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TwilightGarden

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Bipolar, Dogs.
Puttering in the garden until the sun sets.

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In my best David Attenborough voice: "Dobermans, like many beetles, display their distress, dehydration, and lack of food by turning upside down. If found, protect from enemies, mist gently, reorient gently onto its belly, and offer cheese or ground beef. Be cautious about flailing legs when turning them over."

Large Doberman upside down on a blue couch.
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With a humming feeder, you get hummingbirds. Then you get the nectar feeders who can't hover, so you add little white caps for their sugar water. Then you get the big nectar feeders whose balance on the twine spills all the sugar water, so your friend adds a brace for the feeder. Then the lizards notice you've provided them a bridge to the feeder.

When the tanager hordes arrive and you spend the entire weekend protecting the humming feeder and the hummingbirds and the sucriers and the orioles and the lizards from them - using a hose - that's when you realise you're in way too deep.

The hummingbirds are unperturbed though.

A hummingbird with a very long beak briefly surprised by the two lizards on the hummingbird feeder.
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A and mashup. Bonus and Chinese Hat . We've had to rescue her from the wrought iron grating only once so far.

German Shepherd dog standing on a window ledge looking down at me. The front half of her body is completely out the window. There is wrought iron to prevent her from falling far, and plant with red flowers twines in it. At the very bottom of the picture there is a lizard of the type that lives in the garden.
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While we were arguing about trimming the cherry tree, some peeps moved in.

Dove nest with two baby doves.
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We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4

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And I love being part of the Mastodon community and thanks for the update to version 4.4.

I have one grumble with the update though. The lists on the left (Home / Notifications / Trending...) now works where the selected item disappears from the list. It's very disconcerting as list items are not in the same static location all the time, and there is no reference on the list as to what item was selected.

Unlike the other changes, I find that I'm not getting used to this. Just thought that you should know.

@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

How are your bookmark folders looking these days? 🤔

A) Neatly sorted into folders like a digital librarian
B) 396 links dumped into a folder called “Mess”
C) A glorious disaster that still gets the job done

TwilightGarden ,
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Mostly neat folders by topic, all very accessible from the bookmark bar. And one folder with about 150 random unsorted links.