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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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There are a few other good duck-rabbit cartoons.

I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I'm £10 away from the finish line 🥳 Who's going to be the one to tip me over?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thanks for the reminder—backed!
Good morning, my book is 90% funded and I'm already working on the material 😄 I posted the first update yesterday discussing these manuscript sources in detail.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I need to work this into a class. Sometimes the perfect example comes first, and I have to build the lesson around it.
This MS I'm transcribing has such quirky spelling it's a gigantic FU to LLMs:
حبر is spelled جبر
على is علي
علي is على
في and من are written the same
ي or و are used instead of ء
ماء is spelled مآ
ذ and ز are identical… and that's just the everyday words.
A masterclass in locking out the unbrained.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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This entire thread is such a great read and a searing example of how the rush “back to normal” is leading to unmitigated COVID spread, disability and death.

Employees have the right to refuse work they believe it’s dangerous, but it does NOT apply to Covid in the workplace.
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to apply for telework, mgmt required us to watch a series of video modules. i was struck by the rubric below. it reads: “The Right to Refuse means that you have the right to refuse work which you reasonably believe is dangerous.”

*this right does not apply to unmitigated COVID in the workplace.
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is a wonderful book! I have my copy of the first version, and will be signing up for the new one when I get on the proper device for doing so. Highly recommended!

(I have no legitimate reason, job or hobby-wise, to have bought it. As a cuttlefish, though, making one’s own ink seems a natural.)
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The only president who should be associated with ball room is LBJ.

youtube.com/shorts/eHJwo...
October 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I don’t even live in NC but everyone needs to see this
This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I have known only one person in my entire life who had a Nazi tattoo. The Nazis gave it to him when he was just a boy; I knew him as the father of three of my friends. He always wore short sleeves, and refused to cover it up.

He would have made a pretty good senator, actually.
October 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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You may be surprised by how hard the "Nazi tattoo" thing hits. For instance, people I knew growing up had them but they were just numbers.
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I cannot stress to y’all enough what a big turnout we had in small-town Maine for No Kings. Ellsworth (pop 8,500) had 2,000. Southwest Harbor (pop 1,750) had 775!

Yes, folks came from the surrounding rural areas and towns but even so, these are impressive numbers!
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🦑Giant Australian Cuttlefish🦑🐡
January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Got mine yesterday—my first! So happy to see it
Latest Onion, print edition is here.
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
GrandCuttle cannot yet pronounce “Grandpa”, so I am “Beepo” and I don’t know if my heart can take so much adorableness.
Which is totally a word that exists.
September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
From someone who did not travel until almost 50, for what I thought were good and necessary reasons… I endorse this wholeheartedly.

Travel.

While still young.

You regret the things you did not do much more than the things you did do.
When given the option, travel. Even if it means delaying school or putting off work. It’s a big world.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
September 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.

Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Yes Giant Cuttlefish sex is not the most important thing happening right now (unless you are a Giant Cuttlefish) but we are all in this together... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Giant cuttlefish! They are in danger and scientists are going to save them with … bubbles! | First Dog on the Moon
The only other option was to go back in time and do something about climate change but time travel hasn’t been invented yet
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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