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#cats are liquid

Meet Vim the cat

Otis just celebrated his first birthday. They grow up so fast 🐽😭

Here's a painting I did shortly after watching the Obiwan Kenobi series from this year.
#myart #StarWars #DigitalArt #painting

There seems to be some confusion about our NFT rule so let me once again clarify:

NFT content is not allowed on .art

Selling your NFTs is not allowed on .art

Advertising your NFTs is not allowed on .art

Posting pictures connected to your NFTs is not allowed on .art

If you do any of these things your account will be suspended

It's one of the rules you agreed to on joining

No I'm not changing the rules for you

This post is not an invitation for you to try to change my mind

I also like dad (bad) jokes.

Dad joke of the day:

What happened to the man who stole the punctuation keys from the judge's keyboard?

He got a long sentence.
Happy Thursday!

Just rocks in a late Martian afternoon.

Processed MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1096, Sol: 606
LMST: 16:09:22
UTC: 2022-11-03T12:50:16
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Well butter my a$$ and call me a crumpet because MY NATURE ASTRONOMY PAPER THAT I SUBMITTED IN JANUARY JUST GOT ACCEPTED!

It was a long journey of major revisions. First I had NO IDEA how the nature process works and I didn't provide supplementary info in the first submission (BAD BAD don't do that). Second: referee 3 just HATES our code.

But that's it. Just Editorial revisions to make but that's it. 🫠🫠🫠 I did it.

#Astrodon

While my #astrophotography is mostly at night, sometimes I dabble with the Sun too. Last winter I took this pic of two storks contemplating the sunset in my hometown, Don Benito (Spain). It took quite a lot of planning with Photopills to get the alignment right, and several failed attempts due to uncooperative weather and storks 😂 But when I finally got the shot it was very rewarding!

Taken with a Canon 6D + Tamron 100-400 at 400 mm.

Something that has bothered me in this whole social media meta switch up, and this time it goes for both mastodon and cohost, is the idea of "no algorithms" getting applied too broadly

We would be better off not diluting the word "algorithm" to mean "manipulative tactics via computers" which is what it is being used as a lot these days

And not every attempt to use computers to recommend you things is a tool of evil. For instance I really like that Tidal will generate me playlists of songs I haven't heard based on songs I like. That's a helpful algorithm I enjoy that and it isn't pushing me to be a worse person. Search engines also shouldn't just give you results in a random order, you need an algorithm that will give you relevant results (not that search engines right now do this well, they're basically all in a state of Bad Algorithms at the moment, but you wouldn't want a search engine that doesn't do SOME kind of prioritization)

I just want to see more conversations about the way these platforms can be manipulative without just yelling ALGORITHM BAD

Another note for people ...

Yes, there will be accounts here in which you have no personal interest, and which never post anything interesting *to you*.

You can block them, or mute them, and then you won't be troubled by them.

If they are abusing, or otherwise don't abide by our code of conduct, then report them and we will investigate.

But if it's simply something you'd rather not see, just mute it.

a weird vibe to some of the people being all snobby about Fediverse Etiquette

Despite being on my own tiny little instance, I feel very connected.

please for the love of god stop putting a support chat pop-up on every single page of your sites