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Nate Anderson
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Denver-based software developer. Mostly reskeets of art, movies, data-viz, coding, kitsch, etc. https://www.bitmaskstudios.com/
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Friday Sly Day
June 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Enjoyed learning about the guy who tried to develop artificial insemination in the mid 19th century but kept failing because he thought ovulation occurred during menstruation.
J Marion Sims reported his findings of postcoital tests and 55 inseminations in the mid 1800s. Only one pregnancy occurred but this could be explained by the fact that he believed that ovulation occurred during menstruation. JM Simms was born in Lancaster County (USA) in 1813. In 1863 he began writing his innovative work Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, which was controversial but widely read. Its revolutionary approach to female diseases was refreshing and its emphasis on treatment of sterility, including artificial insemination, was ahead of its time.
April 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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thelanguagegarage.bsky.social
他总是在阅读。 Tā zǒng shì zài yuèdú. He reads all the time. Describing people in #Chinese #Mandarin #Languages. Learn more here: thelanguagegarage.com/describing-p...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Explore more data on fertility on our new page on Our World in Data:
Fertility Rate
Explore changing patterns in fertility worldwide, from birth rates to parental ages, twinning rates, reproductive technologies, and more.
ourworldindata.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
What share of births involve assisted reproductive technologies like IVF? 🧵
A bar chart displays the share of all births using assisted reproductive technology in various European countries for the year 2019. The countries are listed on the vertical axis, while the percentage of births is represented by horizontal bars extending to the right. Spain has the highest percentage at 8.9%, followed by Greece at 7.5% and Denmark at 6.3%. Other countries include Czechia at 6.2%, Estonia at 5.7%, and Iceland at 5.5%. The chart includes a note stating that the figures encompass all births in each country, possibly including cross-border treatment. The data source is the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (2023) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.
March 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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weratedogs.com
This is Bear. He disguised himself and snuck into a golden retriever gathering. Safe to say no one suspected a thing. 13/10
a black pittie with a greying snoot sits on a street. he's wearing a blond, curly, shake and go wig. he looks off past the camera with an expression that indicates he has complete confidence in his disguise. Bear the pittie is facing away from the camera, his entire head consumed by the blond wig. he stands next to two happy goldens who don't even notice anything strange. Bear stands in the middle of a street next to a majestic golden retriever draped in a regency era cape. the golden is none the wiser to Bear's ruse, nor do any of the five people standing around on the street.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ashleemboyer.com
Let's see what "DEI stuff" was removed in this pull request against in 18F/handbook codebase.

Merged the morning of 2/6:
github.com/18F/handbook...

🧵 1/
Removing more DEI stuff by eugeneiiim · Pull Request #4132 · 18F/handbook
github.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Hello dataviz and design people!

We're looking for a freelancer to help us with data visualization and/or diagrams at Works in Progress.

We cover topics like housing, technology, health, energy, and much more, and experience in these areas is a plus!

If this is you, get in touch! (details below)
February 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
One week after its release, "Nezha 2" is already the new highest-grossing Chinese animated film of all time (box office: 5.4 billion yuan / 740 million dollars).
It thus beats its own previous record (also little talked about abroad) held by the 1st "Nezha" film (5 billion yuan).
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i have been reading the hobbit to my kids and it brings me no shortage of pleasure that they are both really into it
February 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
natemuiranderson.bsky.social
Nicknames for my 3-week old son:
- Tow-boy
- Ciervito
- Teuško
- Bois (pr. like "Bwa")
- Teík
- 'Gotchi
- Theobrimbor
- Poopy-legs
- 小龙
January 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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keithjgrant.com
ICYMI, I made some big updates to the Theme Machine over the holidays. Check it out!

tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machine/
A series of colors, each in 16 different shades of darkness. The colors are labeled slate, blue, violet, sapphire, and gold
January 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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tomsharperocks.bsky.social
19 December 1823: #MaryAnning writes to fossil collector Sir Henry Bunbury to tell him she had found 'a fossil skeleton of an unknown species...nine feete long and...four feete broade...a remarkable small head not more than eight inches in length long neck': the first complete Plesiosaurus.
Portrait of Mary Anning, February 1842, aged 42. She wears a green cloak and a straw bonnet tied with a red ribbon over a lace cap, and carries a basket over her arm and holds a hammer on her right hand. General Sir Henry Bunbury, retired soldier and a fossil collector. He visited Lyme Regis in 1823 and met Mary Anning. This portrait is of an elderly man with long sideburns and eyebrows and a balding head. Part of a handwritten letter from Mary Anning to Sir Henry Bunbury, 19 December 1823 telling him of her discovery of an 'unknown species', but later in the letter she tells him it is plesiosaurus.
December 19, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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emilyzfeng.bsky.social
So, NPR let me do an audio postcard on my very particular trash routine in Taiwan that turned into more of a self-reflective essay on my neuroses...
www.npr.org/2024/11/30/n...
A love letter to Taiwan's meticulous — and frustrating — trash collection system
NPR's Emily Feng bids goodbye to Asia — and to Taiwan's strict trash collection system, which she unexpectedly grew to love.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
I just found Arx Lee's new Instagram account.
Only 30 subscribers. He deserves more.
instagram.com/arxlee_artist
December 22, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".
December 12, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Let's have a look.

🧙🪄

I just eliminated hepatitis! Now, 3 of them survived!

So, 60% of the 5 deaths were attributed to hepatitis.
December 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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roman-bushuiev.bsky.social
Check out our NeurIPS 2024 spotlight poster on MassSpecGym, a dataset and benchmark for discovering new molecules from nature 🌿. If you work on generative models for graphs/molecules, plug your model into MassSpecGym and see how many molecules you can discover! 🚀 1/6
December 11, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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majnouna.com
So satisfying! Another completed page 🥵 and all these bits of silk thread I’ve been dyeing experimentally are being put to good use.
December 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
New post: My substack is back, finally!

I meant to keep this to 1,000 words but I failed.

In any case, here's a round up of 5 major medical breakthroughs in 2024.
Five medical breakthroughs in 2024
It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 9, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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jec.fish
Performance you say? Join Captain Speedy to learn how to pinpoint & fix performance issues with cool insights in #ChromeDevTools. Let’s dive in! 📺 youtu.be/7A70hBrPL4I

@tunetheweb.com #DevToolsTips #webperf
December 6, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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flavorflav.bsky.social
I get emotional every time I see my Water Polo girls,,, but this was something special,,, They had me crying real tears for about 10 mins.

To get a Gold Medal clock by people who mean so much to me is the greatest Christmas present and gift in life. Thankx to Maggie Steffens and Ashleigh Johnson.🫶🏾
December 7, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Ammonites arrived 🦑
December 6, 2024 at 12:44 PM