manu schwendener
@manuschwendener.ch
librarian, photographer
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Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
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Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
📷 Very useful tool to plan your photo shoots in #Basel:
www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc...
3d.geo.bs.ch
Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day.
Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social
www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc...
3d.geo.bs.ch
Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day.
Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
📷 Very useful tool to plan your photo shoots in #Basel:
www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc...
3d.geo.bs.ch
Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day.
Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social
www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc...
3d.geo.bs.ch
Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day.
Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social
🪶 #LEGO #Puffin set, open for voting.
=> 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
=> 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
The Hardy Atlantic Puffin | LEGO® Ideas
The Build: A brick built Atlantic puffin on a stony base. The build stands 30cm high and occupies a surface of 26cm x 16cm. Its beak can be opened and closed an…
beta.ideas.lego.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:44 AM
🪶 #LEGO #Puffin set, open for voting.
=> 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
=> 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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*JOBS KLAXON* - a fantastic opportunity to work on the NMCT-funded project to conserve Winchester Cathedral account and court rolls, late 13th century to c1540 at the terrific Hampshire Archives. Spread the word!
careers.newjob.org.uk/HCC/job/Winc...
careers.newjob.org.uk/HCC/job/Winc...
Assistant Conservator
Assistant Conservator
careers.newjob.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 PM
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
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We've got a new #kakapo webcam! It's on Rakiura's nest on Whenua Hou. She laid an egg yesterday (we caught that on camera), but isn't incubating it yet. Follow to (hopefully) watch her lay more! #conservation #birds
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream
Watch the live stream of Rakiura the kākāpō on the remote, predator-free island of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This is the first breeding season for this critically threatened ...
www.doc.govt.nz
January 23, 2026 at 4:11 AM
We've got a new #kakapo webcam! It's on Rakiura's nest on Whenua Hou. She laid an egg yesterday (we caught that on camera), but isn't incubating it yet. Follow to (hopefully) watch her lay more! #conservation #birds
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
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Also available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle, worldwide: amzn.to/4qCWHz0
The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting with People and Place
The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting with People and Place [Hobby, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting with People and Place
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January 22, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Many thanks to all of you who have read, supported, and reviewed The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto.
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
Starting today, it is also available as a DRM-free audiobook: the-traveling-photographer-2.myshopify.com/products/the...
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy... we're at the "casting spells to ward off the LLMs" stage of things
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 AM
hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy... we're at the "casting spells to ward off the LLMs" stage of things
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Three #kakapo nests found on Anchor Island today! Here’s Waikawa, on two eggs. #conservation #birds #parrots
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Three #kakapo nests found on Anchor Island today! Here’s Waikawa, on two eggs. #conservation #birds #parrots
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During sky photo shoots I have stargazed with: owls, rabbits, a fox, and a cow. Who knows what they were thinking, but in each case it really did seem like they were taking in the sky, and/or at least wondering what I was looking at.
Trying to make happy art again...
I added another family of stargazers off in the distance.
I was at Crater Lake once and wondered if animals took time to enjoy the beauty of their surroundings and at that moment a pika climbed to the tip of a volcanic spire and just looked out at the valley.
I added another family of stargazers off in the distance.
I was at Crater Lake once and wondered if animals took time to enjoy the beauty of their surroundings and at that moment a pika climbed to the tip of a volcanic spire and just looked out at the valley.
January 21, 2026 at 10:04 PM
During sky photo shoots I have stargazed with: owls, rabbits, a fox, and a cow. Who knows what they were thinking, but in each case it really did seem like they were taking in the sky, and/or at least wondering what I was looking at.
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I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share.
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/r...
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/r...
Reminder: Scammers Are Out There Pretending to Be Me (and Other Authors as Well)
Three times in the last week I’ve gotten inquiries from authors, about email from an account purporting to be me. This account praised their book in a very “AI” fashion and tried …
whatever.scalzi.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Terry and I are going to be in Australia early Feb to early March, approx:
* Melbourne: 10-16 Feb
* Bit of travelling (Hobart, Moonta)
* Adelaide: 25 Feb-8 March
Let me know if there's book things or game things happening that I should know about!
* Melbourne: 10-16 Feb
* Bit of travelling (Hobart, Moonta)
* Adelaide: 25 Feb-8 March
Let me know if there's book things or game things happening that I should know about!
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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🧪 #Copenhagen!
My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
January 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
🧪 #Copenhagen!
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Oh, I nearly forgot, what with our daily chaos and all. My essay on climate craftivism is out in the wild, a chapter in "Global Craftivism since the Pussyhats: Handcraft Responses to Violence, War, Illness, and Isolation," edited by the wonderful Hinda Mandell. Bloomsbury, January 8, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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That's me in the corner...
... looking stunning!
Just a casually pretty peacock hanging out in the corner a medieval book on astronomy!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
... looking stunning!
Just a casually pretty peacock hanging out in the corner a medieval book on astronomy!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...
January 20, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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well I've also posted my Adelaide Writers' Week opinions. It's my home festival and I love it, and I was among the many many writers who withdrew, and I know this whole thing has been such a mess but also, I am hopeful for 2027's event and so surprised by that hope buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
January 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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I would not have a Ring device in or on my home. Period.
Also: if you can, buy your things directly from the manufacturer rather than via Amazon. Often you’d be surprised that it’s cheaper and more profits go to them rather than to the middle man.
Also: if you can, buy your things directly from the manufacturer rather than via Amazon. Often you’d be surprised that it’s cheaper and more profits go to them rather than to the middle man.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I would not have a Ring device in or on my home. Period.
Also: if you can, buy your things directly from the manufacturer rather than via Amazon. Often you’d be surprised that it’s cheaper and more profits go to them rather than to the middle man.
Also: if you can, buy your things directly from the manufacturer rather than via Amazon. Often you’d be surprised that it’s cheaper and more profits go to them rather than to the middle man.
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Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
It’s seriously what gets us through.
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Best of 2025:
One of the most memorable scenes from last year was witnessing hundreds of parrots descend on the Rio Roosevelt in the Brazilian Amazon to feed along the edge of a treacherous waterfall.
One of the most memorable scenes from last year was witnessing hundreds of parrots descend on the Rio Roosevelt in the Brazilian Amazon to feed along the edge of a treacherous waterfall.
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Three more #kakapo matings last night: Tumeke + Te Atapo on Whenua Hou, and Kotahitanga mated with both Marama and Kohengi on Anchor. Mating with different males substantially increases the likelihood of clutch fertility: peerj.com/articles/146.... Here's Te Atapo booming. #conservation #parrots
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Three more #kakapo matings last night: Tumeke + Te Atapo on Whenua Hou, and Kotahitanga mated with both Marama and Kohengi on Anchor. Mating with different males substantially increases the likelihood of clutch fertility: peerj.com/articles/146.... Here's Te Atapo booming. #conservation #parrots
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A tiny human (1?) sitting in a high chair at a country cafe has a small toy octopus and would like the world to know it. Every time new people walk through the door, she raises it, makes a loud hooting noise and waggles it alluringly. Everyone must be in AWE of her mighty beasty friend. (5)
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
A tiny human (1?) sitting in a high chair at a country cafe has a small toy octopus and would like the world to know it. Every time new people walk through the door, she raises it, makes a loud hooting noise and waggles it alluringly. Everyone must be in AWE of her mighty beasty friend. (5)
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this is really cool from @silvestar.codes
Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid
www.silvestar.codes/articles/pur...
#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd
Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid
www.silvestar.codes/articles/pur...
#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd
Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid ✣ S.Bistrović
Can we use the details element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!
www.silvestar.codes
January 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
this is really cool from @silvestar.codes
Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid
www.silvestar.codes/articles/pur...
#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd
Pure CSS tabs with details, grid, and subgrid
www.silvestar.codes/articles/pur...
#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd
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We all need a a timeline cleanse!
A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.
On display at Antikensammlung München
A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀
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A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.
On display at Antikensammlung München
A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀
📷 me
January 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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