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danielgray.com
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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civixplorer.bsky.social
The growth of Paris from 250 AD to the present day in 3 minutes.

🔎 CITY 3D TIMELAPSE
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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alanjstedman.bsky.social
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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drjoehanson.bsky.social
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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comicsinthega.bsky.social
Happy 97th birthday to Tintin! Created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi under the pen name Hergé, his first story appeared in Le Petit Vingtième on January 10, 1929.
The cast of Tintin holding up champagne glasses with the "Happy Birthday Tintin!" above them.
January 10, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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sibelycl.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
idk what the hell my algorithm has become but you better believe i watched the whole thing
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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ostrichson.bsky.social
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
Scene from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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scalzi.com
Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious

youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E
The Sheep Detectives - Official Trailer (2026) Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Patrick Stewart
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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tonygoldmark.bsky.social
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Clerical detectives may be a highly specific field, but it's one explored by Umberto Eco, Agatha Christie, and most recently Rian Johnson. @leahschnelbach.bsky.social presents an ironclad ranking of the holiest sleuths across genre!
An Infallible Ranking of Crime-Solving Clergy - Reactor
There's a surprising amount of crossover between sleuthing and pastoral care.
reactormag.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Annual shameless Xmas or other seasonal holiday gift suggestion for those interested in any of material culture, empire or British country houses. Over 500 pages & 100 illustrations. Paperback a mere £30. (Alternatively, free to download from @uclpress.bsky.social or @jstor.bsky.social ).
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
uclpress.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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mudron.bsky.social
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
The soviet BESM-6 has one of the best names in all of computing: BESM stands for "Big Electric Computing Machine."
Four grey units form a semicircle. Up top, individual storage units form four compact "shelves" of data storage. Down below, four desks jutting out from the storage units provide keyboards, monitors, punch card hopper, and pre-video output devices; wooden shelves are propped up in front of each machine.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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spiegel.de
KI-generierte Filme mit historischen Persönlichkeiten: Stalin klaut Pommes bei McDonald’s: Seit OpenAI die Video-KI Sora 2 veröffentlicht hat, fluten Clips mit »historischen« Figuren in absurden Situationen TikTok, Instagram und YouTube. Medienforscher Roland Meyer erklärt, warum das gefährlich ist.
KI-generierte Filme mit historischen Persönlichkeiten: Stalin klaut Pommes bei McDonald’s
Seit OpenAI die Video-KI Sora 2 veröffentlicht hat, fluten Clips mit »historischen« Figuren in absurden Situationen TikTok, Instagram und YouTube. Medienforscher Roland Meyer erklärt, warum das gefährlich ist.
www.spiegel.de
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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drannaclark.bsky.social
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where laws end, there tyranny begins.”
The Great Commoner, William Pitt the Elder, born #OTD 1708.
Portrait by William Hoare c. 1754, National Portrait Gallery London
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Raphael S. Soriano, FAIA (1904 – 1988) was an architect and educator who pioneered the use of modular prefabricated steel and aluminum structures in residential and commercial design of the mid-century.

The Albert Grossman House (1964)
crosbydoe.com/address/1146...
The client Albert Grossman House was so pleased with the home that he named it El Paradiso Driveway with cobogó privacy panel painted beige. A Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument plaque is displayed under the address of the home. Kitchen cabinetry covered in yellow Formica Bathroom decorated in red and yellow Formica
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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christophbautz.bsky.social
Eine Politik, die Menschenrechte ignoriert, ist nicht christlich.

Eine Politik, die Menschen los werden will, die hier arbeiten & Steuern zahlen, ist nicht vernünftig.

Eine Politik, die sinnlose Grenzkontrollen durchzieht, ist nicht proeuropäisch.

Diese Politik von Merz hilft nur der AfD.
Ein Screenshot einer Überschrift aus dem Handelsblatt: "Merz dringt auf Abschiebungen nach Syrien"
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM