RE: https://en.osm.town/@osmcal/116555626493118592

Anyone around in London Tuesday night May 19? Come and join @bluestarfish and myself in our #msf office to do some mapping!

#missingmaps #humanitarianmapping #OpenStreetMap

After two busy days doing elections stuff, I spent yesterday looking at birds, in a nature reserve to relax and recharge.

I saw some cracking birds, with these being my favourite shots.

#BirdPhotography #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #London

#Deepfakes are everywhere, but #DigitalForensics investigators are fighting back:

🌍 https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

The new governance team has met for the first time this week. The agenda included onboarding new members, agreeing to another interim meeting this month to work through documents and processes for the next 18 month cycle, and passing a motion. A summary of the governance meeting is posted on the MapSwipe Slack channel after each meeting.

#MapSwipe

Eläköön kesän ensimmäinen päivä! Eläköön kansainvälisen köyhälistön Vappu! Kaikukoon edelleenkin huudot: “alas sorto ja kahleet! Ylös oikeus ja vapaus. Kasvakoon köyhälistön yhteen liittyminen ja luokkataistelu siksi kunnes luokkavallan palkkaorjuuden ja riistämisen ies on täysin muserrettu! Jouduttakaamme mailmanrauhaa! Taistelkaamme sen hyväksi, että nykyiset vappujuhlat muuttuisivat ihmiskeväimen suuriksi sunnuntaiksi

J. L. Kyyrö
toukokuu 1911

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, & cholera for breakfast.

Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, & pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.

A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's the end of the line. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, & that's pretty hardcore.

When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.

Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.

The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. 6 of 11 African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.

The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.
#Birds