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Sam has been standing at this window all day but still can't think of anything to proclaim.
January 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Flickr Commons is eighteen today. We started in 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress and today we're an archive of 1.9 million digital images. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool.

commons.flickr.org
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Today, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of @wikipedia.org, which for a quarter of a century has been collaboratively built by unpaid strangers on the internet.
Wikipedia’s 25th birthday proves the power of free speech
If the global encyclopedia is going to thrive for the next 25 years, we must maintain and expand First Amendment protections
freedom.press
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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First post in awhile! The coastal waters of Lake Tahoe, taken this summer in Incline Village. Can’t beat the blue 🌊
#photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #laketahoe #travel #nature #keeptahoeblue
October 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Calm and peaceful Christmas! 🙂
From an young mother,
from the entrance of our small block of flats 🤗
December 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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'Twas the night before #Christmas… DOS-style 🎄💾

In 1987, PC Life Magazine gifted us with ’Twas the Night Before Christmas: Animated Musical Christmas Disk — a charmingly low-res, CGA 4-color holiday e-card.

Play it in your browser ⤵️
archive.org/details/twas...

#HappyHolidays #HolidayGames
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure
Analysis of the terms used for emotions across a sample of 2474 spoken languages reveals low similarity across cultures.
www.science.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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In all seriousness, the Discworld QsOTD are doing wonders to keep me sane. Pratchett was hilarious, but also a righteously angry man in the best of ways, and I wish more people were capable of seeing life as he did.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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GNU Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Heartbreaking news. 💔💔
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I think it's funny how much time and effort we spend trying to create warnings for future civilizations about radioactive waste dumps, as if any of us actually heeded the warnings on ancient tombs. Humans do not heed warnings unless deeply tied to religious dogma. And even then!
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Vietnam
Da Lat - Bao Dai
flic.kr
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Vietnam
Hoi An
flic.kr
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#painting 1881, “ The Athenaeum”
“Athenaeum “ - promotion for learning from the ancient Greek Athena -Goddess of Wisdom.

Artist: Lovell Birge Harrison
October 28, 1854, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1929
- an American genre and landscape painter, teacher, and writer…..#Wikipedia
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Amazon isn't going to take a mule to the bottom of the grand canyon for a fucking delivery lmao. Literally no one else will do that shit. That's why USPS exists. To SERVE EVERYONE.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

"IT IS ... UNFAIR.

‘That’s life, master.’

BUT I’M NOT.

‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert.

NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES."
Discworld QOTD, from The Truth
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM