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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/06/2025

I am going to do right by The Witcher 4's horse aftermath.site/witcher-4-kelpie

A screenshot from The Witcher 4 demo: a black horse stands in a wooded area while Ciri, a woman in a black cloak, stands in the foreground

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Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Chief Meteorologist @mattdevittweather.bsky.social of WINK News reviews "Weather the Storm," a life-saving #VR simulation we developed and tested at the @ugavr.bsky.social, in collab with @noaa.gov, Clemson University, the National Hurricane Center, Georgia Sea Grant, and South Carolina Sea Grant.

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Paul Roquet @inqualia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Turning back to VR for a moment, I appreciate this smart framing of Meta’s headsets—that even if you don’t see ads when you turn them on they should still be considered ad-driven devices, since that’s ultimately what’s paying for all of it (Ali Bar-Zeev interviewed by Gabriele Romagnoli)

The Quest 3 is the cheapest high-quality headset ever. Are we finally there?

Avi Bar-Zeev: It's an impressive device, but I have philosophical issues with it. Meta can afford to sell it cheap because it's subsidized by ad revenue. Even if they're not running ads on the headset yet, the money keeping that division alive comes from ad dollars. I don't think we had to rush into making the cheapest possible headset. The market isn't ready for it.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Cute, but unless these other countries are willing to spend as much as the US on science, the brain drain will be to other professions (some completely unrelated to science).

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Trump brain drain starts global tug-of-war for the best science minds

Some of America’s brightest are increasingly uncomfortable in a country where ideology threatens to constrain science

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If I could name one consistent feature of people who end up having miserly, paranoid, counterproductive politics, it would be this—the attitude that care should flow TOWARD you but not FROM you.

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

by popular demand, I've unlocked this paid subscriber post so it's free for everyone ~ "Marathon" isn't a good metaphor, because marathons are a slog to be endured, and also, marathons end, whereas this is... interminable. But what if, hear me out,... www.shesabeast.co/its-not-a-ma...

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It's not a marathon or a sprint. It's strength training.

A motivational pep talk for these unprecedented times.

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/04/2025

The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/04/2025

One of the things I think about often is a post I read probably twenty years ago from a math professor who was out walking on his beach with this dog, throwing a ball and watching the dog run out and catch it before it landed.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Here's the article about burrowing owls I was interviewed for. I think it came out really well. 🪶https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2025/04/11/imperial-county-is-a-refuge-for-californias-vanishing-burrowing-owls-but-do-they-need-more-protection

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Imperial County is a refuge for California’s vanishing burrowing owls. But do they need more protection?

State officials are weighing listing the tiny birds as an endangered species, a decision that could have big implications for the farming and renewable energy-focused county.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I cannot emphasize enough how much I miss street dining and am furious so many outdoor spaces that reduced the risk of Covid-19 were taken away for PARKING SPACES

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Abby @aspenceart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

the hart of the forest #art

A green stag stands atop a hill, his antlers fill the top of the page and are filled with plants and birds. In the hill he stands on, a doe leaps over her fawn. Below them two foxes chase a rabbit who waits at the opening of a warren.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 19/04/2025

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank. I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any). We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/03/2025

firefox switched their default emoji font on linux from twemoji to noto, and I can't find anyone on the internet talking about it??? I had to git blame to even find the change: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

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1939359 - Update default emoji font on Linux to prefer Noto Color Emoji [was: 🐦‍⬛ (🐦‍⬛) is rendered as a red bird followed by a black box, rather than a black bird]

RESOLVED (jfkthame) in Core - Layout: Text and Fonts. Last updated 2025-01-07.

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mark Cerny answered a range of our questions on Sony's Amethyst collaboration with AMD - but the key headline is this: FSR 4 will be 're-implemented' for PlayStation 5 Pro as the next evolution of PSSR, coming to games in 2026: www.eurogamer.net/digitalfound...

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Mark Cerny: FSR 4 for PS5 Pro is the "next evolution of PSSR"

Last week, AMD released its new wave of graphics hardware, developed around the new RDNA 4 architecture. Machine learni…

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Jeremy Laumon @jeremy.laumon.name · 30/12/2024

I have just made the repo of my C++ STL replacement lib public on github. It's called Bedrock. It's got the usual things, Vector, String, Atomic etc. but also a very good HashMap and few interesting allocators (details on blog: danglingpointers.com/post/bedrock...) github.com/jlaumon/Bedr...

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GitHub - jlaumon/Bedrock: Minimal C++20 STL replacement library. Simpler, smaller, and in many cases faster.

Minimal C++20 STL replacement library. Simpler, smaller, and in many cases faster. - jlaumon/Bedrock

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Like tiny yellow icicles, Mucronela flava is a fun little fungus to find. From afar, it just looks like some small yellow crust fungus, but upon close inspection, you'll notice that it's actually a very toothy mushroom! 🦷💛 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🍄 📷 🍄‍🟫

Mucronella flava is a tiny icicle-like fungus. We're looking at the flat surface of a cut-down tree, and covering that dark, wet woody surface is a ton of little yellow teeth hanging downwards. These little yellow teeth are the mushroom itself!

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

sometimes I have fun conversations on random subreddits that no one sees 😇

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

Glowing blue cosmic cloud looking sort of like a dolphin.

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FLUFF CORPS @fluffcorps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Just showing some progress with re-building the player physics to be a bit less clunky, as well as major improvements to jump-through platforms and ledge grabbing, including grabbing onto moving platforms. look at her go! #gamedev #gamemaker #furrygame #indiegame

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/03/2025

I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny. Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to".

Gemini: autocomplete suggestions include "how to turn off", "how to disable", and "how to remove".

Copilot: autocomplete suggestions include "how to disable", "how to delete", "how to uninstall", "how to turn off", and "how to remove."

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...

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A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I always really liked this restroom in Selaco. I'm a sucker for multiple mirror recursions and I'm glad I found an excuse to put one in Chapter 1 lol

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

NO KING ANY TIME RESIDENT KING ONLY NO KING EXCEPT BUSES NO LONG-TERM KING TWO HOUR KING ONLY EXCEPT SUNDAY

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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 17/01/2025

You know it's gonna be another banger of a Windows update when

Photo of my laptop with a Windows setup screen, displaying upside down

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 27/12/2024

Stealing @hailey.at's thunder to explain something cool she just did. Now when you click on a trending topic, you'll go to a screen that looks like this (1/5)

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Baba Is You @babaisyou.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy & peaceful holidays, everyone!

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 22/12/2024

We are years past it now so this is no longer a thing but here is a Christmas Survival tip for single or widowed parents of young kids: Go out today and buy yourself a gift. Label it from Santa so you can enjoy your offspring finding it and handing it to you while exclaiming “this one’s for you!”

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Getting emulation to work often takes deep dives into hardware - not just the intent, or the documentation, but the actual examination of sometimes rare and irreplacable chips. CocoTown describes this technique in DragonFire, a game for the TRS-80 that rode at the very limits of the system.

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The game that broke MAME (and almost me)

Coco Town (YouTube)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/12/2024

Okay while I’m thinking about cuneiform, I have to say that my favorite tablet is one sent from a Babylonian child away at school to their parents, complaining about kids with better clothes. Teenagers persist through the ages.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A reminder to anyone trapped in an airport due to weather conditions right now: You have a right to stay in a nearby picturesque village while the airline sorts out a rebooked flight for the 27th. They also have to provide a widowed lumberjack for you to fall in love with. Know your rights.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

That Kylie Kelce could end up being "the left's Joe Rogan" is going to really fuck with some of the (ahem, male) pundits' heads. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/b...

If her life were normal during the election, she might have felt safe sharing her political views, which it turns out “aggressively lean” left, she said.

Instead, some people online speculated her family was “MAGA.” Others assumed she was aligned with Ms. Swift, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. One day a honking caravan of cars with Trump flags and signs “slow-rolled past our house,” Ms. Kelce said. “To me, that was like, ‘We know where you live.’” (The Kelces do not live in a remote, gated community. A longtime employee said it was not unusual to see strangers doing “slow-rolls,” or to walk out of the house and hear a passer-by yell, “Go, Birds!”)

When asked if politicians would be welcome on “Not Gonna Lie” — as they were on “Call Her Daddy” and “The Joe Rogan Experience” in October — Ms. Kelce did not hesitate.

“I would talk to Michelle Obama in a heartbeat, and I know she is not personally running,” she said. “But I would love it if she would.” She also expressed interest in interviewing Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, whom she said she admired for putting free period products in school bathrooms.

If she is aware the revelation of her Democratic politics might cause a stir with fans or the internet at large, Ms. Kelce does not seem to mind.

“I mean this in the most respectful way,” she said. “I don’t care what other people have to say.”

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you missed it when it was in theaters, SUGARCANE is now available to stream on Hulu. Alongside some outstanding documentary films this year, it's one of the best and most essential you should see. I spoke to the filmmakers earlier this year about the long process of making it 📽️

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Osha Davidson @oshadavidson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just when I think I've seen the most beautiful hummingbirds in my area (Phoenix, AZ) one shows up that makes my mouth drop. Maybe a Costa's? #birds 🪶

A closeup of a hummingbird at a feeder today, with shades of purple, magenta, and cyan in its gorget and on top of its head.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Thread to remind you about how awful private for-profit healthcare can be. It's almost like we shouldn't tolerate this!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Somewhere between 30 - 60 flowering plant species produce caffeine & many are only distantly related or on different continents, suggesting caffeine production evolved independently multiple times. There's the Coffea genus (coffee), Camellia sinensis (tea), Theobroma cacao (chocolate), but also...

A photo of tea and coffee in raw form and brewed in a mug (coffee) and clear glass (tea) both with teaspoons in them.

Taken from a Roswell Park Cancer Institute website on coffee and tea.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/11/2024

I wrote about the death and possible afterlife in of a weird little early college that specialized in teaching weirdos like me. It was called Simon's Rock. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...

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The Death and Life of Simon's Rock

In the middle of this terrible month - a month made to shamble through, a month which must be endured - I received a far smaller piece of bad news. Simon's Rock, the weird little college for weird kid...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2024

"This is what we see when we look at the cosmic microwave background: the moment that delineates the end of the Hot Big Bang, and the transition to a universe in which space is dark and silent and light travels through it." (www.astrokatie.com/book)

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wow, this is outstanding museum display technique and also breathtaking in both craftship and amount of fabric & labor. Hand sewing takes (a lot) of time I learned when I took up embroidery (which takes a lot of time) & suddenly cost of clothes in previous ages made more sense.

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