Mr. Denneysmith
@todddenney.bsky.social
"What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness."
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
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Mr. Denneysmith
@todddenney.bsky.social
· Nov 15
https://www.nfb.ca/film/three-thousand/
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“In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light.”
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There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
June 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
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Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago
Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California
Photo: Rick Goldwaser
Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California
Photo: Rick Goldwaser
June 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago
Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California
Photo: Rick Goldwaser
Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California
Photo: Rick Goldwaser
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José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of 89. Jon Lee Anderson writes about the leader’s legacy.
Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution
For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.
www.newyorker.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of 89. Jon Lee Anderson writes about the leader’s legacy.
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The world of Homer. Nope, not a map of Springfield. #badgeographyjoke
May 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The world of Homer. Nope, not a map of Springfield. #badgeographyjoke
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Okay I'm sorry I posted this without a photo! Here is Bonnie.
May 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Okay I'm sorry I posted this without a photo! Here is Bonnie.
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My hands are all sticky from making a dandelion crown for an elderly rescue goat and I’m honestly thrilled that this is where I’m at in life.
May 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My hands are all sticky from making a dandelion crown for an elderly rescue goat and I’m honestly thrilled that this is where I’m at in life.
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Am in middle of my 17 hour movie about creativity in documentary.
Have filmed world.
Trying to rethink the genre.
More and more I ask myself "What would #AI not know about this, or see or say?"
The thought excites me.
A bit like how painters reacted to photography? What can I do that it can't?
Have filmed world.
Trying to rethink the genre.
More and more I ask myself "What would #AI not know about this, or see or say?"
The thought excites me.
A bit like how painters reacted to photography? What can I do that it can't?
March 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Am in middle of my 17 hour movie about creativity in documentary.
Have filmed world.
Trying to rethink the genre.
More and more I ask myself "What would #AI not know about this, or see or say?"
The thought excites me.
A bit like how painters reacted to photography? What can I do that it can't?
Have filmed world.
Trying to rethink the genre.
More and more I ask myself "What would #AI not know about this, or see or say?"
The thought excites me.
A bit like how painters reacted to photography? What can I do that it can't?
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In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.
The Longest, Least-Remembered Great American Novel
In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.
nyer.cm
April 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.
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For, d’ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor.
April 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For, d’ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor.
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“So this is such a wonderful way to connect real women’s experiences to the ancient myths and tales.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war
Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of Troy
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“So this is such a wonderful way to connect real women’s experiences to the ancient myths and tales.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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They were holy houses of the dead once and we should never deride those who still hold them as holy. For among the many things we can say the Long Neolithic is, perhaps one of them is that it offers a continuing sense of the sacred. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
February 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
They were holy houses of the dead once and we should never deride those who still hold them as holy. For among the many things we can say the Long Neolithic is, perhaps one of them is that it offers a continuing sense of the sacred. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
January 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.
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This sealskin painting from the Siberian Bering Strait was obtained from the Chukchi by the crew of a US whaler in the 1860s/1870s. Depicting hunting, shamans, fighting scenes, whaling schooners & kayaks, it could be a calendar of a year on the Chukchi Peninsula or a collection of everyday scenes.
December 20, 2024 at 10:12 AM
This sealskin painting from the Siberian Bering Strait was obtained from the Chukchi by the crew of a US whaler in the 1860s/1870s. Depicting hunting, shamans, fighting scenes, whaling schooners & kayaks, it could be a calendar of a year on the Chukchi Peninsula or a collection of everyday scenes.
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Microbiomes in the gut have major impacts on our digestion, our immune system, even our social skills. If microbes are present in the brain, it could reveal layers of neurological regulation that we never knew existed.
www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? | Quanta Magazine
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 2, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Microbiomes in the gut have major impacts on our digestion, our immune system, even our social skills. If microbes are present in the brain, it could reveal layers of neurological regulation that we never knew existed.
www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
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Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
December 1, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
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Ecologist, spirit worker, healer, green witch, empath, humble creature among creation... call us what you will, we see the wounds and aren't afraid to heal them.
November 19, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Ecologist, spirit worker, healer, green witch, empath, humble creature among creation... call us what you will, we see the wounds and aren't afraid to heal them.
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I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
November 21, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
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This I what a series of paths created by 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over looks like. Science is beautiful. Obviously they used the same few bicycles for the data rather than 800 individual one. Source: buff.ly/3Cnb4PP
November 21, 2024 at 12:05 PM
This I what a series of paths created by 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over looks like. Science is beautiful. Obviously they used the same few bicycles for the data rather than 800 individual one. Source: buff.ly/3Cnb4PP
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“It’s too late to save, but we might repurpose. Suturing, jerry-rigging, cobbling together. Finding unexpected resources in the muck, using them in new ways. A strategy for ruination.” This China Miéville interview is one of the best on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...
A Strategy for Ruination - Boston Review
An interview with China Miéville
www.bostonreview.net
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
“It’s too late to save, but we might repurpose. Suturing, jerry-rigging, cobbling together. Finding unexpected resources in the muck, using them in new ways. A strategy for ruination.” This China Miéville interview is one of the best on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...
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Hilda Carline's painting of a zeppelin was made in 1915 and is the recording of a live event as the airship flew directly over and then encircled the Carline home at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead in London.
November 18, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Hilda Carline's painting of a zeppelin was made in 1915 and is the recording of a live event as the airship flew directly over and then encircled the Carline home at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead in London.
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A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’
A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’
A kingfisher with a long, dagger-shaped beak. Soft white feathers on its belly, iridescent blue opal spots on its wings
I walked out of my kitchen on an overcast morning last week, feeling depressed, trying to think my way around the US election result…
dlvr.it
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’
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Good morning Bluesky. Here's your morning poem.
November 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Good morning Bluesky. Here's your morning poem.
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“The words and connotations of cardinal directions that are spoken give shape and order to societies.” Jerry Brotton on how ancient cultures conceptualized the cardinal directions.
“Are We Lost?” How Ancient Cultures Across the Globe Found Their Way Around
Humans do not have an innate neurological toolbox like animals, but they do possess language. The configuration and language of the four directions is common to many—though not all—cultures. They p…
lithub.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:30 PM
“The words and connotations of cardinal directions that are spoken give shape and order to societies.” Jerry Brotton on how ancient cultures conceptualized the cardinal directions.