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Auckland, New Zealand - February 2024

#bird #birds #sparrow #PasserDomesticus

A turkey in a tree! This guy was settling in for the night as I came along with my camera

Image description: A scrub turkey, surrounded by leaves, sitting in a tree

Kedron Brook, Brisbane, Australia - January 2025

Thanks to our amazing @supakaity, we are now running lemmy 0.19.8!

We now also have a Tesseract front end that you can use to access blahaj lemmy at https://tes.lemmy.blahaj.zone/. Just login with your regular lemmy login

The current mods are long term inactive. I'm looking for one or two new mods to take over the community. Bonus points if you have a blåhaj account.

Image description: A plumed egret, with its feathers fluffed up is being swooped by a pied stilt. The stilt is airborne, and its head is hidden behind the body of the egret. The setting is a grassy wetland, with a body of water between the photographer and the birds

For those who don't want to follow the existing 196 community move, some community members have made an alternative community on blahaj.zone

I am not directly involved in the new community, but I'm happy to share it for those looking for a blahaj based alternative.

[email protected]

Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis)

Archerfield Wetlands, Queensland, Australia - June 2024

Image description: A small olive-green and grey finch with a red stripe across its brow sits on a branch of a small, scrubby and leafless plant, surrounded by branches and seedpods. Two other finches are partially visible, obscured by the branches

I'm seeing weird results with my heart rate strap. My ground contact time is really low, but my vertical oscillation is really high! One indicates good form, the other indicates bad form. My subjective experience is that my vertical oscillation is low, but my garmin disagrees.

And I think the reason why is the movement of my breasts. I think they're moving the sensor itself, and confusing its measurements.

Is that actually a thing? I've tried to find research or people talking about it, but all I can find is discussion on the impact of breasts on actual running performance, rather than on the measurement of it.

I've been waiting until after Christmas day to make this post, but some of our communities recently have had a lot of noise and upset over someone that uses neopronouns that most people are unfamiliar with.

So I want to make this clear. A persons pronouns are to be respected. This is true when the user is using neopronouns that you're unfamiliar with. It's true even if you think someone is trolling. Pronouns are not rewards for good behaviour. They aren't only to be respected when you like the person you're interacting with, or if their pronouns "make sense" to you. Trolls, spammers, twitter users, it doesn't matter who they are, your options are to respect their pronouns, or to not engage with them.

I really want to re-iterate the importance of this. Gender diverse folk are undermined, invalidated and questioned at every step of our lives. As a community, we need to be working to undo that, not creating more of it, and that means there is no space for treating pronouns (including neopronouns) as a reward for good behaviour.

This isn't a free reign for trolls and spammers. The rules still apply. Trolling, spamming, etc will continue to be dealt with, but it's not an excuse to act as if respecting someones pronouns is optional.

~~If you're a regular lemmy user, with history in this sub, and ideally, with a blahaj.zone based account, and you're interested in moderating this community, please drop me a DM or comment below~~

New moderation is in place

I've got an image noise reduction app that I simply can't get working under linux, and that I can't find an equivalent tool for under linux.

I've tried VMs and wine and none of them work. My web searches haven't encountered anyone that can make it work either.

So, I'm at the point where I may need to boot in to windows to do my noise reduction. However, I would really love to be able to access my existing linux install via a VM or the like when I do so, so that I can access my daily driver software (which is all linux) whilst I'm in windows.

Is such a thing possible?

I rode the new bike out off road, through grass tussocks and all sorts of bumps to get this viewpoint!

Image description: A pied stilt standing on the edge of water in a marsh/wetlands area. The bird is leaning forward and down, with its head and beak pointed towards the ground and its wings slightly aflutter

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #wetlands