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A Sapphire Flutterer (Rhyothemis triangularis) spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector on 24 Feb 2024. I wasn't expecting to find it in the area. I had to wait for this one to quit fluttering about before I managed to get shots of it.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Insects #Dragonflies #Odonata

A medium size dragonfly with a blue body. Its wings are transparent, except for the part near the body, which is also a brilliant, sapphire blue.
Same description as first image.
Same description as first image.
#Photography #nature #insects #inaturalist #dragonflies #odonata

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The Tildeverse is a minimalistic community-driven Internet experience without the commercial bloatware
#blog #technology #retro #tildeverse

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Lastres, Asturias, the town of the serious doctor Mateo. byteseu.com/420741/ #España #Spain
Lastres, Asturias, the town of the serious doctor Mateo.
#sPAIN #españa

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Die Saison fängt wieder an.
Zwei silberne Trommeln im Vordergrund, die auf dem Boden stehen. Im Hintergrund sieht man Spieler auf dem Feld.

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Western media completely ignored this story or if they ever reported it, they failed to mention his video about the ongoing #genocide in #Gaza.


He is the 5th person setting himself on fire to protect the ongoing genocide and disgusting media chosing to ignore or hide it.

#Palestine #Media #Censorship #Protest #US #USNews #USPolitics

#censorship #Media #Palestine #Gaza #protest #US #USPolitics #genocide #usnews

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The white-faced ibis on the wetland trail, foraging amongst the water smartweed.
Photo of an ibis standing in left-facing profile in bright, blue, highly reflective water surrounding by Monet-like clusters of pink-flowered green shoots of water smartweed. The ibis is a lanky, slender bird with darkly iridescent green wings (this one with a bright spot of dark red on the lower shoulder), a long, ruddy brown neck, a striking red eye, and a long, decurved bill that arcs down from eir face like a small scythe.
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Another amongst-the-smartweed picture from my wetland hike this weekend: Snowy egret. #EgretsIveHadAFew
Photo of a small, white heron standing in a pond of strikingly blue, reflective water up to just before eir legs meet eir snowy knickers. The elegant bird, a snowy egret, is standing in right-facing profile, long, white wings tucked demurely back over eir tail and proud head a poised "ess," eir vivid yellow eye wide and quietly wild where it rests just above the bright orange lores and short, black, sword-like bill. You can see part of eir reflection in the water below em, and all around are mirrored pairs of the water smartweed--leafy green leaf blades here and there dotted with nubby pink tufts of flower and looking like a (surprisingly unfuzzy) Impressionist painting.
#egretsivehadafew

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#birds mountain chickadee getting plump before snow flies
A mountain chickadee on a Doug fir branch
#birds

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In Jurassic Park (the book) they talk about the Cray X-MP supercomputer, so of course I looked it up.

It was released in 1982, featured among other things 128 MB RAM, up to 38 GB of storage and 4 CPUs running at about 100 MHz.

It was the most powerful computer in the world up until 1985 and cost about 15 million dollars.

Of course nowadays your phone is more capable than this beast.

Photo of a Cray X-MP supercomputer, showing several tall cabinet-like racks in a circle, painted in black and red.

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Latest #Pacman R7.0 changes a few files after upgrade that require manual intervention, here's how to apply them. #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #ArchLinux

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#Linux #opensource #foss #archlinux #pacman

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@IceCubesApp Thank you for the quick update after iceCubes crashed since the last release.

#opensource

#opensource @IceCubesApp
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A few birds from near home, Grant Park, NY., yesterday late afternoon... Please see alt-text for captions
Red-eyed Vireo, perched on a branch eating a berry
Late afternoon sun-burnished Osprey perched on a snag
Gray Catbird, partially among some leaves, eating a berry
American Crow perched on a tall snag

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Brush tailed possum caught on my wildlife camera recently.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BrushTailedPossum #marsupial

A black and white photo of an animal the size of a large cat standing on a rock. It has a brushy tail and stout legs with decent (tree climbing) claws.
#australianwildlife #marsupial #WildOz #BrushTailedPossum

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Australasian Swamphens, Riverdale Park
Large black and blue rail with chick

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We need your help. Like many organizations right now, the FSF is suffering from inflation. Gift an FSF associate membership: my.fsf.org/gift-a-membership

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Capitalism is the best system possible according to every billionaire we surveyed.
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one of the problems is that we have crony capitalism vs theoretically perfectly free flowing capitalism. I'm not convinced that alternatives to capitalism are any better, though. People kinda suck when they get in positions of power, no matter what the system is.
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@Aral Balkan We’ve seen an increase in them here in New Zealand recently. They certainly aren’t all driven by tradies who need them for tools and materials at construction sites. And you can’t see past them at intersections, which I’m sure increases the number of accidents. Totally unnecessary for most people.
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Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says
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In case you missed it, last month on #iNaturalistNZ we had the second confirmed record of a fruit bat in NZ.

An Australian Little Red Flying-Fox was seen alive, then later recovered dead, in Blenheim in NZ's South Island, about 2,000 km from home.

The previous sighting was an unfortunate bat that crossed the Tasman only to get electrocuted on a power line in Hamilton, around 1928.

inaturalist.nz/observations/23…

#iNaturalist #bats #LongDistanceDispersal #RareSpecies #nature

#nature #inaturalist #bats #iNaturalistNZ #longdistancedispersal #rarespecies
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Eastern mantis orchids - Caladenia tentaculata - starting to unfurl in Croajingalong NP, Victoria. These coastal plants in eastern VIC generally have smaller, more upright flowers (with more rigid sepals) than typical forms and can resemble the northern species C. atrovespa which is found further inland at higher altitudes.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #EastGippsland #InTheField #Nature #Caladenias #SpiderOrchids

Eastern mantis orchids starting to flower in Croajingalong National Park, Victoria - spring 2024.
#Photography #nature #spring #ecology #biodiversity #botany #orchids #ozplants #eastgippsland #inthefield #caladenias #spiderorchids

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Look at the eyes of this supercool wasp!

Species: Tachytes guatemalensis, seen @cowboycatranch

#Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Insects #Wasp #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Texas

Large wasp with black body, silver rings between the segments of its abdomen, red legs and wings, and prominent yellow-green eyes.
#Texas #Photography #nature #insects #wildlife #wasp #naturephotography #wildlifephotography @CCR Feline Research Center
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