the #Burgess #Shale.

The researchers named it Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. The species name means “ghostly form” because they thought it looks like the ghosts from #Pac-#Man.

There is some dispute, but this may be the oldest known sea jelly, and is important to our understanding of the #evolution of #animals.

Explainer 🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jellyfish-fossil-1.6924274

OA 🔗 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2490

Heading from figure in the explainer link: “An artistic reconstruction shows a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming 505 million years ago in the Cambrian sea, where it was believed to be one of the largest predators. (Christian McCall)”

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@choyer that there is a professional mud inspector!

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Damit wir am Ende wirklich Teil des von uns verursachten sechsten Massenaussterbens der Erdgeschichte infolge der Klimaerwärmung werden, müssen wir zuerst noch verhindern, dass wir nicht vorher schon in unserem Plastikmüll ersticken. Zumindest das könnte gelingen, da mittlerweile Enzyme gezüchtet werden, die das Zeug fressen. Sie mögen aber nur bestimmte Plastiksorten, also müssen noch weitere gefunden werden, bis es für alle Plastiksorten welche gibt.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/muell-recycling-plastik-enzyme-leipzig-100.html

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Ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf die 1,5-Grad-Welt.

Auf Wetter, für das unsere Infrastruktur nicht gemacht ist.

Schweres Gewitter über Reutlingen: Straßen und Keller in der Innenstadt überflutet
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/starkregen-hagel-reutlingen-wetter-schaeden-100.html

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