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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Putting a roof on a chicken coop and I got to use my speed square for it’s intended purpose for the first time in years.

Four rafters sitting on top of a chicken coop

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Sunrise over England at 10,000 feet.

Golden crepuscular rays shining down over the English countryside at dawn as seen from the window of an airplane.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Chicken of the Woods mushrooms spotted on today’s trail walk.

Brightly colored orange and yellow Chicken of the Woods mushrooms growing on a downed tree trunk.

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Met a red-tailed hawk walking around UVA Grounds this morning. We interrupted her trying to grab a squirrel and she wasn’t very happy about it.

A red-tailed hawk sitting on a brick wall under some trees.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I don’t do trim work very often, and I always second guess myself and do the cuts wrong. So for this crown molding I made four (really six) reference pieces. #carpentry #woodworking #diy

Four pieces of crown molding cut and labeled as samples to correctly duplicate the angle and direction needed for inside and outside joins.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Something I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to learn about woodworking is that you’ll probably spend at least half your time building jigs that make it possible to build the thing you wanted to make in the first place. There’s probably a metaphor in there somewhere. #woodworking

Woodworking jig to hold two mitered pieces of wood at a right angle.

Two sides of a box with mitered edges held in place with a custom jig.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Chilly fall mornings mean more snuggles with Clover and Louisa.

A golden retriever and a cat staring at me while we all share the sofa together.

Louisa the cat sitting on my lap staying warm.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A blue heron eyeing me while minding his own business in a creek.

Photo of a blue heron standing on a rock in a stream.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hey #archives friends, you might be interested in this episode of 99% Invisible where Robert Caro talks about what it's like for a working historian to have researchers looking through the 20K linear feat of his archives. Relevant section starts around 31:15. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/604-...

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Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation - 99% Invisible

For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. If you’ve been listening to 99% Invisible’sPower Bro...

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TheAmazingNeena @janineveazue.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

CALLING ALL ARCHIVISTS! I want to make a Starter Pack for all the kick-ass archivists out there! If you are an archivist (digital, web, physical processing, consultant, etc.) and would like be part of the pack, reply to this post! Also mention your org/repository too!

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a man in a red suit and tie is holding a piece of paper .

Alt: Ron Burgundy from the movie Anchorman in a red suit and tie and holding a large seashell. He is blowing into the shell to announce and alert the masses.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The irresistible urge to punch my laptop because I heard an alert sound and I can't figure out which of the twelve applications I have open made it.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Louisa in her favorite spot on sunny days.

A cat with blue eyes sitting between a window and a curtain.

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Krystal Appiah @kappiah.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Applications for Archives Leadership 2025 open on 11/13/24. This is a great opportunity for finding community and purpose in the profession, which we need now more than ever. archivesleadershipinstitute.org

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TheAmazingNeena @janineveazue.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

THIS IS MY JAM go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Remarkable timber tower just completed in Paris. Douglas fir exterior columns, interior columns of beech, and spruce beams. The architects used scraps of left over wood to make the furniture! ‘Wood Up’, by LAN Architecture

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

One of the walls of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe near Wick, Scotland.

A castle wall on a rocky outcrop next to the sea.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Getting older is mostly about losing hair in places you wanted it and getting it in places you don’t.

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Scavenger @paigehix.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Because sometimes people need to hear this: If you want to make some art, just make it. If you're worried it's going to be bad, that's fine. Make bad art just because you want to try. You don't have to show it to anyone if you don't want to. You don't have to finish it either! Just do it for fun!

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Barring a winning lottery ticket, I’m reasonably sure this is the only context in which I will ever be a one-percenter.

Graphic showing me as the 44,169th user to join Bluesky.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

This may be the most perfect tweet ever written.

A Twitter user asks, “Why is academic writing so awful?” The reply reads, “The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.”

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Latest one-day build. One of our conservators at the library is holding a craft project for staff to make Halloween bookmarks. I made a 3/32nd slice of a walnut block, shaped it, sanded it smooth, and finished with a hard wax-oil coat.

A Halloween-themed bookmark shaped like a coffin lid. Made from walnut.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

My new office is (was) really echoey and a little boring. So this weekend I went to Lowe’s to pick up some 4’x4’ squares of 1” insulating foamboard, and to Jo-Anne’s Fabrics for several yards of felt in different colors. A few hours later: DIY modular acoustic panels.

An office wall covered in a grid of one-foot by one-foot handmade acoustic panels made of felt, in alternating colors of black, gray, and bright green.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

All of the phone numbers of friends that I memorized as a teenager are only 7 digits.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Latest project. A Raspberry Pi connected to a 7-color e-ink display that procedurally generates a Mondrian-style image every 15 minutes. Assembled in a custom walnut frame and base with a clear acrylic backing.

Side view of a custom walnut frame and base.

Rear view of a custom walnut frame and base with an acrylic backing, showing a Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni e-ink display.

A Pimoroni 7-color e-ink display showing a procedurally generated Mondrian-style image. Enclosed in a custom walnut frame and base.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

The Mexican Embassy may be my favorite bit of weird architecture in DC.

The Mexican consulate in Washington DC, which consists of two historic residential buildings incorporated into a more modern structure built in 1986.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

University administrators facing an impossible choice: 1. Ignore protests, let them quietly fade away as the year ends, go on happily with your life 2. Nuke them from orbit, destroying the university you theoretically lead and probably your own career

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Countercloud, a totally autonomous AI-driven disinformation system that can produce enormous quantities of false news stories with images and soundbites, and accompanying comments that include hate speech. thedebrief.org/countercloud...

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Inside CounterCloud: A Fully Autonomous AI Disinformation System - The Debrief

CounterCloud, a totally autonomous AI disinformation system, gives a glimpse into how AI and disinformation will work together in the future.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

A fun little project I worked on over the weekend. This is a 7-color E ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi that randomly generates and displays a new image in the style of a Mondrian painting every 10 minutes. Now I just have to make a frame for it.

An E ink display showing a randomly generated color grid in the style of a Piet Mondrian painting. Image #1.

An E ink display showing a randomly generated color grid in the style of a Piet Mondrian painting. Image #2.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

A quick one-day build to suspend some lights over our tomato seedlings, using some scraps I’ve been saving. More practice on making mortises and tenons. Yeah, the glue isn’t fully dry yet. I was trying it out.

A wooden stand made to support grow lights over a tray of seedlings.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

More from my footstool project. From assembly to completion. This is the first project I’ve mass produced. Everything up until now has been one-offs. Except for the walnut accents, all were made with discarded lumber reclaimed from our library that was being renovated.

Rough-cut tops, legs, and cross pieces being prepared.

Parts for all ten footstools stacked and ready for individual assembly.

Through-tenons glued up after final assembly. My mortises weren’t perfect on this one and I had to use some shims to tighten them up.

All ten footstools assembled and ready to gift. All made from reclaimed birch and pine taken from old library shelving that was being thrown out.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

A mortise cutter feels like magic. A drill that cuts square holes? I’m in. Had a project where I was making 10 footstools as a gift for co-workers and this cut at least a dozen hours off the project.

A mortise cutter positioned to cut a hole in a reclaimed pine board.

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

This is my favorite sci-fi series of all time!

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Okay. Okay. I know, but hear me out…

A Tesla Cybertruck but with wood paneling like a 1970’s-era station wagon.

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Jenny Bruxvoort @jennybruxvoort.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

📚📜 If you’ve ever held a temporary librarian or archivist position, we (@lundys21.bsky.social and I) invite you to participate in our anonymous research survey about your experience: forms.gle/UcvgtgXnY8bo... #libraryjobs #libraryjob #LISjobs #libjobs #critlib

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The Burgermeister Meisterburger 🌮 @burgy.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Here's Iris Dement singing "Banks Of The Pontchartrain" from the new album "More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith" youtu.be/j4UNed7lMpc?...

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Banks Of The Pontchartrain

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupBanks Of The Pontchartrain · Iris DeMentMore Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith℗ 2023 Rounde...

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I understand that there are technical and mathematical reasons why including phrases like “take a deep breath” work in LLM prompts, but it still feels uncanny.

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Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study – Ars Technica

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Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

This is such a perfect little ghost story, I can't recommend it highly enough. In fact I can vouch for anything and everything Premee Mohamed has written, I think I've bought and read her entire ouvre.

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