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🧵Spotted at a Garden Tea Party in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (70s?) and a tiny human (1?) are both laying on their backs under some blossoming plum trees. Looking up at the sky while Grandad points at interesting clouds. His fedora sitting on the grass nearby. Chortles from tiny human. (1)

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Basilisk manuschwendener.ch/Basilisk #LEGO #SFW2025 #Skærbæk2025

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

Two men (70s?) are sitting near a coffee cart with half-drunk cappuccinos on a tiny table in front of them. A breeze is ruffling the leaves of the tree branches overhead, people are all starting their day, walking to work. Meanwhile they're enjoying a contented silence. Letting the world go by. (4)

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A look a some of the material taken out for a special visit from the attendees of the Dress and Textiles Specialists (DATS) Conference 2025 including material from the FHK Henrion, Alison Settle, Dorrit Dekk, HA Rothholz, Vokins, and @designcouncil.bsky.social archives

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🏛️ Are you interested in developing a career in museums and galleries? We are looking for a Curatorial Volunteer for 1 day per week. 🖼️ We will help you develop skills in research, collections care, and public engagement. 🔗 For more info, follow the link at: merl.reading.ac.uk/communities/...

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Data starts getting pulled in November 3. Opt out before then if you’re so inclined. Presumably, opting out means they stop pulling in your data AFTER you opt out. Any data they grab before then is data users (generally unwittingly) opted into letting them keep.

Do you have a LinkedIn account? Prefer to opt OUT of your content being used to train their AI? You can do that here: www.linkedin.com/safety/go?ur...

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#igelu2025 Krina Doekes Brandt's presentation "Making Historical Geographic Collections Accessible: Digital Cataloging and Spatial Discovery Tools" was excellent. She outlined the work taken to create a highly interactive catalog for historical maps/aerial photos.

People Watching 100: Auckland LARP (Live action roleplaying) Faire, Panmure Community Centre, Saturday afternoon

Our hyper-local, mega-specific, extremely niche personal welcome screen is what greets new students and staff as they enter our library...

#IGeLU2025 very interesting presentation, going on now in room 101 mtgsked.com/p/43847/s?ps...

I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

www.cafx.dk/biennial/pro... #cph #copenhagen #københavn

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I was floating on the sky tonight. If you look really carefully, you can see the eagle that is watching me from the shore. I live for evenings like this.

My friend Sohail is fundraising for Alzheimer's Society by going on a serious run. The Society do great work supporting those living with dementia and campaigning for change. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

We give the wrong (bad people) people all the attention. Time to cut off their air supply and ignore them. I want to see all the good in your life, so that people can have something to aspire to. I want to see things that make you happy. I want to see you celebrate good people.

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Authors whose books were used in LLM training by Anthropic to get $3,000 each. Adds up to a very big number. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

This is from February 2023. I found it via www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/09/04/c... mediacat.uk/qa-cap_ables...

🧵Spotted While Roaming In Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) is sitting across from Grandad in a cafe, carefully taking numerous rocks and twigs out of his school bag and setting them on the table, explaining each one's importance. Precious treasures to be admired. (1)

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People Watching: Soundcheck for Vera Ellen & Neil Finn, night two of the MUFGAL (Make us feel good about life) concert series, Roundhead Studios, Auckland

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (9?) is skipping next to Grandad as they walk down a street lined with blossoming trees. A violin case and sheet music gripped in each of her hands. Humming bits of music into the still night air. (1)

We’re getting ready for a very large #kakapo breeding season this summer - and hoping avian influenza doesn’t arrive at the same time… 🤞🏻 #conservation #birds #parrots #disease www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A milestone in generative #AI for transparency and diversity: Switzerland’s first fully open multilingual Large Language Model #LLM. Entire development process (architecture, model weights, training data, recipes) is openly accessible. @ethz.ch #EPFL @cscsch.bsky.social 🧪 ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

I love how the last reindeer kinda dips his antlers to clear the doorway. It's 1) amazing sense of kinesthetic body mapping, and 2) suggests he has done this before.