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NanoBookReview

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I post #BookReviews #Birds and #FunFacts. All books are #Audiobooks. All #Quotes are sourced from The New Dictionary of Thoughts unless otherwise indicated.

I also spend time suggesting people run #Referendum #Campaigns to switch their #Elections to #ApprovalVoting.

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NanoBookReview , to random
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it's a little brown and white striped bird, eating seeds off the ground, video taped from fairly far away. It's a green spring day, car traffic can be heard in the distance. The sun is shining bright. The foreground and the background are very out of focus.

NanoBookReview , to random
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Can't wait to get into politics

https://youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY

artemis , to random
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So a lot of folks on here don't boost posts with images that don't have image descriptions, and that's a pretty common thing people talk about.

I replied to someone taking a poll about preferences people who use screen readers and said "I currently do things x way but I'm curious what people will say"

Someone responds to me to tell me that they're disabled and can't do alt text, and so how dare I not boost posts without alt text? What a terrible "ally".

And just... Why?

NanoBookReview ,
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@artemis Yo tell those people about and its variations! I'm disabled as fuck so some days I use that and a helpful stranger will write the alt text for me and then I edit the post. I also follow the hashtag so that I can provide alt text for other people when I'm feeling good.

mentallyalex , to random
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Do birds have a sense of smell?

I ask because I swear a little tiny bird just landed on a branch outside my window and scared itself.

I am writing by an open window and enjoying the breeze and the sun light as it streams in. I have a giant tree that overshadows the window, I think it's called a spruce tree. I love the way it smells and looks it is amazing and a key feature of the purchase.

So this little bird sits on a branch for about half a second and then chirped a sharp and loud chirp and absolutely flapped birdy wings straight away from the window.

I am laughing imagining the bird landing to see what was going on inside that house and getting a wiff of giant swamp panther and just absolutely losing his little birdy mind in panic and fear to dash away.

NanoBookReview ,
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@si_irini @mentallyalex Most of them have a pretty terrible sense of smell. I think there's a small handful that can smell okay. I wanna say it's limited to a few species of vulture?

NanoBookReview ,
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@mentallyalex @si_irini Oh I once surprised a mourning dove just by standing out in the open. I got to watch it slam on the brakes mid-air and do a 180 when it suddenly realized there was a person standing on the patio.

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I mean, better late than never, right?

A north american grey squirrel hops along the top rail of a patio railing. The fluffy snow on the wooden beam is about three centimeters deep. The squirrel hops towards and then past the camera.

byteseu , to random
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The Hidden Link Between Eye Health and Mental Well-being https://www.byteseu.com/118464/

NanoBookReview ,
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@byteseu AI art is so weird because you're refusing to pay an artist and you're getting a lower quality result.

NanoBookReview , to random
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Lil bb duck!

NanoBookReview , to random
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All I wanted for Mother's Day was train network that averaged 250 mph from station to station.

I didn't get it.

So I guess we'll have to table that one for now.

photovotary , to random
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Social media. Except everyone is posting the minutiae of their daily lives and no one is reading what anyone else is posting. Is that already a thing? 😅

NanoBookReview ,
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@BlackenedGreen @photovotary That phrase could be used as a calling card for millennial punks.

NanoBookReview , to random
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Moth

A black and white image of a small moth on the side of a house. The siding is white plastic made to look like wooden shingles. The moth is nestled right up under the bottom lip of one of the ridges in the siding. The moth looks kind of like wood shavings and has two black spots, potentially mimicking eyes or knots in wood. The moth is mostly white with black markings. It's probably only 3 centimetres across.
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    • TonyStark , to random
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    I already got one comment claiming solar power won’t work because “night” and another that made up nonsense about batteries.

    Batteries are part of solidifying the renewable energy grid.

    To those that say batteries aren’t clean or are costly, that might be partially true now, but they get cleaner and cheaper every year. Current deployments while maybe suboptimal are simply a step on the path. 1/2

    Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California’s nights:
    https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/batteries-are-taking-on-gas-plants-to-power-californias-nights

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @TonyStark The funny part about grid level batteries is that we already have a large number of solutions at different power and energy levels. We just gotta actually build the things and install them.

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    What in the hell is this nonsense?

    A bird's eye view of the most complicated, ridiculous suburban roof you have ever seen. It's like the architect hates roofers. It's like their ex left them and they're taking it out on the house's floor plan. It's like they got paid by the number of corners on the house. I bet the architect owns stock in heating and cooling. Surely they lost their license for such an abomination.
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    • NanoBookReview , to random
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    Crow Breaks Up a Fight Between Two Magpies

    https://youtu.be/6x5qbdvlwGA

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @mukt @Zerush A fair number of people worked out the Pythagorean theorem before Pythagoras existed. For some reason his name stuck for our culture.

    rochelle , to random
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    "A conservative Republican activist threw a monkey wrench into the race by recruiting two last-minute Democratic candidates who share the same name as the party’s presumed front-runner."

    Three Bob Fergusons now running for governor as race takes turn for the weird
    https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/10/three-bob-fergusons-now-running-for-governor-as-race-takes-turn-for-the-weird/

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @rochelle If only we had a clone-proof voting system!

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    The Infamous PACE Trial:

    what happens when scientific researchers have a MASSIVE conflict of interest.

    https://youtu.be/bzh8pT-g9v0

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    I've been sharing too many things with my Latino family so you guys get this one.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/DP1mH1_q6tw

    mekkaokereke , to random
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    If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

    Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

    https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

    We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

    Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
    https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @mekkaokereke Those Chinese cars are extremely subsidized and very low quality. People with access to both "Western" and Chinese cars are favoring the western cars, despite being more expensive because the Chinese ones just plain aren't very good. Hopefully they'll get better with time, like a lot of Chinese products have, but their auto industry is still ridiculously subsided. Like, those cars cost roughly the same to make as any other car, and they're losing money selling them.

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @mekkaokereke I've heard conflicting anecdotes about the quality of these cars, but regardless, I hope they catch up.

    Independent of "fair" government incentives, I generally think cars should be more expensive, not less. Cars are still one of the worst forms of transportation from an environmental point of view. We shouldn't be subsiding any of them, we should be taxing the shit out of gas vehicles. Making our own cars cheaper is the wrong environmental play.

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    @mekkaokereke Fair take on your side, we won't agree on everything!

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    Outlining houses in has given me yet another reason to hate suburban design.

    NanoBookReview OP ,
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    A much worse example:

    skippingmoonrocks , to random
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    minutes awake: ehh, 5?
    birds seen: over 10.

    I had like 20 seconds to look out of th bathroom window before POTS made standing too much, but I used them well. First a family of jackdaws playingly flying, then i looked at the water and saw a big goose (Canadian i'd guess) climb on land from the water. She was followed by at least 5 small geese who did the same.

    Couldn't stand there long enough for them all climb on land, but yeah, barely awake and already saw beauty.

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @skippingmoonrocks Half a bird per second is an enviable rate.

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    @moshidon Hey, can we get that download image button back? The new share feature is nice, but often times I want to download an image to modify it or save it for later.

    Thanks!

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGAAAAAUUUUGHGHHHHH

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    Run For Something by Amanda Litman

    Yeah, I mean, fucking do it; run for office. Big or small, go for it.

    I'm serious.

    Read this book to learn how and why.

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    Grinnell Undergraduate Workers Have Won a First Contract — Jacobin

    https://jacobin.com/2024/05/grinnell-undergraduate-workers-union-contract/

    OtherRyn , to random
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    I'm looking for a shirt pattern that I thought was called a camp shirt but apparently is not.

    Here's the specs:
    Woven fabric
    Loose fit/positive ease
    Button Down
    Long Sleeve
    Sleeves roll up and stay in place with a button and tab setup

    Masto, what is it called? (Links to patterns appreciated!)

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @OtherRyn They're also called utility shirts, but I can't find a pattern that actually has the button and tab. There could also be a third name for all I know.

    toriyamashu , to random Japanese
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    「近所の森 新緑」
    https://toriyamaehagaki.jpn.org/fnb_html/note.html#4g
    ヤマガラが近くにやってきて足に木の実か種をはさんでつつき始めました。この枝ぶりはその作業にまさにうってつけという感じでした。連写すると結構身体全体をつかって思い切りつついているのがわかります。右の写真の伸び上がり方ったらすごいです。キツツキとかについてもそうですが、これだけの衝撃を頭部に受けてもなぜ平気でいられるのか、不思議に思います。

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @toriyamashu 脳が小さいほど、衝撃による動きは少なくなります。リスを崖から落としても大丈夫でも、馬は大きな問題を抱えているのと同じ理由です。

    Chloeg , to random
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    I was feeling a bit lost yesterday, my hands seem to have forgotten how to paint, and everything was looking like a child’s daubings. Who am I if I’m not an artist? Anyway, long story short, but I’m being more philosophical today and remembering that this has happened before, many times, and you have to just go away and do something else and after a bit gently start sketching again with just a pencil or some charcoal or something.

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @Chloeg This came across my feed and I just HAD to know the context that made you walk back a diss on a child's painting. 😂

    Some days just ain't your day!

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    A guy who shot at a delivery driver for pulling into his driveway is ONLY getting charged with aggravated assault. In Tennessee, the distinction between attempted murder and aggravated assault is intent. If you can't prove intent to kill the victim, it's not attempted murder. The shooter claimed he was just trying to disable the driver's car.

    But like, COME ON, why else you gonna shoot at someone? I say this as very pro gun rights person. Guns are for killing.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-pizza-delivery-driver-shot-multiple-parking-wrong-driveway-rcna150638

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    Kitty

    A very small very adorable grey kitten sits on top of a scratch pad. It has a little white hair around its mouth and a pink little nose. It also has white toes. It's big cute head had little pointy ears and it just looks so soft and just the most precious thing you could ever imagine.
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    • ProcessParsnip , to random
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    Y'all these need to stfu. Surely the morning scrëm shouldn't start until nautical dawn??

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @ProcessParsnip AAAAAHHHHHHHH

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    boiga , to random
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    I saw an Eastern Screech Owl in the park and it's a poofball treebark-mimic. (Same colour as the tree, but fluff.)



    Grey Eastern Screech Owl in a hole in a tree. Looks around, scratches and yawns.

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @boiga Good morning Ms. Screech Owl! 😍

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    I just finished How Civil Wars Start (and How to Stop Them) by Barbara F Walter. It's an absolutely fantastic book and you should read it. I literally bought a copy to share with anyone in my local circle who will take the recommendation to read it.

    The next three I tried? Trash. Trash. Trash. There might be some good information in there, but the authors can't write to save their lives.

    NanoBookReview OP ,
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    I think it's very funny that every time I post something with hashtags the first notifications I get are from a bunch of category based bots reposting it. I don't mind, other than that it's never the same amount, so I can't be sure if those three notifications are all bots or if one or two is a person.

    aaron , to random
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    Discovered that Logitch's keyboard software is the culprit that keeps stealing focus on my PC - because of its newly enshittified AI bollocks.

    So now that's spurred me on a mission to remove all the AI bollocks from this computer. I'm coming for you Copilot.

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @aaron Lin-ux! Lin-ux!

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @aaron So sad. :(

    simon , to random
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    If you really want to get upset about something going on in open source / open data space, I would suggest considering Niantic.

    After years of refusing any communication with , not to mention -any- kind of support. Niantic joined the Linux Foundations @linuxfoundation Overture (for substantial amounts of money), but its customers continue to vandalize OSM, burning lots of volunteer time at multiple levels.

    https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413

    NanoBookReview ,
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    @simon @linuxfoundation Is the Pokemon Go load too big to just require manual review for each submission? I'd be fine with making that sort of thing a part of my regular activity. It would certainly be faster than my current self-imposed task of adding house information in neglected neighborhoods.

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    @simon mmm, that would be beyond my skill set.

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    Drunk Magpie

    https://youtu.be/8pnqYG9E9AQ

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    https://youtu.be/S3qmJSaFU-0

    Cardinal Vs. Robin - bath dispute

    NanoBookReview , to random
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    The cutest fucking kitten in the entire fucking world has placed one sad little paw gently against your leg as it looks up at you with big, sad little shiny eyes. It just wants ups. Give it ups. Pick up the cute kitten. Its little ears and soft grey fur need to be held, and it's asking so politely. The little kitty loves you with all its tiny little heart.
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    I watched a TV show and now I'm sad. This is why I stick to nonfiction. The writers for reality aren't nearly as good at emotional manipulation.

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    NanoBookReview OP ,
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    @BjornIdle Thank you! 🥰 I've been putting off posting that picture because every time I try my brain can't describe a photo for shit.

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