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Le WebLouvre, a 1994 virtual art gallery

Le WebLouvre, a 1994 virtual art gallery (via https://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/stw/node52.html)

Uggi the dog standing in front of a window with a rainbow flag and a disco ball and a cardboard cutout of Danny Devito in leather

Good morning. School is out, everyone slept in so we are doing the rounds later than usual, which meant that …

gavagaï!

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney

Get a load of this:

'They are seeking another meeting next month with state and Treasury officials to ask for a $500bn credit facility to help bankroll the province if an independence referendum'

At first life becomes crab, then Timothée Chalamet.

Photo of a round cuneiform tablet with about 5 lines of text. The identifier "UET 6/263" is written at the bottom in black ink.

"The one who possessed silver,
The one who has possessed lapis,
The one who has possessed oxen,
The one who has possessed sheep --
At the gate of the one who has possessed barley,
Will spend the day there."
- Sumerian proverb

Translation in 2026: you can't eat money.

cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

Perfect for @drskyskull.bsky.social

“Do not be afraid,” said Frog. “I will be with you on the sled. It will be a fine, fast ride. Toad, you sit in front. I will sit right behind you.”

it takes a minute to draw a superhero

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This article made me realize that Bluesky is a retirement home for the Weather Twitter of yesteryear.

It was like this a decade ago. The only thing that changed was the names.

A drawing made with abandoned pens and pencils, found on the shelves of libraries in and around Manchester.

Bedsheet ghosts playing hide and seek among trees and old grave stones drawn with colored pencil on black paper.

Ghosts playing in the graveyard for the Whimsuary prompt "Haunted Hollow."

#whimsuary2026

YouTube video by Spampeplowski Girl swept away by flood at McGill

Happy McGill Floodgirl (2013) Day to all those who celebrate.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAv_...

Australian heatwave fans bushfires, towns evacuated, Melbourne endures hottest day in 17 years A major heatwave across Australia's southeast stoked bushfires, forced hundreds of residents in rural towns to evacuate and brought record-breaking temperatures, with Melbourne recording its hottest d...

An eye-opening aspect of working closely with international colleagues on things like IPCC reports is that you can compare being hit by contrasting weather extremes in real time

- heatwaves & fires in Australia
- storms & floods in UK

www.reuters.com/business/env...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

How ice harvesting thrived — and then disappeared — in southern Colorado | Rocky Mountain PBS For decades, laborers cut cakes of ice from frozen lakes to store for pre-appliance refrigeration.

Fun fact: at one point in the 1800s, ice was America’s second largest export, after cotton

www.rmpbs.org/blogs/scienc...

‘Situation is dire’ for Sicily town teetering on cliff edge after landslide 1,500 people evacuated from Niscemi after battering by Cyclone Harry triggers 4km-long chasm in hillside

Damage is estimated at $1.2 billion, joining the U.S. ice storm/arctic onslaught over the past week as the first billion-dollar disasters of 2026. There were 55 billion-dollar weather disasters globally last year.

Quart de soleil… #Photographie

"widespread" is doing too much work

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...

Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index.

We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.

Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.

Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...

*stares in food and land use systems making up one-third of global GHG emissions*

Pretty annoying when fortune cookies give you advice rather than a fortune. I don’t need a cookie to tell me to broaden my horizons.

Tuta est ok et pas trop cher.

A who’s who of “who?”

Note on Philip Glass stationery: “After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony #15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony #15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center user its current leadership.” Followed by a handwritten signature and the printed name “Philip Glass.”

Always the minimalist.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

As for Junior, well, he's not Junior for no reason.

Here he is, resurfacing in contrarians' emails:

bsky.app/profile/andr...

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Is there a limit to our ability to adapt to climate change? Back in the early 1980s, Julian Simon, an economist, and Paul Ehrlich, a biologist, debated whether there are “limits to growth.” Simon, the optimist, argued that on a planet featuring almost 8 billion people with rising human capital and access to venture finance, human ingenuity will play a central role in devising solutions to any emerging challenge that materializes. The rise of the COVID-19 vaccine is just one example. Of course, there are limits to adaptation, and this is why I strongly support the introduction of a carbon tax that rises over time. While I support this prudent public policy, the global collective action problem is so severe that I do not believe that a credible binding treaty will be signed. Global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions will continue to rise, and thus we must adapt. My work explores the microeconomics of the adaptation challenge. The anticipation of mass misery caused by climate change creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs and leaders who devise private sector and public sector solutions that improve our quality of life.

MatthewK, perhaps the less problematic figure, might be a fan of GRRRRROWTH, e.g.

"there is a limit to adaptation, but"

dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

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Patrick Brown, who some may recall had an excellent response to some of Pat Frank’s nonsense, has written an article claiming that he left out the full truth to get his climate change paper published. The suggestion is that there are only certain narratives that are acceptable and that he had to present results that suited this narrative in order to get his paper published in this high-impact journal.

PatrickB has started his contrarian career around 2023, where he basically admitted having lied (to the world, to your co-authors, to reviewers, to your Substack audience) while harping about INTEGRITY ™, because reasons.

andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/t...

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