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I'm also @HeritageMonster, where I will now restrict to #opendata #opengenealogy, and have here for #sff and whatever I read last, for #Green issues, access/disability rights issues, traveller's tales (esp #sailing #ukot) #genealogy and #oneplacestudies
Avatar image AltText: head and neck of a Herring Gull.
Header Image AltText: a shot of washing hung out to dry. It is pegged to a line between posts over the choppy water in an estuary as the tide is coming in. Inaccessable.
"At Belong To, we feel the platform Twitter/X is currently not a safe, healthy or inclusive environment to engage and interact with our followers, including LGBTQ+ young people."
Belong To is an #LGBTQ+ youth organisation in #Ireland. They deleted their 18K follower account on the hate platform known as X.
They are focusing on other corporate social platforms for now. Perhaps there are folks in Ireland who can reach out to them? Would be great to see them here.
Our vision is a society where LGBTQ+ young people are equal, safe and thriving. This includes both offline and online spaces. At Belong To, we feel the platform Twitter/X is currently not a safe, healthy or inclusive environment to engage and interact with our followers, including LGBTQ+ young people. Throughout the past 12-months, we have
I run my fingers down a carcass, the walls of my home. My thumb in between a dent in the skull we inhabit and my pinky reaching for this orbit of ours. Last night, the bone eating began. Worms biting mandÃbula. Gnawing right next to my pillow. The beings sprouted from the ground like I […]
Animated: The Rise & Fall of the Largest Cities in the World, from 3,000 BC to the 2020s
This is the first era of human history when more of us live in cities than not. That's what we've often been told in recent years, at least, though the specifics do depend on what kinds of urbanized areas you count as proper cities.
ICYMI (which I posted over the weekend & was shown on Friday night TV):
I've not been posting on the conflict between Israel & Hamas, as I had nothing to add to the wide range of analysis & opinion being voiced on social media.
However, ICYMI here is #FeargalSharkey's comment from #HIGNFY on Friday which draws some lessons from #NorthernIreland....
Its worth a watch & confirms Sharkey is politically astute, and not just on the #watercrisis
Today we relocated to Launceston for the final few days before heading back to the mainland.
Since we hadn't yet found a platypus, we set out to do so. I can now confirm Tasmanian Platypus come out in the middle of the day (not just dawn/dusk/night) and are indeed slightly bigger than the mainland ones.
#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Platypus #monotreme #marsupial #tassie2023
Undersea Monkey 🇪🇺
Neia masks
Erik Moeller
Uncanny Magazine
Ether Diver
Open Culture (Official)
I'm Just Frank being Frank
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
David de Groot 📸