szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Back from the binational beaver survey. No #beavers, but saw active dams and lodges. They are crepuscular creatures here, and we were mostly out during the mid-day. If you set up a blind before dawn or early evening, you might see them.

I learned a ton of really cool stuff about beavers! I was fairly familiar with their ecological niche before, but seeing the difference in watersheds with and without beavers... it's massive.

Will post some photos and more info tomorrow.

I'm going out with some people to count #beavers in the Mexican section of the San Pedro River for the next three days.

It's going to be cold. There will be photos.

Probably not photos of beavers, tho. They're elusive unless you have time to hang out and wait, which we won't. Seeing sign like burrows, cut stumps and dams is a perfectly good way to get a count.

It’s very disturbing to see reputed leftists repeating the right wing attack line about Biden not going to East Palestine. The mayor of East Palestine told him not to come, told Katy Tur on MSNBC that the logistics and police involvement were more trouble than the town could manage. He’s doing what was asked.

Street Photography - Seoul, South Korea

#streetphotography #urbanshutter #city #blackandwhite #seoul #southkorea #fuji #fujixt1 #photography #fotografie #peopleinthestreet #coffee

It’s #Caturday!

Todays cat + funeral mashup is this adorable set of figures representing the real-life Dancing Pallbearers. They’re a group of professional pallbearers in Ghana who rose to viral Tiktok fame for their choreographed dancing while carrying caskets on their shoulders yes, they dropped one once).

Their leader, Benjamin Aidoo, has transformed the original group into a business that supports one hundred employees in an area beset by high unemployment rates.

Also know as the Coffin Dancers ⚰️

#HisAndHearsePress #DancingPallbearers #CoffinDancers #Ghana #GhanaFuneral #Funeral #Pallbearers #Casket #Coffin #Cat #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

"Why yes, I am Canadian. Why do you ask?"

#CatsofMastodon #MeanwhileInCanada

I mean…

Gotta say, birders who provide alt text for their photos are really good at alt text. I assume it's because birding is a hobby that requires a lot of attention to detail. Thanks #Birdstodon for all the really well described pictures.

Vatikaanissa asuu tiemmä yksi (1) koira.

Haluaisin tietää, mikä (siis rotu), ja minkä niminen koira, ja kenen kanssa se koira asuu.

Apparently there lives one (1) dog in the Vatican. I'd like to know what kind of a dog it is, is it a good doggo, and with who does it live.

Anyone?

#KysyMastodonilta #AskMastodon #AskFediverse #koira #koirat #dog #dogs #mastodogs #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFediverse #Vatikaani #Vatikaanivaltio #Vatican

May I?

#WalkingDog #DogsOfMastodon #SaturDogs #SausageDog

Just checked a trailcam and found a photo of a pademelon on an invisible hoverbike.😂
#Tasmania #Pademelon #Marsupial #Flying #Hoverbike #Funnny #Trailcam

Dzisiaj taka pogoda, że lepiej zostać w domu. Jedne z niewielu już łodzi rybackich nad Bałtykiem.

No to kacap zakręcił kurek z ropą na rurociągu "Przyjaźń" 😉

"Jak jednocześnie podkreślił #Orlen, spółka jest w pełni przygotowana na taką sytuację, a dostawy do jej rafinerii mogą odbywać się w całości drogą morską. Wstrzymanie dostaw nie będzie mieć zatem wpływu na zaopatrzenie polskich odbiorców w produkty spółki, w tym benzynę i olej napędowy"

Więc z kacapstanu bierzemy już tylko propagandę, bo węgla, gazu i ropy już nie.

Więcej:
https://energetyka24.com/ropa/wiadomosci/rosja-wstrzymala-dostawy-ropy-do-polski

#Wojna #Rosja #ropa #energetyka

Autobus z ogrzewaniem odpalonym jak hutniczy piec. Metaliczne suv-y rozbryzgujące kałuże na drodze poharatanej dziurami, choć wojna skoczyła się 80 lat temu. Ludzie z głowami w telefonach. Biegacze w antypyłowych maskach. Bezdomny w dresie gucciego. Na przystankach reklama miejskch inwestycje z wielkim QR codem. Czy jest w ogóle sens czytać dysptopijne powieści? #wroclaw #life

OpenAI, manufacturers of ChatGPT (which drives Bing's addled outputs), writes that they are creating the precursor of artificial general intelligence (AGI). They define AGI as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work." So I guess that means AGI will replace only the highest-paid workers, like VCs and tech execs. Writers and artists shouldn't be worried, since our work has never been deemed economically valuable. https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave/

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

“Unfortunately, there’s a bad faith reaction in the right-wing press parrotted by #GOP politicians that this is an attack on all Catholics.”

Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti examines a leaked #FBI memo which warns about the dangers of Traditional Catholic #extremism and their growing links to white supremacist movements ... While the tradcaths pose real risk, so does overreach in government #surveillance: https://www.texasobserver.org/fbi-overreach-is-concerning-but-so-are-radical-traditionalist-catholics/

#Fascism #religion #news #politics #Texas