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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 10

Art gives hope.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · Apr 21

giffard pears, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1918

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Emma Pritchard @ecpritchard.bsky.social · Apr 20

More on the Cass Report from Sophie Labelle / Assigned Male Comics

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lizzii @acupofsugar.bsky.social · Apr 16

YO????

UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai: “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.

news.ucr.edu

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Apr 16

📢 App Version 1.78 is a bugfix for account creation

In some cases, it was possible for the app to hang indefinitely while creating an account. The update fixed that issue!

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · Mar 19

Seems like a good time to remind everyone of one of the best headlines of the last decade:

"British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins"

Guardian article: British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins

The investigation into science's public image didn't even ask about the atheist professor, but it got an answer anyway

Andrew Griffin, Monday 31 October, 2016

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Mar 20

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

The female scientist says "The simulator can replicate our world at various levels of detail. Level one
presents you as a rudimentary icon"
The male scientist looks at the computer screen which shows a blocky image of a man.
She continues "Whereas level ten is almost identitical to the real you"
The image on the screen looks exactly like the male scientist (i.e. a simple cartoon).
"Incredible! What happens at level eleven" says the male scientist pressing a button.
"Don't press that!" she cries, too late.
"Aaagh!" he screams, terrified. The image of him on the screen is now more detailed/realistic than anything else in the whole cartoon.

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Mar 15

Laura saw her chance and never went pussyfoot about it

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · Mar 4

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Mar 3

What I love about #Fleabag is the fact that everyone in this series is not evil for evil's sake, but they're driven to such due to very human circumstances. Now that doesn't mean that they're totally blameless of it, but it does make one think.

lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Mar 3

Finished #Fleabag after an insomnia. It is funny, and frightening, because I see myself a lot in her: confused, disoriented, in need of guidance, and yet, trying her best to live in spite of the lack of these things.

Now all I need is a #hotpriest.

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Mar 3

"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful." #Fleabag

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK @hikatamika.com · Feb 24

Artists & Creatives, there's a browser plugin to remove AI sites from your search results. (Good for getting real references.)

Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s...

🔁 Please Boost 🔁

Introduction | uBlacklist

uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

iorate.github.io

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · Mar 1

Google looks so different with this plugin it’s shocking

Hika/Tām | HK★TMK @hikatamika.com · Feb 24

Artists & Creatives, there's a browser plugin to remove AI sites from your search results. (Good for getting real references.)

Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d...
Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s...

🔁 Please Boost 🔁

Introduction | uBlacklist

uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

iorate.github.io

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 27

I am today's old when I found out the origin of tempura name may come from the word Quattuor Tempora, meaning Ember Days, which refers to the four days when Roman Catholics aren't allowed to eat meat and ate fish instead. Etymology continues to surprise me anywhere I find it 😃

lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 27

An anvil?

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 27

What would an Uncompromising Flying Object would look though?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Feb 26

Flying Objects.
A recent cartoon for New Scientist.

Six images of tiny stick figures interacting with flying objects.
1. Unidentified Flying Object: Two people point at a flying saucer
2. Unmanned Flying object: A figure walks past a drone
3. Unusual Flying Object: A figure watches a house spin actoss the sky
4. Undead Flying Object: A ghost pursues a person.
5. Unsurprising Flying Object: One figure walks past another who is flying a kite.
6. Unfortunate Flying Object: Two people run away from an enormous meteor.

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 27

Blocked nicely and ignored truly.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · Feb 27

Sometimes you aren't quite sure how you took a photo; you just know you couldn't reproduce it intentionally at gunpoint.

A big dog out for a walk at night. The dog might be transforming into something entirely other.

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TAKAO★WATANABE🎨10/29～11/3 solo exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · Feb 22

『大好きな友達』
猫の日だから今日の投稿は猫しばり！コケダマちゃん達のこと勝手に友達だと思って時々会いに来る猫。後ろにはこぶしの花が咲いているので春の絵ですね😊

"My favorite friend"
I drew a cat that sometimes comes to this meadow, thinking Kokedama and his friends are his friends. It is a spring scene with fist blossoms.

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 22

Fist 👊 blooms ✅️
First blooms 🌸🌸 also ✅️

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Feb 20

Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it

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lovesknitting.bsky.social @lovesknitting.bsky.social · Feb 20

Is that Bradley Cooper's doppelganger?

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · Feb 18

just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means "bartholomew balls" and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was "coglia! coglia! coglia!" which means "balls! balls! balls!"

A watercolor coat of arms featuring three stylised pairs of testicles

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