home.social

#shoutout — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shoutout, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Sasu @[email protected] ·

    A shout-out to the #Cornell #Lab of #Ornithology (birds.cornell.edu/home/) for meaningfully enhancing my experience of being outside and noticing birds, especially #eBird (ebird.org/) and Merlin Bird ID (merlin.allaboutbirds.org/).

    I started using their resources a few weeks ago because I wanted to support my daughter's interest in birds. At first, it was a bit of a slog to go through the effort of identifying the birds I was seeing and hearing, but now I've started being able to recognize a few birds by sound and appearance without having to check and it's a really wonderful experience — the world seems suddenly to have become much more lively and all that has changed is that I've started noticing some of the birds around me.

    Two examples from this morning:

    - Walking to a place to run an errand, I heard two Eurasian jays making a racket. I'd never knowingly seen them in that street before. It was quite exciting to recognize them by sound and then see them so close.
    - Then, on the way back from that errand in the same street, there was a (to me large-seeming, probably at least a dozen) cloud of tits moving together in a sort of flying leapfrog fashion from tree to tree in the same direction I was walking. It was a little bit like being part of the group. The group was composed mostly Eurasian blue tits, but there were also at least a couple of long-tailed tits (which Merlin helped me to identify by sound (and my first conscious encounter with the species)) in the group. It was joyful to see how lively they were and listen to them chatter to each other as I walked.

    And all of this is without any specialized equipment, not even binoculars. Just my own senses and memory, plus my smartphone for the identification help and checklist tracking if I'm in the mood & have the capacity.

    I'm reminded of this #quote :

    > "People protect what they love."
    > (to the best of my knowledge said by) Jacques Cousteau

    #CornellLabofOrnithology #CornellOrnithologyLab #birds #bird #Merlin #MerlinBirdID #BirdID #shoutout #EurasianJay #BlueTit #EurasianBlueTit #LongTailedTit #LongTailedBushtit #birding #birdwatching

    #cornell #lab #ornithology #ebird #quote #cornelllabofornithology
  2. vivi @[email protected] ·
    CW: lewd shitpost

    @[email protected] hey,

    i just wanted to say     #thankyou for spoilering this joke with the appropriate heading. i struggle severely with understanding what people mean due to undiagnosed autism, diagnosed adhd and just generally being where i am from, so if i had read “ [quake announcer voice] CRITICAL NUT” on the global tl without the heading i would have been pretty confused. how can nuts be critical? what kind of nuts are we talking about? why is the quake announcer saying this? why is this person posting this, is she being serious, if yes, about what?

    however, after trying really hard, i likely would have probably figured out that this was a lewd joke. and i mean. LEWD. like this is some pretty raunchy stuff. like     #WOW. like imagine scrolling past a post like this on the tl in public. i would probably have caught some pretty disapproving looks, AT BEST. like honestly this is some pretty crazy stuff taht i dont want to just JUMP in my face like that probably in the same vein as gore or someone posting hole

    but that would have not even be the worst thing. because even worse, for me personally this probably would have triggered a full bore trauma response upon realizing it was a lewd joke. like i am one of the many trauma havers that is pretty sensitive about this stuff, so someone mentioning nut like this would have me lose my mind (however being reminded of the topic of lewd stuff is completely and utterly fine so keep on doing those)

    it sucks that spoilers are what we need to resort to, because the "lewd shitpost" spoilers ruin most comedic timing and usually arent very funny. but there is just no better way. some of my friends have told me "vivi i dont think you should go online if youre on this much of a hairtrigger" or "vivi you can just add nut to filtered/muted words or whatever" but like. this would just mute normal uses of the word nut. like what if my friends are talking about macadamia nuts? i would miss their conversation (which would not trigger anything in me either)

    anyway just wanted to give you this quick     #shoutout and say #goodjob . keep on tooting in the free world and lmk if you are in the portland/seattle area and want to buy a used couch

    #thankyou #wow #shoutout #goodjob