Palomar
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Telescope that can point itself and think about what it sees.
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· Nov 20
Whale memory palace: the rooms are different temperatures of water, different illuminations, not cubic, current-shaped—and throughout them corals, rare solidities, chains and anchors, boat-shadow, odd glowing assemblages no human diver has attested
‘A sea-change into something rich and strange’. Maybe the glowing assemblages are echolocation perceptions.
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So then a bat memory palace is not fully bounded but has edges somewhat delineated like a rough sketch by reflection & refraction; suspended in the dark are memories of taste, smell, touch
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So then a bat memory palace is not fully bounded but has edges somewhat delineated like a rough sketch by reflection & refraction; suspended in the dark are memories of taste, smell, touch
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Interior in Nice, a Siesta, 1922
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16607
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16607
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Interior in Nice, a Siesta, 1922
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16607
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16607
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Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
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Market at Minho https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/market-at-minho
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Market at Minho https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/market-at-minho
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💔 Cynical Timing: Massive Russian Strike on Ukraine
Winter energy terror continues. Russia times these attacks for symbolic dates. It shows clear unwillingness to move toward peace…
Read more ⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/cynical-timi...
Winter energy terror continues. Russia times these attacks for symbolic dates. It shows clear unwillingness to move toward peace…
Read more ⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/cynical-timi...
Cynical Timing: Massive Russian Strike on Ukraine
On the night of December 6, Saint Nicholas Day and Ukraine’s Armed Forces Day, Russia carried out a massive attack on Ukraine. The Air Force's radio-technical
theukrainianreview.info
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
💔 Cynical Timing: Massive Russian Strike on Ukraine
Winter energy terror continues. Russia times these attacks for symbolic dates. It shows clear unwillingness to move toward peace…
Read more ⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/cynical-timi...
Winter energy terror continues. Russia times these attacks for symbolic dates. It shows clear unwillingness to move toward peace…
Read more ⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/cynical-timi...
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The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent.
Austria's rebel nuns refuse to give up Instagram to stay in their convent
The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent. Now their superior has asked the Vatican to intercede in the dispute.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent.
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Cat names should evolve like avant-garde jazz. By the time of a cat's fifth birthday the name by which it is generally known should have zero resemblance to its original name.
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Cat names should evolve like avant-garde jazz. By the time of a cat's fifth birthday the name by which it is generally known should have zero resemblance to its original name.
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Good morning dear friends, I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful day. Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Good morning dear friends, I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful day. Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
The brass at the beginning and end is hypnotic, and if you’re Haruki Murakami, it opens interdimensional portals
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6G...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6G...
Leoš Janáček - Sinfonietta
YouTube video by olla-vogala
m.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The brass at the beginning and end is hypnotic, and if you’re Haruki Murakami, it opens interdimensional portals
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6G...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6G...
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This is the way.
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is the way.
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Yesterday's walk: waterfalls, massive fuck off Industrial Revolution chimneys, interdimensional cliff portals, paintable cattle. Excellent work, Derbyshire. 11.5 out of 10.
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Yesterday's walk: waterfalls, massive fuck off Industrial Revolution chimneys, interdimensional cliff portals, paintable cattle. Excellent work, Derbyshire. 11.5 out of 10.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
One hopes so 🔥
⚡️ Macron says pressure on Russia’s economy and its ability to finance the war will “drastically change” in the coming weeks.
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
One hopes so 🔥
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Distant Journeys https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/distant-journeys
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Distant Journeys https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/distant-journeys
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Flamenco singer https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/flamenco-singer
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Flamenco singer https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/flamenco-singer
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
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Crows Can Hold A Grudge Way Longer Than You Can
There's a reason they go around in murders.
www.iflscience.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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Intrude not upon me until I have had my
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Intrude not upon me until I have had my
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tfw u need seven samurai
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
tfw u need seven samurai
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Let those among us who never went clubbing in a decommissioned church throw the first stone
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Let those among us who never went clubbing in a decommissioned church throw the first stone