"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Trying a new coffee roaster from a very non-Anglophone part of Quebec

If you’re not already into birds, this is get another example of why this is such a fun hobby. Every day I learn about a new bird or bird thing that brings me joy. Look at this fight between a peregrine falcon and a fucking pelican!!

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

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I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

Neko Case has written the lyrics AND script for stage version of Thelma & Louise.

Paging all #MedSky writers. Submissions are open for a very special issue on the theme of Embodiment in Medicine. Open to all. ❤️‍🩹

Sewing and listening to Japanese Breakfast, a band I learned of via @michaeldthomas.bsky.social’s daughter Caitlin, through a post a few years ago. I never met her but she had SUCH amazing taste in music ❤️

Your daily affirmation. Be as wild as you need to be. Be as loud as you have to be. And most importantly, be as weird as you want to be.

Everyone should have at least one hobby that frustrates them (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching) and one hobby that doesn’t (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching)

okay I was today years old when I realized Japanese Breakfast and the author of Crying in H Mart are the same person

We have received a plethora of farm fresh eggs as a gift, and so my partner suggested making a couple loaves of challah. I pointed out the irony of choosing today out of all days to make it (Passover, even though we’re not Jewish) Update: neither loaf is rising, even in a proofing drawer!

Increasingly convinced that the people developing and testing tech accessibility options are all able bodied, as we struggle to help my 82 year old mother, who just wants to play bridge online. The design decisions feel like they only suit extremely computer literate people without disabilities.

are you really a genetic counselor if you haven't handed your ordering provider a test requisition for yourself and said, "here, sign this"?

It would be fun to do cartomancy with any of these ha ha

I used to get the most delicious breakfast burritos in Santa Fe. Red sauce, perfectly done eggs, nice crispy potatoes, a little cheese and onions. Also Christmas enchiladas with blue corn tortillas, cheese, and chicken and some posole on the side. God, I miss New Mexican food 😭

Going through my photos today and I found this shot I took a few years ago with a lens I bought for 20 bucks—a Soligor highly prone to vignetting but capable of delivering some very nice shots. This is on Eastman double X.

Wee silk pouch, for my Korean textiles class. This was quite challenging to make but very satisfying. This is used for holding auspicious beans and rice as a gift at lunar new year. The material is a plain weave starched silk. That was very tricky!

I have a joke about mitochondrial DNA that I learned from my mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it.........

Sure, the world may be falling apart, but don't let that stop you from being kind. Don't let it stop you from creating your own weird worlds for all to see. Don't let it stop you from becoming a spark in the darkness.

Well, it just so happens I was an incredibly uncool teenager who was listening to early 80s music in the mid 90s

AAAAAAAHHHHH

I lost the post about recurring dream imagery, but this is one of mine. We live in a house just like this, but the tower is forbidden to us

neighbour

THIS INSECT CATHEDRAL IS ARGUABLY BETTER THAN THE REAL ONE.

Instrument approach procedure on a very misty morning at Richmond Park in Glasgow today. #birds

Microbiologist, army captain/missile inspector

Everything is scary, however, I was delighted to see that the new issue of Clarkesworld contains not a short story, but a whole frickin novella (or a novelette?) by @thomasha.bsky.social So that is nice

I am reminded of an anecdote of a modern child finding a floppy disk and saying, "Hey look, someone 3D printed the save icon!" 🫠

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

🆕 at @naturemedicine.bsky.social How does ChatGPT Health do for appropriately triaging a person as to whether to go to the emergency room or stay home? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not very well. Under-triaged 52% of case vignettes that are considered gold-standard emergencies

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.

Gold for Canada in men's curling! We're 👆

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.

Glad that people _do_ recognize it :-) manuschwendener.ch/horses #LEGO #AliBati #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

Eating nian gao for lunar new year and I figure this kind of counts for Pancake Day too

holy shit haha

ok, sorry, this is now a thread for re-posting all my dumb survey-themed valentine poems from past years on twitter

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Post a tree you photographed:

February walk

The thing about trying a new thing like drawing or writing is you have to be willing to suck at it, sometimes for quite a long time. In our age of instant gratification, people don't want to go through that stage but I'm here to tell you it makes the day you produce something you truly love so sweet

OK, the message is great, but I also love Mel Penner’s Björk poster

The Actual Star ebook is $3.99 again! An antidote for despair about where the human race is going (or, I hoped it would be):

Paging Dr. Chaucer

Lots of stuff is bad, but I get to work with really great genetic counseling students, and that makes me happy

Got an Amazon gift card for being in a research study and decided to treat myself

lovebot!