ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

Discovery: People also migrated FROM North America TO Siberia thousands of years ago. https://www.iflscience.com/previously-unknown-group-of-people-in-prehistoric-siberia-found-by-dna-67060

Dr. Doom migrates to Mastodon

@Deus @jeffjarvis @EvilKiru

I’m standing with the open web.

http://this.how/googleAndHttp

My comments re the announcement from @jeffjarvis of the CUNY scholarship to do Masto-Journalism..

http://scripting.com/2023/01/14.html#a143124

Here’s a shot of Tika and Mijo when they were just babies.

This was from their foster home before they came to live with me. They were found abandoned near a water tank, so their names were Agua and Tanque (this was in Mexico where I lived at the time).

Every day I am deeply #grateful for these two!

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Feline #Mexico

Here's a fun animal for you!

This is the patagonian mara. This weird, rabbit-like creature is the 12th largest rodent to ever live, and they're still alive today. They live in Argentina. They make warrens with several monogamous couples living inside. This species is near-threatened, with habitat loss, climate change, and poaching putting their numbers at risk.

They're very lanky and have long limbs with nearly hoof-like paws (four toes on each paw in front, three in back).

Sometimes, it takes a furniture guy.

Ben Bacon, a furniture conservator in London, has cracked the meaning behind 20,000-year-old cave drawing symbols. He realized the little dots and lines drawn around animals indicated lunar cycles. The symbols communicated when different animals reproduced. He and a group of experts published these findings in Cambridge University Press.

#BlueBandedBee on a #ZucchiniFlower

May your Sunday bring ✌!

#GardeningAU

Point Of Rocks Bridge in infrared.

#BridgesOfMastodon #InfraredPhotography #Photography

I used my "good"watercolor paper to paint a tree for my sister!
#watercolorpainting #watercolor #artistsofmastodon

Transverse Ladybirds (Coccinella transversalis) enjoying cooler morning temps in the alpine grasslands of the Brindabella Ranges behind Canberra, ACT. Billy Buttons and the rare/endangered Kelton's Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum keltonii ) providing the mid-summer flowering.

#Beetles #Insects #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Summer

It was raining heavily and there wasn't much light, but I do like this motion blur of a Tasmanian devil #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #Tasmania #Australia #TasmanianDevil #MotionBlur #marsupial

A pavement chalk artist who's great at body outlines is found cut into 2 inch cubes with a Lord of the Rings replica axe. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Wyvern’s middle-aged philosopher, confused that the sale of dogs online might threaten to reveal the name of Dr Who.

Spiral Aurora over Iceland https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230111.html #APOD

On here since 20 November and have seen people ask about intros. A
re-toot of mine. Or part of it.
Age: 58
Married: Twice
Divorced: Twice
Kids: Two boys and a girl (oldest son, Ryan, KIA in Iraq in 2006. He was 20).
Grandkids: Six
Current job: Reporter/news director
21 years in the Army Guard (public affairs), retiring in 2011. Deployed twice, to Iraq in 2004 and GTMO in 2008.
10 years of commercial radio experience in the 80s and 90s at three radio stations, one person news team at the third.

Hey, new folks. Did you introduce yourself? Fill out your profile, so we know something about you?
Why don't you like #cats?

#Caturday #Engagement