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  1. A big old banyan tree with a nice thick trunk that lives down the street from me. I have had my photo taken standing inside the middle of it, but it feels like the whole tree is going to swallow you. #ThickTrunkTuesdays #trees #photography #blackandwhite #bwphotography #nature #photography

  2. Saw the #ThickTrunkTuesdays, #ThickTrunkTuesday, #TreeTrunkTuesdays & #TreeTrunkTuesday tag in my feed and found the exact right moment to post this photo (which is somehow 20 years old) of young Jack with my arborist turned accountant father standing on a redwood stump when we lived in California. And the next job he had after this took us from California to Michigan was a nonprofit nursery devoted to repopulating the earth with redwoods!

    #Redwood #GiantRedwood #RedwoodForest #Arborist

  3. Hashtags are intrinsically terrible for search results.

    This is because they're easily hijacked. Here's a case in point.

    #ThickTrunkTuesdays is the biggest trending hashtag on mastodon.social right now when I look it up, what's the first result?

    This post about grills.

    Why is this the first result? Because a spammer co-opted #ThickTrunkTuesdays. He knows that hashtags are unmoderated. Nothing is preventing him from using hashtags for spam.

    Search is broken on Mastodon.

  4. Taken many years ago, this is the stump of a sequoia. The human is added for perspective.
    #thicktrunktuesdays #thicktrunk #trees

  5. @RVLara23 #thicktrunktuesdays is very weird indeed. Fun for a one-time thing, but every week....?

  6. Here's another "I'm a journalist, and spent a week using Mastodon" article.

    This one stars Sarah Palmer, who—in a comedy of errors—found herself on sdf.org.

    To her horror, Sarah soon discovered that #ThickTrunkTuesdays was not what she expected it to be.

    A key complaint of Sarah's is that posts are called "toots"—this is wrong, she says, because elephants trumpet.

    Oh Sarah, you innocent soul, if only you knew the real reason they're called "toots" 😇

    euronews.com/next/2022/12/08/a

  7. Does this Big Banyan count for #thicktrunktuesdays?
    (Although it's Wednesday now)

    The Dodda Aalamara (Big Banyan tree) from near Bangalore

    #thicctrunk