I'm #celebrating my #1000th #toot with a #gif of a #cat #fart, as seen through an #infrared camera. I'm feeling classy like that.

Enjoy πŸˆπŸ’¨πŸŽ‰

(it's probably all downhill from here, but feel free to #follow for more highbrow content)

@alice the cats left and right give her the look.
i love it.
@overflo @alice it seems that β€žthe lookβ€œ transcends species boundaries. Probably means that the first fart took place many millions of years ago. Now I am wondering how thunderous a Dino fart must have been.

@flq @overflo @alice

Apologies in advance if this fails to work, but I doubt there are gifs out there of real coprolites …

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@alice this is precisely the type of content I come here for.

Thank you!

@alice I want more thermal camera content.
@alice It's the one who holds the most still. It's moving less than the other cats.
@alice @Lazarou I love the way Fartpants' neighbours turn and stare right after the flatus!
@cstross @alice @Lazarou
β€” Who done it?!
β€” Not me! 😼
@alice
Your 1000th toot is a cat toot, hilarious!
@alice I'm convinced that all infrared farts are fake because I've never been able to see breath or air currents with my camera. If I boil some water I can just barely see some steam coming out of it. There has to be a vapor component for it to be seen.
@spacegeck @alice they absolutely are and this one is no different. There's just not enough density to a fart for it to register above the ambient to a thermal camera. Especially in this case where the temperature of the fart is apparently so much higher than everything else. At best what you might capture is a hot spot on a surface being warmed up by the fart, such as on the pants.
@alice it only now occurred to me that this was perhaps the *perfect* use of the term "toot"
@alice This is what the internet was made for.
@alice the best part is the 3 others looking at it afterwards 🀣
@alice They all look at the culprit!
@alice Rocket ignition and 3... 2... 1...
Thank you. My day would have been empty and meaningless without this. :-)
@alice Its neighbours glaring at it – priceless!

@alice
1) I have followed you 100% on the basis of this toot - tremendous work.

2) However did you take this?

@alice "We have a launch hold. It looks like one of the engines has vented prematurely."
@alice Indeed humanity has peaked with this.

@alice

saw this and thought oy you...@DaniRabaiotti

To be fair I thought about your wonderful book. Will need to look up what you said about cats when I get home tonight

@alice Posterior feline aerosols, an underexplored part of the Covid transmission chain.
@alice And all the other cats look at it like wtf . . .
@alice amazing it looks like it starts hotter than background because of body temperature and quickly becomes colder than background because of Boyle's law?
@alice just like a cartoon fart
@alice absolutely the greatest toot I have ever see
@alice Talk about a toot worth boosting! 🀣
@alice this gif brings so many questions...

@alice

*Optris GMBH shares gain 14.9% overnight*. πŸ€”

@alice Someone's stealing your brand @dgar

@alice

Instant favorite and boost. :)

@alice

Such a good use case for FLIR Camera. I had my eye on one before Fry's closed but the price point just didn't fit my budget at the time. Shame. Such good uses that FLIR.

I celebrate all things fart, so cheers.
@alice @catsalad Oh my friggin jeepers!! 🀯

@alice

That's a mighty impressive toot!

@alice Colour me impressed!

I have an inexpensive Seek camera, occasionally impressed with the uses I've put it to since buying it for household tasks.

E.g., Finding which trees the chickens are roosting in, and showing a doctor that I suspected an infection in one leg, since it was noticeably warmer than the other one.

@alice Oh, and made quick work of finding the sticking brake caliper, too!
@tim_lavoie I could have soooo used that years ago. I was watching my dads place & when I came back from drinking with friends at the bar late one night all his chickens were missing. The hen house looked like a fight scene, nests upturned, loose feathers everywhere. A coyote or a wild dog had gotten in. I spent hours trying to find the chickens and had decided if I couldn’t find them by morning I’d just order new ones. LoL @alice
@alice Ah, a toot 1000th toot toot. Classic. :D
@alice The whole house just cracked up.
@alice ahahahaha, the others all turn their heads at once

@alice

It's not the farting cat, it's the other cats looking at her.

@alice This is what #SocialMedia is for, right?
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@alice These truly are the days of miracles and wonders.
@alice This reminds me of some TSA footage I saw, where when people went through the X-ray imaging, the video often showed them passing a lot of gas. πŸ˜‚

@alice

i'm just watching this loop and i can't stop laughing

@alice
- That's it. Emergency venting.
- Oh, that's beautiful, man. Oh, man, that - that just beats it all.