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#CheckIn @s banerian @Andrew Pam @Christoph S @Griff Ferrell @hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1 @David Sterry @robb @Guy Geens @Joseph Teller @Susan ✶✶✶✶ @smellsofbikes @Richard @Rob Anybody @Michele Hax @Nora Qudus @Isaac Kuo @Carsten Raddatz @Muse @Bob Lai @Mark Wollschlager @Alexander @Cass @su ann lim @Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) @Miguela @Klaus Lademann @Joltrast @Alrekr Járnhandr @Jacob C @That Harp Guy @David Calderon @Corinne Howell @Cats of Commons 💫 @Andreas G @John MacLeod @libramoon @Aline @davidamerland @gregg taylor @Holly Jahangiri @Phil Setnik @Dave Higgins [Main Account] @Lisa Stranger @Lee Rothstein @Deb Zaccaro-Rojas @Stan McCann (Uncle Pirate) @debo @Nat Weaver 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @Debbie D. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @tomgrzybow @John Douglas Porter @Joyce Donahue @Samuel Smith @Janet Logan 🏳️‍⚧️ @Jodi @Katherine Bond @Kenny Chaffin @Jay Bryant @Jess Nut @Beej Cobalt @Jon Alcibar (main) @((( David "Kahomono" Frier ))) @roddio @Karl Auerbach @Paul Ferguson @Pedro Subrosa @sheilanagig @deanc @Don Little @John Hummel @randy.galbraith @⭐ Vinny ✔️ @tomgrzybow @V. T. Eric Layton
Cass
Also it's 31°C right now, so I feel like I'd like to be a whale…
Mark Wollschlager
I'll just say that Crow's have always been an animal i might want to try out. And who wouldn't want to be a Pangolin?
Cass
Oh, I've never thought of having a spirit animal…I'll be back🙂
Joyce Donahue
Well, let's see... it kind of depends on my mood, I think. Cats get to sleep 16 hours a day, but dolphins always look like they are having fun. However, alpacas are stinkin' cute and can pronk. I think today I'd like to be able to pronk. Pronk!
Richard
Hahahah! Murphy (of Murphy's Law) is my spirit animal. But you know, if I could be influenced by any of Mother Nature's creatures, it would be the capybara.
kennyc
Probably a flounder...
((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))
I'm just a Fat Rumpled Old Guy
Karl Auerbach
Rather than spirit animal I'd prefer to be one that doesn't live so much in pain.

So I've decided to be re-incarnated as something invertebrate - like an octopus.

Absent that, I'd accept being a Chimera.
Muse
@Joyce Donahue Pronking is GOOD!
@Joyce Donahue
Muse
@Richard Oooh! Have you seen the movie Flow yet?

capybara and cat
@Richard
Cass
I thought of a crow but landed on sea otter…
Jay Bryant
My spirit animal is so obvious that a number of people have identified it for me over the years. It's a bear (not the LGBTQ kind, though I have friends who are that kind of bear). If we're talking fantasy races, think overly tall dwarf. Built like a shaggy fireplug.
Jay Bryant
@Joyce Donahue I've long thought I was a house cat in a previous life and hope to be a (very pampered) house cat in a future life. I have that "so lazy that I think getting up to eat is too much work" thing down cold. 😉
@Joyce Donahue
Muse
I think perhaps we should start assigning animals to people who haven't said anything yet! Okay @Beej Cobalt I'm gifting you an Arabian horse as your spirit animal! They are both graceful and jaunty.

Arabian horse
@Beej Cobalt
Muse
You're next @Samuel Smith. I'm gifting you the spirit animal of the quokka, an Australian marsupial. They are friendly and inquisitive. They also have proper opposable thumbs! I'm pretty sure you have opposable thumbs, so they are a natural fit!

quokka
@Samuel Smith
Muse
If you want me to assign you an animal, just ask!
tomgrzybow
Go for it!
Muse
@tomgrzybow I am gifting you the grizzly bear as your spirit animal. They love a good back scratch and can sleep contentedly anywhere. Just watch out for your picnic basket!

bear
@tomgrzybow
Jon Alcibar (main)
I like dogs but living in a flat by miself, I don’t have one. I see that most checkiners rather prefer cats.
@Muse I'd love to have my spirit animal too. Please 🙏
Christoph S
Good morning, a sloth probably! Or a koala. Eating all day!
Christoph S
Just thinking about, I am probably a goat by now 😀
Btw, Happy Brückentag to those who don't work today in Germany.
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Honey Badger. Totally my spirit animal.
Jodi
@Muse go for it!
Muse
Hi, @Jon Alcibar (main)! I shall gift you the spirit animal of the koala! These fellows can eat the most toxic leaves in Australia because they have a hind gut that ferments them before digestion. How handy is that! They have this big old bellow that all the ladies find adorable. Amazingly, they also have finger-prints much like human ones. That was a plot point in a TV murder mystery in a series here!

koala
@Jon Alcibar (main)
Jodi
Maybe a leopard. Speedy, has spots, and a loud roar.
Muse
@Jodi For some strange reason, I keep thinking of Australian animals! I gift you the spirit animal of the rainbow lorikeet! They are one of the most colourful birds in the world. They are quite friendly, and in some places they will land on people in order to be hand fed. They have, get this, a papillate appendage at the end of their tongue in order to eat the nectar from a broad variety of Australian plants. Yummy!

lorikeet
@Jodi
Jodi
@Muse purty!!
roddio
Great choice @Deb Zaccaro-Rojas! Small, but powerful.
@Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Joseph Teller
There are some secrets I must keep.
Griff Ferrell
Thinning haired, pot bellied 6 foot tall white guy doesn't have one

Not in tune enough with nature to develop and embrace a spirt
stefani banerian
I use a crow for my avatar on some sites.
I've also used bastet (cat) images.
Karl Auerbach
For some reason this thread engendered an image of a spirit animal - not mine - Tyrannosaurus Tex. It's sort of like a regular Tyrannosaurus but it wears chaps, a Steston 50 gallon hat, chaps, spurs, a belt with a big buckle, cowboy boots and a pair of six shooters. But it's arms are too short to reach its guns - or buckle its belt.
Mark Wollschlager
Is a human riding on it's back? You know, for reasons.
stefani banerian
i have been trying out the "how to make friends with crows" process.
I don't do it every day, but i am now pretty certain that when i'm in the yard, one of the local crows recognizes me, and calls out. if i hear, i grab a few peanuts and put them out, and the crows show up.
i've been able to stand by and watch them, and at times point to when i put the peanuts.
tomgrzybow
@Muse

My friends at High School called me "Griz" - mostly because of my last name. I have yet to learn how to relax.

;-}
@Muse
Carsten Raddatz
As a kid I wanted to be like a Chameleon. You know, perfectly adapting to any environment. Unsure about a spirit animal though.

Some days like those last few and then some to come I'd just identify with the simple life we are able to provide to # - a select few hours of demanding activity per day, training, happy to work and with the walkies, and snuggle up when you wanna.

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@Carsten Raddatz's Portfolio Photo
#maltethedog
Richard
@Muse I have not watched Flow yet. A brief internet search didn't bring up any links (not surprising given post-enpoopification conditions) so I'll keep my eyes open. 😀
@Muse
Lisa Stranger
Sloth is probably the most accurate. I could use some honey badger vibes at times.
Lisa Stranger
i have been trying out the “how to make friends with crows” process.
I tried giving them shiny things, in an effort to differentiate ourselves from our stupid dog who barks and chases them 😒 Shiny things were not popular. Guess I should have tried food.
Richard
Today's accomplishment was finishing up some python code that does a lot of stuff and then outputs minimal c code to do the same stuff. The goal being to use python for the "fooling around and finding out" part and once proven output minimal c code that does the same thing in a more embedded-friendly footprint.
Richard
What's interesting and fun (to me) is that I wrote a c support library and used python bindings to use that c code during the "fool around and find out stage." That way I already had the well exercised c library to statically compile in with the generated code.

Generating code permits things that hand written code would be a bore to write.

For example, given function prototype:
int c_string_function(const char *str, int slen);

And generated code:
retval = c_string_function("this is a string", sizeof("this is a string") - 1);

After running through the 'c' pre-processor should end up something like this:
retval = c_string_function("this is a string", 16)

Yes I could completely bodge c_string_function() and introduce plenty of buffer overflow exploits but at least the string length will be accurate.

😀
Muse
@Richard This is an Australian carpet python. I have met a few of these. I have friends who keep them as pets! They are non-venomous, but grow to 2-4 meters long and have powerful jaws and constricting muscles. They have lovely silky skin, but you don't want them giving you a hug!

python
@Richard
Jay Bryant
Like most things, though, if you leave snakes alone, they'll leave you alone (with a couple notable exceptions), because you are not their prey item.

That said, some snakes are dangerously territorial. Black mambas are rightly feared. Some constrictors, including anacondas, will also attack people.
tomgrzybow
This is an Australian carpet python. I have met a few of these\

They live in and around carpets?
Muse
"They live in and around carpets?"
Sometimes they do!

Forest carpet. See how they match the carpet of leaves.
tomgrzybow
Ah, Yes!

😀
Lisa Stranger
@Cass that's the temperature at home?! 😳
@Cass
Lisa Stranger
if you leave snakes alone, they’ll leave you alone
heh, yeah... that day I moved some clutter from under a table and didn't notice the red rat snake that had made a home there 😳 stood at the table doing something for a while just inches away from it 😳😳

eagle-eyed viewers will recall that I posted it on here trying to find out if it was venomous... I was afraid to let the dogs out for a while

it eventually wandered off... with a full belly like that, I wouldn't be in a hurry to move either

sorry I bothered you, snake... thanks for the pest control

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Jay Bryant
Rat snakes are good neighbors.
Richard
So, yea. Back in the day I suggested "Python" for a boy's name. My kid's mom wasn't having any of that. We aren't Elon Musk's people so a good call.
Richard
;)
Muse
@Lisa Stranger WOW! What a great photo!
@Lisa Stranger
Karl Auerbach
@Lisa Stranger - A few years back when I had to do some work in Homestead Florida I would go out to the Everglades. On one trip I was wandering through the marked paths on one of the "islands". I saw some alligators swimming - and thought "wow. those things barely even cause a ripple!" As I was walking I really wasn't watching my feet - but when I did look down I noticed I was standing right next to a couple of very dark forms - sleeping alligators. Less than a shoe length away. I quietly made my exit.
@Lisa Stranger
Jon Alcibar (main)
Many thanks @Muse Got to know the koalas in a job mission to Brisbane 2010. Lovely creatures. I wonder what I have in common with them 🤔... Ok! Lazziness (sometimes) 😁
@Muse
Lisa Stranger
@Muse taken in great haste with my iPhone to explain to Mr. Stranger why my eyes got big as saucers and I said OHHHHH SHIT lol

@Karl Auerbach I have not yet met the state reptile up close... sincerely hoping the retention pond going in behind the neighbor's house is not going to change that

I have been close enough to hear them grunting in a neighborhood pond
@Muse @Karl Auerbach
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