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owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

Wow. A mighty thunderstorm began, then we lost power for about 15 minutes, then just after it came back we heard a whooshing sound that quickly grew louder. It was a heavy rain that came upon us.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
hntooter ("HN Tooter") wrote:

RT @hntooter Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use
https://fairuseify.ml

(submitted by alphabet9000)

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

Had the kind of BotW death that made me put the Switch to sleep and turn off the TV.

Anathema wrote:

I don't know what this bird is! Any guesses?

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• A bird atop some old plant stalk.

Anathema wrote:

I'm not going to tell you where this beach is. It's nice though! I promise the colours looked this good IRL have done no trickery!

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• It's a nice beach.
• It's a nice beach.
• It's a nice beach. There is some interesting rock feature.
• It's a nice beach.

Anathema wrote:

This was one of the nicest boats I saw.

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• Some sort of boat in the distance

Anathema wrote:

This blurry bee is impressive only because I only have one lens for my camera with a minimum focal distance of 3 feet!

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• A bumblebee on a purple flower.

Anathema wrote:

Coooooows

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• A black cow and a brown cow in a field looking at the camera.
• A brown cow in a field looking at the camera.

Anathema wrote:

Mad props to anyone who gets good photos of birds in flight!

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• Blurry oystercatcher in flight.

Anathema wrote:

These guys did not let me get very close at all. Clearly I need to buy bigger lenses. I think these are Oystercatchers?

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• Oystercatchers on a rocky beach.

Anathema wrote:

Do birds never get cold feet? (Herring Gull)

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• Herring Gull standing in some shallow, seaweed filled water.

Anathema wrote:

Strut strut

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• ec5fa8b645f1e920.jpg

Anathema wrote:

Struttin' wagtail.

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• A pied wagtail carrying something in it's beak, doing a little strut.

Anathema wrote:

Another lamb

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• A nice lamb in a field.

Anathema wrote:

I interrupted someones dinner.

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• A shocked looking sheep.

Anathema wrote:

Shaggy lamb.

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• A grown lamb eating.

Anathema wrote:

Look at this fun guy! (Pied Wagtail)

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• A pied wagtail on a lawn.

Anathema wrote:

Sunbathing time between broods.

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• A male blackbird sunbathing on some grass, his mouth is open.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Just discovered and fixed a (potentially serious) bug in Dolphin, KDE's file manager and generic file model:

Sorting by size would cause an unstable sort order under certain circumstances.

This sounds innocent at first, until you realize this also causes it to expand a folder's content into the wrong view parent: you expand folder A, but all its files show up below folder B.

You may think you're deleting an empty folder, but it's not actually empty 😟

Fix here: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/232

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

Trying to find out what a nearby river name means.
It's either Painting River, Brandywine River, Table River, or something else. 😫

Reblogged by Lyrilith@mastodon.art:
datenschutzratgeber ("Privacy Guide 1984") wrote:

RT @datenschutzratgeber Der Lehrerverband hat davor gewarnt, das Recht der Schüler auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung weiterhin zu beachten, schließlich hätten sich "zehntausende" Lehrer mittlerweile in Software-Produkte mit integrierter #NSA-Überwachung eingearbeitet, weshalb ein Umstieg auf Alternativen unmittelbar das Bildungssystem sowie die nationale Sicherheit bedrohen würden. Der Verband fordert daher einen EU-"Dexit" und einen Beitritt zu den USA, um rechtliche Probleme auszuräumen.

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/schulen-lehrerverband-will-digitale-tools-kommerzieller.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=1278971

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frumble@chaos.social ("Maxi ☑️") wrote:

BOAH, diese Begründung:

Lehrerverband will weiter Microsoft Teams erlauben

»Inzwischen gebe es zwar in den Lernplattformen der Länder ebenfalls Videokonferenzsysteme. Allerdings hätten sich mehrere Zehntausend Lehrer mittlerweile in Teams eingearbeitet.«

https://www.golem.de/news/datenschutz-lehrerverband-will-weiter-teams-erlauben-2107-158040.html

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

That resulted in 11 emails from them

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

A background in comedy is far superior to a background in Christian evangelism for science communicators.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/10/hey-thats-bill-nye/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlDVmBLibg

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

I have a video of the stream but apparently Mastodon requires videos to be at a certain FPS and rejects it.

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

We biked off somewhere to see what was there.

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• A stream of water flanked by trees. In the distance is a red wooden house. (remote)

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

Why are Germans called Þjóðverjar anyway

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I have to incorporate the word "cocksure" into my vocabulary 😅

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

-- Bertrand Russell

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

They couldn't even give a single spider a token, walk-on role in Black Widow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/10/spoiler-there-are-no-spiders-in-black-widow/

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• dd2ff1badccfbce2.jpeg (remote)