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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 4h

Today is Septidi the 7th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate topsoil.#JacobinDay

More information on topsoil

An old time-y illustration of a Topsoil.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 9h

"One of my friends was like, 'should we be doing this?' And I said, 'we just drove from London to do this. We're here now, we're gonna do it'," he said.

This attitude has killed many in the hills and on the water. If in doubt about it being safe don't do it. You can always give it a go another day

Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 10h

This is something a lot of Mountain Rescue teams are seeing across the UK. Many people don't realise how quickly conditions can change and how challenging peaks and fells can be.

BBC News - Spate of mountain rescues involving young men sparks concern
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Overconfident' young men prompt multiple rescues from Yr Wyddfa

Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team say winter weather can turn a manageable day extremely dangerous.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 10h

This is something a lot of Mountain Rescue teams are seeing across the UK. Many people don't realise how quickly conditions can change and how challenging peaks and fells can be.

BBC News - Spate of mountain rescues involving young men sparks concern
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Overconfident' young men prompt multiple rescues from Yr Wyddfa

Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team say winter weather can turn a manageable day extremely dangerous.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3d

Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system!
🧪 🏺

*Atlas of the Munsell Color System* (1915)

Munsell envisioned his atlas as a system akin to musical notation, which would liberate visual description from commercially-driven colour names.

publicdomainreview.org

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Greenwashed feudalism posing as environmentalism.

Rewilding needs people who care about the place, can look after it and advocate for it. It needs people there, in the landscape. Nurturing nature.

This approach just continues folk being cleared for sheep, spruce and grouse.

Unsustainable.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d

'Rewilding' presented as merely another investment opportunity.

Capitalism is like a highly corrosive acid, relentlessly seeking to corrupt and neutralise everything that offers ways out of the dead end nightmare IT is creating.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical

Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates

www.theguardian.com

Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 3d

A homemade 1944 Christmas card with a geological map of the Lake District cut from an original William Smith 1815 geological map of England and Wales. It was made by FJ North of the National Museum of Wales from the remnants of a map he rescued from a bonfire. Today Smith maps sell for over £100K.

Left, the picture of a homemade Christmas card of 1944, a simple geological map of the Lake District, with rocks shown in brown and blue shades; top right, the typewritten caption on the card: 'One of the few fragments of William Smith's Geological Map (1815), rescued from the debris of a bonfire. The owner supposed that such an old map could not be of any use, but thought that FJN [FJ North] would like to have a newer one that he had saved. It was a 1910 map from a railway timetable!'; lower right: the burnt and cut remnant of the northern sheet of Smith's map.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

Som importeret Jyde er mine stærkeste følelser for Funen.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d

'Rewilding' presented as merely another investment opportunity.

Capitalism is like a highly corrosive acid, relentlessly seeking to corrupt and neutralise everything that offers ways out of the dead end nightmare IT is creating.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical

Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates

www.theguardian.com

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

Aye. Not a fan of greenwashed feudalism.

Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 4d

Spotted in Govan.

Spotter: Maura Currie

St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · 4d

Advent window 22, a picture from the Trust's archives. The summer months were busy harvesting seabirds and storing them for the winter months
#StKilda, #NTS, #advent

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

I love YMO. So innovative.

Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 5d

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz351bs

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5d

Bloody knuckles.

ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com · 5d

A small piece of sea off Hoy

A square, close-up image of a tiny section of a wave, post breakage, fairly green and extremely furious.

astrobeck @astrobeck.bsky.social · 6d

#shittycamerachallenge
Kodak #Charmera
Port Aransas, Texas
Great blue Heron

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

I think this goes for a lot of stuff- often experts are equivocal and you'll hear "it depends" a lot in response to a question, but ignorant dumbasses making shit up will be full of certainty.

The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 6d

Today is Primidi the 1st of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate peat.#JacobinDay

More information on peat

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

This is caused by the perverse incentives engendered by delegating knowledge production to private enterprise.

Everyone's under so much pressure to churn out stuff that people take shortcuts at every stage of the publication process and poison the well with genAI pish.

Academia is broken.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 6d

Watching Gremlins (1984) with the eldest.
I hate to point this out but early in Gremlins, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) is on TV.
We are now further away from Gremlins than Gremlins was from It’s A Wonderful Life.
Sorry.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

An inspiration for a legend, not a sunken city. The 404 headline suggests the latter.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

I forgot pitchforks @themerl.bsky.social

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 7d

Microsoft Word:

Does not need AI.
Needs to accept ‘outwith.’

Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 7d

An exquisite delft shaving basin from the 17th century. The decoration features a plethora of shaving accoutrements. The semi-circular gap fits the neck of the shavee, allowing the bowl to collect hair and cream. The two small holes to the side suggest it was hung up on display.

A delft bowl with a large rim which had a large semi circular cut. It is decorated in blue with images of scissors, combs and various other items and the words ‘Myn iaer is om’, my hair is over?

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Don't feed the #pseudoarchaeology types...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

The headline on this article is unfortunate because this really has nothing to do with any city.

404 Media @404media.co · 7d

Scientists found submerged stone structures off Brittany that date back at least 7,000 years, which may have been used as fish traps and protective cover for prehistoric people.

Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend

Scientists found submerged stone structures off Brittany that date back at least 7,000 years, which may have been used as fish traps and protective cover for prehistoric people.

www.404media.co

404 Media @404media.co · 7d

Scientists found submerged stone structures off Brittany that date back at least 7,000 years, which may have been used as fish traps and protective cover for prehistoric people.

Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend

Scientists found submerged stone structures off Brittany that date back at least 7,000 years, which may have been used as fish traps and protective cover for prehistoric people.

www.404media.co

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Is that a kickball thing?

a group of people are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying " hooray he 's kicked the ball

Alt: a group of people are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying " hooray he 's kicked the ball

media.tenor.com

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