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@_lunawinters More info on my gang.
I read this article first, before taking the test, and felt very attracted to her type. Cool gal. Love the glasses too ❤️

introvertdear.com/news/female-

introvertdear.com/news/intj-pe

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@_lunawinters Redid this test, took my time to try to get best possible answers. And the result is in.

INTJ, and it seems right. 😉 😄

from personalityhacker.com/

Video even. youtu.be/gzDAaK1WeB4

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When you know the driver ahead is really. into. Gaming.

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You may not know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pomological Watercolor Collection is a digitized archive of 7.5K botanical illustrations. -- usdawatercolors.nal.usda.gov/p

And there's a Fediverse bot which posts one of these images every three hours. -- see fruit toots
@pomological

The high quality of this scientific illustration is noteworthy. You can see for yourself below.

The skill of the artist who painted a cross-section of a strawberry caught my eye -- maybe you'll be interested, too.

The fine detail in the thorns on the stem of the watercolor of a raspberry vine caused me to take a second look -- and only then did I notice the fine hairs on the raspberry leaves.

There are 3.8K watercolors of apples. Like me, maybe you're not really interested in the subject of apple varieties; but maybe there's another good reason to take advantage of this bot option.

HYPOTHESIS: Can I train my eyes to be more observant by simply looking at thousands of watercolors of apple skins?

THEORY: Each USDA artist used only skill and color to fool the eye into perceiving a curved surface instead of a flat plane. What would happen if I try in a casual way to figure out how this happens? Without really working at it, I'd guess that I'll probably get better at "seeing" subtle color variations in the apple skins. And over time, maybe this repeated practice will produce consequences in what I'm able to observe in the real world.

Just a thought. What do you think?

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little panthers are awesome.
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You've showered? Where do you think you're going?
twitter.com/CatDisapproval/sta

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains" 

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?

What the Internet is doing to our brains"

An important read. Take your time, turn off distractions - and work thru it. Worth it! RG

"I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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@peterdrake mentioned and is a huge cause! Support true democracy. Popular Vote should elect a president.
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“As almost any thinking person would attest, ignoring millions of voters across 38 states is bad for democracy and bad for America. But that is exactly what’s happening.”

insidesources.com/heres-why-re
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Volunteer Translation opportunity - a new Guide for new Users, translation help for French and Spanish needed. @esperera_98 ? 😉👍
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Hi everyone! We are working on a Guide to Mastodon for new users released with a CC4.0 license:

https://rame.altervist@esperera_98@twitter.activitypub.actortart

Many people asked us for translations but web need some help with french and …
twitter.com/Ca_Gi/status/12022

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** Help keep the World's Encyclopedia alive and well. **

For many millions of people, it is their major source of reference, curated information. Any small donation helps.

I do use Wikipedia daily, and value its services; just renewed my yearly donation to help keep it running. :thumbsup_hmn_h2:

Donations accepted here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.p

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To show friends still not here, or newly arrived users. (video, 6 min)

"Mastodon & Fediverse: Explained"

peertube.social/videos/watch/d

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I've been thinking a lot recently about onezero.medium.com/the-dark-fo . I think part of the reason I got tired of birdsite was the constant feeling of combativeness, of vulnerability, of being under siege. When you have a lot of followers you can get a lot of attention, which is rewarding, but also people feel the need to debate and refute you all the time. It's exhausting. I prefer quieter spaces now (like Mastodon).

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Mom joins Mastodon...

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New MS Edge browser in open Beta, Download links 

Installed the Beta version. It installs on a new folder, does NOT overwrite MS Edge current version (which is a nice browser, imo).

Shows on desktop and Taskbar as "Microsoft Edge Beta"

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New MS Edge browser in open Beta, Download links 

** The New Microsoft Edge (Chromium based browser) is now in Public Beta - with a full release coming in January 2020 possibly.

* Available in 3 streams - Beta (Stable), Developer and Alpha/Canary, with more frequent changes (similar to Firefox Beta channels)

"The release candidate of the new Microsoft Edge for Windows and macOS can be downloaded right now with general availability targeting Jan. 15 in more than 90 languages. Microsoft Edge runs on the same Chromium web engine as Google’s Chrome browser, offering you best in class web compatibility and performance."

* Get it here: microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us

* Or, watch a features short video: twitter.com/i/status/120163730

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Want to make a security plan, but don’t know where to start? Surveillance Self-Defense has you covered. ssd.eff.org/en/module/your-sec

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RT @EdemarMotta@twitter.activitypub.actor
@lucasrohan@twitter.activitypub.actor Sexta feira, fim de tarde, ligo para uma loja: Essa loja fecha aos sábados? Não senhor. Sábado chego lá, tudo fechado, volto na segunda e indago do vendedor por que me haviam dito que não fechava sábado. Porque não abre. Adoro Lisboa.

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This is what happened when people in the U.K. were asked how much health care costs in the U.S.

Remember that our outrageous for-profit system is not the norm in other countries.

We can and we must do better.

We need Medicare for All now.

twitter.com/BernieSanders/stat

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Bots I wish we had. To bring content from the major Birdsite here...

* Scientific American ? twitter.com/sciam

* The Economist ? twitter.com/TheEconomist

(I found a fedi bot but it has posted only very few statuses. )

Others you would like to add?

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Mastodon Translator Bot 

The tool is currently NOT working, the domain toot.works seems to be parked, not in use.

I visited the author's projects page and sent a message, asking if it would be possible to get the source code, maybe get it installed somewhere else.

I think it's a very useful too, and could help us with the foreign language posts, as well as the users whose native language is not English and have some difficulty translating into it.

Will update with author's reply if I get one.

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Mastodon Translator Bot 

This seems like a wonderful tool, we could really benefit from it.

"Translate Your Status

To translate your status, include this anywhere in the status content:

@translator@toot.works LANGUAGE

Where LANGUAGE is the 2-letter language code for the language you wish to translate the status to (see the table below for a list of language codes)."

From christopher.su/projects/transl

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