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John SchragWe found this articulated shell today, on a beach on Vancouver Island. Anyone know what it was? Maybe a marine isopod?<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/marinelife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marinelife</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/isopod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#isopod</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/whatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatIsThis</a>

cs<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WhatIsThisThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThisThing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> A side view with cap off

cs<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/whatisthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/whatIsThisThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatIsThisThing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/identify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#identify</a> it is about the size of a USB dongle

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarI've got another <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WhatsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsThis</a> for you.This thing sat outside the garage. It's cast, open on the bottom, has a rectangular groove for sliding something into and three holes in the groove. It's somewhat heavy. There's also a flange at the bottom.Obviously it has been used as anvil/cutting surface, but what is its original purpose? If it's a T-40 tractor part, I don't know where it goes on that.<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mystery</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Wotsit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wotsit</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Identification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Identification</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WhatIsThisThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThisThing</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WhatsThisThing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsThisThing</a>

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarSOLVED: See bottom of thread.It's about 30cm wide, has two independently rotating ceramic rollers with electrical heating spirals inside. But the routing of the wires restricts the turning of the rollers severely, so they can only rotate about 30°.There's some elaborate ceramic covers on the wires and a metal tray for catching something between the legs.It's clean, doesn't look like it was used for food. Maybe <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a>? I have absolutely no idea!<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mystery</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Identification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Identification</a>

FreddyB Aviation PhotographyOkay I need some help. What is this? I have seen this wagon wheel thing in several abandoned structures always in concrete. This one is from April 2021, the abandoned Keystone Mine, Goler Wash, Death Valley, California <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/keystonemine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keystonemine</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/deathvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deathvalley</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/whatisthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a>

NelsonWhat does this red cross symbol on the American flag mean? In rural South Jersey. I don't seem to be able to find the right search terms.The thin blue line sign makes me suspect this is some fascist alt-right crap, but I don't know for sure.In the same town, I've seen the "an appeal to heaven" flag that Alito flew to support the Jan 6 insurrection: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag</a><a href="https://jawns.club/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/flags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flags</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/vexillology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vexillology</a>

NelsonWhat is this contraption attached to a telephone pole in South Jersey? There were two at 90 degrees around the pole from each other.Is this a survey prism? Is it in active use? If these are reflective, are they on the pole to prevent people from hitting it? Or is it just decoration? Why is it here?<a href="https://geomatics.cc/wiki/survey-prisms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://geomatics.cc/wiki/survey-prisms</a><a href="https://jawns.club/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/surveying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveying</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/prisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prisms</a>

DouglasIs this just <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jadeite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jadeite</a> or actual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jade</a> ?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rockHound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rockHound</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatIsThis</a>

NelsonDo I have volunteer rice growing in my yard?! iNaturalist suggests the answer is yes.:inaturalist: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248282968" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248282968</a>Has anyone seen rice growing in person? Is this what it looks like?<a href="https://jawns.club/tags/rice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rice</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/plantID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plantID</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/whatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatIsThis</a>

Scooter :polyamoryFlag:On the bird site, I had the tradition of live-tweeting my wives' craft store visits, as I had no idea what they were doing or pretty much what any of these things were. Allow me to present the first live *toot* in this tradition. <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/crafts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crafts</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://labyrinth.zone/tag/whatisthis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a>

NelsonWhat is growing on the leaf of my dwarf black chokeberry / Aronia melanocarpa var. depressa? Is it a fungus? A gall from a wasp? How do I go about identifying it if I don't even know which kingdom of life it comes from? :toad: :inaturalist: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234178780" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234178780</a><a href="https://jawns.club/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://jawns.club/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iNaturalist</a>

Grandpa Don RIP World<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/whatisthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a> It seems like some kind of underwater vacuum attachment Has a garden hose fitting on top, open screen on bottom, some sort of valve inside, probably restricts flow to one direction. Slightly raised on corners providing a very thin gap. Found it in my shed. Seems familiar but I don't recall anything beyond that.Ps: google image search struck out.

GroschiWhat's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: <a href="https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/</a> I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by <a class="u-url mention" href="https://newsmast.community/@movies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@movies</a> and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/whatisthis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/enshitternet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshitternet</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/contentfarms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentFarms</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/curation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/movies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/cinemastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinemastodon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://elefant.onetwoxu.de/tag/film" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@film</a>

Todd ed ritewin<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/silentsunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#silentsunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/whatisthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a>Found this in my grandmas attic when going through old photos

AlanClose up of a seaweed that I could not recognize. It was kelp like except for the series of holes pictured here. Still I found the texture pleasing. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/algae?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://pixelfed.social/seaweed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@seaweed</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/swisscheese?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swisscheese</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/kelp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kelp</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/whatisthis?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/closeup?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#closeup</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/texture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/smooth?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smooth</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/shiny?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shiny</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pattern?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pattern</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/maine?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maine</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/acadianationalpark?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acadianationalpark</a>

Elizabeth Winter<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Help</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thingamajig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thingamajig</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GateRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GateRepair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FloodDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FloodDamage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Farm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Farm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChainFastener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChainFastener</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FloodDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FloodDamage</a>I could use some help. What is this thingamajig called? We lost one when this spring's floods tore out some fence. The fence is fixed now, except we need one of these for the fishermen's gate. I've been searching online but no luck yet. Surely someone from this knowledgeable group can help? It's abt 2 1/2 inches long.

Well_Worth_A_ReadIs this a fucking cockroach? This bug was on my wall. I've never seen a bug like this before. Please tell me it's not a cockroach. <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bugs</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/whatisthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whatisthis</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cockroach</a>

*See Bio For Account Update*Only the ol' farts will know what this is. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cars</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Floorboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Floorboard</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DriverSide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DriverSide</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> (tags are the clues)

KE0FFTJust found this on the floor of a store’s back room. A long screw with a couple of copper(?) spikes that look like they’ve been soldered to the screw. I wonder what this was used for. Seems really specific. Any ideas? <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WhatIsThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsThis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WhatIsIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIsIt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/KE0FFT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KE0FFT</a>

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