janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 26/01/2025It’s Australia Day, 26th January 2025 - the date the colony of New South Wales was proclaimed by Captain Arthur Philip for England. It is rightly called Invasion Day by Indigenous people in Australia - the start of colonisation. Every year there are calls to change the date of Australia Day(1) 120
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 12/12/2024It’s one of those basic needs - a safe place to lay your head at night - and it should be a human right as well. 050
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 10/12/2024So yesterday, we had some gardening done - and woke this little ringtail possum from its daytime nap. The little possum is fine and went back to bed afterwards. #australianwildlife #ringtailpossum 080
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 08/12/2024So Assad has bolted to some unknown destination. This has to be a major blow to Russian interference in the Middle East. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...theguardian.comSyria live: Bashar al-Assad has left Syria, says Russia’s foreign ministry – latest updatesTurkey’s foreign minister says Assad regime has collapsed as Russia says he ordered a peaceful power transfer 020
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This striking original image draws a follow from me. I support photographers and other creative artists on Bluesky and everywhere else. 120
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is exactly what is involved in training multi-modal models used for generating images using generative AI. Pay the creatives a fair rate for the use of their images in training multi-modal models. Better still - pay the creatives a fair rate to create those original images for you. 000
Reposted by janerawlings8Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science. 286814014912667
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This is a particularly stupid example of the species Scammer criminis. It wins an insta-report and block. 120
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Not even winter yet but the Gritter trucks are already out spreading grit and salt on Scottish roads. And to tell them apart they have code names because numbers would be boring… www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...traffic.gov.scotGritter tracker | Traffic ScotlandTraffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotland’s trunk road network 010
Reposted by janerawlings8ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I’ve been lecturing today at Manchester - special relativity - and for no good reason other than I want to post stuff here, here’s my lecture notes introducing the concept of invariant mass :-) 11369822
janerawlings8 @janerawlings8.bsky.social · 15/11/2024So I’ve been thinking what to make as my first post. Politics? Music? Dogs? Māori MPs’ haka to show their defiance against right wing idiots? My contempt for anti-vaxxers? I know - King Parrots! 0624