If I'm going to interpret this, the natives of Taiwan survived as the primary people in what we know today as the Philippine archipelago. From the Philippines, they spread everywhere.
In other words, they're all #Filipino! ᜑᜑᜑᜑ 😹 (Or, native Taiwanese to be exact.)
Warm korero on creative technologies in service to communities, plus a welcome from Intercreate.org's Trudy Lane & a cymatics clip from the creative project Beeyali.
A good way to start the day for the Ecologies, Technologies sessions during a joyful Small is Beautiful weekend w. the Schumacher students.
"A world-first Australian study is investigating whether too much artificial light exposure at night can affect #seaweed. For us humans, seeing blue and other forms of light during the night can disrupt our natural sleep cycle. And researchers in Sydney are trying to find out how much our coastal seaweed forests are also impacted."
Le Roof is a restaurant on stilts, with a room open to the lagoon. Above the water, at the end of the jetty, it welcomes people in a wooden decor with a contemporary style. At lunch or dinner, the spectacle of the sea, the fish and the reflection of the sun is splendid. Some evenings, dolphins come and party around the restaurant.
Folks in eastern #Australia, #NewZealand, and #Oceania might want to be on the lookout for a new #meteor shower originating from comet 46P/Wirtanen on 12th December 2023.
I think someone else struggled with reefs, atolls were also a real hodgepodge, so this map for day 1️⃣ 6️⃣ of #30DayMapChallenge is more useful as a guide for cleaning data up in #Oceania than anything else.
I'd love to do a legend with overlapping circles to show the size (see @seav's map today), but have no idea how to do that in #QGIS (or even what the technique is called)
@SK53 as for how to correctly map atolls, we don‘t have a lot of them in the Philippines (99.99% of our islands are volcanic, I think) so I don‘t know what‘s the best practice for mapping them in OSM. 🤷♂️
@seav this ⬇️ was one of the reasons for wanting to do atolls! Darwin's theory is that atolls are based around extinct volcanos.
I wanted to do something related to Darwin's voyage in the Beagle, but #GBIF only turned up about 5-6 of his specimens from Kew & the (British) Natural History Museum. They do exist, but apparently haven't got to GBIF. So atolls it was!
A sad chapter in the history of Oceania are the hundreds of nuclear tests that have been conducted by the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸, the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧, and #France 🇫🇷. This map shows the locations in #Australia 🇦🇺, the #MarshallIslands 🇲🇭, #Kiribati 🇰🇮, and #FrenchPolynesia 🇵🇫 where these three nations have detonated nuclear devices along with estimated yields in kilotons of TNT equivalent. #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki are also shown for comparison.
Well, here's my #introduction to Mastodon. I'm a literary fiction writer and occasional journalist, currently travelling in #Oceania. Would love to connect with other writers, readers and anyone who cares about #books, and I'm up for some political and environmental discussions too. Happy to have found a corner of the web that feels something like what the web was meant to be.
@andrewblackman One thing I should have mentioned yesterday is there is a group @bookstodon where you will run across many readers and writers. You can follow the group (and assorted hashtags of your specific interests), and add the group to your bookish posts.
I believe there is at least one writers group out there too.