Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Today's animal is! Hespiornis. an early, and wholly flightless, bird highly adapted to a diving, similar to a loon. It had teeth towards the back of its mouth like many early birds. If, like loons, the ankle of the bird is embedded in the body wall than the animal could not have walked, and would have locomoted on land like a Phocid seal.

Artist is the wonderful john conway. http://johnconway.co/hesperornis-regalis

I'm setting up a strawman by implying that any reasonable person might hold this view, but if you think that character encodings aren't political https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/big-tech-warns-japan-millennium-bug-y2k-emperor-akihito-abdication (repeated from last boost)

@DialMforMara these are all the vowels, excepting the special character ŷ which represents the sounds /jʉ:/ (as in the start of "union")

"We're pirates of the seven seas!"
"Which ones?"
"Uh, Mediterranean, Caribbean, the Dead Sea, the South China Sea (but not the North), Hudson Bay, the Sea of Tranquility, and the Holy See."

"...."

"Look, we get around, okay?"

pet peeves: Slack, Discord and other applications with "loading" screens that steal focus *twice* during startup

this is especially irksome because Slack and Discord in particular take a while to start up, so you end up either having to get focus back to something else *twice* or waiting for ~10 seconds unable to do anything else while they finish starting up

This tiny little floating piece of fluff turned out to be a winged Wooly Aphid. I got a photo as it perched on a toothpick-diameter fence wire.