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Threads, steel & story @threadssteelnstory.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe silicates? Some plants and grasses try to discourage interest in eating them by being slightly abrasive.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thor's helmet should emote like Asterix's, my only deeply held superhero opinion

Marvel's Thor, three different expressions.

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Threads, steel & story @threadssteelnstory.bsky.social · 1d

Stockfish as I know it is a type of dried fish. You need somewhere that gets a lot of wind to help with the drying, but you want to keep off the rain (see ‘drying’) and direct sunlight.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

How many times do we have to go over this? If you see a unicorn, just let it go. Don’t get closer, don’t try to pet it. No good will come of it. Just check the unicorn off your life list and walk away.

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 3d

American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Am As of Anthro Genetics, Dental Anthro As, Paleopathology As, PaleoAnthro Society, Am Anthro As & Human Biology As:

"We oppose legislation that is rooted in and maintains rigid binary conceptions of sex and gender"

bioanth.org/about/aaba-s...

AABA Statement in Support of Trans Lives - AABA

The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, the Dental Anthropology Association, the Paleopathology Association, The PaleoAnthropology...

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3d

BARBARIAN: What did I miss?
GM: You’ve been abducted by ants. One goes up to each sleeping member of the party and puts what looks like a giant aphid on their forehead, then squeezes it so paralytic goo comes out and covers their face.
BARBARIAN’S PLAYER: Ursula, why are you like this?

Tango, the Wild Dream @tango.rebelsheart.net · 3d

#dnd while resting with the rats for the night, the party’s has been kidnapped by ants.

So that’s a thing.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3d

I love AWS outages as it's the only time I can ask my sys admin husband "Is the internet down again?" and he will very grudgingly admit "...yeah kind of."

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Partij voor de Dieren @partijvoordedieren.nl · 3d

Klinkt als kop van De Speld: 3 van de 15 politieke partijen blijven binnen de grenzen van de rechtsstaat

Volgens de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten zijn er echt maar 3 partijen die zich aan de rechtsstaat houden: PvdD, GL-PvdA en Volt.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

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Ryan Art @ryanart.tmo.fyi · 5d

✨ Legend ✨

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 5d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 5d

good work, good trouble today. | We Owe Allegiance to No Crown, by Philadelphian artist John Archibald Woodside. c. 1814 | courtesy, National Portrait Gallery #nokings

Image of a man in 19th century American naval dress holding a large U.S. flag as a woman representing liberty prepares to place a laurel on his head. Words beneath read: We Owe Allegiance to No Crown

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 6d

Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers

The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.

www.bbc.co.uk

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 30

Even this Pallas cat gets in on the discovery and exploration process.

Photos from Calgary Zoo.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 7d

How cool is #RealArchaeology? 🏺

Well, it's "we can track down oral human & environmental #DNA from #Neolithic birch #tar which had been chewed thousands of years ago, telling us about Stone Age diet & what this tar was used for" cool. 🙌

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ancient DNA and biomarkers from artefacts: insights into technology and cultural practices in Neolithic Europe | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Birch bark tar was widely used throughout prehistoric Europe for hafting stone tools as well as various other purposes. While previous research has mainly focused on the identification and production ...

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 8d

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 8d

Uh… this was basically the leading cause of the British Civil Wars in the 1640s www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 8d

As I was looking up some famous women in CS, I tried to find information on how Grace Hopper was excluded from the 1968 NATO conference on software engineering. Google was... less than helpful, it tried to deny the conference even happened!