Leah

Leah

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MLIS. Information behaviour theorist/knowledge visualization/internet artist/cyber folklorist/interactive fiction game designer/writer for "Hawthorn". Sensemaking, liminality, transitions. she/they

https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/leah_brown.htm

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Oh dang, new global atmospheric rivers database just dropped #DailyPaper HT @mdettinger.bsky.social

A regionally refined quarter-degree global atmospheric rivers database based on ERA5 - Scientific Datawww.nature.com Scientific Data - A regionally refined quarter-degree global atmospheric rivers database based on ERA5

Absolutely exquisite, I literally gasped.

This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

I'm being ridden by a moth. This is my life now.

He's also an entire anthropology department: Figure 1) Linguistic Anthropology; Figure 2) Archaeology; 3) Sociocultural Anthropology; 4) Bioanthropology

Daniel Craig playing an entire geology department himself:

Congratulations, you are now a psychic/wizard.

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social choosesecondclass wizard

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Hey media folks, please spread far and wide: The Boston Globe is hiring a TV critic. Probably doesn't need to be said but these job openings are hella rare these days. Heartening to see this gig is available, pls let folks know TVsky! : bostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/OLsbys...

TV Critic - Boston Globe Media Partners - Career Pagebostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com The Boston Globe seeks a full-time TV critic to join our staff

Galaxy gateau brain: What if I made a black forest cake topped with Lowry cherry blossoms

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

This person gets it, I nod to myself, plunging my spoon into a huge bowl of trauma muesli...

Chicken Soup for the Soul for dinner, High Fiber-of-My-Being Cereal for breakfast

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everybody's gonna be talking about the other stuff today but Shannen Doherty spent the better part of fifty-three years entertaining people and fifty-three is pretty early to have to go and that's hard. travel home safe Shannen D.

Another famous woman of the ‘90s who deserved a reexamination of how hard people came for her. She was good at what she did. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ Star, Dies at 53variety.com Shannen Doherty, who played Brenda on 'Beverly Hills 90210' and starred in 'Charmed,' has died.

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Lmaoooo yeah well someone tried to kill me twice

I'm gonna be 51, which is not a prime number ☹︎

TGI Saturday

Now knitting: I wanted an eyelet-y bolero so I'm doing a practice one in a weird colour from this skein I inherited - the pic makes it look weirder but in person it's a cinnamon colour, a bit darker. Gonna try and make a little shrug/bolero to wear in the fall.

I'm dying to crochet a bolero for myself but I'm too much of a beginner yet so I'm going to see if I can knit something this weekend to tide me over until I can make something more elaborate with crochet.

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An actual tzaddik, let’s venerate the correct Ruth tyvm, may her memory be for a revolution

Dr. Ruth “defended abortion rights, suggested older people have sex after a good night’s sleep and was an outspoken advocate of condom use … In the 1980s, she stood up for gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic and spoke out loudly for the LGBTQ community.” apnews.com/article/ruth...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96apnews.com Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.

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Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote aboutwww.latimes.com Because of the nature of her stories, the revelation that Munro remained with the man who sexually abused her daughter doesn’t just defile the artist, but the art itself.

The crows and fledglings came to the back trees this morning when I was out with Emmybel and said hello - they waited patiently! Then I went and got them some kibble, eggshells, and peanuts. Seems each year the fledgings are encouraged to come here by their parents - now there's a whole clan here.

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A cool thing about trilobites is that they survived from the Early Cambrian until recently, only about 250 million years ago, about 260 million years. They lived 4 times longer than the time between the dinosaurs and us.

I, too, prefer fishing to fighting. I'm the opposite of a viking, I don't wanna bother anyone or take their stuff. I don't even want to fish, I just want to nap.

I know it's cheesy but my dad's family is entirely from the Hebrides/Orkneys and I would love to have tattoos of the Pictish bestiary, especially the bird people.

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New light on Britain's long migration history: “This suggests...a...history of very effective land management in Orkney, an increased focus on fishing, which along with evidence for good Pictish-Viking relations in the Orcadian Islands, likely contributed to a much healthier and vibrant community."

Viking settlers in Orkney ‘preferred fishing to fighting’www.thetimes.com Despite their reputation as blood-thirsty warriors, the settlers took to agricultural pursuits on Scottish islands, according to new research

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Morning Bluesky. He said he wouldn’t but of course he did. The Axis of Awful People.

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I work fairly hard at trying to have normal conversations on here but Bluesky lately seems to be speedrunning through all the reasons that I stopped bothering on Twitter

I think most people really don't have any context for the cumulative effect of the constant unhinged low level harassment that comes past a certain threshold of name recognition

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Holding a black man who writes EXCELLENT and helpful essays about democracy responsible for the acts of a heinous and hateful white woman so powerful at the NYT she was the *BOOKS EDITOR* for like a decade before becoming an opinion writer says everything about you and nothing about him.

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An apt meme making rounds

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About 1,600 renderings of exoplanets are organized in Martin Vargic's latest project. Take a closer look: www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/mart...

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Molly Templeton

MIIIIINE yesssss

STOP THE PRESSES!journeypress.com Our newest author, the super-feminist, Nazi-punching journalist, Managing Editor-emeritus of Snopes.com, is about to blow the truth wide open...with magic!

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From fish to fungi, the world is filled with beautiful glowing creatures. 🍄🐟 Here are just a few of the many bioluminescent organisms present in various ecosystems around the planet. 🌏🧪 🖌️ Infographic by Eleanor Mohren.

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There's a funny thing with genAI evangelists where the more desperately they claim how creative it is making them, how much more productive they are with it, the sadder and more pathetic their lives are revealed to be.