Amanda Whatley @mandaroza@qoto.org

#Bellowhead! Wow!

Finishing work at lunchtime tomorrow to visit offspring in Nottingham, and see #Bellowhead can’t wait! It’s been a few years

There have been some fabulous suggestions to my call for #NonFiction #Books you want everyone to #Read for a small idea of mine for a nonfiction #BookGroup on #mastodon. 📚

I will probably toot the list on Sunday evening but for now the group #HashTag

#WhiteHorseBookgroup use this tag for discussions & updates.

Let me know before Sunday evening which nonfiction book you think we all should be reading.

A retoot would be lovely 🙏 especially if you're watching The Match 🇺🇲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Really useful resource!
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RT @MikeAClare
My mind is blown by this global geological map resource https://macrostrat.org/map/#x=16&y=23&z=2 Just zoom into somewhere you know and look at the detail…
https://twitter.com/MikeAClare/status/1595533536504709120

A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average #Dutch person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year. https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-views-to-sports-2021 #cityplanning #bikes #mobility #transportation #healthycities #urbanplanning #cities

@merseyview
If her actions and power wasnt so grim she would be funny
#SuellaBraverman

I sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica

Nicola Sturgeon has said that should the Supreme Court rule against #IndyRef2 then the SNP would make independence the only issue in its next general election campaign – a vote for the SNP would be interpreted as an explicit vote for secession.

Read more: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/scotland/2022/11/supreme-court-nicola-sturgeon-scottish-independence-referendum

Maybe the real Twitter was the friends we made along the way.

From the NMNH-IZ collections, a cool snail called Angaria sp. #Molluscmonday #molluskmonday (first on Mastodon?!)

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

Thank you to everyone who's followed me today, and all the lovely comments on my journal page.
Here's another past entry. A spot of orange brightness for a really dull, damp and windy day here.
#naturejournal
#illustratedjournal

Hans Burgkmair the Elder, 'The fight in the forest' (circa 1500)

#art #fight #knight #wildman #wild #man #wood #woods #forest #woodcut #renaissance #medieval #LateGothic

now that our server qoto.org is (temporarily) not listed in the main mastodon website joinmastodon.org, it seems convenient to promote our server directly in the birdsite. Therefore please follow the link below and like or retweet the post, so that it will be ranked higher in the search field of the #birdsite
@freemo @Gargron

https://twitter.com/eantonicelli/status/1594080051494002688?t=DXyofpLz3gIXczviUa_TNw&s=19

Crazy impossible shot

#photography #bee

Parasitoid wasps are often extremely small, but they are every bit as beautiful as their larger wasp cousins. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

#Insects #Photography

@Gargron Looks like it's growing about 8K users per hour. Lots of new instances popping up too

@Gargron

Shoutout to Gargron for building Mastodon.

I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave.