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There seems to be a real silence, even on the relevant Wikipedia pages. Is there deference from the constituency of "users" that is most severely affected?

It's "fix the sky" not "fix the weather"! It's supposed to rhyme with the famous Purple Haze lyric

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No news that I can find about this story

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Drought on Lundy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Aerial photo of Lundy's old lighthouse (1819).

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm actually really against the consumption of images (as opposed to their retention and fetishization?) It's pretty clear that posting on social media has a component of consumption to it (not just on the part of the receiver). There's a kind of write-and-release effect that happens automatically.

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Annette Messager Casino (2005) Cotton, red pongee silk, string, rubber, found objects, optical fibres, fluorescent tubes, fans, software. Photo via www.mca.com.au/stories-and-...

A red silk sheet, lit from below, is billowing across the whole width of a room. Small dark objects are suspended above it.

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Ah yes, A sculptural portrait of The Cheat

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Complaining that the world is too Corporate 🌶️ Capitalist 🌶️🌶️ Consumerist 🌶️🌶️🌶️ But we need something stronger

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Not clear how something/someone that's "in the closet" is supposed to be readily distinguishable from a "manly" straight thing/man

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/10/2026

Three ‘cobles’ (traditional fishing craft of the north-east of England), Greatham Creek, Teesmouth, 1973

Capturing the lost fishing community at Greatham Creek, a saltmarsh in the Tees Valley, which thrived for 80 years, and was home to many self-built cabins and boat-houses. Macdonald says: ‘I first went to Greatham Creek in 1963. I used to go sea fishing, and it was still dark, it was raining, it was cold and I was aware vaguely of screaming marsh birds like redshanks and curlews and godwits, but also these buildings that were around – really strange structures, really Dickensian’

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When the dams went up, the Colorado River transformed. Its color changed, its temperature dropped, and native fauna died out. Environmentalists used to want the structures to come down. Now, some of them aren’t so sure.

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Living Water | Ash Sanders

The Southwest’s future is increasingly entangled with the fate of a fish most people have never heard of.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Buildings on stalks. Photo of Red Sands Fort by Michael Marsh. www.flickr.com/photos/stock... Maunsell forts like this one inspired Archigram's Walking City. That was always a bit stiff-legged, which might be partly down to the "stick in the mud" practicalities of these structures.

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maunsell forts

maunsell forts red sands

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Try to guess what "15m" means here. 15 miles? 15 million? House with 15m underground tunnels on sale for £300k www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2661208...

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It tosses up our losses, the torn seine, The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar stuff.mit.edu/people/dpoli...

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The Dry Salvages

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So I'm sorry if I sound nutty when appearing to say the Sankey isn't applicable to ranked choice. It clearly is, in theory.

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The problem is that systems like Flourish don't provide a sufficiently expressive Sankey graphic API, so I concluded that data journalists can't currently make the diagrams one might be able to imagine. Here's somebody who tried harder with R and produced this: watanabesmith.rbind.io/post/behind-...

Sankey diagram showing "Ranked Choice Voting for Black Mirror Episodes".

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I should qualify this remark: the flow of transferred votes, rather than the structure of preferences, can be shown with a Sankey diagram, though this Wikipedia one commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Si... only shows the case where all of the transfers go to the same preference.

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Frank Brangwyn Breaking up the Hannibal, 1904 Zinc etching www.goldmarkart.com/collections/... (I posted a thread like this one previously on Twitter)

A slightly sepia-toned engraving showing the hull of a large sailing ship resting on the shore. Its masts have been shortened and the deck enclosed and roofed over: it is a hulk. The ship is heeling toward the water.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The sand is made of gypsum – whatever that is – and is as bright as newfallen snow." Geoff Dyer is unduly concerned with avoiding exposition (in this case, saying anything at all about gypsum and by extension anything more about the material properties of the sand). 2005: granta.com/white-sands/

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Osezaki lighthouse, Nagasaki pixabay.com/zh/photos/la...

Colour photo, landscape format, apparently an aerial shot of a white lighthouse on a rocky headland.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s Korvapuustipäivä in Finland and Kanelsbullens Dag in Sweden, which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! I happen to have a recipe for Swedish Cinnamon Buns, so of course it has to be #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...

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Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Swedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa...

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

John Baez knows he has bad habits, but this paragraph is still pretty funny/awful to read. We have to wade through cautionary stuff about fools, kooks and the gullible to get to the rewarding section which distinguishes between a ratio and its reciprocal, and between upper and lower case letters.

"However, don’t be fooled! The charm of the golden number tends to attract kooks and the gullible — hence the term “fool’s gold”. You have to be careful about anything you read about this number. In particular, if you think ancient Greeks ran around in togas philosophizing about the “golden ratio” and calling it “Φ”, you’re wrong. This number was named Φ after Phidias only in 1914, in a book called The Curves of Life by the artist Theodore Cook. And, it was Cook who first started calling 1.618 … the golden ratio. Before him, … 0.618 was called the golden ratio! Cook dubbed this number “ϕ”, the lower-case baby brother of Φ."

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A stock photo prominently featured on the current carousel at america.gov – but is it America?

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Trim Castle, October 25, 2019

Colour photo of a medieval-looking scene: a river more-or-less in spate and a grey stone Norman keep in the background

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Who is not pleased by today’s elegant landau, trim warship, or light bicycle?—H Muthesius

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This is so personally unpleasant for me – the combination of self-involvedness and a lack of self-awareness makes these guys at best socially useless and at worst socially dangerous

Mathematicians are crass in a variety of ways, but poor insight into other people's perspectives / naive realism is common. A capacity for such insight is not required for success in maths, and the discipline ends up with a self-selected bunch of people who've never been called on to exercise it.

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There's something so typical about a mathematician bringing up the model of the five stages of grief – a theory that has no empirical support – in an attempt to discuss the reactions of other mathematicians to AI. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/t...

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Are you hiring a professional because you're humble enough to know you can't do it yourself, or is it because you have delusions of grandeur?

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Google "how other people see us" and, these days, instead of a psychological summary, you get some remarks about how we're "un-flipped", as if somehow looking in mirrors is the default

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Dr Mike discusses...what's it like being not autistic, (neurotypical) - part one

I've had only mediocre experiences with psychologists, which is perhaps part of why I'm very sceptical of this video. It's a white male who identifies as neurotypical but also (!?) seems to have a kind of All-medium Total Creativity Tap that he can just turn on when he feels like expressing himself

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YouTube video by The CTAD Clinic

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That's a good question. It looks to me like the mask itself isn't changing, but the image of the star gets sharper/smaller over time. This could be due to more effective adaptive optics (they've been working on these systems) but I you'd have to ask the author. www2.keck.hawaii.edu/inst/ao/

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Richard Wright, No Title (05.10.09), 2009, Gold leaf on wall

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Jim Hodges, and still this, 2005-2008

A curving wall made of 9 or 10 large framed canvases. Each one has some gold leaf texture/pattern against a white background

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Roni Horn, Billboards in Bregenz as part of "Roni Horn. Well and Truly", Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2010 (Photo by Stefan Altenberger)

Colour photo of a railway station. A square billboard on a concrete wall shows a portrait in black and white of a young woman. It's an image from Roni Horn's "You are the weather"