Karen Schymanski
@bunnybear47.bsky.social
Just hanging out and having fun!
Go Blue! 💛💙
Go Lions! 💙🤍
Go Blue! 💛💙
Go Lions! 💙🤍
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That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas
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🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.”
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.”
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
@evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.
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#MolluscMonday Ammonite and belemnite in the limestone steps leading up to Avignon Cathedral in France. Probably Early Cretaceous ‘Urgonian’.
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
#MolluscMonday Ammonite and belemnite in the limestone steps leading up to Avignon Cathedral in France. Probably Early Cretaceous ‘Urgonian’.
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
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Here's a quizzical mandarin duck to start your week off on a good note 🥰 🪶
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Here's a quizzical mandarin duck to start your week off on a good note 🥰 🪶
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Before the fur trade, beavers…..not deer were the backbone of many predator diets. Wolves following beavers is not an anomaly; it’s a glimpse of what North America looked like before we trapped its keystone species out of existence.
queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...
queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...
Wolves track beaver activity on Isle Royale, new study finds
A new Isle Royale study shows wolves follow seasonal beaver activity, offering fresh insight for rebuilding healthy predator ecosystems.
queticosuperior.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Before the fur trade, beavers…..not deer were the backbone of many predator diets. Wolves following beavers is not an anomaly; it’s a glimpse of what North America looked like before we trapped its keystone species out of existence.
queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...
queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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Watch carefully and you can see right through her eyes into the headrest.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Watch carefully and you can see right through her eyes into the headrest.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
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“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary
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One reason I was skeptical of LLMs is that I've been scraping out a life as a writer for nearly 20 yrs.
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
One reason I was skeptical of LLMs is that I've been scraping out a life as a writer for nearly 20 yrs.
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
Do you know how cheaply and quickly humans will produce words for you? Or how little you have to increase the compensation to get very high quality words indeed?
I do. ☠️
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From: Black Soul (2000), dir. Martine Chartrand, National Film Board of Canada
Chartrand spent over five years animating this film with paint on glass
Chartrand spent over five years animating this film with paint on glass
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
From: Black Soul (2000), dir. Martine Chartrand, National Film Board of Canada
Chartrand spent over five years animating this film with paint on glass
Chartrand spent over five years animating this film with paint on glass
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This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
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The Coral City Camera 2026 Calendar is now up for presale, with 2 calendars for the price of 1 till December 1st!
Purchase: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/cora...
Enjoy the best of the sixth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2026 calendar 🪸
Swim Well in 2026, Friends!
Purchase: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/cora...
Enjoy the best of the sixth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2026 calendar 🪸
Swim Well in 2026, Friends!
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Coral City Camera 2026 Calendar is now up for presale, with 2 calendars for the price of 1 till December 1st!
Purchase: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/cora...
Enjoy the best of the sixth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2026 calendar 🪸
Swim Well in 2026, Friends!
Purchase: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/cora...
Enjoy the best of the sixth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2026 calendar 🪸
Swim Well in 2026, Friends!
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The town of St Helens is just between Liverpool and Manchester. When I was a small child, in Liverpool, Mount St Helens, in Washington, erupted. Not having a grasp of geography, I spent two weeks in mortal fear of dying in a volcanic eruption before my dad set me straight.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The town of St Helens is just between Liverpool and Manchester. When I was a small child, in Liverpool, Mount St Helens, in Washington, erupted. Not having a grasp of geography, I spent two weeks in mortal fear of dying in a volcanic eruption before my dad set me straight.
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Drone footage of the Blatten deposit shot on 12th November! 😲
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Drone footage of the Blatten deposit shot on 12th November! 😲
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
🎥 epfl_lhe_lab
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not now babe it's infishtructure week
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
not now babe it's infishtructure week
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I know I spent much of today napping but I have to be honest with you I am going to bed now
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I know I spent much of today napping but I have to be honest with you I am going to bed now
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November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Reminder: Ex-President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, whom Trump just pardoned, was an associate of the Sinaloa Cartel and MS-13, according to the Justice Department.
Ex-Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández worked ‘hand in hand’ with El Chapo’s cartel to smuggle cocaine into US: feds
Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández worked “hand-in-hand” with El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel and the notorious MS-13 gang to smuggle “massive amounts of cocaineR…
nypost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reminder: Ex-President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, whom Trump just pardoned, was an associate of the Sinaloa Cartel and MS-13, according to the Justice Department.
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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