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mcpli.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
Incredible. Right under our noses.

There is so much to discover if we’d only look

More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps

Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/s...
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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instascience.bsky.social
These birds saw a person feed an injured bird, so they all started pretending to be injured as well.
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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philippeauclair.bsky.social
What happens when a whole country finds itself internet-less? Superb long-read by @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social, who visited Tonga after a volcanic eruption cut the cable that linked the archipelago to the rest of the world.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social
“The Blind Girl” by John Everett Millais (British) - Oil on canvas / 1854–1856 - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Birmingham, United Kingdom) #WomenInArt #art #JohnEverettMillais #Millais #blind #artText #GirlPainting #BirminghamMuseums #BlueskyArt #artwork #BritishArt #Pre-Raphaelite #DoubleRainbow
Two pale young women sit on a grassy verge of a country lane after rain. The elder, a blind street musician, rests with eyes closed beneath a brown shawl covering her red hair; around her neck hangs a sign that reads “PITY THE BLIND.” A concertina musical instrument sits in her lap, and she steadies herself with one hand against the damp grass. A tortoiseshell butterfly rests on her cloak. Leaning against her, a younger blonde girl clasps her hand and shades her eyes, gazing toward a brilliant double rainbow arching over sunlit fields, sheep, and a distant church tower. Bright wildflowers and wet blades of grass glisten in the foreground. “The Blind Girl” exemplifies the ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which British artist John Everett Millais co-founded to pursue vivid color, exacting natural detail, and moral resonance. Millais painted the luminous Sussex landscape on site and later added the two sisters in Perth, Scotland. The blind girl was modeled by Matilda Proudfoot, while Isabella Nicol posed as her younger sibling. The painting meditates on perception, compassion, and hope. The elder girl, marked as an itinerant musician by her instrument and sign, cannot see the spectacular rainbow her companion marvels at. Instead, she experiences the world through other senses like the sun’s warmth on her face, the texture of grass, or the butterfly’s light touch. The rainbow, corrected by Millais after critics noted its scientific inaccuracy, becomes both natural wonder and biblical symbol of covenant and renewal. The juxtaposition of blindness and sight underscores different ways of comprehending beauty and meaning. Victorian Britain was marked by poverty, child labor, and disability often visible on city streets. Millais offers not pity but dignity, presenting the sisters as vulnerable yet resilient. Awarded the Liverpool Academy’s annual prize in 1857, the painting was hailed by contemporaries for its union of social realism and spiritual symbolism.
September 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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thefagyubeef.bsky.social
Contending with “The Stand” for my favorite King book.
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
Five celestial events to look out for this autumn. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Supermoons and meteor showers: Five celestial events to look for this autumn
From supermoons to meteor showers, Elizabeth Rizzini has your guide to what may delight in the autumn night skies.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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knoxharrington.bsky.social
Tremendous from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. You are used to me saying that about the sport stuff. But here he shows the trajectory of a very small number of people's dreams, its impact and how it can become a huge number of people's nightmare.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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philippeauclair.bsky.social
A"choral film" - what a beautiful way to describe the last, poignant, almost unbearably so at times, offering of the Dardenne brothers, "Young Mothers". It is so rare to experience a work of art which inspires so much hope in humanity.

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« Jeunes mères » de Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne : les frères belges s’essaient au film choral - L'Humanité
Deux fois lauréats de la Palme d’or (Rosetta en 1999 et l’Enfant, en 2005), Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne signent leur premier film choral avec le portrait intimiste de cinq jeunes femme...
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August 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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nbody6.bsky.social
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Massive Attack - Full Concert [HD] | Live at Pinkpop 2003
YouTube video by Pinkpop Archive
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August 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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danielaldrich.bsky.social
Natural hazards, tornado formation edition
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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strategywoman.bsky.social
I absolutely love this painting.
It breathes with calmness.

Yes, it is Ukrainian art.
Ivan Pylypenko,
The River of Time, 2020
August 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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gunnerblog.bsky.social
Join the Gunnerblog FPL league here if you fancy

Code: dwx1n5

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Fantasy Premier League, Official Fantasy Football Game of the Premier League
Official Fantasy Premier League 2025/26. Free to play fantasy football game, set up your fantasy football team at the Official Premier League site.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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tastinghistory.bsky.social
A French lemonade from 1651
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
This is the most intense tsunami footage I've ever seen.

It purportedly shows the tsunami from the 29 July Mw 8.8 quake in Kamchatka, Russia, filmed in that same region.

Source: seismic.kiwi on TikTok, although I've seen this video all over the internet and may originally be from VK or Telegram.
August 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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sheepfilms.bsky.social
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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mudnblood.bsky.social
ca. 1400 Crossbow with a 500 pound draw weight
July 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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instascience.bsky.social
The full rotation of the Moon as recorded by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

-Credits: NASA
July 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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wonderofscience.bsky.social
This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.

Video credit: USGS
July 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RILEろ。 THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE I. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULES. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM