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@nickharkaway.com Morning. News that police in Staffordshire are using AI to answer enquiries sounded very Gnomon.

Tempting to wonder what the job was...

Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
Jack Frost Window Painter, 1926.

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Green vine snakes don't bite.
They do better: they judge you.

Being a parent to an 8 and 6 year old, I'm frequently reminding them to use please and thank you. Not quite sure that the adult that I was standing next to when waiting for my coffee order appreciated it when I did the same to them.

Love the quiet beauty of this.

This. You see? All humans should be back in the cave by 10pm in winter.
Otherwise, this.

Good news as you say.
I hate travelling far in winter at night with things going wrong. Spineless. Wish you back home soon.

Continuous line drawing in metal of a woman’s back, seated, propped up on one arm.

Next piece in my #artcollection is this wonderful #lifedrawing by Agnes Jones, purchased from her studio a couple of years ago.
#blacksmith #art

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Penny Bhadresa - First Snow.
#Linocut

Paul Hindemith, seen here serenading his favorite bedroom quilt.

We had so many here when we moved in. Very few now. Wonder what I did. We do have ravens and moles and deer as additions but their songs aren't the same!

Exactly, this is what has been mystifying me!

Lovely shot - all the circles and echoes

View of the Mandir which is built in golden yellow Jaisalmer Sandstone. Architecturally, this is very much an Indian building.

Close up of the masonry showing massive and fossil-rich facies of this stone.

A view of the delicate and intricate carving of the Mandir.

Another detailed view of the building stone, again showing the fossiliferous facies.

Golden Jaisalmer Limestone in NW London at the Shri Sanatan Mandir londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #urbangeology #london

Who done it? - GEOSCIENTIST As many academics will know, the road between a paper submission and its final publication can be a long and tortuous one. Dr John Woodward, M.D [c.1665 – 1728], whose collections of fossils, rocks an...

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A fossil coelacanth (Macropoma) from the Chalk in a drawer in the NHM London collections.

Well preserved fossil fish from the Chalk in the NHM London collections.

#FossilFriday at #SVP2025 today! Emma Bernard will be talking about dating the amazing @nhm-london.bsky.social chalk fish collections at 09:30 in Hall 4. Then check out posters by Twitchett/Underwood and Kaia Spence on new #chalk sharks & coelacanth size in Poster Session III, Hall 3 (4:30 - 6:30).

Emo lad I dated cancelled date saying his bat died. He was ultra goth so sounded plausible. On next meet said sorry about the dead bat & he said "no I meant my battery "

Top plan

Google Deepmind has been doing experimental RCTs with its "learning science"-based AI chatbot tutor in UK classrooms and the headline they went for - "Human-in-the-Loop AI Tutoring Outperforms Human-Only Support" - seems ominous for the future of teaching imo www.eedi.com/news/new-exp...

A variety of images of Shropshire including the Shrewsbury Moves plan and Future Oswestry Plan

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Sooner or later I'm going to have to tackle the "lawn"

Morning world

thank you, uncle Universe

#photography
#nature

On this day in 1787, the celebrated Bohemian-born opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck died in Vienna. Now largely-overlooked, his belief that text and narrative should determine an opera's content and form would find its fullest expression in the works of Berlioz and Wagner.