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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Yes lol it probably is - the staring is a WHOLE thing it's EXTREMELY SERIOUS about it. Which makes the snakes eyeing up the slugs in the study and then going '???? gross I don't want this' even more funny somehow.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Congratulations! Starting stuff like this up is such a huge undertaking and this looks very cool - looking forward to reading through it!

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I am delighted to report that a shitpost I wrote a year or so ago in response to the question 'who was the first person to boil an egg?' is now being repeated by AI-penned spam pages

Do you know when soft boiled eggs came out?
Starting from the famous joke " who came first, the egg or the chicken?" , interestingly, we know the answer to that question because the hard-boiled egg is a surprisingly recent phenomenon.

Although many of the classic styles of egg preparation, scrambled, poached, fried and so on, have been well known since time immemorial, it wasn't until 1974 that a hard-boiled egg appeared.

The discoverer of this technique, Marvin Boyle-d'Eigg, was heating a pan of salt water for his own amusement, when a chicken egg he was holding in his beard fell and sank into the boiling liquid.

It took a few minutes to retrieve the egg and the rest is history. Boyle-d'Eigg immediately took steps to register the eponymous patent for his new process, but it is not known whether he ultimately succeeded.

Leaving behind this unique history, it is time to talk about how long to boil soft-boiled eggs, as we know them since we were children and our grandmothers used to prepare them for us.

See how long the soft-boiled eggs take

Who was the person who invented the boiled egg?
The discoverer of this technique, the eponymous Marvin Boyle-d’Eigg, was boiling a pan of salted water for his own amusement when a hen’s egg he had secreted in his beard shook loose and became immersed in the boiling liquid. It took several minutes to retrieve the egg, and the rest is history.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

🗃️ The whole history of this is super interesting - the 2016 book 'The Legacy of the Japanese Bluestocking Society (Seitosha)' is a pretty great writeup (one of those books you start reading and just keep going), and I'd also like to share their manifesto that was published in this first issue:

In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person.
Now, woman is the moon. Living dependent on others, reflecting their brilliance.
She has the moon’s face, and its unhealthy pallor. And now, Seitō cries, newly born.
Created by the brains and hands of today’s Japanese women. Seitō cries, newly born.
Women’s undertaking is only sneered at, but I am convinced that there is hidden potential there…
Make us continue ceaselessly with our ardent prayer and spiritual concentration.
Make us do these to the best of our ability
until the day when we will bring hidden female talent into the open,
until the day when the hidden sun begins to shine again.
On that day we will rule everything, the entire world will fall into our hands.
On that day woman will no longer be the moon.
On that day she will become the sun, as in the beginning.
She will become an authentic person.

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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

english isn't my mother language

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

The clock has struck midnight on the Atlantic. The time is upon us. It is #Squidtember! We have SO MUCH planned for you. But first, what you've all been waiting for. Squid shirt 2024. @coreydanks.bsky.social created some of the most deranged squid art I have ever seen. I'm obsessed.

A black t-shirt with a drawing of a strawberry squid in red with water dripping off it, sinking a mining ship. The words say "Save our freaks, don't mine the deep"

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Yeah as someone who writes ads for Facebook but doesn't use it - the audience there is pretty reliable, but not growing. Meta is using the divide and conquer strategy with different apps, while X aims to be 'everything'. Threads... won't die, but I don't think it'll be 'good' for a long while.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

I'm pretty sure their entire thing was to be the brand friendly, no controversy alternative to Twitter - but they've done this by totally killing manual discovery and making it all algo based, so there's an odd... superficiality? to interactions there. Not sure how to put it besides 'vibe bad'.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Wasn't kidding lol - this is from March this year and that's not 20 mins a day, it's 20 mins a MONTH. For advertisers that's... pathetic numbers lmao.

A graph showing how much time users spend on average on different social media apps every month. TikTok is at the top with 31 hours and 43 mins, followed by YouTube at 28 hours and 41 mins, and Facebook and Instagram with 18+ and 16+ hours.

At the bottom is Threads, with 20 mins per month.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

You aren't the only one lol. Right now the user metrics for time spent on Threads are pretty bad, it's why a lot of advertisers are sort of eh on it (even though it's meant to be brand friendly). People just check in for a few mins and leave, they don't engage as long as they might have on Twitter.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Not currently in the US, and I've never had a specialist appointment through the public health system start earlier than... an hour after it was scheduled. It's not even the specialist being late, it's just other people ahead and random delays lol.

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Stasanie @stasanie.com · 31/08/2024

If you like surreal and eerie animal art, this collection of artists is a great way to get more of that on your bluesky feed. go.bsky.app/H7oKxZb

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/09/2024

So like, someone just pulled the little “here, my sockpuppet account wants to know why you’re so down on Nate Silver for using ChatGPT for research,” and I have the obvious answer, which is that ChatGPT knows what words come next but doesn’t know the right answer.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

📷 Cannon Beach, Oregon, taken in Spring 2023 Chilly but fun seeing it in the off season!

A photograph of a beach on a cloudy, foggy day. The sky is white and gray, and so is the water. In the distance, large rocks loom in the fog.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 20/08/2023

Lots of new folks so here's an intro. I'm an artist from Alberta & skies are my thing. My website has canvas & paper prints and a few originals. earthskyart.ca/shop

Painting of a storm cloud over a field with a road up the middle & trees in mid ground

Painting of mounded ice on a lake in spring with clouds & an orange sky

Painting of geometric mountains with swirly clouds above

Painting of a river valley with badlands and swirling clouds

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I just feel like giving tons of people awards and then immediately going 'BTW you're gonna have to pay us $3.5k to put a picture of it on your site (: (:' is a pretty funny shtick. Who needs NFTs when you have licensing? If you just want a picture on your wall that's ONLY $595, though - bargain!

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

reputation and legitimacy is absolutely what Forbes and similar places sell, but it's also totally grifting corps too, which is funny. like, if you get on a top whatever list with them, they then urge you to pay thousands for merch and the license to DISPLAY the award on your website and comms.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 31/08/2024

Just a couple of hours today. Worked on brightening up some of the center oranges. #art #painting

WIP painting of a galaxy with swirls of white blue oranges and red with stars in the center

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

richest corporate executives who are probably very upset that they can't be inappropriate creeps at their secretaries and only hire white guys from their alma marter, I guess.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Phytosaurs resemble modern crocodilians but at the same time they look so different! #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I didn't manage anything for #Smaugust, sadly. But here's a page of sketches of a green peafowl-inspired dragon from 2021.

Three pencil studies of a dragon inspired by green peafowl. It has feathered wings, a reptilian tail, a graceful neck, and a fowl-like head with a pair of antlers.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I found this activity in my Amer Govt #polisky materials & thought I'd share. It's designed to get students reflecting on what politics is. I'd handout a paper with these three speeches & assign students in groups to read one of them & answer the questions about it. Then we'd do a class discussion.

Candidate #1 Speech: Politics is hard work. It requires us to meet those we disagree with as equals and to take their concerns and their perspectives seriously. This is something we all owe to each other because we all share something essential in common—we’re all Americans. We may look different, live differently, worship differently (or not at all), love different kinds of people, but we are all united by our shared love of this country. Because we share this country in common, we all have to be willing to give a little bit—to tolerate something that we maybe don’t like very much—in order to build a country that we can all share. It’s a hard truth that politics requires us to make tough choices. When we come together and make a political deal, we all won’t get everything we want and may have to give up something we think is important. But so long as we deal with each other fairly, we’ll have found a way to live together peacefully despite our differences and disagreements.

Candidate #2 Speech: We have seen the face of the enemy and we know who they are. We know all the ways they’re trying to destroy this country and we are not going to let them. True patriots are seeing what’s happening to our country and they’re getting mad. They’re not just going to stand around and let the other side have it all their way—they’re going to fight! We’ve had enough of weak leaders who get elected and go to Washington and just give everything away to the other side. We’ve had enough backroom deals and corrupt compromises. We need strong leaders who will stand up to the other side. We need leaders who stand up for true Americans like us, against the enemies, both foreign and domestic, of everything our country holds dear. We understand that the stakes have never been higher for our country. We know what time it is. Real American patriots won’t stop until we’ve saved the country from all those who would betray what’s best about it. And if that means the gloves need to come

Candidate #3 Speech: We don’t need another politician. We need someone who can solve the problems facing ordinary Americans. If you send me to Washington, I’ll set aside poisonous and destructive partisanship and get to work fixing America’s problems. The problems we face don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican; they don’t care whether you’re white, black, brown, or purple; they affect everybody. I’ll work with anyone interested in making public policies that aren’t liberal or conservative but that work for all Americans. I’ve thought a lot about the policies that would fix America’s problems and I’ve talked to all the experts, both left and right, and come up with some commonsense solutions. I’ll be talking about them in the weeks and months to come and you can look at my plans now on my campaign’s website. The policies I would enact would save the taxpayers money while also doing more for the biggest challenges Americans say they’re facing today. These policies won’t always b

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After reading your speaker’s speech, please consider the following the questions.
1. What are the basic building blocks of politics according to your speaker? As in, who are the characters that politics involves—classes, groups, individuals or what? If groups, what kind of groups? Big, small? What characteristics do they have?

2. What is the aim of politics as your speaker presents it?

3. If you had to sum up what politics is all about in a word or two according to your speaker, what would it be?
After considering these questions, please read the other two passages.
4. Are the approaches to politics these passages discuss compatible with each other? If so, how? If not, why not?

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Oh that's really neat, then! Would really love to have a look if/when it's out, I hope your writing goes well.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

... Hmmm though I guess rhetoric aside they'd probably still fall under technocratic, since the eventual goal is 'effective policy' and they'd view authoritarian rule as more effective for getting things done than being pluralist.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

This is really neat, and what a great lesson for your students! If you don't mind me asking, would the paper cover combinations of those modes? Like an authoritarian government that establishes technocratic policies, while jailing/exiling political opponents as enemies of the state?

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

You see this a lot, but it makes sense. Our brains don't measure the progress of time in a purely quantitative way. It's more qualitative Meaning: We tend to measure time in events, 'landmarks', i.e. "It's been a while since [significant event]", rather than "It's been 56 days since new year" /1

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

SO MANY great hashtags spawned on Science Twitter! #DoesItFart led to the creation of an animal fart database and then became a book, written by @danirabaiotti.bsky.social and Nick Caruso and illustrated by @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social, it began as a convo about whether or not snakes fart (they do) 🧪

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#DoesItFart: Database Answers Your Burning Questions About Animal Gas

Spurred by an innocent query posed to a biologist on Twitter, scientists are assembling a database of animal life to answer the burning question, "Does it fart?"

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

also I think part of it in the US at least is that one of the biggest pushers of 'woke bad' was DeSantis (he signed a bill and everything) - but since he dropped out of the 2024 race he's been kind of declining in popularity and relevance, and it feels like 'woke' as an pejotative is going with him.

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Incumbents beat DeSantis-backed candidates in Florida school board races

School board candidates in Florida backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis were defeated in several counties, results that opponents of the Republican say are a rebuke to his conservative education agenda.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

That's stunning, and great pics too! Thanks for sharing, it's really something.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

that's a good point; woke was so nebulous in 2016 it could stand for everything, but all the groups that went for it had different demands that they're pushing for policy on now. like blaming wokeness for everything you feel is bad works, blaming DEI for a bridge falling... doesn't.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I suspect part of it is that if you're not involved in a media or media-adjacent industry, the newsroom can be kind of a black box; facts go in, stories come out. but there's often more stories or facts than space on the page, so editorial choices have to be made...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

STOP PRESS. ANOTHER DIRECT ENTRY INTO MY TOP 5 MODERNIST CHURCHES OF EUROPE. Incredible altar piece with Christ's heart as the eternal candle. Paging @rproctor.bsky.social

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Thank you very much! Churches are always fun to visit when travelling - not just as reflections of their communities but also to compare the differences in how they express a common message. Looking forward to seeing these when I'm next in that part of the world!

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

yeah like, old Trump did appeal to a lot of disenfranchised (and also kind of racist) people. but that appeal had to actually be made, not just assumed or taken for granted. before Biden dropped out, the appeal was being on the winning team - that didn't require Trump to do much. now though...

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I find it's still very okay for niche topics, but things like uh. Air purifiers or anything with reviews and products and stuff that advertisers exist for is just kind of borked.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

oh this is super fascinating (if you don't mind me asking for bucketlist reasons, what are the other top 4 churches?)

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

you wouldn't be the only one looking kind of askance at them lol I do uhh... marketing stuff, and the kind of framing used + selective choice of topics, among other things, is closer to ad campaign tactics than the actions of an objective institution with a sense of journalistic integrity.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Ooh that's one to add to the holiday bucketlist

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

🗃️🧀 Cheese history for the history feed! Cheestory? Anyway, food history is always fun, and this is a particularly lovely read!

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

It's definitely broken down a bit. I'm also in some leftist spaces and one of them just updated one of its shibboleth question from 'can wokeness go too far' to 'can DEI be a negative thing' to keep up with how a lot of the former antiwoke types are talking about stuff now.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Today on the patreon I wrote about the history of how men don't like it when women speak, and how I don't care. You can check it out from only a quid per month, which would be very cool of you. www.patreon.com/posts/on-wom...

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On women talking and the men who hate that | Dr Eleanor Janega

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

charming!! the main stick/leaf mimics around where I am are stick and leaf insects, but those can be a little tricky to spot (as are all good mimics) raising butterflies and moths is also so fun, it's just neat watching them go through all the different stages.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

That said, I feel what you describe doesn't really play out where I currently live (not in the US right now lol) - Campylobacter and B Cereus outbreaks are pretty common here, and those in particular are just as if not more likely to hit groups that have vegetarian or plant-heavy diets.

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c. crow @ccorone.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

That's a really good point! It's definitely true that there are a LOT more meat and aquatic animal categories with a higher risk of food poisoning compared to veggie ones (mostly just lettuce, seeded vegetables and the like).

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