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he/him, they/them, gay/gaym, any/all

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quinsibell, to linux
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I've been toying with the idea of switching to Linux for a while, and its just getting to that point now, you know? I hear Mint is the best for beginners?

#Linux #Windows

gay_ornithischians,
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@quinsibell i don't know anything about computermachine and have been using linux mint debian edition since 2019 anyway. if i can do it anyone can

gay_ornithischians, to random
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why are fashion dolls so expensive :(

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watched the Ukraine war episode of Nature on PBS earlier today. it is extremely upsetting and moving

trailer below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66l9YGrh844

gay_ornithischians,
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lel the nova episode that started after briefly mentioned Mastodon (the software)

gay_ornithischians, to random
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just upgraded to lmde 6 it seems the issue of refusing to print certain things has finally been solved :D

gay_ornithischians, to random
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friends do you think "animals" in the tetrapod size range that had hydaulic driven limbs would be too heavy to evolve flapping flight of the type seen in birds, bats and pterosaurs?

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly i'm trying to find an ornithopter w hydraulic driven wings as proof of concept but no luck so far lel

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@Aviva_Gary @llewelly i only know of spiders when it comes to hydraulic driven limbs. tho they still use muscles for flexion. the ornithopters i've seen (i think) are mechanically driven

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@Aviva_Gary @llewelly oh i'll have to look it up too
i wonder if they started out more like the spiders and then reduced the hydraulics but kept them because of the post molting process

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@Aviva_Gary @llewelly to be fair stories don't really need to get this stuff right
i am looking into it because i find it fun to come up with speculative organisms and because you learn stuff about reality along the way

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

My cover artwork for issue 81 of Prehistoric Times, from 2007, featuring Ceratosaurus, in which I was interviewed.

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@BobNicholls

Nicholls, R. (2007). Lighter than air flight in non-avian theropod lineage

yassie_j, to random
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Why did a mastocel try to fucking follow me

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO I AMMMMMM

gay_ornithischians,
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@yassie_j what is a mastocel?

gay_ornithischians,
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@AmyIsCoolz @yassie_j ah i've seen the type. i don't like bringing it up because a lot of people are very down on FOSS already, but these attitude is sadly very common on all FOSS related things

futurebird, to random
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OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird don't let the people who act superior for getting rid of everything get to you

llewelly, to random
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I remain convinced that extra-terrestrials have never visited Earth.

However, I admit the Nintendo 64 controller is difficult to explain.

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly new specevo project?

gay_ornithischians, to random
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random pigeon encounter from sometime last week (the file system thinks it's from 2015 for some reason)

this bird was helping clean up a food stand

pigeon feeding on food stand tray

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I'm post some of my illustrations from DINOSAUR, published by Roar in 2007. Last for today is a collection...

gay_ornithischians,
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@BobNicholls i did not know about this book. i love how colorful the animals are :D

llewelly, to poetry
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3664
is headed 'round the bend
no knowing when
we'll see its like again
for a short time
it lit up the night
so wave to it goodbye
as it heads around the limb
of the Sun





Solar synoptic map drawn by forecaster Lash, via NOAA: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly is it dangerours to be outside while this is happening?

gay_ornithischians, to random
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people who specevo. what got you into specevo?

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The MLP ants crossover you have been waiting for.

Fluttershy is a goofy awkward spider ant.

(this is what you asked for ... right?)

https://www.tumblr.com/thepixelatedcactus/749590219375968256?source=share

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird this is great :D
but the spike should be like an aphid or mite

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the ant says hi!

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird @llewelly how would ants feel about billions of galaxies?

llewelly, to random
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I was trying to take a nap, but I was awakened by a nightmare: in my dream, early-branching tetrapodomorphs like Acanthostega and Ichthyostega with 7+ fingers were denounced as forgeries of so-called "AI" and erased from natural history.

Like nearly all dreams, it didn't make any sense when examined in the cold light of reality. At least, I hope not.

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly timeline in which all media and literature exists only as corporate streaming libraries. then some billionaire buys them all up, feeds them to a generative ai program and then deletes the originals

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my thoughts on Reiner, A. 2023

(painting by Dylan Bajda, it has been cropped and vandalized for this post)

gay_ornithischians, (edited )
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@llewelly latency is what i called one of the issues described (because that is what it sounded like to me), but it may not be what the author was getting at

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the awkwardness of first contact

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly i imagine these guys being the size of elephants. what do you think the limitant on larger sizes would be for something like this?

gay_ornithischians,
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if the whole venated insect style wing changing into an articulated hydraulic wing pans out then maybe that could result in even larger klis-cha
walking wing forms could develop that would look like if the real animal was walking it's leashed pterosaur pets

gay_ornithischians,
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maybe some of the walking wing forms could even become flightless. it could look like a larger animal is walking it's dogs. perhaps that would be too far. i'm not sure a single "brain" could control 3 large bodies

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