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Nicole Hollander, passed away at age 87. Safe travels, Nicole.

A glimpse of everyday life in ancient #Greece: a terracotta figurine group depicting a barber cutting a man's hair. From Tanagra, Greece, dating early 5th century BC. On display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me 🏺

OpenAI explains why their recent models like talking about goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors. It was a behavior they trained for the “nerdy” personality type for ChatGPT which then spread outside that use case given reinforcement learning rewarded the behavior.

Recently discovered in Japan, the Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt was formally titled 'Clavelina ossipandae' which translates to “little bottle of panda bones.” #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/natureisbe...

Leftover birthday cake (not mine) day is a good day.

She must have Sun! #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-117, #car, #tortoiseshell, #sunseeker, #shadowandlight

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

your moment of calm: duckling emulating parents

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Visiting the local fish hatchery.

Bird on a wire #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-114, #birds, #birdonawire, #morningwalk

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance.

A few shots of wood ducks occupying the trees yesterday morning. Total weirdos #birds

My sister-in-law’s best friend was my second grade teacher (and she tried to set SIL with my brother, but he declined) and shared this picture of my class on a field trip in 1980. Appears to be a trip to a literal field.

I think more people need to be familiar with the Luther Insulter. ergofabulous.org/luther

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

This whole thing is amazing, but this may be my favorite.

I expect they are given verbal orders and instructions to do this because they are not *quite* as dumb as Mr Beast and we need to make sure that they face consequences. Including pilots. Anyone involved can no longer be in a position of responsibility for others’ lives, period.

A Fire Chief in Japan has been suspended, and nine other firefighters issued reprimands and written warnings, for playing homemade boardgames during working hours, and forcing subordinates to particpate. www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/hobby/f...

This is makes me happy

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

Well. So far, this book appears to be written by someone who has only experienced the world through Fox News.

Echoes of my favorite reality show, ever, Frontier House, and the dude who kept saying he was protein deprived. (He was dehydrated, which they were warned about.) IOW, I, too, am excited.

With the caveat that companies fail for lots of reasons, the notion of training your AI on a data archive comprised of failed companies' conversations seems like it might inadvertently train the text-generating machine into perpetuating some of the same mistakes? gizmodo.com/failed-compa...

One each and one together.

One each and one together.

This made me laugh so hard, my tummy hurt. Alt-text: Ginger tom at glass patio door, threatening quiet, tall-sitting tabby. When door is opened, tabby puts one paw on the frothing ginger, who immediately whimpers.

Growing, my state senator was Clifford ‘Tiny’ Krueger, who was inspired to politics by La Follette. He (Tiny) started his working life as the circus Fat Boy.

Well known fact: they called him Fighting Bob La Follette Lesser known fact: his chosen mode of combat was rock-scissor-paper www.senate.gov/artandhistor...

I take a long walk in Los Angeles every day and over time I have amassed quite a collection of photos of funky little cars that are parked all by themselves

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Dear friends. We know where you can hide some unwanted bodies. Sincerely, Bogs all around the world.

I didn’t take a picture, but dinner tonight was exceptionally good — chicken & leeks with asparagus.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

MassLive has some of the weirdest content. In one sense, fits neatly into standard, SEO-optimized categories. In another, huh?

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

They scoop their chicks in under their wings and carry them when they need to move them fast and so the Internet has wonderful Eldritch horror pictures like this: #wonderfulbirds

Nothing says Easter like a rabbit dressed in military finery with a basket of colored eggs strapped to him riding a poodle like a bucking bronco as two chickens look on

WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all! This figurine...🧵1/2 📷me

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

There are judges on Top Chef who don't look as thoughtful as this queen when she savors a strawberry.

the archaeological record can't prove grown egyptian men WEREN'T taking their model horsies and engaging in turn-based tactical miniature wargames on the weekends

When a Jesuit pamphletist of the 17th century wanted to win a printed battle, often images accompanying the words were used. In this case of 1614, the author he was batteling with is highlighted on the title page as a *checks notes* Luther lookalike with devilish horns and rabbit teeth. #skystorians

The sun is back!

Turkey time #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-086, #birds #wildturkey, #tomturkey, #showoff

Cats always finding the sun #photography, #potd2026, #photoaday, #pad2026-087, #sunseekers, #cats, #caturday, #tortoiseshell

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