Working the checkout at Barnes and Noble in 1997 youtu.be/5lMSOfmFQ-4?...

You know about the rock lobster but did you know about the furry lobster en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_l...

Absolutely thrilled to see climate legend Katharine Hayhoe share a @climateinstitute.bsky.social report that we designed.

For those asking re: pepper type (sweet heat) and how I eat them

Now, www.currentai.org has launched with $400M to organize and coordinate a global movement for open source, public, cooperative owned, and nonprofit AI across the full stack.

First peppers of the season from the garden.

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Here's the third of the Otago lectures, this one on the peer review system and why it's becoming increasingly difficult to find reviewers.

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

Robin and Ramy witness Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation, in all its foreboding majesty second illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - illustrated edition, out now from Harper Voyager 40x30cm ink on claybord

I myself went through a skater punk phase. Dr. Bergstrom went through whatever this is.

Here's another of the University of Otago lectures for anyone who might be interested. This one is a more general, almost public lecture about how digital information technologies are changing the way we make sense of the world. /Friends in Aotearoa, I miss you all so badly.

The Oxford comma proves its worth again -

i made a helpful reference

Scientists just found the first-ever name of a Maya astronomer. His name was Sak Tahn Waax, meaning “White-chested Fox.” Maya astronomers have long lived in obscurity, uncredited for their work. Now we finally have a name. #Archaeology #AncientMaya @antiquity.ac.uk 🧪🏺 New at #NationalGeographic

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

Thinking of you, @sjml.bsky.social 🌙

RIP Sam Neill: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well

I hate everything.

And a link to the course itself:

Last February, I visited Trish Priest and her colleagues at Otago and gave a few lectures. In this one, I present an overview of the course that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I developed for colleague students about how to live, learn, work, and thrive in an AI world.

Since the spring of 2023, I have been creating a non-violent art museum in Doom. My goal was to find art that engaged with the themes that informed Doom's creation, while also exploring the possibilities of virtual museum spaces. Please enjoy this museum. Download link below

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

The crows are once again dropping the fledglings off in the yard for me to babysit while they act up and I've never been happier, tbh.

It's great, there's a Jeff Goldblum dialectic going on and because I have a squishy personality, I'm somehow a third person observer who is also Jeff Goldblum, thus making me 3 Goldblums in a trench coat, technically.

My inner monologue is now narrated by Jeff Goldblum, I don't know what else to tell you.

This was in my drafts and I don’t remember the occasion, but it’s fine because we’re all going to die.

At Retrographia, opposite the BnF Richelieu, browsing through old engravings and prints, a sea of volumes below me under the glass floor. Thumbing through art history, found two I wanted, another favourite Parisian nook.

Eleven Kevins

If my name was "Kevin" I would insist it's pronounced "coven".

My David Lynch lecture that was recorded in the Spring is now online for anyone to view. I discussed LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE. The people who tuned in live seemed to enjoy it, and I hope you do too. youtu.be/iflD-eitIZs?...

Nudifying apps are becoming more mainstream. Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, reports that ten of the top AI nudifying websites tracked by his team received over 10 million visits in October 2025. https://ow.ly/O47i50ZlSRm

The Walrus interview with Ben Waldman: thewalrus.ca/gander-canad...

someone in my apartment building asked our resident fb group what they should do about this goose outside (imo...nothing? it's a goose...and it's outside...if it were inside...that'd be different) but i'm amused by this person's reply

I need a word for "whatever" but stronger

This track is pushing 40 if I'm not mistaken. youtu.be/Zz4xJFLxOeQ?...

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I don't know if we can ever know what the truth of Michael's life was, but either way, it's heartbreaking for me. He was a lot of things, but I can't forget that he was an actual genius. youtu.be/N9U9A4_cgyI?...

My pretties.

The dragon head of Skidbladner - a replica of the famous 9th century Viking Gokstad ship which was found in a burial mound at Vestfold in Norway in 1880. Skidblander can be found at Haroldswick on Unst in Shetland. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Unst #Shetland

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

We have lift off! The first Pufflings are now leaving the Isle of May as birds are now independent. This is a big moment as they’ve never flown and not seen the sea before! Good luck :)

Gosh, he's a dead ringer for my father.

Dimbran - Catatonia (Welsh) youtu.be/1VOTJcYmgbU?...

1969, The Rolling Stones released Gimme Shelter, a song inspired by the turmoil of the late 1960s, including war, political unrest, and social upheaval. It would go on to become one of the band's most acclaimed and influential recordings…

New obsession: the Magdalen Islands

11 pm in Reykjavík

📚 The founding of 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 (now 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲) 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 4, 1881 by Booker T. Washington and Lewis Adams, a formerly enslaved tinsmith and community leaders who could not read or write and who secured the funding for the school.