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Cruck Cottage @cruckcottage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's #ScottishMuseumsDay and we're taking part in the #ABCofScottishMuseums Of course, we have the letter C for Cruck Cottage. These crooked oak branches or trunks are the crucks which give this type of construction its name. 🪾🏚️ Thanks to @scottishmuseums.bsky.social for putting this together.

A photograph showing people gathered in the Cruck Cottage for an evening storytelling event lit by paraffin lamps. A label reads Cruck beams and has arrows pointing to that part of the structure. Another line of text reads ABC of Scottish Museums, C for Cruck

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 03/10/2026

I'm glad mine has this cover. For me, the other would have been such a huge spoiler. (I can see the appeal to cat lovers of the other, and that it got more people to buy pick it up and then buy it).

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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 01/10/2026

what do yall think are the most impactful things we could do in the Bluesky app to support atproto builders?

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From NASA: How do you get a probe ready for the heat of Venus? Put it in a furnace.🔥 From Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, a model of our DAVINCI probe went through six cycles to 869°F (465°C), each matched to its planned hour-long descent. It came out unscathed: go.nasa.gov/3VYwVKR

Close-up of the DAVINCI probe engineering model, a rounded metallic vessel about the size of a yoga ball, before heat testing.
Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 28/09/2026

Your posts are such an antidote :-)

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been looking for wall/art lighting for my basement redesign, and stumbled upon these: 10w or 20w CRI90+ LED, switchable K-temps, 15-60 degree zoom heads, AND fresnel fronts. 😍 All on common, type-H rails. $139 for 6. Could not be happier. amzn.to/3VhsSJt

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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This weekend I volunteered at a conference about art where the care and attention paid to human experience, the dignity and joy of making stuff with your own two hands, and conversations with complicated people fed my stony soul. Flee this AI horseshit, make things, and be with people. It's good!

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For those interested in how dictionaries are made, as well as the secret lives of the apparently ordinary words we use, may I recommend this podcast? It’s made by two colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary who really know their stuff. rss.com/podcasts/lex...

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The OED’s September update enters the twerpy mountweazel timeline | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Why do we love the mountweazel (and what is it)? Who was the original twerp? How did timeline constitute a two-for-one bargain? Join editors Fiona McPherson and Craig Leyland as they dive into some of...

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From NASA Layered beauty 😍 The Arabia Terra region on Mars has deposits that preserve a record of the planet’s ancient climate. The rhythmic nature of the layers could be due to cyclic processes, such as dust storms, perhaps involving groundwater. 1/2

A desert landscape seen from directly above. The left side of the frame is filled with layers of light-toned rock and pits filled with dark sand. On the right, below a cliff, is more dark sand windblown into a rippled pattern. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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Nicholas Rougeux @rougeux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoy discovering things that have been around a while but are new to me because I've never needed them until now. Today's is the CSS property column-width. It serves a very specific need that will become clear in a future protect.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 23/09/2026

Have you ever wondered what York looks like from a hot air balloon? Well we can tell you - it looks *chefs kiss*

We are looking at a view of York from the air - lots of tiled roofs surround the gothic stone masterpiece of York Minster. In the distance the city is replaced with open patchwork fields and the Howardian hills in the distance.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 22/09/2026

This coded letter signed by King Henry VIII on 17th June 1541 was sent to his Ambassadors at the Diet of Ratisbon (Regensburg in Germany). It was only fully deciphered in 1963 when it came into the ownership of the Merchant Adventurers.

We are looking at the first page of a long letter written in code and signed at the top by King Henry VIII.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Home Depot has just done something that might make me swap nearly every LED lightbulb in my home: They have redesigned their house brand “EcoSmart” LED bulbs so you can now dial in the Kelvin color temperature. They did it to reduce SKUs. But we get the main benefit. (2/x)

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For anyone wanting to play with their new control capabilities along the Kelvin spectrum with their interior lighting, here’s a quick explainer video, via Rednote: (4/x)

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A newly emerged male monarch butterfly flaps his wings to build up the necessary internal hydrostatic pressure before taking his first test flight.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To my fellow lighting geeks who are now similarly applying their skills to their living spaces: Rednote app -> hashtag #NoMainLightDesign -> expect yourself to be unavailable for awhile.

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David Hobby @davidhobby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

iOS: Menu at upper right in calculator app -> convert. Choose any currency. Changes persist until undone. Game changer.

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 18/09/2026

@scalzi.com 'Titanium cranium' name of your next band?

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 18/09/2026

Also the links in www.flickr.org/welcome-new-... working fine now.

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 18/09/2026

> other recent blog post working fine

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 18/09/2026

What on earth is going on? Has York been inundated with ghosts? Well yes it has as part of Ghosts in the Gardens - a York wide trail of sculptures around the green spaces of the city: theyorkbid.com/ghosts-in-the-gardens/

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Ghosts In The Gardens - The York BID

Discover eerie sculptures in beautiful settings with Ghosts in the Gardens. These wire mesh art pieces are sure to delight during autumn.

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 18/09/2026

I _see_ the links, and the photos in the article. But when I _click on_ the links, I get a 404 error (for example www.flickr.com/photos/20424...). And when I click on www.flickr.com/photos/20424... I get:

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 17/09/2026

I'm teaching a comics workshop at the all-virtual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference today. It's such a nice event. www.wildwonder.org/wild-wonder-...

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2026 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference — Wild Wonder Foundation

Join this creative and educational 5-day online conference featuring Ed Yong, Amy Tan, Austin Kleon, Rosemary Mosco, John Muir Laws and others.

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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 17/09/2026

All links in your blog post showing me a 404

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