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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 8h

Patiently awaiting the first Euro Wordler conniptions 😌

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 10h

Potatober #9: According to the wikipedia article on Axomamma, the Incan goddess of potatoes (you know it makes sense), "most villages had a particularly odd-shaped potato to worship".

And if you have one, I assume you dress it up.

A badly drawn odd-shaped potato in pre-columbian vaguely Inca attire, also badly drawn.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, of course. 😁

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 16h

But what on earth do kids make in elementary school pottery lessons these days?

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 20h

👇Auch zum Video auf YT durchlicken.

Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 1d

"Darum hasst die AfD diese Klassenfahrt!"

Wenn ihr unser ganzes Video noch nicht gesehen habt, habt ihr hier eine kleine Preview.

Das ganze Video mit den Erfahrungen der Schüler*innen gibt es hier: youtu.be/dQc5L_3xOZk 👈

#skytok @skylight.social #afdverbot

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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio. https://scim.ag/4791YqA

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

scim.ag

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

"Enthält Zucker" ist aber auch speziell. 100 % wie "kann Spuren von Nüssen enthalten" auf der Tüte mit Erdnüssen ...

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Bloodwoosch.

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Potatober #8: 30 years ago, potatoes became the first vegetables to be grown in space.

A potato floating in space wearing a NASA Snoopy cap, which has a microphone even though the potato has no mouth. It is tethered to an instrument panel.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

OF COURSE it's Blorbo.

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Look at all those headscarves!

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Wie schon 2015 in den USA festgestellt wurde: The cruelty is the point. Es ist so gewollt und die Bevölkerung wurde mehrheitlich nie erfolgreich entnazifiziert. Es wird hier genau wie in den USA enden, nur noch dümmer.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

I can imagine keeping ONE ostrich as a pet.

A dangerous dickhead pet, if you're unlucky. A sweet but difficult pet if you are.

But if you hear "400 ostriches" and don't immediately know it's a meat farm... I have energy healing to sell you.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Mind you, it will walk away to die quietly of internal injuries. But it will walk away.

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Stell dir vor, du gehst auf die 40 zu und forderst (vermutlich hauptberuflich) Respekt für deine windige Abzockmasche auf Telegram/Instagram ein.

Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

-1n, +1 Leerzeichen. Seufz.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Wäre Großbritannien noch in der EU, könnten sie dennPräzedenzfall aus dem 19. Jahrhundert vorbringen:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorg...

Glamorgan sausage - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

'Berlin at Night.' (c1860) Described by Degas as the ‘greatest living master’ during his lifetime, Adolph von Menzel is less remembered today outside of Germany than the French painter who admired him; his career deserves far greater appreciation and study than it receives.

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Aurélien Genin @astroaure.bsky.social · 2d

🛰 Un à deux Starlink rentrent dans l'atmosphère chaque jour 😮 Il y a 5 ans, on était plutôt à un satellite par semaine ! Et on connaît encore très mal l'impact sur l'atmosphère de ces rentrées, mais les premières études sont pas jolies... Il est urgent de réguler 📢

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

earthsky.org

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

SCIENCE! ♥️

Also, my dog reacted to neither word when I played this, but barked along because clearly something outrageous happened.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 2d

400 years earlier: Rembrandt steps out of his studio, watches a carrion crow trying to eat a pie crust and thinks "I'll never capture this properly. Back to the portraits. :/"

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 2d

Potatober #7: The season for adelie penguins to start courting and building nests is approaching.

A potato will be hard to beat with a rock, even a good rock.

For MUCH better adelie drawings, see @twirlynoodle.com.

A pair of adelie penguins, one of which is sitting on a potato instead of an egg.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 2d

The Oatmeal, y'all.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look everyone's favourite did a Titan (okay, not quite, but if you can see that knowing the properties of fibreglass should have stopped you from taking people on trips in your fibreglass submarine, WELL...)

Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 2d

🔥🔥🔥https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/why-did-endurance-sink/6CC2C2D56087035A94DEB50930B81980🔥🔥🔥

A screenshot from the conclusion of the linked article: Finally, there is clear evidence that, before sailing towards the Weddell Sea, Shackleton knew that compressive ice loading should be expected, he knew how a ship should be designed for compressive ice, and he knew that Endurance was not that kind of a ship. Shackleton was well aware of the risks related to the strength of Endurance, but chose to use it anyway.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh new word for me, thank you! But yeah, leaning towards "it's English". 😁