@firstdogonthemoon We found a babby tawny frogmouth on our outdoor table one morning. It didn't seem to have fledged yet, so we took it to the vet and they got it to a native animal foster carer. It was later released back into the area. We like to think it's the one that perches on our rear fence at dusk sometimes.

The vet gave it a stick to perch on which yielded this photo which makes me happy to look at.

@pseudonym@mastodon.online @kainoa@calckey.social

Saw the update about more work on stability of back end. I will be patient. Once more, thanks for all the work.

@joewynne@mindly.social @RickiTarr@beige.party

And crochet. A number of punk geeks I know crochet, regardless of gender.

I don't care what your religion, race, sexuality, or gender is; I only care whether you're a decent human being or an asshole.

@hourlykitten@botsin.space Too much #coffee #cat

Source: https://flic.kr/p/YtLnBV
Credit: Mark van der Ree

As a bonus point, please don’t out your trans friends to people who don’t know they are trans. There is a significant safety risk that comes with being outed. That should be our decision to make if we feel safe. This includes if you don’t think your friend is passing. Not your call to make. Please give us a choice in this

Tumblr reminded me that Miss Piggy and Kermit meeting Luke Skywalker and Yoda on the set of Empire Strikes Back is a real thing that happened.

"Frank Oz who voiced Yoda, was also known as a puppeteer and actor who was responsible for the voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam and Animal in Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show. [...] One day, during a break in filming Oz and Henson, brought Kermit and Miss Piggy on set to meet Kershner, Skywalker and Yoda."

🔗 https://flashbak.com/when-kermit-met-yoda-the-muppets-on-set-of-the-empire-strikes-back-30342/

#StarWars #Muppets

If you see people on Mastodon talking about "spoons" in a way that doesn't seem to make sense, they are probably making a reference to "Spoon Theory," a great analogy for limited & unpredictable personal resources.

Here's the original Spoons essay that started it all, which is well worth a quick moment to read.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191117210039/https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

#Spoons #SpoonTheory #DisabilityMastodon #Etymology #LongCovid

NASA is launching a mission to say sorry to all the aliens.

They are calling it Apollo G.

@jjfphd @sendai Seriously one of the best lines in "Star Trek Beyond" was when "Sabotage" started playing and Doctor McCoy asks, "Is that classical music?" Spock: "Yes Doctor I believe it is."

Holy shit: Causal evidence that the Shingles vaccine prevents a significant fraction of Alzheimer's cases. So 1, vaccines are a god damned miracle get your ass vaccinated, and 2 the implication that Alzheimer's disease is a preventable byproduct of viral infection is tectonic.

https://www.metafilter.com/199451/Dont-miss-your-shingles-shots

So, how did life recover after the impact? If you sample the rocks right above the K-Pg impact layer, you can recreate the timeline of how plants recovered after the fires, the thick blanket of ash, the darkness, the acid rain, and the cold.

One group of plants held on in this harsh environment, as indicated by their abundance in the fossil record in the years, centuries, and even millennia after the impact event: FERNS.

Seniors are survivors. Just sayin’ 😄

“I am 83, in the McDonald's drive-through the young lady behind me honked, & was mouthing off ‘cause I was taking too long. At the 1st window I paid for her order. The cashier told her. As we moved she waved to me and mouthed "Thank you”, embarrassed that I repaid rudeness with kindness. At the 2nd window I showed both receipts and took her food too. Now she has to go back end & start over again.

Don’t honk at seniors. They’ve been around a long time.”

kainoakey

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9f701jlpvp

@tillianisafox@vulpine.club

"Don't copy that floppy!" And
"You wouldn't download a person, would you?"

any mf who honestly thinks that uploading your mind into a computer will let you live forever has never had to restore a file from 12 years ago in a format that doesn't exist anymore

@davidschlangen
The Chinese room experiment shows you can participate in a conversation without understanding that conversation.

The Thai Library experiment demonstrates that _humans _ cannot work out how to understand another language without outside help.

The Chinese room person might be able to derive some meanings from Chinese because they'd notice characters like ni hao and ni hao ma appearing at the start of sentences. That's because they're a person and have culture.

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.