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One of the most annoying things about living in the SW. The endless battle with critters trying to occupy the engine compartment... After cleaning, the entire compartment gets sprayed down with a potent mix of cinnamon and mint essential oils. If that doesn't deter then it gets the garlic/cayenne powder treatment. The only two things that seem to work.

🧵 Attacked the spiders in the garage with anti-spider spray tonight. We're talking Mirkwood-level appropriation of my space. Bucky, the mounted deer head (came with the property), was looking particularly gruesome. So we'll see how that goes, and what (if any) effect the spray has? Hopefully, it's an actual deterrent, because...

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:boost_ok: Re: iNaturalist getting involved with Google genAI...feeding our comments into things...

Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:

1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.

- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.

Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!

#AI#genAI#LLM

Today’s post isn’t about a wreck – it is all about critters! 🐛🐠
First up: Hermodice carunculata, better known as the bearded fireworm. We’ve actually spotted quite a few of them this year. I didn’t recognize it at first and was very tempted to touch it with bare fingers – which would’ve been a painful mistake! 🔥🪱
Next: Scorpaena scrofa, the red scorpionfish. Fun fact: @tinca_tinca has never spotted one on her own – she always needs a little hint. 😉🐟
And finally, we even saw a few nudibranchs. The photo shows an Edmundsella pedata taken on the shot of the wreck Vassilios T.
@scubadivers #scuba #critters #diving #photography

The people of the fediverse are so kind! Thank you to everyone who helped me today!

This is why I chose to bring my Critters application (aka my baby passion project) into the Fediverse!

Please take this photo of my cats as a token of my appreciation!
Keep being awesome <3