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Jonathan T
@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
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. 3525f2524b539fc9.png 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. 1e98d16cfd2f9968.jpeg 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. 0ee927f646ad8803.jpeg 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." 2e8fe4236134708b.jpeg 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. 8df8900e0318d48b.jpeg 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. ce7d47cd4fc3a963.jpeg