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Louie Steptoe
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Toad took a deep bow.

Frog looked smaller as he shouted, “Hooray for Toad!”
Frog sits in the audience of the auditorium, clapping and shouting, "Hooray for Toad!" From "The Dream" In *Frog and Toad Together*
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
It’s a section that appears on my syllabi. Here’s the version from an intro physics class this past semester.
Should I Use ChatGPT Or Another LLM To Study? I wouldn't recommend it. I try to keep up with the capabilities of the major LLMs. They can do some things really well, if you use them the right way. However, they frequently make mistakes when generating responses to questions about physics. Sometimes these mistakes are obvious, sometimes they are subtle and hard to spot. The fact that you cannot trust the output of LLMs should be reason enough not to rely on these systems when you are trying to learn a new subject. But that's not the only problem. Interactions with LLMs feel like a dialog, so it's natural to think the usual rules of conversation apply. You ask a question and expect the response will be an answer to that question. It's important to understand that this is not what's happening. An LLM is designed to generate statistically likely responses to the question "What would an answer to this query sound like?" This is not the same thing as answering the question. It might produce what you are looking for, or it might not. This is one reason why output from an LLM will sound authoritative even when it's wrong, and apologetic when mistakes are pointed out. It isn't authoritative or apologetic, and it isn't "thinking" about your question. These are just the sorts of responses that best fit a very complicated set of likelihood criteria…
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
u24.gov.ua UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 4d
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Blitz all ingredients until gross and slightly lumpy. Shape into a bowler hat, then steam at 160 degrees. After the initial steam, the pudding rests for at least three weeks for the flavors to stodge up and get claggy-plonks."
How Every Recipe on The Great British Baking Show Sounds to Us Die-Hard American Viewers
Ingredients 425 ml of Marley’s Spirit or Dandelion & Burdock Fizz 225 grammes of jellied eel blood (harvested by the muck swallows and mud l...
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
“Never Gonna Give You Up” – Rick Astley
“Deceptive Hyperlink Serenade for Ginger Baritone, Op. 1987”
If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles
“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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monet.bsky.social
Sometimes Monet planted his art before he painted it.

At Giverny, he redesigned nature like a canvas—diverting rivers, planting lilies, bamboo, and willows.

“My finest masterpiece,” he said, “is my garden.”
December 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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clementcomposer.com
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
Oh, the weather outside is frightful And since we've no place to go It doesn't show signs of stopping How I hate going out in the storm The fire is slowly dying
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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tishamark.com
Day 9: #ArtAdventCalendar

Tisha Mark ©2025, A Little Hopeful Light No. 2501, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"

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#art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt #bsnm
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "A Little Hopeful Light No. 2501" 4"x4" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). Seascape painting with the hopeful light of an orange-toned sunrise or sunset sky over a deep blue sea. Light from the sky touches the waves as they meet a rocky shore.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Space Station's EarthKAM Sees the Grand Canyon - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/UijV5M
On April 3, 2017, the student-controlled EarthKAM camera aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of a favorite target -- the Grand Canyon -- from low Earth orbit. The camera has been aboard the orbiting outpost since the first space station expedition began in November 2000 and supports approximately four missions annually. Mission 58 begins in fall 2017, and interested middle school students and teachers can sign up at the EarthKAM website. The Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (Sally Ride EarthKAM) program provides a unique educational opportunity for thousands of students multiple times a year. EarthKAM is an international award-winning education program, allowing students to photograph and analyze our planet from the perspective of the International Space Station. Using the Internet, students control a special digital camera on the orbiting laboratory to photograph Earth's coastlines, mountain ranges and other interesting geographical topography. Image Credit: NASA/Sally Ride EarthKAM Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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crumplings.bsky.social
Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar - misty hills in Birnam, Scotland, captured in October. The River Tay flows right by the conifer trees, though it's not visible here.

#photography
A photograph of a field with deciduous trees in beautiful fall colours, behind which rises a group of taller conifers and a hill covered in thick fog.
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Well, well, well, looks like someone has finally beaten Hemingway at his own game.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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ellohcee.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar 1 “It’s a leap of faith” (2021)
I won’t do every day but I will throw up a few older pieces I still like this month
#art #spiderman #itsv
Digital art- a redraw of a scene from Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse where Miles is crouched on the side of a building, looking down as he’s poised to leap off. Behind him is a background of skyscrapers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
Today is the last day to order my #puzzles, so I'm sharing this monstrocity again 🤣

Yip yipp yippp!

Pillars of Googly Eyes available as 1000-piece puzzle 🧩

🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/puzzle...

🔭🐡🧪🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar
Pillars of Creation but with googly eyes and printed on a 1000-piece puzzle. Don't ask.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:

www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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monet.bsky.social
Trees at the water's edge, spring in Giverny - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110102
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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cezanne.bsky.social
Gardanne, 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12829
Gardanne
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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monet.bsky.social
Water Lilies - 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10999
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Candor and Ophir Chasmae 2015-07-19 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/LXVNxA
Image of the Candor Chasma (bottom right) and Ophir Chasma (center), two large canyons in the north-central portion of the Valles Marineris system. Image Credit: ISRO / ISSDC / Justin Cowart
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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abradschwartz.bsky.social
“To be an American is not to be someone, but to believe in something.”
stephenwest.bsky.social Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · Nov 23
"There has been some talk recently that we aren’t and shouldn’t be a creedal nation.... I reject this position as passionately as I can."

Gordon Wood responds to JD Vance without mentioning him by name

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Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM