@Sheril https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/110125006032965847

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So much of my high school experience makes sense now!

@Sheril The Blue Check was always a terrible feature. I explain why here: https://blog.atomicpoet.org/YdJMHV8ASc2E_loByi0vRQ#

@Sheril Sounds like an episode of Tales of the Unexpected from the early 80s. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717507/

@Sheril You know what else makes the same sounds? Rivers, rain, and waves: literally anywhere that air bubbles form in water and collapse.

If you want more clickbait, however, then you may rightly claim that stressing a river by trying to divert the water, causes it to make *more* sounds. Which must be significant, right? 🙄

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I was very sceptical about the interpretation of this report.

This is a physical response to dehydration manifesting as popping air bubbles.

A 'cry' can only be considered as such if other plants have a mechanism to receive it and act on it. AFAIK plants do not have any audio receptors.

My knees crack when I stand up. Is that a cry?

@Sheril Wow, I didn’t know that, thanks for sharing. I think there are so many lovely names of Penguin that I’ve heard from decades of Attenborougj shows; Mega-Penguin feels a bit on the lazy-side, more like a brand extension than a suitable name. They could have at least named it after a famous mythological giant.

@Sheril why do awesome creatures always go extinct😭

@Sheril "Meguin" surely?

@Sheril this was spotted elsewhere on social media:

@Sheril ditto!

@Sheril
🧙 :ablobcatrave: Yea, BOOKS!!!

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I'm just going to put #ChatGPT and #ChatGPTSearches against this because this is the future of searching things on the Web with the confident BS generator machine.

@Sheril screaming...hahaha....

@Sheril

"i will cook & eat the next person who calls me shy, i am the next-gen T. Rex...:"

PS-- great photo!!!

@Sheril We saw one in a creek bed in Northern Queensland near Daintree. Major life highlight.

@Sheril I'll never forget seeing a chick once in The Daintree. It looked like a giant duckling with dinosaur feet 🐤

@Sheril Oh dear; how true.

@Sheril
Experts aren't the only ones gifted with critical thinking and the ability to research and form logical conclusions. Such over-confidence is close to arrogance.
“Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.” ― John Wolfgang Goethe

@Sheril story of my life

@Sheril anyone know why I get toots as a notification? This came in like that. #notifications

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Brewing and the sale of beer pre-dated the invention of signs and flags. Brewsters sold their excess beer, but it would go bad quickly, so it wasn’t always available. Simply posting a stick or post outside, or attached above the door, was a way of saying you had something “for sale” right now. Decorating the stick was a way of showing what you had for sale, and in some regions, a bundle of barley stalks tied to the pole meant you had beer available. It resembled a broom.

hmmmm….

@Sheril love this Sheril - do you mind if I share it on Twitter etc?

@Sheril I am a scientist and, yes, ignorant arrogance does dominate our constructed society’ behavior. The resistance I’ve seen firsthand toward simple constructive dialogue is a consistent source of bitter disgust for me.

@Sheril Thank you for sharing this. It made me watch the video, then read Sagan‘s Wikipedia page, from there on to some awe inspiring Voyager photos and finally to this beautiful Planetary Radio podcast episode with his partner: https://overcast.fm/+vWjKW0pgg
#CarlSagan #science

@Sheril Fact Check: ✅

@Sheril that's amazing—I was wondering about this distribution just the other day. Like, assuming life's better now than before people could talk and reliably harvest food, are we lucky to born at this time instead of in the time before agriculture or language? Looking at this, people before agriculture were just super unlucky: the chance to be born today (or in a wealthier, more comfortable future) seems to be much higher.

@Sheril DEEP

@Sheril curious about the origins of this visual model!
A similar one is used in this animation: http://www.fallen.io/shadow-peace/1/
which I wrote about here: https://jonathangray.org/2020/05/06/the-data-epic/

Spare a thought for the Australian comedians from @chaser who where playing music chairs with their name when the music stopped on this gem:

@Sheril 😃 Just relax and forget Twitter. I’m also totally new here on Mastodon and I have to say it looks good and every day I get more familiar with it. It takes some time like all new things in life but I like/appreciate #mastodon every day more and more 😊

@Sheril From what I've heard, verification went as well as all its critics expected and said it would, and so that's probably Twitter's way of dealing with the inevitable and very much pointed-out problems. But yeah if your Mastodon name is now your Twitter name that just means more people over here, so win.

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It is absolutely better if you're on the main servers (or ones with good moderation policies), but we have to work to keep it good here too. Welcome and hope it's comfy here for you x

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I hope it continues this way for you.
For me, where I live, I would never think religion or ethnicity from your name, maybe German. And that it sounded nice (Cherrybranch)

@Sheril Uhg, a day after Elon's takeover "National Justice Party" and "No White Guilt" folks just started crawling out of the woodwork. They weren't flaunting their usual dogwhistles either -- their posts were full on fasc. (twitter did end up suspending most of the accounts I reported, but it did take a bit longer than normal)

@Sheril Some years ago I watched a documentary about how the goverment of West Germany went to the Soviet Union to negotiate about the last german WWII soldiers in soviet captivity. There was a story about one frustrated german politician who ran out of the room and said "The negotiations are canceled!". That wasn't published in the news back then because he went back very quickly, but I don't want to think about how this would play out in today's world.

@Sheril Democracy is not something provided by big corporations. It resembels more a comunity open source project.

@Sheril truth has been spoken!

Been trying to figure out how to best engage with news content here. Learning to use CW feature more.

@Sheril i have the seem feeling. It is a “calmer”, “humane”, place. The outrage tweets are not amplified. I love this place and keep finding very interesting people to follow

#fediverse #hopeinhumanity #twitterexodus

@Sheril I had this as my pinned tweet for awhile:
https://twitter.com/mathiastck/status/1586104375906222081

Commenting on how initial #UserBase can have a dramatic impact on the experience on a #socialNetwork, but that it is also very hard to predict future trends.

I think #Twitter normalized anonymous harassment. I haven't encountered it on Mastodon yet but I don't think Mastodon would be immune if it became a large target.

@Sheril this has been my experience too. Really enjoying it so far.

@Sheril In fact, we are the tardigrades of the social networks. :troll:

@Sheril fair comment.

If you host your own server you can make custom emojis though.

There's nothing I can't express with these...

:808: :arp: :boe: :C__: :cr78: :flwr: :_k: :mpc: :ns10: :pcx1: :simon: :sm58: :sn: :sp1200: :tny: :u67: :verified:

@Sheril Come for the relinquishing of private tech interfering in social affairs; stay for the tardigrades.