ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I saw a rubber chicken in the middle of the street this morning.
We'll never know for sure why it tried to cross the road, but I bet it was for a laugh

As some of you may recall, I started offering mobile wallpaper as a win-win way to get something fun and support what I do in lieu of a Ko-Fi and all that. The first two haven't been runaway hits per se but there's been enough interest to think it's a fair idea to continue to add more options. ❤️

So I hope you might enjoy seeing the latest choice!

Etsy Link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MarkTisdaleArt

#ThankYou

#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #fungus #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

I believe in trans unity. Trans women and transfems have been almost universally kind to me, and I believe that we are natural allies with a lot in common. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transgender #trans #TransUnity

Tankies love to say shit like "yaoi will be banned under socialism" and then act all confused when other leftists don't like them.

Found a lost pair of socks that have been missing since the dawn of time. They were stuck in a cosmic wormhole behind the dryer.

Astronomer Williamina Fleming was born #OTD in 1857. She developed a system to classify stars according to their spectra; cataloged over 10k stars; and discovered numerous novae, nebulae, and variable stars.

Image: Harvard College Observatory

Sunny morning lakeside, Loweswater is another of our local spots.

Some nice spots to wander and the woods up to Holme Force waterfall are great, but can not walk along the shore completely due to landownership so you have to follow the road in places.

Still worth it for the bits you can walk along 😀

#photography #landscapephotography #thelakedistrict #loweswater #forest #mountains #landscape #lakeshore #lakedistrict #lake #spring #viltrox #fujifilm #sunshine

I love Mastodon and I haven't been on Twitter for months. But I feel like I'm not meeting new people here and frankly a bit bored. I want to discover new voices and see more opinions, which is hard when there are no suggested people to follow. Tips anyone?

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Did you know that a respirator helps with allergies?

If you wear your respirator when you are around pollen or pet dander, you most likely won't get your allergy symptoms.

Also, a properly worn respirator, like a N95 mask, prevents infection and spread of disease from all variants of the flu, as well as COVID-19.

Take care out there.

I just came up with a brilliant idea: ChatCEO.

All the buzzwords with the same amount of actual value, at a fraction of the cost!

Generation 1.d7129562 #aiart #art #ai

when the #train always stops in exactly the same place, the air conditioner always drips in exactly the same place, and a tiny #ecosystem is born <3

Goodnight pretty girls

Not only does the Science story fail to call them on this; its author falls into the one of the oldest and most pernicious traps around algorithmic bias.

The author contrasts the use of "automated methods" with reliance on "human prejudice", entirely overlooking the fact that the automated methods propose here are nothing but the explicit and fully-descirbed instantiation of human prejudice.

It's truly an embarrassment all around.

Intro post: I'm a professor of #Biology at the #UniversityOfWashington. My training is in #EvolutionaryBiology, #BehavioralEcology, #PopulationGenetics, and #Epidemiology. I did lots of work in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkTheory. I teach #DataLiteracy. These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the spread of #Misinformation, the #ScienceOfScience, and #PhilosophyOfScience. I do a lot of #BirdPhotography and love #ravens, #crows, and all #corvids.

For your trouble, here's a perfect crow.

Save the recipes you like that you found online because in a matter of months or weeks they will be drowned out by chat gpt generated recipes that looks plausible but don't work, and have taken up the first 20 pages of search results.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

Do I as an atheist, think there may be any chance I would ever go back to religion or become religious of any type?

My response, No, I don't see myself believing in non-reality beliefs supported by faith. I don't value faith. Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, so it doesn't mean one can't have other beliefs even religious or spiritual (whatever this loose term spiritual means). I am an atheist, antitheist, and antireligionist. So, I don't enjoy attending any religious services nor follow any religious-themed teaching but understand others who are atheists may. People should do as they feel works for them.