The very last class I took in college was a 100-level communications class that I kept putting off due to a fear of public speaking, but it was a general education requirement so I finally had to take it.

The class required us to do three presentations over the semester:

1. General info about a topic of our choice
2. Instructional
3. Persuasive

There was a girl in my class who gave a speech about African grey parrots and it was incredibly dull and her delivery was very dry and monotone, but we’re all just trying to survive the class, so whatever.

Her second speech was about how to care for African grey parrots.

When it came time for her persuasive speech, it was about convincing people to own African grey parrots.

At the time, I was like WTF! Is this girl talking about stupid parrots AGAIN?!?

I was initially annoyed at the prospect of sitting through ANOTHER ten minute presentation about parrots; however, as I sat there, I had a realization that this girl had totally OWNED that class because she pretty much only made ONE presentation and just changed around some of the words each time and Parrot Girl has been my hero ever since.

I just realized there are several people who I follow whose posts haven’t been showing up on Ivory even though I know they’re actively posting.

I know this problem is Ivory-specific because I can see them just fine on other apps.

Two of those people are @Talia_christine and @donmelton

One thing I just noticed is that both are on mstdn.social, so I’m wondering if that has anything to do with it?

@ivory, I understand why you wouldn’t pre-load posts from a newly-loaded profile on a different server, but I should at least be able to see them once I’m following them, right? Is there a setting or something else I’m missing here? I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of good stuff and interesting people due to lack of visibility.

The Brown Pelican

These fascinating creatures are often seen diving into the water to catch their food. The plunge can begin from up heights of even 65 ft in the air. Gulf Islands National Seashore FL.

https://jordanhillphotography.com/featured/brown-pelican-in-the-sun-jordan-hill.html

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