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anon6789, 9 days ago

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anon6789, 9 days ago

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Here’s where the ears are. In many owls, since their eyes are both so big and so long, you can see the back of the eye from the ear canal.

anon6789, 9 days ago

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anon6789, 9 days ago

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anon6789, 9 days ago

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anon6789, 9 days ago

I didn’t know there were medicines that could make you lose your hearing. That’s a pretty significant side effect. As you said, we take hearing for granted, but it ties into many aspects of our lives. We’re gregarious creatures that need to be interacting with others to be fully healthy.

anon6789, 9 days ago

I was just talking to the GF about it and she said in trauma the one day she remembered a PA telling a nurse to be careful with Lasix in an IV as pushing that too fast can cause hearing loss too. It’s strange I’ve never heard of it since it sounds much more common than I would have thought.

anon6789, 9 days ago

I was thinking about this last night. I would never have bothered to make this much content for a place like Reddit or Facebook as there is just too much attention on other things. Over the last year I’ve spent who knows how much time making, finding, and editing content on here and engaging people to try to keep their attention. It’s nice in that I feel heard, but it’s also such a small crowd, I notice when people show up and start participating, but also when they stop participating. I’ve built a pretty big following for Lemmy. I’m currently juuuuust not making the first page of biggest communities, but I feel I’m doing well for a niche community here. But the given number of regular commentors I get feels like it hasn’t increased over the last 9 months. As soon as I get new people that comment and participate, the same number drop off. It just feels like I’m not getting anywhere, and it makes me question this as a platform. I’ve got about a half dozen people I’d call regulars, and new people pop in and out, but if I stop to think about the effort in, I wonder how much minimum user feedback I can get by with to do this another whole year.

My current goal is to make it to December and do the Superbowl Owl of the Year Tournament again. That was a huge boost to the community for those few weeks, but that was a toooon of effort to do by myself. Thankfully someone usually chimes in with some positivity and has a very enthusiastic response to something I’ve shared that can boost my morale, but it really is tough to keep putting work into what many times feels like a void. I always make sure to thank commentors for saying nice things or just participating, because I wouldn’t keep doing this without them. I always tell anyone who listens the commentors are just as important as the posters because you won’t have one without the other.

I hope for great success for everyone on Lemmy as a platform, but we all need to always try to be more active than we are if that’s going to happen. Just post a “I really enjoyed this! Thanks so much for sharing!” once every day or so if you don’t feel you have anything topical to add to a post you enjoyed. I know it means a lot to me to see that on my work, and I’m sure it does to most posters. Even when I just share a picture, I may have spent an hour scrolling to find you that pic, verify it’s not AI or stolen, and find a little fact or something to add to the post, It’s a really quick and easy way to do a nice thing to show someone that made something for your enjoyment that it reached someone.

anon6789, 9 days ago

I do the reading and research required to make my posts for myself, but the time spent to turn that into a good post is not insignificant. The sharing is to try to build up Lemmy as a community, and to try to help save other people time doing the learning that I’ve done. It’s an act of giving of my time to try to make a positive change in others’ lives. It’s a voluntary personal sacrifice, and just seeing some happy responses is all I hope to get. It isn’t for people to sing my praises, but to receive a positive comment in return is what shows me that I’m not throwing my work into an empty void and just wasting my time. It’s the only feedback we get here, and I think we should all give more feedback to the posts we enjoy if we wish to keep getting them. I feel that is a very fair price to pay for free content.

anon6789, 9 days ago

It feels so strange when I see it as someone who has only ever lurked online and is pretty quiet in person. I liked what I saw when I came here, and wanted it to succeed, and making this a place where people actually converse is the only way to be viable. I can’t make anyone else post or comment, so I just started to do it myself. Sometimes we have to put our natural comfort zone aside to do what we feel needs to be done.

anon6789, 9 days ago

Well, you did respond to this, so that’s a great start!

anon6789, 9 days ago

I recognize your name, so you’re doing something right! 😄

Just do your best to make this a fun place, both for you and others.

There’s even a few people on here I wish would post less if they want this place to stay good! 😜

anon6789, 9 days ago

I do really appreciate getting to give you guys a smile every day with something fun. I dabble in other comment sections, but so much news seems negative, I mainly try to keep a bit of positivity flowing.

I’m glad you got motivated to participate. I had to fake some enthusiasm to make things every day early on, but now that it’s become a habit I look forward to and I’ve gotten familiar with a number of you, it’s something I really look forward to doing.

I regularly scout to see what people miss from Reddit, etc and I saw a post the other day saying there is a sub that would read research papers together and I thought that would be really helpful as I’ve branched out into trying to ELI5 owl research for you guys. I hope that person can stumble onto that and maybe participate. It’s fun to see where we’ll go with Lemmy.

If you keep commenting and upvoting, I’ll keep posting. I’m already looking forward to this year’s Owl of the Year. It was so hectic for me, but we all seemed to have a ton of fun!

anon6789, 9 days ago

Everyone said it was hard to pick between 2 great owls, but I had to narrow it down to 32 out of 250! 😵‍💫

I’m glad I’m able to entertain, educate, and motivate you. I do really feel that it is a team effort for us to succeed as a platform. I have a bunch more great stuff on deck for you guys, so keep checking back!

anon6789, 9 days ago

I had realized we hadn’t had a snowy for a while, and this seemed like just what we needed!

anon6789, 9 days ago

I heard my local GHO freestyling as I headed out to work this morning.

anon6789, 9 days ago

I hope this little dude gets some more love. I really like the composition of this shot. The owl looks great, thanks to that grumpy face and nifty camera angle, and the tree goes in all kinds of interesting directions. After looking at so many owl pics, the backgrounds start to grab bigger bits of my attention as well as it keeps it interesting to me to not just look at the owl, but more of the composition as a whole.

anon6789, 10 days ago

“In the years of litigation over this issue, it has become irrefutably clear that the handwritten date serves no function in the administration of Pennsylvania’s election,” Matt Heckel, press secretary for the department, said. “As a result, the [PA State] Department has consistently argued in court that voters should not be disenfranchised for failing to write or incorrectly writing a date that serves no function.”

The ballots are all collected by the Sheriff’s Office and delivered to the courthouse(?) daily or postmarked by USPS when received, no? Seems either way we know the vote was collected on time.

anon6789, 10 days ago

Robert has the same substance abuse jokes, which are the ones in particular that annoy me also, but it’s generally just at the ad breaks when I hit skip anyway. They were together at Cracked, and many of his guests are former Cracked employees. I gave up on Cody’s show with that Wormbo puppet thing becoming a regular feature. That on top of the downer mood was too much for me.

The actual Behind that Bastards show is my favorite of the group’s work, but if you’re interested in their product but also interested in social activism and learning about political movements, unions, immigration, and civil rights, perhaps give their It Could Happen Here a listen. I listen to it in the big weekly compilation, but it’s a series of 20-30 minute stories, each hosted by a different person on the team.

anon6789, 10 days ago

I thought this was going to be one of the ones to go pretty big and get some likes from non-subscribers and break 200 upvotes, but it shows what I know!

I’m glad we like it though! It is a very cool shot of an owl that’s usually pretty popular. 🥰

anon6789, 10 days ago

Well your reaction is better to me then some more likes anyway.

The small group size is a double edge sword for me. I like getting a better 1-on-1 with you guys and being able to address everyone’s comments, but at the same time, it lets me notice when a few of you guys stop showing up, which makes me a little sad. I’m not super social in person, so I worry either you guys get tired of me or something might have happened to you.

It is also tougher doing bigger projects like the research paper analysis and other long original content. I’m working on a write up now on how owls can regenerate important parts of their ears so they don’t lose their hearing with age like we do, and I’ve spent a few hours on it, and I know some of you will seriously love it, but not many as a group.

I try hard to not complain because I don’t care too much about the likes or anything, but I put a decent amount of time into making or editing posts and finding content, and I just want to feel like the effort I put into it matters to you guys to show me it’s worth that effort. It gets hard to gauge since there’s maybe 5 of you guys at a time that chime in.

As long as that handful is there, I’m good with what I do, I’ve just been hopeful that after a year of doing this, it’d be a little bigger. I do try to keep in perspective that I’m fairly big for Lemmy, but I’m here to see happy reactions from teaching you all new things. That’s only really stayed level even though subs still go up and I’m not sure how to read that.

I just worry about Lemmy’s long term, as I don’t want to do this on Reddit. That’s too big for me. I like what I have with you guys. I’m just a worrier with shaky self confidence, so I’m always like this.

But anyway, I’m glad you enjoyed this one and I hope to find many more cool pictures for you!