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#Finnegans woke #Adoptee #guest #Cisgender #Trans Ally #Sufic
#Comfortably cosmopolitan: #English-Irish (non-Brit).
Pronouns: Thee & Thou & Yon
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
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Inji Hanim (انجه هانم; died 1890) was the first wife of Sa'id Pasha, Wāli of Egypt and Sudan from 1854 until 1863. She was known among the Europeans as Princess Sa'id.
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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪
These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly funguswww.nature.com How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 July 2024
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Damon’s shirt. I want one
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Ten shows about the Tories’ time in power: 10. Meal or No Meal 9. Mock the Weak 8. Never Mind the Buzzwords 7. Whose Lie is it Anyway? 6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? 5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese 4. White Line of Duty 3. Faulty Powers 2. Have I Got an Excuse for You? 1. 8 Out of 10 Prats
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Molly and Milo wear their Sunday best on a gorgeous day, the FINAL DAY OF TORY RULE We voted Green.
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#ArtDD2024 Beautiful sibia Beautiful sibia are members of the laughing thrush family, living in tropical mountain forests in China and northern India. From a 📷 by @linjianyangbe on X with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social 🦉
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Scrutable doggies rush to greet me on my return to this green Irish sward.
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Working on a water creature. :D Strongly inspired by the amazing entities drawn by @neganeura.bsky.social (I love their art so much). Acrylics on Cardboard
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Bonkers beauty is continuing. I got to pick the flowers this week.
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Today, we’re releasing starter packs — personalized invites that allow you to bring friends directly into your slice of Bluesky! 🚀 Update to version 1.87 of the app or refresh desktop to create a starter pack. (It may take a moment for version 1.87 to appear in the iOS App/Google Play stores.)
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Forgot that I took pics of the strawberry moon last night. It blows my mind that phone cameras have gotten this good
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People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it. www.economist.com/interactive/...
Sun Machineswww.economist.com Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge
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What did Dela wear? Ans: Dela was bare
ChatGPT does not answer questions. It provides responses that are statistically shaped like an answer to something statistically shaped like the prompt. There is no thought or knowledge. It can't get an answer right or wrong. The output is always correct, but it's a coincidence if it states truth.
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Spanish painter #JordiDiazAlamà (b.1986), graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona & later in Italy at the Florence Academy of Art. He also studied with contemporary masters of realism such as the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum, Guillermo Muñoz Vera, or Antonio López.
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Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. For a marketing campaign, Oreo sold tubes of their frosting so people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. [kottke.org]
Oreo Kintsugikottke.org Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. A creative agency working for Oreos came up with the clever idea of selling tubes of Oreo frosting so that people could repair th
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Hands up who wants Farage and Johnson to stop fucking about and have a flick knife fight to the death?
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