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Carolannie
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Amateur photographer, avid reader, retired sys admin, ecologist at heart, a grandparent, and responsible for Guy Noir the black cat and Monty the gray shih tzu dog. Timeline follows my train of thought, such as it is.
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Just did an update last week!
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Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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allthingsfungi.bsky.social
A mid-snack temporary cold-induced stupor allowed me time to capture these water droplets resting on the springtails hydrophobic (water proof) skin.

Immature Hemitrichia / Trichia species pictured with Collembola - Neanura muscorum feeding/sleeping.
#myxomycetes #collembola #macronature
Collembola - Neanura muscorum feeding in a orange slime mould with water droplets on its back
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Customer service in the Enshittification Age, where the customer provides the service to the company
#CustomerService
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The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
www.nicchan.me
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Steven Heywood (@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk)
Yorkshire is full of traps for the unwary. How many people would know, unprompted, that "Slaithwaite" is pronounced "Bentley -Farquarhson"?
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December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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An aloe bud
#photography #flowers #aloe #plants #garden #nature 📷🌱
A reddish brown aloe bud, with some barbed yellow and green aloe leaves in the foreground and a green agave plant in the background.
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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interfluidity.com
don’t bug the librarians. if they’ve hallucinated the citation, they can always hallucinate the article for you!
scottbot.bsky.social scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 1d
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
librarycolleen.bsky.social Colleen Theisen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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lawnerd.bsky.social
The corrupt Roberts clique sees no problem with agency rulemaking and adjudication becoming an upside-down charade where handpicked commissars start with their political preferences and backfill a situationally-specific justification, because that’s what they do in robes
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Capitalist bosses' real dream is to destroy labor
#HumanRights #LaborRights #AGI #LLM
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Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This week: Hegseth, National Strategy, Supreme Court, geothermal power, and a racoon with a drinking problem. weeklysift.com/2025/12/08/d...
Decent World Order
No Sift next week. The next new articles will appear on December 22. The degree to which America is clearly a country that is open for sale is also really remarkable. But countries that are buying …
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December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Ursula Davidson was a courageous young botanist. In 1950, she completed the first survey of ancient trees in The Bluegrass. She did this in spite of being disabled, unable to walk because of polio. Read about her at Our Trees.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
A Courageous Woman Ursula Davidson was a young botanist pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Kentucky. In 1950, she undertook a difficult task, a survey of all the ancient bur oaks in Fa...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."

Read about it here:

blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/07/c...

Books at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77410

Congratulations to all who worked on it.

#books #dp #dpblog
Celebrating 50,000 Titles
This post celebrates the 50,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, by William Savage. Congratulations and thanks to all th…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Been a banner week for odious white guys sitting awkwardly in front of blue walls while saying dumb things.
Pete Hegseth sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things. Joe Lonsdale sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things. Palantir CEO Alex Karp sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things. Scott Bessent sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things.
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Ancient Diabolical Tactic Explains Education Department’s “Dismantling”
As legend has it from 5th Century BC China, King Goujian once put condemned convicts or suicidal soldiers on his frontlines, ordering them to slit their own throats in view of the approaching enemy.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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seentoomuch.bsky.social
"For every complex problem there exists a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong."

- H. L. Mencken
December 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A thread of the goodies in this week's newsletter.
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A thread of what was in this week's newsletter. The theme: ❄️ SNOW ❄️
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1/6. When snow has first arrived in the U.S., over the decades.
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Incredible glass models of plants
#Artistry #NaturalHistory
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The Age of Silicon Began Long Ago
Blaschka's glass flowers and the magic in the model
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December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Colors festival in Iceland…Landmannalaugar photographed from a Cessna plane ✈️

#photography #art #nature #landscape #aerial
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Meadow Arnica found in the hayfield this summer.
#wildflowers #nativeplants #photography 📷
Meadow Arnica (Arnica chamissonis), native to North America - yellow, daisy like petals surrounding a center of small, yellow disc florets.
December 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A wintry favorite from ten years ago this month ❄️

Red Scarf
Mixed media on 8 x 8" board
Sold
#ArtAdventCalendar #art #ArtYear #ArtLovers #winter #WeirdArt #Artists #Painting #ArtSky #ArtOnBsky #BskyArtists #PDXArt #Painter #Creativity
Mixed media painting of an abstract figure with spiky hair, a round red nose, and a scarf that's a slash of red.
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants, denizens of the treetops in tropical American forests.
Cephalotes - Alex Wild
is a diverse genus of heavily-armored, tree-dwelling myrmicine ants found in forested regions of the new world tropics and subtropics. A number of canopy species show the unusual habit of controlled ...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
An almost monochrome photo: dried and decomposing gray and brown oak leaves litter a concrete sidewalk. The leaves have sharply defined, pointy lobes. Looking closely, you can see two silvery metal oak leaf shapes embedded in the concrete. Looking even more closely, you can see names etched into the metallic leaves. There are several more such tiny memorials in this sidewalk bybthe playgrounds in Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington. I haven't been able to find information on these, but imagine they are tokens for donors and volunteers who helped build the playground.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A better understanding of soil and critical zone variation at the landscape is a great scientific goal (we have been working on it for a long time!). But political change to change agricultural policy, in the US and elsewhere, is what's needed to get us to the stated broader goals of this program.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Sunday Post — Week 49 ✨
#Food #Cooking #Books #HomeCooking #ComfortFood #GiftIdeas #Cookbooks #Memories #TheOutpost 🍽️🍜 📚
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The Sunday Post — Cookbooks & Recipes Enjoying a Simple Life At Home With Goodport
Holiday shopping reminds me of cookbooks, as they make terrific gifts. In a family of cooks, we had a strict ‘Don’t Buy Any New Cookbooks After August!’ policy, to prevent receivi…
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December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #painting

Happy Sunday, Blueskiis

Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.

Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT
Joan Miró “The Nightingale’s Song and Morning Rain” (1940) • To make this painting, the artist painted fanciful black lines and vibrant flat shapes that change color whenever they cross over a line. Red switches to black…black switches to blue…blue switches to red. This picture pulses, like a universe with music in its soul. • “I felt a deep desire to flee,” said Miró. “I shut myself within myself. Music and the stars began to play a major role in suggesting my paintings."
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM