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Yet another birdsite refugee (although I was hardly active on it). Mainly plan to boost, rather than write original content (writing is scary!) but we'll see.

I'm also a #filker (listener, singer, archivist, very occasional writer of #filk), although under a different name.

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If anyone's looking for something to work on for project gutenberg, I prepared all the scans for "The Coasts of Illusion" by Clark B. Firestone and it's in stage one proofreading now! https://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID65c051b0679a9

it's a strange and discursive little collection of premodern "travel tales" and one of the main sources for Avram Davidson's delightful "Adventures in Unhistory". it also has some utterly gorgeous illustrations scattered throughout. anyway have a ball

DP: "The coasts of illusion" project page

A menagerie of non-tree garden treasures from early November in SW Washington.

#leaves #fall #fern #Mosstodon #fungi #cyclamen

do you like niche community drama?

do you like getting mad over public goods seemingly being ruined by people who won't comment when asked about their actions?

read about the site where @HelenBranswell, the first US journo to write about Covid, found out about Covid:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/03/promed-early-warning-system-on-disease-outbreaks-appears-near-collapse/

#infectiousdisease #covid #covid19 #sars #coronavirus

ProMED, an early warning system on disease outbreaks, appears near collapse

The early warning disease network that alerted the world to the original SARS outbreak and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be in peril. A

STAT

If you want your local media outlets to open fedi accounts, maybe post links to their stories, so the people monitoring site stats see incoming traffic from here.

#feditips

In the absence of #Orchids, I instead took some pictures of moss for #Mosstodon. I really liked these two with tiny #fungi fruiting bodies growing through them.
A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Fight for the Future
@restobot It's closed, and seems from business records to be replaced with a tool company. Now updated on OSM. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/138588797
Changeset: 138588797 | OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

OpenStreetMap
@restobot Clearly doesn't still exist, the name has already been removed from OSM. It's confusing if another restaurant has already opened there, or not. So it's probably OK as it is for now.