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A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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Okay I got slightly sassy during the Canada AI Development survey. First Nations deserve drinking water, y'all.

You can get sassy too, here! ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Open to Canadians and non-Canadians as well if they have vested interests!

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Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

My new book, Dealing With A Desperate Demon, is out today! Cheery curvy bookseller, grumpy curvy demon, dating lessons, a beauty and the beast style curse, lots of horniness. Perfect to curl up to for spooky season! You can grab it these places!

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Just saw the phrase "superficial intelligence" for the first time and in hindsight I can't believe it took this long.

Ask A Mortician has a great video about this.

it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"

Me, opening an email:

Wow, someone noticed Sing it Back and left a review! But why did they leave it in the comments of an old blog post?

Oh, it's that scam that's going around.

But hey, someone noticed Sing it Back!

I was terrified when I got the email, because what if I liked them better? And I love the originals. But they're just not as funky, so that's fine.

Dalhousie (pronounced dal-oozy)

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I've become a better person from listening to people with vastly different experiences

Just a friendly reminder: my books are STILL up. Please do not purchase. Thank you.

Could be. I remember a lot of makeup missteps before the artists figured out how to work with HD.

What is wrong with their skin texture here? Weird.

That makes two good things, because you're here too

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

Boxes also work on bobcats

Two years ago, many of the world's biggest dairy and food companies formed a coalition to cut the methane emissions from their suppliers' herds.

Nestlé has quietly exited the effort, @benelgin.bsky.social reports [gift link]

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Once again, I'm chaotic good. More reliable than any astrology.

Except he uses AI for writing, apparently.

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.