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Auroras seen on Nov. 4, 2021 from the ground on the Salt Flats in Utah, and a few minutes later from the International Space Station about 250 miles over Idaho.

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This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.

I was burnt out from non-profit management. I liked words, problem solving, project based work and needed the flexibility of working for myself. I was considering editing, saw indexing was part of the training. Remembered a librarian who told that people specialize in indexing. Sold!

FYI. Have a documented Canadian ancestor? You can get citizenship.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1 and a bit?) is in full exploration mode in a park. Toddle-running at full speed here. Huff-stomping there. Crouching down to inspect interesting rocks. Looking uncertainly at a very big duck... Everything is interesting! (1)

New post, on how AI is coming for open source software: kucharski.substack.com/p/will-your-...

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

"This is something about which I have zero chill." 😄

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A few travel drawings from recent trips around Europe. Like most people I prefer fair weather when visiting cities. But artistically clouds and rain make cities much more interesting. (Bremen, Firenze, Milano, Vienna) For the whole series go to: www.christophniemann.com/detail/trave...

good post on @adamatomic.bsky.social's KOLYDR, which I too cannot stop playing www.jank.cool/i-cant-stop-...

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@theshymuseumgoer.com bsky.app/profile/hrag...

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📚 Early Bird rate available until Monday 9 February 2026 (discounted rate is £480 +VAT)

A #kakapo "bowl" on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Males dig these shallow holes at high points, with several clustered together in a "lek", and boom at night to attract females. Kākāpō are the only lek-breeding parrot. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

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Congratulations to @beiman-nancy.bsky.social! Nancy was part of the legendary @calartsofficial.bsky.social class of 1979.

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Third Iron's LibKey feature for #PrimoNDE is in Beta mode (' Not for Production Use' just yet). thirdiron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

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I knew it had to exist! A website to locate the little #paleo treasures we walk over everyday! 🧪🦴🐚🦕 #science #urbanpaleontology #palaeontology #fossils

So what is an antiquated tool to block off content is now a tool that selectively serves content to the thousands of AI scrapers looking to train on your content. Instead of serving readers, these organizations are serving their writers' hard work to AI models on a plate, while blocking humans.

Margate by train Designed by Edward Pond ICOGRADA / the ICoD archive ICO/3/14/167

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📢 for atproto developers: Office Hours Livestream this Friday at 3:30pm PST! @jimray.bsky.team and @divy.zone and I will start with a news roundup, share about the team's Q1 roadmap, and then answer any Q&A. If people are into it, we'll make this a biweekly thing

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Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

@jimray.bsky.team and I are talking about doing a live office hours this Friday if anybody is interested

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📷 Very useful tool to plan your photo shoots in #Basel: www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc... 3d.geo.bs.ch Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day. Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social

🪶 #LEGO #Puffin set, open for voting. => 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)

We've got a new #kakapo webcam! It's on Rakiura's nest on Whenua Hou. She laid an egg yesterday (we caught that on camera), but isn't incubating it yet. Follow to (hopefully) watch her lay more! #conservation #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

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hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy... we're at the "casting spells to ward off the LLMs" stage of things