Andy3d ago
"... Köpfchen in das Wasser, Schwänzchen in die ..."
Die Natur. In einer Nahaufnahme. #FotoVorschlag

For the past few days, two drakes and a duck have been coming into our garden every evening. The third member of the group is a tag-along who’s been accepted due to the surplus of drakes. Be that as it may, I never expected to capture this natural spectacle (#PhotoSuggestion) in our garden in close-up.

#photooftheday #picoftheday #photography #fotografie #fotografia #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #birds #birdverse #animalphotography #animals #mallard #duck #birdlife and it is #nsfw ;-)
mdmkzApr 16

One swallow doesn't make a summer – but there are already three?!

#birds #photography #birdverse #swallow #vogelverse #schwalbe #WhatYouAreLookingAt

Christina DongowskiJul 25, 2024
Als Teenie war ich einfach zu hochkultur-überangepasst (wahrscheinlich ganz typisch für Bildungsaufsteiger), deswegen bin ich noch nicht mal auf die Idee gekommen, Fan Art zu machen. Nun, Jahrzehnte Erfahrung mit diesem Kultur-Ding später, bin ich alt genug dafür. Hier meine Fan Art zu dem sehr tollen #Fantasy #Roman #TheUnbalancing von #RBLemberg , den ich gerade gelesen habe. Das Universum dort heißt das #birdverse , die Schöpfungsgöttin ist Bird.
Top Darstellung von #lgbtqia #neurodivergent
Bogi TakácsJul 11, 2023

Extremely excited that Spouseperson @rblemberg is a Le Guin prize finalist!!

https://electricliterature.com/announcing-the-2023-shortlist-for-the-ursula-k-le-guin-prize-for-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR2t6FwOtgdnJPa5wpwM8BY7SUFb8It-OrVrogzPsaHcoeOJhGKXNNTtdNw

Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.

#Fantasy #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #LeGuin #LeGuinPrize #RBLemberg #Birdverse #ShortStories #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #ShortSFF #Fairwood #Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #TransLit

David GerhartJun 8, 2023

"Some of them tried Mastodon early and gave up quickly."

A perception is that #Mastodon is more fractured ... that communities haven't matured to the extent that enables a less intentional user to sense their 'connectedness.'

Example: Here, my feed is much more filtered here than it was in the #birdverse.

That's either a good thing or leaves one with a sense of isolation.

Not seeing the yuck, affects some folk's confidence - "What am I missing." So they wander back to peek, and stay.

$.02

David GerhartApr 12, 2023

Genuinely hope that #NPR will join us here on #Mastodon

More #News agencies need to abandon the economic feudalism that is corporate social media - stop billionaires from profiting by freeing their intellectual products from the #birdverse.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/npr-quits-twitter-says-platform-undermining-credibility-rcna79322

NPR quits Twitter, says the platform is 'undermining' its credibility

NPR plans to shut down its official Twitter accounts, saying a recent decision by the Elon Musk-owned platform to label it as "government-funded media" undermines its credibility.

NBC News
David GerhartMar 25, 2023

@oliphant

Yeah, I know. My #facebutt departure was in 2020, for all of the usual reasons and then some. Of 650 'friends' *just one* bothered to look me up and ask WTFF?

*true story.

Rats. But I don't miss that mess at all. Nor do I miss the #birdverse either.

David GerhartMar 24, 2023

@spearmintwarlock @CardboardRobot @peterbutler @atomicpoet

The issue is pandering to the lowest common denominator. The UX is designed for #doomscrolling entertainment and paid intercept conversion.

#Birdverse monetized it. Cynicism weaponized it. Then ChatGPT came along and camouflaged originality.

Discourse on centralized platforms? Ended in '22. Creators will abandon / be free of the economic feudalism that is commercial social media.

#mastodon doesn't pander to the LCD. (...yet.)

Show threadLaura Sykes #GreeneraliaMar 14, 2023
@Meldilorn So true...unfortunately many of those still left in the #birdverse seem to prefer clinging to the wreckage there rather than risk the leap into the next universe which we have both made. But then, like you, I remember Malacandra and Meldilorn. And Perelandra too...
RB LembergFeb 26, 2023

I am so happy that my novel THE UNBALANCING is nominated for Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards!

This is a great list, and a jury of awesome book reviewers/bloggers Adri Joy @themiddleshelf @Imyril @gautambhatia Kris Vyas-Myall L.A. Young @RunalongWomble Robin of The Book Wormhole, @chloroform_tea , Sara of @fictionfanspod and @suncani - THANK YOU!!

https://subjectivechaoskindofawards.wordpress.com/2023-2/

@SCKA

#bookstodon #subjectivechaos #sff #fantasy #birdverse #lgbtqia #lgbtq #nonbinary #ActuallyAutistic