Notices by neville park (nev@social.coop), page 25

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And lest you think it's all old hat, new Burgess Shale sites and fossils are still being discovered—e. g. this was just in September https://scitechdaily.com/frightening-500-million-year-old-predator-unveils-the-rise-of-scorpions-and-spiders/

New CBC "The Nature of Things" documentary on the Cambrian explosion!

(Currently only streaming in Canada but I'm sure there's Ways around it.)

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/first-animals

#CanCon #science #documentary 🐘

I would really love to have such a thing for Twitter, but there's zero chance of that, so…yeah

(I could make a list in Twitter but 1. there's no easy way to get that data AFAIK and 2. I'd have to keep it updated myself and I can't be bothered to keep track of who unfollows me. If anyone has any ideas hmu)

random #mastodev idea: a "mutuals" filter for home timeline. or its own timeline.

idk if anyone's suggested it yet it just came to mind 🐘

Wasabi, lying on my chest purring is, surprisingly, not going to make me get up and feed you sooner

@byttyrs @velexiraptor yes!! I feel the same way about fellow trans ppl excited about studies that "prove" we're trans. there is no fundamental ground of sex/gender

@vantablack lmao same same. There's an option in the BIOS.

Jamie Margolin: "Many people pin the start of the climate crisis to the Industrial Revolution, when we started digging for coal, mining fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them at a large scale. It actually started long before that." http://web.archive.org/web/20190926030958/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/opinion/climate-strike.html

@modgethanc @Canageek that's a good idea!

Usually ppl just lock their frame, which doesn't keep the bike from falling over

@Canageek in Toronto, the publicly installed things you lock your bike to look like this: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/bicycle-parking/history-of-torontos-bike-ring/

You are supposed to lock your bike to the part of the post inside of the ring. Ideally, the seat tube, if the frame allows for it. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_Frame_Diagram-en.svg This is more secure and keeps the bike from falling over.

Many people lock their bike to the ring instead, which I find very annoying because their bikes fall over and make it hard for me to lock my bike properly.

That's it

(A frequent complaint of mine. Inspired by someone ranting about bike rack accessibility on Twitter) 🐘

Dear Torontonians: is life a little too hard, do you sometimes feel like you are being punished for some unknown transgression, do you have unusually bad luck

Try locking your bike to the Φ post instead of the ring! You may be surprised what a difference it makes!! #bikeTO

@vantablack thinkpad loves you

#Arachtober day 25: I don't think I've done a pirate spider so far! Spiders in this family, Mimetidae, specialize in eating other spiders, plucking at webs to lure out the occupants. I think this one is probably Mimetus puritanus. Only a few mm long in body length, found under a milkweed leaf in the garden. #DailySpiderPic

@storm what country do you live in? (will help to know what the good cheap brands are)