Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.
“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/
This is a portrait by an artist and poet called Radical Rhymes. The portrait is of my beloved cat, Whiskers, who passed away. I will always love him and I miss him. All my rescue cats are like my kids. I hope all you #cat lovers enjoy the portrait.
Some old maps digitized by the Library of Congress in 2022: https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2023/01/a-year-in-review-newly-scanned-maps-of-2022/?loclr=twmap
@GottaLaff @Lowie@universeodon.com Thanks for taking out the time to live post the whole thing!
When I worked at #ICANN years ago there were these great pictures of early networking and Internet typologies on the wall at the main office.
You could no longer get them from the publisher, so I took pictures! Here they are in the order referred to in the final two pictures [1/2]:
@Lowie@universeodon.com @GottaLaff Do they go back to the members that didn’t vote (like Donalds according to the NYT)?
Me: You do understand what an Emergency Power Off is for, correct?
Them: But it could damage my system.
Me: If this button is getting pressed, your system is already gone from either fire or the sprinklers going off. This is so someone can save *YOU* in an *EMERGENCY*.
Them: [shakes head in confusion] But my laser...
Me: IS LIKELY THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE
@jeffjarvis @Jbat Willingness to ask stupid questions is my superpower. It got me through four years of college with just an eighth-grade education. It took me from wondering "Why do we say, 'This is she' instead of 'This is her'?" to penning five books on grammar and writing craft.
Update on the condition of #DamarHamlin.
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RT @BuffaloBills
Father, Fiancé, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem