This is a Jesus Christ Lizard, named for its ability to walk on water when fleeing from its predator. Zoom in, check out the detail. The tiny green leaves on him are called Duck Weed.

ART: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1128775158/portrait-of-a-jesus-christ-lizard-matted?click_key=af4ec230d7776bfa5d617a129c8ac69e8d3abcbc%3A1128775158&click_sum=423c3b58&ref=hp_rv-1&frs=1

#Nature #Photography #reptiles #naturephotography #Art #Artist #MastoArt #pictureperfect #Wildlife #wildlifephotography

Elephant Wrestling Tanzania Africa. Maybe these two elephants in Tanzania were on the verge of fighting. Or maybe playing. After this photo was taken, there was some pushing back and forth, and some intertwining of trunks. It seemed more like playing or play-fighting.
See more here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/elephant-wrestling-tanzania-africa-joan-carroll.html #elephants #africa #tanzania #sunset #twilight #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animals #nature #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #TheArtDistrict #Travel #travelphotography #giftideas @joancarroll

#nature #flowers #photo #photography

5 Flower Pots
By Karla Gerard

#flowers #painting #art #mastoart

Allowing
By Vesna Delevska

#landscape #nature #art #painting #mastoart #flowers

fediverse protip: follow #catsofmastodon. it will improve your feed (and your life) drastically.

Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall

Image Credit & Copyright: Cari Letelier

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230704.html #APOD

Color Pulses
By Tatiana Yabloed

#landscape #nature #art #mastoart

Spring is in the Air
By Lindsey Kustusch

#birds #art #painting #mastoart

With this current surge of new people on Mastodon, keep an eye out for a surge in hate and targeted harassment (especially the sneaky type).

Not seeing anything major on this server, but a scan of certain hashtags and the federated timeline is showing a rise in racism, and targeted harassment (mostly sealioning) towards Muslim, Arab, Black and other peoples.

Reporting works here, mostly (some of the mega instances struggle at bit with moderating). So don't stay silent

Akkoma uses V1 filtering (as I suppose does Pleroma?) But Mastodon support V2 filtering. So, quite a few Mastodon apps seem to only consider supporting V2 filtering.

The app I'm working on now (which is a fork of IceCubes) is running into this issue at the moment. I can kind of get filtering working, but there are a lot of gotchas and edge cases ... Ah, the joys of coding .. or something 😛

#Coding #Akkoma #Fediverse #Clients #YayForDifferences

⚪ Ein "Wunderbarer Wunderbaum"
und... ein Lieblingsfoto.
🟤 A "Wonderful Wondertree"
and... a favorite photo. 🌲
📷 by Artist: #MariaTRodgers in Loc.: #Klamath CA USA 🇺🇸 - Title: "Huge tree holding another tree" #Streetart #Art #Mastoart Trees #Photography #Fotografie #WonderTree ➡️ #APhotoLove

Welcome to the #Fediverse. We track the following information about you for an optimized experience:

🎃 Jack
💩 Shit

#AmazingWorld
#London
#StPaul'sCathedral
https://www.facebook.com/groups/londonmyhome/permalink/1325450331373523/

It's pretty wild how many folks here automatically assume everyone is American. YEAH - NO. Most folks here aren't in US & never want to go (go back) there. I find it weird that everyone else I interact with, who isn't myopic American. Many of us think similar in that it seems most Americans never even considered us as part of an essential global blanket. Until quite recently. It's kinda - bittersweet.

I am once again encouraging #Fediverse #admins to add a clause to prohibit using their server’s data for machine training into their Terms of Use, because at some point in the near future there is likely going to be a lawsuit against some major company for scraping and exploiting users’ data, and we should make sure we have a legal leg to stand on.

Please ask your server’s admin to do this.

@seb please consider doing this. https://mastodon.world/@Chimaera/110652906429977656

Hello #WritingCommunity
Apparently #Google has changed their privacy policy and now says that they'll scrape everything you post online to train their AI tools.
I even post my #Fiction online on #Substack & my #Wordpress blog and now wonder if this is a bad idea.
They say paywalls could deter the scraping.
What do you think writers can do to protect their content? Or should we just roll over and accept that this is the way things will be from now on?

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

Do whatever you can to tell the author that you liked their book, if you indeed did. For those of us who aren't ever going to make a living at this, good reviews are the best thing we can reasonably expect to happen when it comes to our writing. I had a coworker tell me today she read Girl on the Moon and was "enthralled" and she's on book 2 now. It really made my day. #writing #WritingCommunity

Good – and I cannot stress this next part enough – evening.

I am really not ready for daylight. #photography