@anotherbettong.bsky.social
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Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #OTD
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #OTD
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A phrase for when someone's interfering that I learnt from Chilean Spanish (but is also used elsewhere) is quien te dio vela en este entierro? It means “who gave you a candle for this vigil?”
A similar one, from Venezuela, is no tienes muerto en este entierro, or “you have no dead in this funeral.”
A similar one, from Venezuela, is no tienes muerto en este entierro, or “you have no dead in this funeral.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A phrase for when someone's interfering that I learnt from Chilean Spanish (but is also used elsewhere) is quien te dio vela en este entierro? It means “who gave you a candle for this vigil?”
A similar one, from Venezuela, is no tienes muerto en este entierro, or “you have no dead in this funeral.”
A similar one, from Venezuela, is no tienes muerto en este entierro, or “you have no dead in this funeral.”
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If you're looking for the proper anti-Zionist response to the mass murder in Australia, it's pretty simple at this stage
You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice"
Keep it simple, folks
You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice"
Keep it simple, folks
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If you're looking for the proper anti-Zionist response to the mass murder in Australia, it's pretty simple at this stage
You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice"
Keep it simple, folks
You just say, "Holy shit it is really bad that that happened, and I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice"
Keep it simple, folks
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social
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Today I was in a tree surrounded by cranky gang gang cockatoos
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today I was in a tree surrounded by cranky gang gang cockatoos
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If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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The progenitor of the Cool S?
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The progenitor of the Cool S?
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A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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First early sketch for our Biodiversity Beers project is ready for a SNEAK PEEK.
We’ve got 3 Philly artists designing pro-biodiversity messages that we’ll print on pint glasses, which will be hosted at bars around the city with seeds for pickup 👀
Kicking it off with @the666cat.bsky.social
We’ve got 3 Philly artists designing pro-biodiversity messages that we’ll print on pint glasses, which will be hosted at bars around the city with seeds for pickup 👀
Kicking it off with @the666cat.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
First early sketch for our Biodiversity Beers project is ready for a SNEAK PEEK.
We’ve got 3 Philly artists designing pro-biodiversity messages that we’ll print on pint glasses, which will be hosted at bars around the city with seeds for pickup 👀
Kicking it off with @the666cat.bsky.social
We’ve got 3 Philly artists designing pro-biodiversity messages that we’ll print on pint glasses, which will be hosted at bars around the city with seeds for pickup 👀
Kicking it off with @the666cat.bsky.social
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Coghill himself re-used the effect of walking on water for a 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, an image of which appears in his Festschrift. So how was it first done?
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Coghill himself re-used the effect of walking on water for a 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, an image of which appears in his Festschrift. So how was it first done?
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about
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hey guys i made a seasonal meme
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
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This one is probably a better analogy even
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This one is probably a better analogy even
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If you talk about philosophy of science in interpretability papers you get to learn some incredible facts about what can go wrong with simple causal ablation studies
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you talk about philosophy of science in interpretability papers you get to learn some incredible facts about what can go wrong with simple causal ablation studies
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✨ don't post anything online you don't want to read aloud in a courtroom ✨
Regarding the Federal Subpoena Incident today, let me remind you once again that this website is 100% public, open source, and yes, both Bluesky, the federal government, and God knows who else do in fact “keep the logs.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
✨ don't post anything online you don't want to read aloud in a courtroom ✨
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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this is so good
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
this is so good
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reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...