@antonomasia

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Realising other types of fun stuff Mastodon lacks after typing in #deano and finding there are just 3 ancient posts about something else - and no sociopolitical memes about the late-2010s male equivalent of the sort of people who mostly made up my school, and whose lifestyle can be understood as a result of the low interest rates pre-this-year.
Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

Bizarre. What's up with this?
Ended up pasting a Mastodon username of an account I was thinking of following into the browser address bar, and got this (names changed):

"You are about to log in to the site “mastodon.server” with the username “User_Name2”, but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you.

Is “mastodon.server” the site you want to visit?"

@RadPanda:
A bot that posts pictures of red pandas.

Exactly what I'd been looking for on Mastodon

Elon Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter.

The iPhone maker's ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics firm https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-apple-buying-more-ads-tim-cook-1849837132

Apple Spent $84,000 on Twitter Ads the Same Day Elon Tweeted It 'Mostly Stopped' Advertising There, New Data S

Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter. The iPhone maker's ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics firm.

Gizmodo

What can the bones of the Bad Dürrenberg Shaman tell us about her life and death? Our new film gives (some) of the answers (English subtitles). #Archaeology #museum #prehistory #shaman

https://youtu.be/4evwG8V-0mw

Die Schamanin von Bad Dürrenberg: Spurensuche am Skelett der Schamanin | Archäologie exklusiv

YouTube

Scotland: really interesting practical research project doing a Passivhaus standard retrofit (plus heat pumps, wastewater recovery) on an old tenement block:

https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/retrofitting-niddrie-road-the-pre-1919-tenement-undergoing-a-21st-century-revamp

via this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/SustainableTall/status/1597507314655047680

#passivhaus #retrofit #energyefficiency

Retrofitting Niddrie Road: the pre-1919 tenement undergoing a 21st century revamp

Today's instalment in our COP26SHN feature highlights the pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus enerPHit standards being undertaken on behalf of Southside Housing Association in Glasgow. Glasgow has around 73,000 iconic pre-1919 sandstone tenements. Their age, built form, conditio

Scottish Housing News

"Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino and Hotel."

Great analogy for Musk's Twitter - full of US sports betting ads and with the worst elements invited back - by @davetroy

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1596851535912538114

Tho I wish people would post more of their material criticising Twitter *off* Twitter, where some of us would engage with it more.

Dave Troy on Twitter

“He’s really turning this into Potterville, or Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino and Hotel. And of course, rampant sports betting always is followed by the corruption of sport itself — something every third generation or so has to learn for its own dumb self.”

Twitter
I just saw the #StandingStoneSunday hashtag and want to share this photo I took in Avebury in June when the weather was very, very hot

#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton Town Hall, Manchester, UK.

At the time only men who where ratepayers could vote. A widow running a shop, Maxwell’s name was put on the electoral roll by mistake.

She marched down to the town hall and voted, becoming the first recorded woman to vote in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons @histodons