"Said the General of the Army, 'I think that war is barmy' So he threw away his gun: Now he's having much more fun." - milligan

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

Oh dear Mama, what is that mess, that looks like Strawberry Jam. Hush hush my dear, tiz poor Papa, knocked over by a tram

La Méditerranée, 1905, bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol, influential 20th Century French sculptor, painter & printmaker, born OTD 1861; his restrained, monumental sculptures of the female form inspired Henry Moore, Picasso and Matisse. Le Jardin des Tuileries, Paris

rarely technical , what a wander full phrase ?

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These are just three of the thousands of so-called 'eye idols' that were discovered at a temple in Tell Brak in Syria. Dating to around 3600 BCE, they are probably votive offerings. They are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #FindsFriday

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Meta executive and author of Careless People (Macmillan), has won Blueprint’s Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025 👇 #BookSky

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

Nerd humor coming your way 😂

Something I have been wanting to write a blog post on for a while is that information theory, which LLMs are built on in part, wasn’t born out of theories of meaning—that’s not what it’s for—it was born out of cryptography and the second world war

never thought id find any thing about a land mass relatable tbh

great!? ...expectations =/

"A hidden epidemic of failure" Ash Mann speaks openly about 'Beyond the promise' and how we can learn from failures. "Digital failure is rarely technical it's organisational" #MuseTech25

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Big rise in mental health diagnoses in young people Failure of UK productivity It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity And is a threat to our economic success

Useful reminder: 1) Migrant scientists already contribute to the NHS with their taxes like everyone. Abolish NHS supercharge! 2) why are only rich scientists welcome in the UK? What has wealth to do with science? Colonial mentality is strong & alive www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EBU dropped plans for a vote on excluding Israel because of the ceasefire This is the point of the pretend ceasefire. Not to stop the genocide but to allow countries & organisations to more easily resist calls to put pressure on Israel & to reverse actions already taken

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

this >burn dinosaur juice until forever. but! to the tune of "strawberry fields"

Misinterpreting the most vulnerable and self-defensive attempt to survive as a hostile act? Who do you think you are, a cop?

keebler elves occult ritual

This is a wild story. These clams increased arsenic levels in the water.

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Just reflecting…

Whole series is on archive - archive.org/details/jame...

Lived for this show as a kid.

ohhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTVS...

Vista a la biblio l'altre dia.. la vull per a mi!!! He d'investigar..

LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Dallas College is a small, community college. UNT makes awesome mugs, but I have no info on either making it policy to teach creation and if one, rouge professor did try once, it's not representative of universities state wide.

>why more vinegar after the taste of honey? 🥹

If you don't mind. Which Operating System do you use? Just want to get an idea of the situation here. Helpful to me for cross platform projects.

After years of preparing I have finally decided it's time write a book. A book. ...okidoki, that wasn't hard at all.

Channel 4 wrote a really good piece on this. The USA has a long history of interfering in elections and toppling democracies. www.channel4.com/news/factche...

jet setting MF's what about the local Jaguar's??

The big problem is investors will keep pouring money because *if* one of them hits, it's going to be worth an unfathomable amount. A lot saw that as a matter of when, and hoping to hitch to the right horse. Now I wonder how much is just sunk cost fallacy at play. futurism.com/six-months-a...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

Hello BlueSky! This is the Christmas Tree Cluster. I color-mapped the heart of the nebula to tree-green to bring out the effect. Would you like this as a wallpaper? I'm happy to share for free: photos.app.goo.gl/e9LNThCC97NZ... Image credit: my tiny telescope. #science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

now do humans?

White deadnettle and red deadnettle at Lakeside at lunch time

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I am soo tired of the bullshit. No more of this, "I hate it, but I guess I'll try and see if I get used to it" bullshit. I'm done. I use my phone constantly for business but I will absolutely ditch it completely. I'm not going to accept corporate extortion in exchange for convenience.