I can’t believe it’s not Photoshop! The placement of the owl behind the trunk is just too perfect.

My immediate thoughts on the coloring are “tiger”. Black “stripes” and orange for your traditional tiger, but there is also white for white tigers.

!linux4noobs@lemmy.world !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev

I feel like arguing by technical definitions you could reasonably classify certain things as a sport that aren’t commonly culturally considered a sport, but that do involve physical fitness, competition, skill, an audience, and often coordination with other people. People who really do dance seriously have to be fit, basically every arts field ever is super competitive and requires at least a bare minimum of skill to succeed (yes, I know about all the pop singers people think suck, they still at least attain a bare minimum bar that I’ve seen grown adults obliviously fail to pass. I know enough about music to know I don’t pass that bar either), dancing does have an audience (typical example is people going to watch ballet), and although you can dance solo quite a few dances involve partners or a whole team. But we all know it doesn’t fit what most people consider sports. I do wonder what draws that cultural “line in the sand” that makes it so most people don’t think of dance when they think of sports.

I don’t dance seriously, so I don’t know much about how intense its physical requirements are, or how much of it surrounds pushing your body to its limits, although I’m pretty sure it is about precisely moving your body in a particular way at the right time, so it is focused on physical activity. Maybe the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task “takes away” from its sports-ness? (Full disclosure, I speak as a person who doesn’t follow sports, but isn’t a hater of them.) Maybe that it’s not always a competition? People dance at weddings or parties without having anyone try to judge who’s better. But then again, you can run or bike or swim without trying to beat anyone.

You could also make a similar argument for marching band. Yes, there are competitions! The most well-known ones are associated with DCI, Drum Corps International. Depending on how good your high school/college was at it you might not be aware of the athleticism it’s capable of demanding. (Video is very short) But again, this culturally doesn’t count as a sport. Maybe because there’s a stereotype of more less-athletically-inclined folks participating? Is it like my dance guesses, the focus on music and artistic expression instead of just the physical task taking away from “sports-ness,” or that it’s not always a competitive activity?

I didn’t play or follow sports growing up. I have done marching band, and I have no particular investment in anything not traditionally considered a sport being deemed as such. I just think it makes for an interesting topic.

Seconded on “confirmation of what we believe”—science has proved some folk wisdom credible, but some of it nonsense. That is why it is good to test “common knowledge”.

I know that some animals can feel, but not to which degree and if all of them can. Bugs and fish being certified to have feelings on par with or even more… extreme? in-depth? not sure what word to use—would be news to me.

This community is probably weighted towards people with high empathy for non-human creatures, people who might be more likely to seek out information about the emotional capabilities of such creatures. This is not a bad thing, but it would explain how people do not seem to know what you seem to deem obvious.

I don’t poke my head in here too often, curious how they look unusual.

Also, warning for fellow Facebook haters, source link is a Facebook link. No hate to OP, I get you are just posting the source to properly credit the photographer, and if Facebook is where the picture was originally posted…

I’ll take your word for it. Checking history always makes me feel somehow creepy, and if I do not suspect you of purposeful bad-faith engagement (then I’d want to see what the rest of your engagement looks like so I could judge if it is a bad-faith post) I have no reason to bother. Sorry for the mixup!

Link you put says Feb 28 as did other things I saw. I imagine some people might just read your comment and not click the link so you might want to edit your comment

On one hand I do appreciate you posting on the Fediverse and supplying a nice joke for us, on another, AI… it’s not exactly popular here and I can understand why. I think you might have posted something about that in Fedigrow before?

You might want to at least label this image as AI-generated. Obviously I know this is not a real picture, people don’t walk around with owl heads instead of person heads, but I’m one of those folk still really easily fooled by AI images and without people in the comments talking about it I definitely would have thought some artist made this.

The mixing of the themes with an owl on a football is delightful.

Not a sports person myself but I can see why people like them. I have also accidentally fallen into the baseball video pipeline on YouTube.

Clicked a related link in that article.

“Just take a walk in nature, especially at dawn and dusk,” they said. “It’s currently [article posted February 11] flirting season for owls. So there are a lot of them out there making a lot of noise, either looking for love or trying to defend territory.”

I’ve been taking my walks midday-ish, to coincide with the hottest part of the day. It is winter, after all. I guess that’s why I haven’t seen any owls.

Probably good to note dawn and dusk are good times for !bunnies@lemmy.world too. Guess I should alter my walking patterns.

Is this from something?

My brain instantly went to the Great Pumpkin…

Hey, thanks for taking me up on posting here! I was trying to prop up this place for a bit back when kbin.run wasn’t totally dead and I still checked r/HFY. I sort of gave up around the same time kbin.run imploded, which was about the same time I think I stopped checking into r/HFY.

Care to repost to !hfy@lemmy.world?

Find a bear to sublet to. Call it the owlbear brewery. Rake in the nerd money.

I was asking specifically about Communities > Moderator view in the title, not your feed > Moderator view. Viewing Moderator view on my feed shows just things from communities I mod as expected. I’m concerned about Moderator view on the community view, after you click the hamburger menu, hit Communities, and see a list of communities.

All communities I mod, I mod with an account local to that instance, so that isn’t the issue.

Barn owls do have a use, yes, but it is nice to see that people still have room in their hearts for a bird even when things are going poorly.

Checked on 0.19.8 on ani.social with @Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social (mods one community on that instance) and Moderator View did not match with Local. It showed me a bunch of lemmy.world communities, none of which @Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social mods. What version are you checking on?