matt

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curious explorer. hewer of maps, old time techie, newbie developer (of many years)
Personalhttp://maphew.com
in-betweenhttp://yukongis.ca
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mattJul 4, 2024
Massive Tunnels Excavated 10,000 Years Ago By A Giant Sloth - Hasan Jasim
https://hasanjasim.online/massive-tunnels-excavated-10000-years-ago-by-a-giant-sloth/
Massive Tunnels Excavated 10,000 Years Ago By A Giant Sloth - Hasan Jasim

In Brazil, scientists uncovered some gigantic tunnels that they believe were built by a giant sloth. These tunnels are known as palaeoburrows by scientists. They're so massive that they're even taller than people. Many of these tunnels are hundreds of feet long with multiple branching, and the longest is 2,000 feet long, six feet tall,

Hasan Jasim - Hasan Jasim is a place where you may get entertainment, viral videos, trending material, and breaking news. For a social generation, we are the largest community on the planet.
mattJul 3, 2024

A major landslide at a heap leach pad at Eagle Gold Mine in the #Yukon, #Canada
Satellite images by Planet Labs show that a 1.3 km long failure has occurred
by Dave Petley 25 June 2024
https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/eagle-gold-mine-1

More info about the 24 June 2024 Eagle Mine heap leach landslide in the yukon
https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/eagle-mine-2

(The image is hazy because of wildfire smoke. The nearby community of Mayo is currently under evacuation alert.)

A major landslide at a heap leach pad at Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon, Canada

Satellite images by Planet Labs show that a major landslide has occurred at a heap leach pad at Eagle Gold Mine in the Yukon, Canada.

Eos
mattJun 28, 2024

Portrait of a Painted Lady. This* delicate 1 gram creature has flown a minimum 4,200 km, possibly up to 7,000 km, across the Atlantic ocean from Southern Europe to Africa to South America. "the longest documented for individual insects, and potentially the first verified transatlantic crossing"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-stunning-butterflies-flew-2600-miles-across-the-atlantic-ocean-without-stopping-180984602/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49079-2

#nature #science #wonder

These Stunning Butterflies Flew 2,600 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean Without Stopping

Researchers combined several lines of evidence to solve the mystery of why a group of painted ladies, which do not live in South America, were found fluttering on a beach in French Guiana

Smithsonian Magazine
mattJun 16, 2024
Amazing #nature! This #silkhenge structure is made by an as yet unidentified Peruvian spider. There's a spire in the center surrounded by a ring of tall posts, and if you look closely, strands of wire, resembling a livestock fence. And whaddya know? It is! Maybe.
https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/we-solved-an-amazon-rainforest-mystery-w-video/
(Photo rotated, cropped, and lightness-contrast enhanced by me to highlight the web structure.)
We Solved An Amazon Rainforest Mystery (w/Video)

What was it? The images went viral and neither the internet nor experts could figure it out what was this weird web tower in the Amazon.

Rainforest Expeditions
Show threadmattJun 14, 2024
Alright, alone then!
Show threadmattJun 13, 2024

Some of the screenshots sent. Apologies for substandard alt-text, I'm on a rant and alting is time-consuming.

From https://indieweb.social/@pinakographos@mapstodon.space/111251937852268888
From https://indieweb.social/@[email protected].org/111257764013646247
From https://indieweb.social/@geonews@mastodon.social/111250757916506167
From https://indieweb.social/@geonews@mastodon.social/111250378834376245
From https://indieweb.social/@GIS_Bandit@mastodon.world/111244906639599330

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Daniel P. Huffman (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Many are preparing for the #30DayMapChallenge. Day 4 is "A Bad Map." Given our community's history of toxic critique & gatekeeping, I invite you consider novel ways to approach this prompt. Perhaps explore: "what makes something a #map?" Instead of choosing colors, fonts, etc. that can accidentally mock others at the start of their mapping journey (pushing them away from our community), here's an approach that I tried last year: a map that pushes back against being seen as a map. #gischat

Mapstodon.space
Show threadmattJun 5, 2024

Disappointing how many kintsugi cup images returned by google have nearly identical breakage pattern. Like acid wash jeans, clearly manufactured as broken. Simultaneously superficial and deep betrayal.

And yet, I keep this one and include here as it's the closest match so far to my mental model of me (yet imperfect, what a delightful recursion that is): somewhat fixed, mostly functional, pieces of beauty, but nowhere near even utilitarian finishing or completeness.

Someday: rebuild a real one

mattMay 24, 2024

Last year @pluralistic gave us #enshittification, today Eupfhoria gives us #fucksmith

It's nice seeing a language grow in front of you

mattApr 28, 2024
Sir Nils Olav II, colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian Kings Guards inspects his troops following his knighthood ceremony in 2008.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
Nils Olav - Wikipedia

mattApr 27, 2024

Reading Essential Tao by Thomas Cleary this week.
I don't get it. Why have these verses lasted 1000s of years? treated with reverence?

Poetry. I don't like poetry. Hate it even.
Words and phrases all a jumble
contradictory thoughts thrown together
Passed on with conveyance of 'this will make sense of it all'
No. No it doesn't.

I fear poetry. It throws me into confusion
of not knowing where and how things lie.
Just say what you mean!

So here I am, flinging incomplete thoughts,
attempting...