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Human, skeptical pollyanna, retrosoul.
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Ideas, images, posts & boosts about design, vernacular, the built environment, inclusion, textiles & artistry. Maker. Sciencey. Photography.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Would half chicken half ducks be called Chucks or Dickens?

fembot,
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@RickiTarr D'Chuckens

coreyspowell, to science
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A mind-blower for a Friday evening:

This deceptively simple-looking graph is a spectrum of gravitational waves ringing through the Milky Way.

The waves may be caused by a chorus of supermassive black holes colliding all across the universe. Whoa!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16227

fembot,
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@coreyspowell Not now, black holes.

futurebird, to random
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When I pick up a wild ant such as this Camponotus pennsylvanicus minor worker I’m always anxious that I return her to her colony. I followed her after letting her go. She ran the full length of a football field then suddenly up a pole. Waiting there another ant of the same species. They fussed over each other. Grooming and feeding each other for several minutes. Then they tucked into a nook in the fence and went to sleep! I guess they won’t be taking me to their main nest today.

The sister she ran to find after the strange experience of running over my hand for a bit. They are feeding each other which ants do when nervous.

fembot,
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@futurebird You...followed an ant across a football field? How?!

Catlynn, to random
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Having serious aurora FOMO right now 😵‍💫

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@SallyStrange @Catlynn
I don't think we'll see much or any of it here either. It's just now getting dark enough anyway. Seeing this one through others' eyes was kind of wonderful, though not the same as in person of course.

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

fembot,
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@sundogplanets I don't understand why the under-regulation of damaging space junk is funny. Absurd, ok. But these are dangerous and ppl profit from that, wtf.

fembot,
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@sundogplanets It is pretty strange all around. I think I misunderstood – if it helps to laugh at the absurdity, I get that. I deeply appreciate your focus on space junk and orbits and your willingness to address it.

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin.

fembot,
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@NunavutBirder Wow, congrats on your third stamp and this spectacular image!

fembot, to animals
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After a busy morning of pounce play comes the sleepening.

fembot, to science
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More from conceptual artist-engineer Theo Jansen. He became obsessed with designing moveable sculptures that might help conserve beach dunes, then says the project got completely out of hand from there. And it's wonderful.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g

From https://www.strandbeest.com/ Strandbeests are "Skeletons made from yellow plastic tube (Dutch electricity pipe), are able to walk and get their energy from the wind."

sundogplanets, to random
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Today was a hard day (just way too many things going on). But I have baby goats, and there were finally enough nettles poking up through the soil and dead grass from last year to be worth a decent harvest! As I was picking them, the willow trees above me were absolutely humming with bees. I'm grateful.

fembot,
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@sundogplanets Do you eat the nettles, make tea from them, or something else? Congrats on the baby goats!

fembot, to photography
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If you're in the path of totality on Monday, look around during the eclipse and you might see some optical efects. (Wear strong eye protection if you look up!)

These photos were taken during the 2017 eclipse in a near-totality zone. Trees provided a pinhole effect, casting these 'shadows'.

🌖 🌘 🌔

Abstract-looking bright, overlapping, thin crescent shapes against a textured dark background. More details: Photo of dappled sunlight through tree leaves onto an exterior wall. There are singular spots of sunlight and multiple overlapping crescent-shaped spots, during the total solar eclipse in August 2017.
Abstract-looking bright, overlapping crescent shapes against a textured dark background. More details: Photo of dappled sunlight through tree leaves onto an exterior wall. There are singular spots of sunlight and multiple overlapping crescent-shaped spots. Photo was taken ⁸in the moments leading up to near-totality during the solar eclipse in August 2017.

iangriffin, to NewZealand
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Yeay! Made it to the front page of spaceweather.com With arguably the cloudiest picture of an aurora ever!

fembot,
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@iangriffin Congrats, and it's a beauty!

elaterite, to Astronomy
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A waxing gibbous moon framed in the fork of an eroded branch of a Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. (This is a single frame photo made by a human, .)

fembot,
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@elaterite Glorious! A beautiful image, well done.

markwyner, to music
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Did you know the origin of Pink Floyd’s name?

In 1965 they were called Tea Set and discovered another band using that name. On the fly Syd Barrett chose a new name: Pink Floyd Sound.

It was based on the names of two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Later their manager suggested they drop “Sound,” and the Pink Floyd name was born.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd#1965%E2%80%931967:_early_years

fembot,
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@markwyner Tea Set! Wow, trying to imagine ppl referring to them as The Set, like they do The Floyd. Or some such.

Wonder if their original name would have impacted them musically or elsewise.

fembot, to music
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Sinéad O'Connor – Mandinka

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_GXwF6GE4&pp=ygUYc2luZWFkIG8nY29ubm9yIG1hbmRpbmth

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RickiTarr, to random
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What's a good movie to watch with your Mom?

fembot,
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@CStamp @samhainnight @dan613 @RickiTarr
About the movie or about the other Julie cooking all the recipes? I thought the movie itself was written after JC's passing.

fembot,
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@RickiTarr @samhainnight @dan613 Preferably with much butter! Looove me some Julia Child but she was def in the pocket of Big Butter, lol. (Not literally – she actually refused endorsement deals.) Her fans left sticks of butter in tribute to her outside significant locations when she died.

fembot, to animals
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Alfie in mid-preen.

flockofnazguls, to random
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    @flockofnazguls Floppy disk digital cams are still having a moment, too, though I didn't know about floppy music. Amazing

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    fembot,
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    @flockofnazguls Dayum, props 2u! Well done.

    mcc, to random
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    Today is my birthday!

    If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

    If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

    Abstract art by Vian Borchert
    Abstract art by Vian Borchert

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    @mcc Happy birthday!

    fembot, to HashtagGames
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    Clair de Lunar Lander

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcsUNKlAKw


    fembot, to music
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    Love this. Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" performed by musicians around the world. From 'Playing For Change 2'.

    h/t: @Rasta

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGSqqhhokE&source_ve_path=MTc4NDI0

    fembot, to HashtagGames
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    Oh, the Places You'll Get Covid!


    fembot, to random
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    @mlanger Aaaaand here's the link, from the better late than never department.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/06/picture-imperfect-light-pollution-from-satellites-is-becoming-an-existential-threat-to-astronomy

    @sundogplanets @lithiumflower_ @startswithabang @cygnathreadbare

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