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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I'm pretty sure there were Indian spices in England before potatoes.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 1d

She ordered the blandest thing on the menu, didn't she...

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 1d

One earldukeprincewhatever down, too many to go. The only acceptable form of nobility is a Viscount, and then only if they're actually biscuits.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 1d

And Earl Grey. He can stay.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 1d

One earldukeprincewhatever down, too many to go. The only acceptable form of nobility is a Viscount, and then only if they're actually biscuits.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 1d

I cherish the memory of the "I was on fire when I got here" sign at one hackspace I visited.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 2d

Little thread of paintings of ground-dwelling plants and flowers and things often called weeds

Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 2d

Les Pissenlits / Dandelions, Jean-François Millet, 1867-8. Pastel on paper. Can’t help thinking of Dürer’s piece of turf & other artists who have looked at smaller & overlooked plants at our feet. Though also struck that the provenance on MFA website says it was a work done on commission…

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 2d

I have a Teemill store! You can find it here: eithin.teemill.com/collection/a... but soon there will be fewer products, because I'm too disabled to do the marketing which makes paying for their Pro tier worth it. And they made cancelling easy & quick with Absolutely NO Attempts to change my mind.

All Products

Everything!

eithin.teemill.com

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 2d

I just backed They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 2d

Das große Rasenstück / The Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer, 1503. Watercolour. It is a great piece of turf.

A detailed and careful watercolour of grasses, dandelions, plantain, and other small plants. The background is plain paper and there is a muddy brown foreground. All is green and cream and brown.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 30

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Jinx the black leopard at Florida Big Cat rescue absolutely tearing into a pumpkin. You can read more about Jinx (and his rescue story) here:
https://bigcatrescue.org/jinx/

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Fyre @amuseoffyre.bsky.social · 4d

Not to mention these kind of sensors have a tendency for racial bias in their programming. It's like digital sensors for even something as basic as a hand-dryer sometimes only react to paler skin tones.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

And that's even without considering the Ballerina Problem - dealing with patients who are specifically practiced at hiding their pain. (Also common in abuse survivors.)

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

I have chronic pain. These movements are accurate, FOR ME - but! They're not symptomatic of pain. They come from the effort required to cope with the pain. So by definition they're going to present differently in different patients.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

This is something I've seen so many times - most rich people genuinely don't know they're rich. They're "doing alright" or "getting by" or in one memorable case "really quite poor" because they don't know how to budget or how to stop their little luxuries becoming unquestioned lifestyle necessities.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

Also: no orbital death rays, please.

Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 4d

There is no universe where space based solar will ever be cost competitive with ground based solar plus storage.

Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 4d

Endless Sunlight, Endless Costs: The Economic Reality of Space Solar Power - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2025/10/04/e...

Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

I'd never heard his name before last week, but we all knew his work. It was THE defining look of the era in film, it was everywhere, you can still see the earmarks of his artistic bloodline.

Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 4d

I was very sad to learn of the passing of one of the most amazing artists of my generation, Drew Struzan. His was a stellar talent, especially in his chosen field of endeavor. 1/3

Drew Struzan holding up the movie poster for Back to the Future

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 4d

This digital guide I made to go together with my new Tree ID pin badge is available for free at canopyrobin.com/uktrees/ as a personal/educational resource.
Enjoy!
#SciArt🌳🧪🌍

Lots of illustrated labelled leaves of British trees

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

On the bright side, I can already feel a difference from the newly insulated walls and roof. Have not had to test the heating yet.

Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 4d

Day 10,072 in an ECO4 building site: next week the walls will be painted. The solar panels are still not working and nobody will give me a timeline for anyone to even look at them. Also I still don't know whether they're there at all, or on my roof rather than my next door neighbour's.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4d

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 6d

Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks

A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 5d

In one census my grandmother was Doris Elizabeth, and by the next she was Doreen Bessie.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 6d

Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.

Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 6d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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