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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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unep.org
Early warning systems turn threats into actions, saving millions of lives and livelihoods while preventing costly recovery efforts.

On #WorldMeteorologicalDay, see how UNEP is advancing #EarlyWarningsForAll efforts for a better, safer future: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
The image shows a large satellite dish under a clear blue sky. White text reads: “Early warning systems are not a luxury.” The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar...🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
A close-up of a die made of bone. It is completely preserved.Its surface is porous, yet the detail is clear. Four pips are visible on the top face, one on the front, and five on the side.
January 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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luckytran.com
Artists, writers, filmmakers: Please integrate COVID into your cultural work. Avoiding COVID in your content erases critical history. And we all know what horrible things can happen when we as a society fail to learn from history.
marynmck.bsky.social Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · Jan 6
After watching researchers try to recover bodies from the 1918 flu in the Arctic, I went back to school to study the social history of epidemics. I couldn't understand why 1918 sparked no major memorials, no novels, no plays. How could societies collectively agree to forget mass death?

Welp.
January 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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cbassa.bsky.social
For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.
January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
"…The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky…"
— "Don't Give Up," Black Belt Eagle Scout
blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com/track/dont-g...

(been stuck in my head for days)
Don't Give Up, by Black Belt Eagle Scout
from the album The Land, The Water, The Sky
blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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mariapopova.bsky.social
Let this be the year of the end of anger. New bird divination available as a print at https://bit.ly/angerdivination. The deck of 100 can be found at http://almanacofbirds.org
January 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
amazing terminology for the hypothetical moon of a moon
January 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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shing.bsky.social
2025 Predictions
a card featuring some predictions for 2025: you will eat something weird but transcendent, you are going to see a bird that looks pretty normal but it's gonna be kinda odd, weird plant, you will touch the water, a small bug will land on you long enough for you to look at it closely, you will find something that you thought was lost forever
January 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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seafloorscience.bsky.social
There will still be beauty in this world after we are gone.
vincentledvina.bsky.social Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · Jan 1
Look at this incredible rainbow of color in the aurora above Toolik, Alaska tonight. Just incredible. Happy New Year!
January 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
+++NEW ANALYSIS+++

UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade

Highlights:
🏭end of coal power after 142yrs
🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share
🌄renewables at record-high 45%

www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
January 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Check these out — Still probably my favourite bollards/barriers I’ve seen anywhere in the world. They aren’t just cute and fun (and extra seating) — they’re REALLY heavy. Cars should NOT try messing with these sheep! I took this pic while working for Christchurch NZ years ago. #CityOfSmiles
Colourful bollards/barriers shaped like sheep in Christchurch New Zealand
January 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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cpsc.gov
Whatever we make.
Two unicorns, Dennis and Butterscotch, looking into the future. There is a blinding white light. The text reads: What's that? It's the future! Will there be cupcakes? There'll be whatever we make!
January 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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litbowl.bsky.social
From @katejbaer.bsky.social's book, What Kind of Woman: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...

#poem #poetry #katebaer #books #authors
January 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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unicouniuni3.bsky.social
Happy new year :3
May 2025 be a happy and great year for you!

あけましておめでとうございます！
2025年が素晴らしい一年となりますように✨
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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susandblum.bsky.social
"life cannot be delegated."
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 31
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December 31, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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bethsawin.bsky.social
Some intelligences that are frugal with energy, water & materials:
A monarch migrating
A bird nest building
A vine reaching for light
A toddler making up a song
A culture living within the limits of its place for centuries
Voices harmonizing
A storyteller, telling
December 29, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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cpsc.gov
#HappyNewYear
Ted on his ATV floating in space. The earth floats like a speck of dust in a sunbeam. The text reads: As Ted gazed out across the cosmos he was struck by the beauty of existence and filled with the hope of a brand new year. Happy new year, Ted.
January 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Sorry, I can’t do a personal review of the year. Anything before last week merges into one amorphous blob.
December 31, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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grimalkina.bsky.social
love this and also love the world heritage level effect that one viral image had on the general public's understanding of perception
chazfirestone.bsky.social Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · Dec 31
beautiful demonstration (as always) from @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social. if you needed yet another way to see how the very same clumps of pixels can appear blue and black or white and gold, this is it.
two versions of the same map made of colored puzzle pieces. in one version, two pieces look white and yellow; in the other they look blue and black. but overlays show they have the very same RGB values
December 31, 2024 at 4:51 PM
clari1ty.bsky.social
Interesting, and also interesting that in the year view for 1582 there appears to be a glitch / inconsistency?
iPhone calendar (in dark mode) open to October 1582; also showing part of November 1582. Thursday, 4 October 1582 is immediately followed by Friday, 15 October 1582. iPhone calendar (in dark mode) open to the year 1582, ostensibly showing all twelve months. October 1582 shows 31 days, inconsistent with the month view for October 1582.
December 31, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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antoniusrex.bsky.social
Charles Dickens spitting fire in 1859 about a story taking place in the 1780s with an opening that still rings relevant at the end of 2024.
The opening paragraph to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Chapter 1: The Period. The text below reads: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
December 31, 2024 at 9:13 AM