When you order the bull expansion pack, but they don't have your original colour still in stock.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

1. Wombat
2. Cave Wētā
3. English grass snake
4. Moose
5. Sperm whale

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

The Clean
Pavement
Tall Dwarfs
Sonic Youth
Pixies

Neither is great. The stylised icons make them less understandable. Someone is serving hot food to a person in a wheelchair? W/o the icons it's text-heavy & requires a small font size. Some points are easier to see & understand as icons. e.g. the lift. I like having a large 'you are here' marker.

Example: Bestselling NZ book banned in the US.

[Paraphrased] Don't read the book if you don't like it. Not ban it.

#LIANZA2025

Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga.

Mātauranga Māori is taonga.

Highlights (mine):
1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee
2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori
3. Never use or generate tapu data
4. AI use must be acknowledged

#GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025

What a match! My son and I are now trying to explain to my wife, with mixed results, how a 25 day long contest ending in a drawn series was gripping viewing. #engvsindia

In NZ, wool insulation is the most popular natural insulation material and it doesn't need a separate vapour barrier in many environments. I don't know how common this is as an insulation material in the UK.

Particularly struck by "... a museum needs to do more than just show you old things, or try to transport you to a past era. It should jar you into the realization that you exist in time, and see your present (and ideally, your future) with fresh eyes." @almostarch.bsky.social

People want good AI, not climate-wrecking, prejudice-enforcing, job-destroying AI. But tech, govt isn't listening?
ACE staffer quoted by Oonagh Murphy: 'The worst thing we can do about AI is ignore it; the second is embrace it too gleefully'

something I've learned by covering online archives and libraries is that many valuable, free, online resources are maintained by extremely small teams, maybe one volunteer. Asking them to deal with scrapers that behave like DDoS attacks is unrealistic www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

The Description field on this page shows the output. It's plain text in the CMS, with the Markdown punctuation characters. On this site we then mark it up server-side using CommonMark, an open source Java library that converts Markdown to HTML markup: collections.maitland.nsw.gov.au/topics/2/les...

We didn't introduce custom tags. We used Markdown for a few reasons: it's plain text based, so worked with our existing plain text CMS fields; there was an existing rich editor we could use outside of the CMS ( stackedit.io ); there were already Javascript files to present the content on the web.

Auto-detecting numbers on the web page is hard if there are many accession number formats. I have seen it done in Jira, the issue tracking system, where any issue numbers mentioned in a description are automatically displayed as links in the page view.

We use Markdown tags in some collection management data fields for platform agnostic metadata (emphasis tags, links, item lists etc), so that might work. It does get tricky for the user to enter the right data, so Mia's suggestion is an option if the object numbers are consistent enough to detect.

Hey! I've finally switched to Bluesky and am slowly finding the people I used to follow on Twitter. I saw you through your post looking for worst movies with dinosaurs and I was happy to see Kung Fury get a mention - that's a perennial favourite in our household.