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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4d

Plate IX Animal Moss (Flustra cormata)
from Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (The World of the Sea), 1866 (English ed. 1869)
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47911#p...
[Yes, they’re animals! Phylum Bryozoa]

book plate in portrait orientation, illustration of a colony of Bryozoans with grey vase-shaped bodies and yellow tentacle crowns against black background, with caption: “ANIMAL MOSS (Flustra cormata)”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 3d

Their best

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 4d

The Super Harvest #Moon overnight on October 6-7 #HarvestMoon

Link for more: earthsky.org/astronomy-es...

22-minute exposure of full harvest moon moon rise over Newport Pell Bridge, Saunderstown, Rhode Island on 09/20/2021. Photo credit: Mike Cohea
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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 5d

Weird cloud over Waitrose #york #photography

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 5d

River rising #york #photography

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🪴 @dezmo.bsky.social · 12d

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 6d

When we look at the useful stuff that LLMs give us, we should not think, how cool is this technology. We should think, what an amazing range of useful work people are willing to share online, freely, without any monetary compensation. Which the machine is just summarizing for us.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 8d

#WildlifeWednesday :
Owen Davey (UK, active 2009-present)
Country Life (print ed.)
300mm x 400mm
“A celebration of surprise encounters with wildlife in the British countryside.”
owendavey.com/Country-Life

colorful collage of British wildlife, including a deer, rabbit, owl, squirrel, mouse, badger, fox, hedgehog, frog, kingfisher, and a pair of swallows

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 8d

One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13d

i wrote about the loss of randomness from music-listening and TV-watching
www.patreon.com/posts/139812...

That was the promise of randomness: the TV and radio would not always grab you. Sometimes, they would free you, by virtue of their inability to cater to all tastes at all times. It was just as easy twenty years ago to lose time to a zoned out TV marathon, but few people did so every day of the week. If the randomness favored your taste one day, it would lose you the next. Sooner or later, you'd get bored in a way that demanded activity. You'd go live your life away from the entertainment, because it couldn't always be entertaining to you specifically. I think that's good! These forms of passive entertainment should lose our interest once in awhile. It shouldn't be possible to pamper your most deeply entrenched tastes twenty-four hours a day.

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 10d

Similar vibe here
spreadjoy.bandcamp.com/album/spread...

Spread Joy, by Spread Joy

10 track album

spreadjoy.bandcamp.com

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 11d

FEELING OF COMPUTING
LET'S TAKE
ESOTERIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SERIOUSLY

feelingof.com/episodes/078

78 • Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

feelingof.com

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 11d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 10d

This is great!

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 15d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 18d

Random, but this is the best of 3-4!

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 18d

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 18d

Coney Street #york in the rain last night #photography

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 19d

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 20d

A recent study finds genetic evidence that the the Uralic language family—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, and others—had its origins in people living in northeastern Siberia about 4500 years ago (2500 BC).

#archaeohistories