New from this week: Interrail and Eurail passes are now valid on Ouigo trains, both high-speed, classique and international Brussels-Paris, www.seat61.com/trains-and-r...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

#Basel #Jazz Campus is hiring apply.refline.ch/655298/4514/...

Got some more Artemis pieces and night sky pieces coming out of the kiln ✨

The timeline provided a preface

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What to do if you find a baby bunny. Thanks @portmanteauface.bsky.social for the suggestion!

thebloggess.com/2026/07/12/a... I’m not doing well but I’m still here and that’s something.

Opted out, of course. Mind you, this wouldn't stop someone committed to making "AI" bullshit with my image (either of me or the ones I've taken), but it really is the principle of the thing.

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Anyone living at the juncture of science and politics these days:

@baselstadt.bsky.social Bitte die Veloständer bei der Universitätsbibliothek wieder montieren lassen (Bernoullistrasse). Gerne überall dort, wo "Velo" markiert ist, auch weiter rechts neben den Mofa-Plätzen.

Because what goes around comes around, if you see this, share a circle, a disk, something round. Glass roof at The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.

It's hot. There is a possibility the Hall might melt (it won't because it's made of non melty material but you get the gist). In a bid to keep everyone cool we are posting this 17th century view of a Dutch town by Jan Griffier the Elder. Just look at all the snow and ice...aaaah.

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OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

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It's the 18th century and we are going to take a gallop around York via another amazing print from our collection. Too hot to walk? Well saddle up your virtual horses! Too posh to trot? Get your men to prepare the sedan. We are away!

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#York – come for the Minster @yorkminster.bsky.social, stay for Topping & Co. (@toppingsyork.bsky.social ?), the biggest independent bookshop in the UK (the red building in the photo). 📚 Opening times 9am - 9pm Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday --- Thank you #bibliosuisse and #UXLibs

Pretty sure this is the first award issued for Bluesky posting 🎉

Apple has been making their own servers with Apple Silicon which is insanely fast and power efficient. Looks like that commitment to the environment is also good business, in all sorts of ways.

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Like @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.

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I drool over this every year, but no way I could ever justify buying it! cultpens.com/products/dia...

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Good for Tidal. Happy to be a subscriber. techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/t...

Few cities are still embraced by their medieval walls quite like York. In the bottom left stands the 14th-century Monk Bar, built on the site of the Roman "porta decumana". Walk through the city today and, in many places, you're still following streets first laid out by Romans.

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Chemists have engineered a new molecule that can help organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) produce purer colors, potentially making display screens more vivid and color-accurate. #chemsky 🧪

And that was "Make Tequila Possible" By Bats Covered in Pollen

Tooot tooot!!! We’re back! What have we missed? We know it’s been a ‘bit’ warm. 😉

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Gorgeous Inka masonry from Chinchero (Peru) to celebrate that I’ve finished two big things from my to do list … still a long way but se hace camino al andar I’ve just realised I’m now not far from the 50K followers here (astonishing) 🙏 On Chinchero, I’ve really enjoyed Stella Nair’s scholarship.

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in this heat we are officially a set of airconditioned corridors attached to a rural history collection

Just a quick question for all the lovely people out there. You doing okay? Just know you're not the only one. This economic nonsense is global. The downturn's affecting all of us. Speak to friends. Please don't isolate. You're awesome. You matter. You're not alone.🌸🌺🌻❤️

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Most of these panels have backstories and my supporters on Patreon just got a post about them! Support me on Patreon for the details www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

New post: "The AI Strategy Trap" Many orgs are rushing to embed AI for improved productivity, lower costs and more profit. But, they might be rushing into a costly dependency on a technology, with no say in the terms of the lease! www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/th... #ai #strategy #aiStrategy

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