Todd Thomas

@toddthomas
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Tool-making primate in the (late?) Anthropocene.

#music #photography #art #programming #swiftlang #computers #graphics #math #science #astronomy #trains #Amtrak #books #libraries #birds #bats #spider

I want nothing less than for all humans, in all of our diversity, to live equitably and justly on this beautiful planet.

Food, housing, and healthcare are human rights. No human being is illegal. Due process of law for all.

Websitehttps://toddthomas.space
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Profile image alt textA crab-eating macaque uses a stone tool. Attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macaca_fascicularis_aurea_using_a_stone_tool_-_journal.pone.0072872.g002f.png
Header image alt textView from my window on the westbound Amtrak California Zephyr, west of Kremmling, CO. The Colorado River is in the foreground. On its far shore are trees with fall colors at the base of a hill which rises to a blue sky with a few brilliant white clouds.
Maybe the same quail from yesterday. They’re hard to tell apart.

How Omlette Your Mother

#BreakfastTVshows
#HashTagGames

Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a North American species of hummingbird named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_hummingbird

#birds #hummingbird

Nadine's Botanical Tête-à-Tête

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Got a little mesmerized by the ripples in this pool.

It's California poppy season! These caught my eye as I drove down a local road I hadn't been down before.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #today

RE: https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/116567879824377207

I definitely didn’t need new nightmares, but here we are. The kerning nightmares in this “book” are egregious #typography. How does this even

This is a waste of compute, a waste of energy, a waste of physical materials, a waste of transportation, and a waste of money. My grandmother got a refund. But think of how many people won't, on an unlimited scale across genres. The amateur end of this this and many other hobbies will be choked out by garbage.

I don't have call to action for this, I have no idea what we can do other than educate those around us to make individual choices to not engage with deluge of slop around us.

fortnights per cryptographic signature