Blue Heron @BlueHeron@mstdn.social

If you drink coffee, how do you take it?

Monday 15th will be #WorldHippoDay
They are third largest land mammals after elephants and rhinos.

A group of hippos is bloat.

This song sparrow was nicknamed "friend".

Six animal hospitals refused to treat it because it was wild. The rescue hotline helped make it comfortable.

Saudi Arabia releases prominent women’s rights activist from prison as Biden presses kingdom on human rights.

Loujain al-Hathloul, was released from prison on Wednesday, her sister said. Hathloul had been in custody since May 2018, when she was arrested as part of a government crackdown targeting female activists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/saudi-hathloul-prison-biden/2021/02/10/da6315c4-6bc1-11eb-a66e-e27046e9e898_story.html

Neat film about The Bird Genoscape Project, where researchers collect bird feathers so they can sequence DNA to map out where different populations of birds migrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p43ksRgIlk

Good night everyone sweet dreams

In #Kenya's Lake Nakuru there are close to 1 million Flamingo birds

Some things to do in town this afternoon. And took a pic:

#photo #townscape #Wismar ##LübscheStraße

There's always light
if only we're brave enough to see it
if only we're brave enough to be it
-Amanda Gorman
#Inauguration2021

I love #rachelmaddow

Also, his proximity to the nuclear codes is probably not a worry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_RDUSuY6a4&list=TLPQMTQwMTIwMjHLv9G2jacZ7g&index=8

Hashtags can be difficult for blind people's screen readers, because the reading software may have trouble telling the words apart in the tag.

✅ You can make hashtags screen reader friendly by using "CamelCase", where each word in the tag begins with a capital letter.

For example, #DogsOfMastodon is fine but #dogsofmastodon may cause problems.

#FediTips #MastoTips #Accessibility #A11y #Hashtags #ScreenReaders

from Jon Ossoff

"US Senate candidate, GA
Georgia residents, you have THREE days to register to vote for this election.

Share this far and wide."

Lion King #Caturday

cats like to be in any place that's at all "special". this goes beyond simply liking to be on top of things or laying in the sun: there was an internet trend a while ago where cat owners would make a circle out of tape on the floor, and then take pictures when their cat inevitably decided that it was time for them to sit inside of the circle. any patch of ground that looks different, a cat wants to be there

i cannot think of any other animal where evolution selected for "easily trapped"