Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
Demand to be buried with a stone tablet saying “Detailed descriptions of our political, phonological, and economic systems in Tomb Two”
This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.
I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.
Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC.
Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
young children r so cool, last year on the beach in whitby two random german kids came up and started talking to me. only after two hours of looking for fossils with them did one ask why my german was so bad at which point i had to explain that not everyone speaks german well, not least in yorkshire
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Have a peaceful Sunday.
#Stunday #photography #EastCoastKin #scape #bloomscrolling #nature #crocus #flowers #PhotographerOfBlueSky
New AI infrastructure poses a “serious threat to efforts to decarbonise the electricity grid”
Walking along the canal today and the Spartan Works, is looking magnificent. Newly re-roofed, new windows, solar panels and swift boxes. This should be an exciting year for the Attercliffe Waterside scheme #Sheffield
Blackthorn! No it’s Cherry Plum! No it’s Blackthorn! Sort it out. Cherry Plum has green twigs, no thorns, reflexed sepals and flowers now. And is pretty gorgeous. Blackthorn equally so but in a few weeks #Wildflowerhour
Yup, LLMs are so woefully bad at history, so I'm never trusting them with anything else... but I keep meeting smart people who "ask ChatGPT" for so many things, and it's driving me to despair
@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: Moderna’s single-shot flu + COVID vaccine delivers strong 6-month immunity in early trial
One dose of mRNA-1073 produced durable immunity against matched flu and SARS-CoV-2 strains a potential game-changer for respiratory virus protection.
: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
Or to put it another way, "Council officials planned a development on the well-known site of an important castle without budgeting sufficiently for the archaeology"
Is one of those proteins cake?
There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
If you are thinking 'well I'm not a Goth so this doesn't apply to me'... how about a writing workshop with romance writer par excellence KJ Charles? Or a talk on carnivorous plants? A tour of Dante's Inferno? A cooking class?
We Goths welcome everyone!
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.
"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."
#Sheffield!
✊Action needed!✊
You've read about it, seen the news, seen Zack Polanski's posts
US billionaire-owned company Palantir processing data for govs, militaries, etc.
Why does it matter? 🤔
👉UK Government is handing them our NHS👈
Your data.
Greens are fighting––we need your help 🙏
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Me to my youngest: if a strange man stopped his car when you were walking on the pavement and said, would you like some mini eggs? If you get in my car, I’ll give you mini eggs. What would you do?
My child: I’d get the mini eggs!
Me: uh
Child: ….and then I’d kill him.
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.
I once dropped my wallet. Someone transferred 1p to my bank account and added their mobile number as the reference *and* called my bank to pass on their details if I called to cancel the card. Reunited the next day.
Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
