Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

No exact results. Similar results found.
@donelias@mastodon.cr
2026-10-30 03:17:53

¿Sabían que la palabra mastodonte la acuñó un señor francés porque le parecía que unas muelas de unos fósiles parecían pechos de mujer?
Según etimologias.dechile.net este señor «...descubrió unos fósiles a los cuales clasificó Mastodon giganteum. Formó
Mastodon de las palabras griegas μαστός (mastos = pecho o pezón) y ὀδών (odon = diente). Giganteum
significa gigante, por supuesto.
Lo llamó así pues sus grandes muelas parecían pechos de mujer. Los mastodontes, aparte de…

Muelas de Mastodonte
@ckent@urbanists.social
2026-10-02 01:37:17

Cool! TIL from a chatbot — #Voyager spacecraft “landmark” incoming, November 18th!
(We need a better word for this) #NASA

Transcript of America.gov chatbot:

NASA’s Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object, and it is a NASA spacecraft (U.S. government property).
NASA says no spacecraft has gone farther than Voyager 1. Voyager 1
Live position: Where Voyager 1 and 2 are now
NASA reports it will reach about 16.094 billion miles (25.902 billion km) from Earth—one light-day—on Nov. 18, 2026.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-10-31 21:34:24

@… I'm sure all the cheese is made with raw milk.

@macandi@social.heise.de
2026-10-26 08:03:03

Tipp: Was tun, wenn Apple Mail fremde E-Mail-Adressen vorschlägt?
Es kommt vor, dass Apples Mail-App merkwürdige Adressen für neue E-Mails anzeigt. Das steckt dahinter.

@ncoca@social.coop
2026-09-30 00:39:00

Great piece - interestingly written from a critical, mostly Chinese-focused perspective, which is rare. Doesn't include a single quote from any Indonesian workers
grist.org/labor/indonesia-nick

@gse@norden.social
2026-10-30 11:51:47

Warum wird nicht mehr in den Medien über den MailHack der AfD gesprochen ? Na ist doch logisch, die AfD sonst die Medien mundtot machen, wenn sie an die Macht kommen. Und wenn es so weiter geht in Deutschland, das keiner auf die Strasse geht um gegen diesen Braune Scheisse zu demostrieren, dann wird es auch so kommen.
Man sieht doch schon, das die JungeUnion, eigentlich sich unbenennen müsste in JungeNazis .. weil mit der Propaganda, was sie da abziehen, das ist nicht mehr feierlich ..…

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-10-30 23:49:44

Discovery of the Distant, Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellite #AquariusIV with the Vera C. #Rubin Observatory Early Data Preview 2: #MilkyWay: news.yale.edu/2026/10/28/histo

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-10-31 22:02:59

I am, as ever, baffled by the way companies create their variety-pack boxes for Costco. The Mars box is 8 Snickers, 7 Twix, 6 peanut M&Ms, 5 plain M&Ms, and 4 Milky Way.
The Hershey's box is even worse: 10 Reese's, 7 milk chocolate bars, 7 milk chocolate bars with almonds, and 6 Kit-Kats.
Would it really cut into their profits so much to create boxes that are more evenly split among the flavors?

@malik@Mastodon.Social
2026-10-02 08:59:41

Jetzt auch auf Amazon Music erhältlich: pre-save unserer nächsten Single HURT PEOPLE.
#darkk

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-09-30 07:16:19

Looking up hermaphroditic tendencies in frogs, as one does, and I found this fascinating paper via Wikipedia:
opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.
The most interesting part to me is just speculation, but one idea for why females might change into males after laying some eggs is that although males enjoy more reproductive success overall, because they defend territories and attract females using vocal calls, they're potentially more vulnerable to predation by animals that hunt based on sound.
So basically, first ensure you have *some* offspring by being female and laying eggs, then once you've done that try to have *many* offspring by changing into a male, vocalizing to attract females, and fertilizing their eggs (unless the vocalizing gets you killed or other males out-compete you).
Sadly this is pure conjecture and the sex changes were only observed in the laboratory, not the wild.