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Sheril Kirshenbaum

“If more of us valued food & cheer & song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins hobbit home from the original The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit films.
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Rupert 🇪🇺🏴‍☠️😾🔭📷🍺🍪🌍🔥

@Sheril love this, the only ones (a long way) further to the right are astronomers, perhaps cosmologists 😸

David Schuetz

@Sheril I was at a college tour with the kids yesterday, and a professor at the physics table commented that he felt math was given too much importance in physics. And I immediately thought of this comic.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.

Source: instagram.com/monero_chelo/rel #art #socialmedia

Various characters sharing photos from their lives on the Internet. Each person shares something that the next feels is missing for them. It goes full circle where the last person is missing.

Source: monero_chelo | IG
https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en
Sheril Kirshenbaum

Yes, our phones are ‘listening’ to what we say.

“In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention”

futurism.com/the-byte/facebook #tech #AI

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@Sheril should see what their developers do as jokes. It is as intense as are the lack of procedure to address it when you report to Apple someone was already generating bots off the data as of 2020.

Ben Taylor

@Sheril Google smart speakers also do this. I have twice had Google services present me with information for things that were talked about in front of the speaker but never searched for, in one case by someone else without my phone present. Google denied it, even after I sicced the UK Information Commissioner on them, but it's the only possible explanation.

da

@Sheril
Have we just gone back in time?

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Africa is bigger than China, the US, Eastern Europe & India combined.

Since Earth is a sphere, flat maps dramatically distort the size of continents.

Source: Bryan Christie & Kai Krause for Scientific American #SharedPlanet #science

A map of continents where India China, the US and others are laying over an outline of Africa.
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Baron Woke of Carlsberg

@Sheril I am such a dumbass. It took me too long to notice that the countries had been overlayed on Africa. I've literally spent 30 seconds looking for Africa for comparison.

One World One People

@Sheril TWW: The size or speed you observe is based on your perspective and that is the only thing you can change. *When I was young…. So it always begins but in case it’s yesteryear as today…. I loved globes because they are 3d maps. Today as multi projection becomes the norm that map on your phone will pop out into a view where relative size, depth and distance will be an actual representation. Technology is part of the modern human condition to be shared for Peace. OWOP

TJ

@Sheril Thats a Bristlecone pine right? I was going to boost the pic, but I'm not sure it's alive.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, in his letter to students at New York's Xavier High School in 2006 #art

Kurt Vonnegut
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Juggling With Eggs

@Sheril

Whenever I’m feeling down or scared by the world, I look to Vonnegut for words that are if not comforting at least insightful…and I come away most of the time with a grin and my field of view expanded.

Mycotropic

@Sheril

If you find yourself in Indianapolis, visit his library!

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Melody Wainscott

@Sheril

Wow! Purple and green are gorgeous, together.

I love the way watching the skies brings communities together.

#NorthernLights

Randall Lee

@Sheril 😳 amazing light show. We have nothing in northern Ohio

Larry Smith

@Sheril
No such luck from New Mexico. Maybe if I drove out of town for a few miles.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

I see we’re sharing #SuperbOwl photos on Mastodon tonight. Alrighty then!

I met this gorgeous barn owl last year.

Me holding a beautiful barn owl. Photo: Sheril Kirshenbaum
Sheril Kirshenbaum

Do you have a favorite species?

Mine is currently the wombat.

A wombat grazing. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania Australia

Photo: Sheril Kirshenbaum
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PandaChronicle Resists

@Sheril
It would be very hard NOT to love wombats! Cube poops! Iron butts! And that face! What’s not to love?

lokakuu

@Sheril A lot of good ones mentioned already, mine is (besides cats) musk ox.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Born in 1794, pioneering marine biologist Jeannette Villepreux-Power collected specimens from local fisherman in Sicily for study. She built a natural history collection & was especially interested in cephalopods like octopus & squid 🐙.

Villepreux-Power invented the modern aquarium was one of the first people to observe living cephalopods & their behaviors.

Unfortunately, much of her work & collections were lost in a shipwreck in 1843. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne #HistoryRemix #science #history

Born in 1794, pioneering marine biologist Jeannette Villepreux-Power collected specimens from local fisherman in Sicily for study. She built a natural history collection & was especially interested in cephalopods like octopus & squid 🐙.

Villepreux-Power invented the modern aquarium was one of the first people to observe living cephalopods & their behaviors.

Jeannette Villepreux-Power
Sheril Kirshenbaum

Kiwi’s wild budgie cousins live >10K miles away, so we improvise. #birds

English budgie chirping with parakeets via YouTube.
Nick Selby :donor:

@Sheril DO they really chat? My cats are monumentally unimpressed when I speak to them over Zoom

Colin Burgess

@Sheril as a New Zealand born and raised ex budgie owner, this brought just so many feelings…

First - naming an Australian bird Kiwi is just such a beautiful chirp at the Ozzies (I love my cousins in Melbourne but I also love taunting them)

Next - Budgies are gorgeous, fun, insane little birds who will talk to a reflection in the mirror. I can just imagine the craziness of a zoom call.

Lastly - how do you keep the bird shit out of your keyboard?

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Jamie Mason

@Sheril @elisegravel

Love this! I wish we didn't have to write how-to's to treat people with respect, but I suppose that is the way of the world anymore..

Jamie

Sheril Kirshenbaum

I’ve now been on #Mastodon for one year & it’s a nice online neighborhood to be a part of.

I’m glad you’re here too.

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Lexy Cameron

@Sheril

I'm a few days shy of my one year anniversary here too. I agree, it's a terrific community.

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@Sheril volutic.com/register.aspx?u=12 earn money but just click add on email and withdrawal any time.

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@Sheril I've been on mastodon for 1 min. Thank you for the kind welcome.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

Just a reminder that we don’t have to argue with people on the Internet when they’re wrong.

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@Sheril Personally, I just don't feel the need to be 'right' all the time. (and quite often I am wrong anyway :) )

bytebro

@Sheril "Don't feed the trolls" came from the 1990s or possibly before!

bignose

@Sheril can I still argue with them when *I'm* wrong?

Sheril Kirshenbaum

“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative & cynical & predict doom for the world than it is to try & figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter."

- Jim Henson

Jim Henson surrounded by many of The Muppets, including Kermit the frog & many others.
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@Sheril Ahem. I bought two packs of the Lego minifigurine Muppet sets. I got two Rowlfs. I got zero Fozzie the mofo Bears. I'm out $85. I can't even tell you how disappoint I am. The Muppets can send me a Studebaker instead as I am, in fact, a mambear in my natural habitat.
I'll find Fozzie on Ebay, surely.
But also, we are all, in fact, weirdos.

Sheril Kirshenbaum

I adore this comic by @elisegravel.

“So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!” #science #art #education

Seven panel comic “Scientists Are People Too” by Elise Gravel.

Panels 1-6 describe that there are many kinds of scientists and they ask questions , make mistakes, need help, do ordinary things & weren’t always the best students.

Panel 7 explains all scientists are curious & like to learn about the world around them. “So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!”
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@Sheril @elisegravel
That' why they shouldn't be believed slavishly every time. (Oppenheimer thought it would be OK to drop the bomb on Hiroshima - then nobody would ever use it again!)

johnnysilverhand

@Sheril @elisegravel I like that comic. I'm a scientist and everything is true for me. 🙂

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