lies:

justanoldfashiontumblog:

@lies 🎵🎵🎵

I’m inclined to think this is a dark-eyed junco singing. At least that’s what I’d think if I heard that where I live, and I think DEJUs should also live where you made this recording. But it’s possible there’s some other species I don’t know that sounds similar.

Nope. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s a chipping sparrow. Which I have heard, and even have heard in the eastern Sierra not far from Great Basin National Park, so I should have known better. But I don’t hear them a lot, and I was being lazy. Apologies.

How I figured it out: I actually looked at the video, and realized I could see the bird. Not particularly well, but well enough to be pretty sure it wasn’t a dark-eyed junco. So I tried playing the recording for Merlin Sound ID, which initially had no suggestions, but when I updated the location of the recording to Nevada it immediately suggested chipping sparrow.

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trying-something-old:

Alright, this is by far the best image my favorite customer shared with me. He is always providing good laughs—one of the many reasons why he’s my favorite customer.

Omg. So many lies.

I love it.

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moreanarchy:

jarofblades:

The sleeping lady, Alaska

[Image Description] Digital art titled “Winter Sleep”, created by Jean-Michel Bihorel, mislabeled as “The sleeping lady, Alaska [sic]”. The image depicts a top-view of a mountain, shaped as a nude woman, sleeping on her stomach, with her hair spread out above her, and her head resting on her folded arm. [End Image Description]

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queenstravelingdarling:

andy-kandy:

These are what pranks should be….

My heart would have came out my chest!!!

Am I the only person who can’t fully enjoy these without assessing the likelihood that the mark was in the know, i.e., that the surprise reveal was staged?

In this one it’s the camera person that makes me suspicious. The mark never acknowledges that there’s someone standing there a few inches away filming the whole thing. But he must be aware of that. I suppose you could have set up the prank by desensitizing him to that over a period of time. But on balance I think it’s more likely the scene was staged.

It’s almost ALWAYS more likely the scene was staged. It’s a cynical view, I realize. But you have to ask yourself: which would have been easier to achieve? An actual prank with an unaware mark? Or a faux prank in which the mark is pretending?

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gacougnol:

Frank Hurley
Flashlight taken during the Polar Night,
“The Spectre Ship”
c. 1911

c. 1911 only in the sense that the southern winter of 1915, which is when Hurley took this photo of Endurance trapped in the Antarctic ice, is sort of adjacent to the year 1911.

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sixpenceee:

Jupiter’s moons, as seen by Cassini

The comments offer an interesting example of how Tumblr posts accumulate folklore.

Yes, it’s Cassini that took the source images, even though Cassini was known mainly for its ultimate destination, Saturn. It did an earlier flyby of Jupiter (and before that, Earth and Venus — twice!) on its way there.

Kevin M. Gill made this video, which is technically more of an animation, since he made it by using a small number of source images and shifting elements to create interpolated frames. You can spot the artifacts if you look closely near the moons, which are Io (the reddish one) and Europa.

More here: https://twitter.com/kevinmgill/status/1054422462312570880

https://twitter.com/kevinmgill/status/1054422462312570880?s=21

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dendroica:

ariannblack:

Spotted Towhees live in dry habitats. Some scientists have suggested that the bold white spots on Spotted Towhees’ backs help them blend in to the sun-dappled undergrowth. I love the way the orange blends into the yellow on the chest.
Thanks for that fun fact @allaboutbird

@birds_adored @nature_worldwide_birds @birds.dailyy @nuts_about_birds @birds_perfection @bird_brilliance @cornellbirds @best_birds_of_ig @birdsonearth @birds.nature @birdingvi @wonderfulvancouverisland

#birder #birding #bird #birds #bird_watchers_daily #bird_captures #birds_bees_flowers_n_trees #birding_lounge #birdsofinstagram #bird_lovers #birds_nature #birdshots #nature #explorevancouverisland #westcoasttrail #birdsofvancouverisland #cornelllabofornithology #audubonsociety #hikingadventure #whatisee (at Holland Creek Trail)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxk9wQWnYvq/?igshid=6i439slzi7ax

This looks like a Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus).

If you go to her Instagram she corrected “Spotted Towhee” to “Black-headed Grosbeak”, but she left the Spotted Towhee fun fact that she copied from AllAboutBirds.org more or less intact, so it now tells you that “some scientists have suggested that the bold white spots on their [Black-headed Grosbeaks’] backs help them blend in to the sun-dappled undergrowth.” Who knew? 😜

But it is a nice photo.

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thechicagoovercoat:

A woman trying to get a goose into a car, 1920s.

This is such a Tumblrism. Look at the notes and count how many times people have taken the time to correct the original misidentification. Fairly sure the OP knew full well it wasn’t a goose, but also knew the post would have way more memetic reach this way.

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thechicagoovercoat:

A woman trying to get a goose into a car, 1920s.

This is such a Tumblrism. Look at the notes and count how many times people have taken the time to correct the original misidentification. Fairly sure the OP knew full well it wasn’t a goose, but also knew the post would have way more memetic reach this way.

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quotemadness:

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It’s been a while since I did one of these. It’s a really nice line, and Liv Tyler delivers it awesomely in the movie. But it’s not Tolkien.

Well, at least it’s not this particular Tolkien. Though maybe it was his distant relative, Just Kidding Kidding Tolkien?

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just-call-me-red-chan:

baku:

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

what’s she celebrating

she got promoted, shes now top manager! 

I’m proud of her!!

She’s a male.

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mb57:

fourcornersguy:

Cactus Wren

Tucson, Arizona

I spied this little cactus wren hiding in a thicket of cacti at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Inca Dove

Yup. This is certainly where a Cactus Wren might hang out, but that is very much an Inca Dove.

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Lying caption removed.

This is an adorable baby rail. Say it with me: RAAAAAAAAAIL.

It’s cute-as-button precocial, rather than only-a-mother-could-love altricial.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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thalassarche:

Common Raven (Corvus corax), parent with nestlings – photo by Vadim Ivushkin

Baby crows and ravens hatch naked and helpless, and over the course of a few weeks grow to near their parents’ size as their feathers come in. Any image of a small fluffy black bird labeled as a “baby crow” or “baby raven” is a totally different bird. The most common images mislabeled are actually rail or crake chicks, which are wetlands birds not even remotely related to crows and ravens. 

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lies:

If you zoom in you can see the trail of a bunny and what I think was probably either two coyotes or (my guess) the same coyote twice.

Snow is cool.

Upon further review the decision on the field is overturned; the OP’s tags indicate that this was taken in Poland. The “coyote” was almost certainly a dog (or two dogs). Half the distance to the goal line; still third down.

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ok, well, but, no, because…..“mendesperry??” says nothing about the fact that they did not create?? this masterful juxtaposition??? like, “fame,” come on, there is no fame, not for the right person (me), not for the hero of this story (me), only for Villainous Mendesperry, a THIEF with 120 times the Twitter followers i have, A COMMON THIEF!!!!!

reddit? oh good, another – another fuckin, liar, making this successful niche joke, with MY screenshot and someone else’s stock photos that I GOOGLED? come on. i, i am, i’m the one who, i found the funny pictures and made them be next to each other, me, an artist!!!! 

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dendroica:

Clapper Rail chick (by me)

First time for everything. Today was the first time I’ve ever seen a baby rail in a tumblr post, scrolled down, and did not find it being misidentified as a baby crow.

To make your day complete, have an actual baby crow to go with it:

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pondwitch:

god help us

Following up mostly to Mary’s tags:

#how did they not anticipate this???#Pokemon Go

PokemonGoTech is a parody account. It isn’t affiliated with Niantic/Nintendo. So those aren’t likely to be real numbers.

It’s true the game has been down a fair amount, especially at times of high activity. The last bad meltdown was Saturday morning on the US east coast, when the bulk of the US trainer population, having looked forward all week to getting some quality Go time in on their day off before it got too hot (there’s currently a heat wave over much of the US), tried to play all at once.

For what it’s worth, a highly-respected-by-me sysadmin/devops person (not at Niantic, but people talk) was saying that the scuttlebutt she’s heard is that it’s not really a server-scaling issue, because the server side of PGo is running in the Google Cloud and if it was just a question of spinning up more servers that would be easy. It is, rather, a “code is hard to shard across servers” issue; i.e., a software design limitation. In still other words, the system, while clearly doing some pretty impressive things in terms of handling a mind-boggling amount of activity, wasn’t so well-designed that it could actually scale smoothly all the way up to the current level of demand.

So that’s a software issue, and getting it diagnosed, fixed, tested, and deployed is the kind of thing that’s going to take more time than just turning up a dial.

I suspect that the “bugs” of the Nearby tray in the app becoming random/useless and the capture location maps no longer loading are in fact intentional steps they’ve taken to lessen the demands of the application. That is, they’ve intentionally degraded the game by turning those features off in order to lessen the system’s back end requirements while they scramble to fix the larger problem.

It’s probably going to take at least a while longer before things are running smoothly. I appreciate what they’re doing to keep things afloat as best they can in the meantime. I’ve always liked walking around outside, so if I end up having to put my phone away and enjoy reality unaugmented, that’s okay with me. :-)

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sixpenceee:

An eerie photograph of Sparrows over the Netherlands.

(Image Source)

Starlings, not sparrows. But yeah. Wild.

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dendroica:

skabilan1974:

I get a few great poses from the various local sparrow species #birdsofinstagram #birds #birding #wildlife #ottawa

I’m pretty sure this is a Pine Siskin.

Absolutely a siskin. I was pouncing at my keyboard to make the same call.

Learn your beaks, birders. Plumage lies. Beaks tell the truth.

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