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lover of substrates, algaes, lichens, fungi, holobionts, and other tangled and half-hidden things
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
"Sailor Moon overthrows the God-Emperor of Mankind and takes his throne" is exactly the shot in the arm 40k needs.
August 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
“To suddenly start building data centres so much denser in terms of power use, chips cost 10 times as much, there is unproven demand, which eat all up available grid power & suitable real estate — all that is an extraordinary challenge and a gamble."

What could go wrong?
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
Inside the relentless race for AI capacity
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed
ig.ft.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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pollytics.bsky.social
From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
Incredible facts about Barrow Island There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve. It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth. Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago. US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
There has been a step forward in global climate accountability – the International Court of Justice confirms that states have legal obligations to prevent climate harm.

Despite Australian Government pushback, this international law protects our future from fuelling the climate crisis.

#auspol
July 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
f-m-d.bsky.social
Herman Melville remains the English language’s best poster
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 17
going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman’s discretion
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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ifycomedy.com
Started reading that story about Icarus and it’s helped my grindset mentality! No breaks, days off, or sleep. Been so busy that I haven’t been able to finish it. No spoilers please!
July 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Yeah, lichens! #Biodiversity

"Some of the lichens growing ndicate the high air quality on Exmoor, made possible through the lack of pollution & presence of these highly functioning woodland ecosystems"
@britishlichensociety.org.uk @aspenecology.com
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Exmoor fingerpost displayed in London's Natural History Museum
The lichens growing on the post indicate the high air quality and lack of pollution on Exmoor.
www.bbc.com
July 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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clockworklady.bsky.social
Remember how in 2021 we were all told that NFTs were the future and even if we didn't like them they were inevitable and we should all get used to it because this technology has so many obvious advantages? Boy they sure showed us huh.
June 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
f-m-d.bsky.social
This article is being written like it’s a big shock that “Large Reasoning Models” aren’t good at reasoning, but they’re literally just LLMs trained to talk to themselves to refine the answer before responding to a prompt. It’s the same crap architecture with a lazy bandaid slapped over its flaws
June 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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freedomflotilla.bsky.social
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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foldablehuman.bsky.social
But that illusion has found an audience that doesn't merely want to be tricked, they have seen a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat and are now dedicating their lives to speculating on the complex ecology that must exist inside the hat to support the rabbits inside, the magician be damned.
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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unlearnecon.bsky.social
Robert Brenner on the 'demand-supply' interpretations of the Black Death
Given these property or surplus-extraction relationships, productivity crisis leading to demographic crisis was more or less to be expected, sooner or later.50 The question, however, which must be asked concerns the economic and social results of the demographic catastrophe, in particular that of the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Postan showed one logic: that the peasants apparently used their economic position, their scarcity, to win their freedom. As B. H. Slicher van Bath argues for western Europe in general, "the lord of the manor was forced to offer good conditions or see all his villeins vanish from the land".51 Yet, curiously, quite another logic has sometimes been invoked to explain the intensification of serfdom in eastern Europe: viz., that the crisis in seigneurial revenues which followed upon the decline in population and the disappearance of tenants led the lords to assert their control over the peasants and bind them to their lands in order to protect their incomes and their very existence.52 Obviously, both logics are unassailable from different class viewpoints. It was the logic of the peasant to try to use his apparently improved bargaining position to get his freedom. It was the logic of the landlord to protect his position by reducing the peasants' freedom. The result simply cannot be explained in terms of demographic/economic supply and demand. It obviously came down to a question of power, indeed of force, and in fact there was intense Europe-wide lord/peasant conflict throughout the later fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, almost everywhere over the same general issues: first, of course, serfdom; second, whether lords or peasants were to gain ultimate control over landed property, in particular the vast areas left vacant after the demographic collapse.
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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weramamuna.bsky.social
grimdark academia
April 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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dril.bsky.social
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
“Say what you will about the firefighting acumen of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, dude, at least the man learned to play the god damned fiddle.”
a man wearing glasses and a bandana is driving a car and says am i wrong ?
Alt: Walter from the big Lebowski says am i wrong ?
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water.
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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science.org
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
NEWS This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science
March 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Wordle: locked in
Crossword: locked in
Scrolling through the worst news imaginable: so locked in
Sitting down to work: Benny Hill music
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
f-m-d.bsky.social
One of the best things about the discover feed is how often it shows posts with about 4 likes that make zero sense . always nice to have company
March 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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ianparsons.bsky.social
Potential intraguild commensalism between European Badger & Iberian Lynx recorded on camera. the Badger digs out a rabbit burrow and the Lynx awaits escaping rabbits.
Paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@rewildscotland.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social #mammals
February 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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tomciancaglini.myatproto.social
Elon Musk can buy a presidency and own half the world. But knowing he will never be funny will continue to eat away at his rotting soul until there’s no more putrid stink for it to feed on.
February 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
f-m-d.bsky.social
I need to track down a good book on the rise of stakeholder-ism and how/whether consultation is used as a substitute for action . maybe I’ll get lucky and someone here can recommend one
February 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
f-m-d.bsky.social
Need a browser extension that replaces “Large Language Model” with “Lorem Ipsum Deluxe”
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM