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Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

A stuffed simian. Posts auto-delete after 2 weeks.

Avatar alt-text: The head and upper torso of a stuffed gorilla. The gorilla is seated and its body is directed slightly towards the left. The head faces the same way but the gorilla is looking directly at the viewer.

Header alt-text: A 'Show Your Stripes' graph showing temperature anomalies for London since 1850, relative to a 1961 to 2010 baseline. The lines to the left are blue and become progressively redder to the right.


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Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

One of the many things I like about Japan is the gnomic mistranslations into English of the signage.

Kyoto, Japan, 2012.

#SilentSunday #Signage #Japan #JapaneseSigns

A hastily taken photo of a sign in a toilet - hey, I didn't want to look too weird - that has the same phrase in multiple scripts, including in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. The English translation states, "Please use a toilet finely" which is a tremendous sentiment under all toilet-use circumstances. The UK equivalent would state, "Please keep the toilet clean."
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

This is a reproduction of one of my earliest #FossilFriday posts on this platform (foolishly, I let them all auto-delete). It's the Missouri Leviathan. Aka the American Mastodon.

Now housed in the central hall of #NHMLondon, this fossil was unearthed as part of a 'graveyard' of #Mastodon fossils by Albert Koch in 1840.

It's fair to say that Koch, being a showman interested in making money, took some liberties with his reconstruction of the fossilised animals he had found...

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The American Mastodon (Mastodon americanum) on a large plinth in one of the bays in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London. The fossilised skeleton is seen from near face on, with the tusks of the animal curving up and above the viewer. The lighting in the bay causes shadows of the animal's ribcage to be cast onto the back wall and up onto the ribbed, arched ceiling of the bay. The colours of the bay comprise the brighly lit but muted yellows, greys and browns of the terracotta tiling and the black, grey and white of the mosaic floor tiling. A mother and her son are standing to the bottom right of the image, reading the sign for the display, with the Mastodon towering ominously above them. An older photo of the east side of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London, as viewed from the upper west side near the entrance at night. The scene is a mixture of shadow and brightly lit areas from spot and other lighting. The ornate, terracotta-tiled architecture dominates the photo, with columns, church-like alcoves, and arches curving across the view. In the bottom-left corner, an alcove is visible containing an elephant-like skeleton with its large head and curved tusks pointing out into the hall.
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

#Introduction

Hi, I'm Jonathan and I've only been using Mastodon for a few days. Like many other newbies to the platform, I started out on one of the large instances but have migrated here.

I've got an interest in #Tech, #Science, #History, #NaturalHistory, #Palaeontolgy, #Archaeology, #Museums, #Art and politics.

I'm not the most interesting person in the world but many of the people I follow will be, so there's that at least.

Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

By now you may have seen that the UK government is suggesting that one way to prevent drought is to delete old emails and pictures, all the while saying nothing about using AI and their own addiction to pushing it at every opportunity.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

Note that this isn't the first time they've done this - the screenshot is from this press release published in June:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

#UKPol #UKPolitics #Drought #UKGovernment

A screenshot showing part of the second press release linked to in my post. The final bullet point in a list of the "small steps the public can take" says, "Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers." It was as stupid a thing to say back then as it is now.
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

I disagree with everyone saying that there isn't a serious and debilitating crime wave in Washington DC.

To help out, here's where you can find it happening.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_House_north_and_south_sides.jpg

#USPol #USPolitics

The White House in Washington DC, showing its north and south sides. It's an ugly, oblong two-storey building with faux colonnades on both sides.
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

Every time I idly wonder how Smilodon or any other sabre-toothed cat could possibly open its mouth wide enough to bite into anything with such large teeth I see either my own cat - or a video of a cat - yawning and the doubt is removed.

#FossilFriday #SubToot

The skull of the Smilodon fatalis fossil at the Natural History Museum, London, showing its left side. The extra-long canines are curving down on the left and the first neck vertebra is on the right of the image. The skull has quite a pointy shape - more like a gannet's egg than a ball. White spots are visible across the image due to lights being reflected in the glass of the case that is housing the fossil. One is serendipitously within the eye socket of the skull, making it look like its eye is present and glowing.
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

One of the many things I like about Japan is the gnomic mistranslations into English of the signage.

Kyoto, Japan, 2012.

#SilentSunday #Signage #Japan #JapaneseSigns

A hastily taken photo of a sign in a toilet - hey, I didn't want to look too weird - that has the same phrase in multiple scripts, including in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. The English translation states, "Please use a toilet finely" which is a tremendous sentiment under all toilet-use circumstances. The UK equivalent would state, "Please keep the toilet clean."
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

This is a reproduction of one of my earliest #FossilFriday posts on this platform (foolishly, I let them all auto-delete). It's the Missouri Leviathan. Aka the American Mastodon.

Now housed in the central hall of #NHMLondon, this fossil was unearthed as part of a 'graveyard' of #Mastodon fossils by Albert Koch in 1840.

It's fair to say that Koch, being a showman interested in making money, took some liberties with his reconstruction of the fossilised animals he had found...

(1/5)

The American Mastodon (Mastodon americanum) on a large plinth in one of the bays in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London. The fossilised skeleton is seen from near face on, with the tusks of the animal curving up and above the viewer. The lighting in the bay causes shadows of the animal's ribcage to be cast onto the back wall and up onto the ribbed, arched ceiling of the bay. The colours of the bay comprise the brighly lit but muted yellows, greys and browns of the terracotta tiling and the black, grey and white of the mosaic floor tiling. A mother and her son are standing to the bottom right of the image, reading the sign for the display, with the Mastodon towering ominously above them. An older photo of the east side of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London, as viewed from the upper west side near the entrance at night. The scene is a mixture of shadow and brightly lit areas from spot and other lighting. The ornate, terracotta-tiled architecture dominates the photo, with columns, church-like alcoves, and arches curving across the view. In the bottom-left corner, an alcove is visible containing an elephant-like skeleton with its large head and curved tusks pointing out into the hall.
Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk

#Introduction

Hi, I'm Jonathan and I've only been using Mastodon for a few days. Like many other newbies to the platform, I started out on one of the large instances but have migrated here.

I've got an interest in #Tech, #Science, #History, #NaturalHistory, #Palaeontolgy, #Archaeology, #Museums, #Art and politics.

I'm not the most interesting person in the world but many of the people I follow will be, so there's that at least.