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Dr Cinnamon Remote
@cinnamonremote.bsky.social
Lapsed environmental entomologist. She/her they/them, Bean Ultach

Dr Lesley McLarnon

Academic, not medic…

Lady Perinelle of Rockall in the SCA

There will be typos… so many typos…

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A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres. 🏺 🧪
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.
go.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
No mention of masking or the airline’s responsibility to clean the air. bizarre.
Flu season is here and we know from experience that sick people are going to board your flight regardless. Learn how respiratory viruses spread on planes and give yourself and what precautions to take to minimize your chances. medicalnewsbulletin.com/up-air-how-r... 🧪 🦠 #virology #thanksgiving 🩺,⚕️
How Respiratory Viruses Spread on Plane Flights | Medical News Bulletin
Ten mathematicians model how respiratory diseases can spread during plane flights in a cabin thousands of feet in the air.
medicalnewsbulletin.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Flu season is here and we know from experience that sick people are going to board your flight regardless. Learn how respiratory viruses spread on planes and give yourself and what precautions to take to minimize your chances. medicalnewsbulletin.com/up-air-how-r... 🧪 🦠 #virology #thanksgiving 🩺,⚕️
How Respiratory Viruses Spread on Plane Flights | Medical News Bulletin
Ten mathematicians model how respiratory diseases can spread during plane flights in a cabin thousands of feet in the air.
medicalnewsbulletin.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Bring me back to wholesome tree man
I am obsessed with this guy on Instagram who makes ice cream using different kinds of trees, then he also makes a spoon and bowl out of the same kind of wood, and the whole time he teaches us about that specific kind of tree?? It’s so cool??

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DPHvnfR...
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Daily bunny no.3139 found some prime real estate
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Ok, that team up I trust, mainly sweets, but the D&D movie was excellent. But why can’t I have a forth one of the other new ones?
🚨BREAKING - New Trek Movie!

After early promises, it appears SkyDance is pushing ahead with a #StarTrek movie, tapping Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley to helm.

It's rumoured it's a "completely new take", unconnected to the rest of the franchise...

Source: deadline.com/2025/11/star...
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein And John Francis Daley
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley plan to write, direct and produce a new 'Star Trek' movie.
deadline.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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TL;DR: companies like Microsoft want to train LLMs on existing nuclear safety certification documentation so they can bullshit certification docs for new reactors, to speed up the process.

As the article points out, that is not how any of this works.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Countries that provide strong social safety nets have fewer violent crimes.

(worth noting this is not actually an "opinion" but a research-backed fact. 😆 And yet!)
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In Northern Ireland you can report dead birds for collection & testing to dept of agriculture
Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A wildlife conservation trust has been shortlisted for an award for its work to save the agile frog...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jersey wildlife trust recognised for protecting agile frogs
Wildlife experts say the agile frog could have
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Spending money on Kagi has made my life much better
Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

blog.kagi.com/slopstop
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This is why it kills me a little bit every time PA politicians talk about encouraging data centers to open in my state. Fuck that, no. Data centers are neither progress, nor economic growth, nor job creators. They are a drain on the electric grid, on taxpayers, and severe polluters. Fuck. No.
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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this books was excellent
Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.

A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Amazon.com: Someone You Can Build a Nest In eBook : Wiswell, John: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Reposting with alt text bc omfg and they claimed shortages to drive up prices on top of this shit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Journalists please, please, please copy paste your big blocks screenshot text into alt text. It takes five seconds longer and makes your work three times as accessible and searchable.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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We just made a whole gallery to showcase our Burgess Shale critters. It's now one of my favourites. www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/gal...
Dawn of Life
Bringing the dawn of life to life. New gallery now open.
www.rom.on.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Given all the anti-DEI bigot rage in the US, I was heartened to see that my (UK) employer has introduced a new mandatory training course, explicitly labelled "DEI", and explicitly trans-inclusive in one of its scenarios, in which a manager muttering about "woke rubbish" is highlighted as a red flag.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"The idea is to gamble the entire Western economy by heavily investing in technology that will wipe out almost all jobs. It is a lose-lose scenario. If the bet fails, the economy crashes. If the bet succeeds, the economy crashes."

wlockett.medium.com/the-most-ter...
The Most Terrifying Graph I Have Ever Seen
The entire premise of the AI boom makes no sense. But it was never meant to.
wlockett.medium.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly.
Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM