Notices by Rob🫟 (robchapman@ohai.social)

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe

#DigitalArchive #Science #NaturalWorld #Learning #Heritage #Conservation #BioDiversity #Library

@EUCommission How about as a starting point you all leave the nazi bar, sorry that's what normal decent folk who don't post at Nazi Bar call X, you know that site that you're all still posting to, in fact you are all still paying money to be verified, so that you can post there...so you are ALL essentially funding the disgusting picture generation in the first place!

Good morning peeps 🌞🌅

Fresh and Humid morning 🌡️23°c, 91% humidity, feels like 28°c at 🕔0555 hrs

Short sunrise 5k,. around my locale - I tend to not run many actual 5k's, but I wanted a short and sweet one for my active recovery. I forgot how undulating this route is,. it's not ideal for fast running for that reason, and because it's too busy, with too many tourists, and the local septuagenarian walking groups

Still, it was a nice all the same

#BarefootRunning #VibramFiveFingers #Running

Still, the Mediterranean sea
Shimmers like a moonlit mirror
Reflecting hidden beauty
With its island jewels
Sun soaked aplenty
Exotic tastes
From Corsairs
Plundered
Chests

#nonet #micropoetry #poetry #poetrylovers #WritingCommunity #Mediterranean #Malta

@GreenSkyOverMe that's weird

@aral All A.I, all of it, every drive, data centre, backup, needs erasing from the face of the Earth!

Etm.

(abbr.) Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit", specifically "et merda*.

#WritingCommunity #Words

Yutori

The conscious act of slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us.

#WritingCommunity #Words

@joeo10 @jswright61 Yes, indeed

With this news of the #internetarchive being hacked, and more email addresses, being stolen by Nappy clad assholes!

Now is a good time to remind people to change passwords on things like email or use services such as https://maildrop.cc/ (an email account to nowhere) to sign up to things like this.

Also https://bitwarden.com/password-strength/ is a good service if you want to see if your potential password is strong and how long it would take to crack. (no login requird)
#Security #Privacy #Passwords #HIBP

@jswright61 It's very useful, especially to sign up to apps, or get past those - enter email address to continue, irritations

@aral It is already a crime, something that many media agencies have been (for what ever their motivation) wilfully failing to report.

Israel is already one of of 127 signatory's of Protocol II of the United Nations 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons,
Protocol II prohibits in all circumstances the use of booby-traps in apparently harmless portable objects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices

Couple wake up to a strange noise and find SHEEP on their roof

There's a video in the article

#Rochdale #Sheep #sheepofmastodon #ManchesterEveningNews

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/couple-wake-up-strange-noise-29754586

@emarktaylor Because the Green party quietly improve the towns where they have had an MP (E.G Caroline Lucas in Brighton) while Reform (Nay Brexit Party) have got Farage, who is a conman pretending to be working class man of the people who sold the Brexit lie

Well, started the day with a 10k (10.63km to be precise) which was fantabulosa!!

I'm always a bit self conscious when it comes to sharing my running times...mainly because I've had to dial back pace, or else face long spells Injured, and now I run like a tortoise through peanut butter. However today was the best I've felt running for a long time....Hopefully my days writing will be as smooth and enjoyable.
#run #running #Malta #FridayFeeling #Motivation #writers #writingcommunity

@GreenSkyOverMe isright🤣

@stux @mail.ru a good one to add to the domain block list... time to update the CSV file

Does anyone else find that sometimes it is so hard to write the opening sentence of a story?

Or is it just me who can literally spend hours typing various opening words and then deleting them, and doing it over and over and over again, before the right words in the right order are assembled on the page.

#writingcommunity #IamWriting

@MoonlightBard ohai.social if you're stuck...nice over here, I have no problems anyway, and as long as you use #writingcommunity and #mastowriter tags at the very least you'll not miss engaging with anyone.

@MoonlightBard Cost is a big factor as well as time on running an instance...However switching is really simple, if you get stuck @feditips has good clear instructions via their #fediverse website at https://fedi.tips but if you need help, just say the word.