@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.

@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.

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Have we just gone back in time?

@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.

@Sheril I ran into this equal-area projection and I really like it: https://equal-earth.com/

@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

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

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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.

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If you find yourself in Indianapolis, visit his library!

@Sheril I would add "coding". Thx for the quote :)

#art #soul #grow

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Wow! Purple and green are gorgeous, together.

I love the way watching the skies brings communities together.

#NorthernLights

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

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

@Sheril Wow!

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The way you two look at each other is absolutely priceless!

@Sheril Barn Owl down under!

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

@Sheril Sagittarius Sepentarius

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

@Sheril your shag pillows have snouts!

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Such a cutie! Capricorn 🦄

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

@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?

@Sheril happy yalda

@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 @elisegravel @paul A great list.

Hello

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

@Sheril https://volutic.com/register.aspx?u=1284616 earn money but just click add on email and withdrawal any time.

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

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

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

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

@Sheril My guy loves the laptop too.

@Sheril Awwww, so cute!

@Sheril aw so cute! Budgies are the best

@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 Jim was ahead of his time.

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Wot a Muppet init!

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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!)

@Sheril @elisegravel this is so good!!

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

@Sheril your posts are always interesting, good to know jornalist are paying attention

@Sheril The Fediverse is most definitely improving and X is getting worse

@Sheril maybe you cam mention them so we can follow.

@Sheril The same lies here in #Germany. No windmills back in the 70ies, when I started with #birding as hobby. Three breeding pairs of #WhiteTailedEagle in the state of #SchleswigHolstein, where I lived. Now more than 120 pairs. The same with other large birds, #Osprey, #RedKite, #BlackKite, #Spoonbill, #WhiteStork, #GreyHeron well increasing. #GreatEgret and #LittleEgret as new breeding species. The same tendency in #Denmark. Lots of large windmills now, great birds increasing.

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When does "retaining captive consumer markets" become just slavery?

@Sheril Very interesting. I suspect the causes may differ by country - even so, I'm surprised changes in agriculture is not in the list here for the US as, here in the UK, it's by far the biggest reason. Perhaps, it's due to the sheer size of the US (unless they made a mistake).
Here, we got rid of hedgerows and killed all the insects off so there's no food other than in the towns and cities. I think it also explains why so many big birds like crows, magpies and pigeons have come into the city

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Nice. Very professional.

@Sheril the red zigzag line is telling me there's a typo in mastodon.social 🙃

@Sheril ☺️

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Hums Totoro theme to myself at 2:40am

@Sheril I'm smiling. So you did it right.

@Sheril @Gargron Perhaps my favourite film. We have a lovely plush version who serves as one of our own house spirits, watching over us from a corner of our living room. (We also have a Garuda statue and a Cthulhu idol — we’re quite ecumenical.)