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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h

I will be referring to all rowers taller than I am (which is practically everyone) as weird tall things.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 8h

So Kevin and Stepson have cooed over the snake and everybody went away happy, or in the case of the snake, glad the weird tall things left.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h

@seabrightmessenger.bsky.social

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 7h

You might dig The Museum Detective. Strong sense of the culture & politics of a place, complicated relationship between the past & the present, classic strong female detective. 1st in a new series! portersquarebooks.com/book/9781641...

Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3h

Truly, the coach I cox for is Ratthi, and I am Murderbot. Murdercox. Whatever.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4h

I regretted missing this show @ SFMoMA, but it's coming to NY! "This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present 'Art of Noise,' an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century."

“Art of Noise” Exhibition Tracing History of Music and Design to Open at Cooper Hewitt | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Art of Noise,” an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past cen...

www.cooperhewitt.org

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 6h

also, I will say that getting involved with local mutual aid has been radically helpful, both for feeling like there’s anything to be done (there is, people are doing it) and for just spending more time among people who care about this space and the people who live here.

Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 7h

I’ll be tabling for the MAMAS money team so you should come say hi, buy your books in cash, and give the change (*ahem*) to MAMAS!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 8h

Our next Be the Change workshop is coming right up! This Sunday, October 12 at 5PM our friends from @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social will host a study group about mutual aid; what it is, why it matters, and how we can begin, build, or deepen our practice. And they get 20% of sales during the workshop!

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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 6h

Happy World Post Day to all who celebrate.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 4h

We are acquainted through another mutual!

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 5h

Every vespoli I've encountered has been a spiteful tank, at least compared to the empachers and the hudsons.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 5h

Those boats often feel weirdly fragile to me, like rowing a 7. They *can* go well, but they're not forgiving.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 5h

Do you and @bibliorogue.bsky.social happen to know each other?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

...from, e.g. erg scores or any of the other measures that rowers use to make themselves legible for selection/recruiting.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 7h

I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...

Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 1d

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

surfingcomplexity.blog

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14h

You don't get to advocate for a thing and not notice the power-hoarding people who also like that thing. I struggle with people who do not seem to care who they are in coalition with or to at least think about what might happen if those people's vision happens instead of theirs.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 12h

To be fair I did used to teach all my year 3s the recorder

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 10h

It’s not a great age to be a systems thinker

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

It might be a good example for "things you can do to check your work as you go" or something of that sort.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

It's a niche problem to have, but I'm a left-handed mirror knitter, and I never remember whether my work will look like the chart or the chart but flipped.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

It's not a difficult section, but for some reason, it was easy to make errors and not notice them until several rows later.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 8h

The pine trees in Evelyn Clark's Pacific Northwest Shawl. The pattern and chart are both well-written, but I had to knit/frog that section multiple times to get it right, and so did several people I know.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

2. In Kage Baker's The House of the Stag, the main character realizes that his older brother was tone deaf and would not have been able to learn the music/song-based magic of their people.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

I thought of two passages in sff works

1. In one of William Gibson's Sprawl works, the narrator talks about simstim and wonders how many potentially great artists were lost to the world because they didn't have technology to share their sensoria:

williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/SimStim

SimStim

SimStim is a technology that broadcasts or records someone's sensoriums, experiences and sensory input. Persons are fit with a broadcast rig, and their senses are broadcast live, so that other persons...

williamgibson.fandom.com

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 9h

That is not what "egalitarian" means.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

variety.com

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 20h

However, coding entails much more! If I say "I'm writing a book", it is clear to most people that I don't just mean typing on the keyboard, but also planning, deleting, and rereading. How come programming, which is at its core similar to writing, is seen so much more narrow?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18h

In case you were planning to buy a lot of model dinosaurs (with speakers) from the place in New Jersey but didn't have a place to put them...

Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 19h

not my usual #Housegawp but you know, you could live in a bronto "Dinosaur park up for sale for £4.5m as owners retire"
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tenby Dinosaur Park: 'We're the fossils now,' say retiring owners

The long-running Pembrokeshire attraction is on the market for the first time, priced at £4.5m.

www.bbc.com

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