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Wow, big guy! And what a colour!
Also mate may I suggest alt texting your images? Lotta people on bsky won't repost or like if there's no alttext - accessibility for all - might help you pick up more traction. You can set your settings to not let you post w/o alttext, so you'll never forget.
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Oh I totally believe that. I could do it, i'd just...really rather not.
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You know when people talk about community organising? That is exactly how i feel about extroverts being the glue. Do NOT make me talk to twenty people to organize a project, just let me rock up and do what i do well.
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I am very much not fond of the IRI, but popping off a war is not the freaking way, jesus christ.
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Those queens putting their skins on the line. (Showing your face to the mad king who hates your people? Wild.) Huge props.
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Actual cackling over this thread
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With respect I submit that the BBC radio play is the best adaptation in all media
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4. "Get a local expert"
Depending on which taxa we're talking about, it's likely that one of the two experts retired last week, and the other replies to emails every 2 months. Connecting with chronically online potential experts (who are likely to have a stash of papers to share) on iNat is faster.
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3. "Find academic papers"
A lot of the species I work with were described (surprise, surprise) by Europeans in the 1800s. Nobody has physical copies here. Sometimes I have to pester museum friends in the US/UK/NL to talk to their librarians to get me a copy. This is roundabout and takes weeks.
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2. "Just use physical guidebooks"
Same as above. The guidebooks don't always exist. Hell, I'm one of the people who work regularly on making guidebooks or identification sheets and I do need external references because the photos my field experts send me are potato quality. (see my fish hell thread)
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1. "Just use bugguide/fishbase"
This is very North America/Europe centric. A big chunk of the world doesn't have any kind of online database. Here in Southeast Asia, the only "repositories" of wildlife pics are photographer groups on FB and Instagram, both are bad at searchability.
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Kinda tracks with ants not eating fries or chips!
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No, but...why GENERATIVE AI? Machine learning/artificial neural networks, trained on iNat's dataset with consent of contributors, would work fine. No?? Like there are lots of great image recognition AI use cases that don't involve genAI nonsense...
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Maybe guy panicked if folks have really threatened his family. Actual Stasi shit.
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Why is EVERYTHING undergoing enshittification? Man fuck this shit.
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Well said and thank you. They really did not absorb the lessons of never again.
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Man you guys are the best mod team. Ain't many (any?) other subs with the same quality.
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And most civilian populations don't have NEAR the number of guns as America...
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What d'you mean "diverted", AP? AND WHO DID THE "DIVERTING"?
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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Yea i would have guessed a rempah too!
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God, i miss Gathara's thread. I see you're being the change you want to see though!
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I use udm14.com which routes your search to Google plus a term which switches off the "AI"; who knows how long it will keep working.
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All things considered, peaceful protests are preferable. But a protest doesn’t become illegitimate if there’s violence, especially when the state is already using violence and escalating.
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Followed. Where have all our starterpacks gone? #plantsky
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ABO?? Who's which?
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Transgender natures: [agreeable nodding]
Predator aliens: [record scratch]
I joke, it's pretty cool stuff. Thanks for sharing!
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I don't know about allies. Ecofash is still fash. And anyone that seriously supports the destruction of USAID, especially how callously it was done and its attendant consequences, is pretty much on that side of the river.
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Ah, tropical creatures!
I have been known to bask in tropical sun. At noon. Like a herp getting some good shit in.