Limestone is a common type of sedimentary rock which I find uncommonly interesting! It’s mostly calcium carbonate, which is also what eggshells 🥚, seashells 🐚, and pearls 🦪 are made out of.

In places where it rains a lot, limestone erodes easily, which results in simply gorgeous landscapes such as:

Hạ Long Bay in Vietnam

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar

The Li River in China

Additionally, the world’s longest (Mammoth) and deepest (Veryovkina Krubera is once again the world’s deepest cave, thank you to SockOlm for pointing that out) cave systems are both found in limestone formations

Mammoth Cave in the United States

Veryovkina Cave in Georgia/Abkhazia/Russia (disputed territory)

image sources

Thumbnail https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElTorcal0408.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Hạ Long Bay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halong_Bay_in_Vietnam.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsingy_de_Bemaraha.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Li River https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li-Flussfahrt-160-Huegel-2012-gje.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Mammoth Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammoth_Cave_Rotunda_(USGS_Lwt02830).jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Veryovkina Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veryovkina_cave._Babatunda_pit.jpg#mw-jump-to-license


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  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Glomming on to this to ask if anyone has had success getting push notifications using fluffychat on grapheneOS? The ntfy solution people discuss online has never worked for me and it’s hard to keep up without notifications

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      I think I’ve gotten it working btw (although I stopped using it because I don’t like having notifications I’ve found), but it does work. I’ll try going through the process again later and providing steps (maybe I should finally start working on that “how to matrix” guide in general, I’ve wanted to make it easier for people to get into since I hate discord with a passion.

      Edit: So I installed ntfy from fdroid (via obtanium), and I had to set it’s battery optimization to unrestricted so that it could run in the background unhindered (open the app, make sure it has network perms, allow notifications). From there, open fluffychat and it should auto-detect ntfy. With that, it’ll start sending notifications! Honestly a great solution for running notifications on apps that support it, I know Element X does as well as so does Molly (signal fork). I’ll certainly add this to “the guide” once I get around to making it.

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      7 days ago

      I have not doggirl-gloom

      I tried it once, and I got the notifications to send, but I think the issue was that they would only send when I had FluffyChat open. I’m honestly willing to give it another shot at some point to try and figure it out, because it would help and I really don’t want to have to install sandboxed google play. I have been wanting notifications more and more, especially for my DMs, so I’m hoping I can get nfty to work or I might just cave and install google play services (at least it’s sandboxed and has limited permissions).

      I’ll let you know the results :)