George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

“Talk to the fin”.

Photograph by Jennifer Hadley

TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

As I have just migrated servers maybe I need to post another photo today just so my time line doesn't look so sad.
This image was taken in Fortuna Bay, South Georgia. The juvenile king penguins are very inquisitive and so anything new that appears needs to be investigated. In this case one of the other photographers had left his camera and that was all they needed to come up and have a look. Maybe they saw themselves in the lens.

#photography #SouthGeorgia #KingPenguin #GroupPhoto #travel

Ginny says hi! She is also wondering if you really want whatever it is you’re eating. She’ll help. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

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Mrs. Peel demonstrates the "Flying SuperCat" pose, just one of the many challenging stretches in her yogic catesthetic repertoire.

#Caturday #CatNip #CatsOfMastodon #Photography

Holy wow! This new infrared image of Jupiter’s moon Io from the Juno spacecraft shows volcanoes, lava flows and lava lakes glowing with heat radiation!

How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete? The Mystery Finally Solved

https://www.openculture.com/2017/07/how-did-the-romans-make-concrete-that-lasts-longer-than-modern-concrete-the-mystery-finally-solved.html

I washed a man in Reno just to watch him dry.

A Polar bear snoozing in a field of flower in the summer Arctic.

When we think of Polar bears, we usually imagine them on a vast blanket of whitish snow. This rather unusual scene was encountered by photographer Martin Gregus Jr. when he set out on a long journey to uncover the secret of polar bears during the summers.

Surround yourself with people who realize no one has all the answers.

I don't care about a war on Christmas but I could totally get behind a war on Christmas music

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

- Maya Angelou