We literally just hit 300 million observations at 8:53 PM EDT. To my utter shock, observation 300 million Something on July 21, 2025 at 07:51 PM by Gina Penick Lowery · iNaturalist is copyright infringement! An Instagram Reel screenshot of a bird to be exact.
In a way, this feels like an encapsulation of Inat today, with the recent whole AI photo debate and increased awareness of copyright infringement and other flags.
If only observation 300,000,001 was uploaded mere milliseconds earlier, Cerastium subpilosum from 424台灣台中市和平區平等里 on July 15, 2025 at 09:52 AM by 淑端 · iNaturalist a Taiwanese endemic plant with few Inat observations.
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