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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Good morning from a college campus where I'm once again wildly gesturing toward the crosswalk sign to remind approaching drivers that they shouldn't speed through and they do actually need to stop for pedestrians

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Etymonline is one of the most underappreciated sole-curator resources on the internet. Its not made by a company, just a very wonderfully lyrical person who does it as a labor of love.
https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio

bio

who did this?

www.etymonline.com

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Last year I pickled my green tomatoes. This year I think I might make them into a chutney

B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Tonight we're expecting a frost, so I went out in the dark and made my last harvest for the season. The pepper plants put out lots of fruit this year, but not until late, so now I have a bunch of green peppers instead of fully ripe red ones. The tomatoes were […]

[Original post on wandering.shop]

Four punnets of vegetables: about a quart of green cherry tomatoes, part of a quart of small green peppers, a pint of red cherry tomatoes, and part of a pint of cherry tomatoes that are ripening from green to orange on their way to red

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AlsoPaisleyCat @alsopaisleycat.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

A leucistic white beaver lives in Eastern Ontario.

An Ottawa photographer and a recently retired Carleton University professor went out near Perth to follow up on reports. Yes, they successfully captured it on photos.

"To see a totally white beaver with dark eyes and a dark foot, that's […]

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 21d

Merck is accepting applications for its 2026 Future Talent Program - these are internships and co-ops in a variety of areas including drug discovery, vaccines, clinical trials, biostatistics, epidemiology, HEOR, data science, regulatory affairs, and more
#chemsky 🧪⚗️
jobs.merck.com/us/en/search...

Your job search results | Merck Careers

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21h

I don't actually want to annotate the PDFs anyway. I just want to view the assignments while using the rubric without littering mg computer with dozens of downloaded files of student data that I will forget to trash

B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Whyyy doesn't Moodle let you resize the image in the "annotate pdf" grading view? Half my students have submitted really big PDFs and the preview just shows the top corner of the page 🤦🏼‍♀️ To see anything else I have to download the file which entirely defeats the purpose of the preview window

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Preston MacDougall @chemicaleyeguy.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This back-eyed Susan bloom is MASSIVE! My large hand is shown for scaled #bloomscrolling.

A massive black-eyed Susan bloom, over 12 cm in diameter, with long yellow petals still unfurling around a large brown center.

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May is Spooky 🎃 @mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Poll's over. https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/115333436396003954

Highlights:
- I never want to hear about how Fedi people are unsocial. 86% of you went outside at least once to meet another human being.

- Someone actually got a kidney from a fedi-friend :blobcatlove […]

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AO Smith @aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm enjoying the 'Firepot' dahlias so much right now. I think the colors really resonate with me.

#bloomscrolling #pnw

A many-petaled, waterlily style dahlia with orange and yellow petals with magenta edges. A recent rainstorm left water droplets on the petals, with most on the bottom half of the petals. The flower is mostly open, although the very center is still a tight knot of unopened petals

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@sundogplanets

The Ballad of the Saskatchewan Goat-Sitter

(chorus)
Oh it's cold in the morning
It's fucking cold outside
There's frost on the hay bales
You can't stay warm if you tried
But the goats need their breakfast
So it's to the barn you go
At the break of day you bring the hay
And the […]

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The wonderful @ellecordova did it again: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3gJ5Kirk

A funny song about the current state of affairs. This time about the attacks on science and research from the far right (a.k.a. Trump administration) in the US.

#academicchatter

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weit_im_westen @weit-im-westen.nrw.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#seascape #vis #croatia

A clear, shallow body of water with a sandy bottom is visible. The water is textured by the light shining through it. In the distance, a sailboat is anchored between two small, green, rocky hills under a bright blue sky with a few clouds

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

CNN: "There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning. In Nashville, so many controllers have stayed home the facility, which guides planes into and out of the airport, is […]

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I just learned that #texturetuesday is a thing.
#hawaii

Black volcanic rock formation of recently cooled lava, shiny but uneven, with multiple cracks.

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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable.

Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

With the recent influx of newcomers from #bluesky , it behooves us to contemplate what we can do to improve #moderation on the #fediverse - something that has been a problem in the past, and is one of the major reasons why the Fediverse is not as big and as diverse as it could be.

The first and […]

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Piotr Walicki 📸 🦅 @zvrt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis, 🇩🇪 Eisvogel, 🇵🇱 zimorodek).

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

A kingfisher is perched on a dead, forked branch, holding a small fish in its beak, against a dull background. The bird displays vivid turquoise and orange colours, and has white patches on its chin and shoulders.

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

New post: Contingent Magazine is hiring non-tenure-track historians to write about monsters https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/10/07/cfp-a-time-of-monsters/ #histodons #antiquidons #cfp #monster

CFP: A Time of Monsters

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 3d

There’s a beautiful world where tech companies all meticulously restricted their training corpus to the public domain and LLM-powered Ask Jeeves actually talks like Jeeves because he is powered entirely by pre-1930 texts

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Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social · 2d

Funny how so many people who've never taught think the only thing to worry about with #AI in #education is students using it to cheat.

I'm not worried about student using AI to cheat. I'm worried about how AI is cheating students.

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Aleen @aleen.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Kim's threads are always great, and this is no exception.
https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/115328555859980298

Kim Crayton ~ Her/She (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image As “good white people” prepare for the Oct. 18th No Kings Day Protest, I have one question: What are you doing to ensure that this country’s legacy of empowering mediocre, unremarkable white men finally ends so that 40 or 50 years from now, your descendants aren’t organizing their own No Kings Day protest for the exact same reasons?

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I can't be the only person out there who ends up twisted around inside with the conflict between "Thank you for doing the thing for me" and "No thank you for doing something different than I asked"

I try to say the first thing and let go of the second one, but letting go is hard

(And obviously […]

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