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A glass bowl with vibrant, multicolored patterns including blue, orange, yellow, green, and white. The design features bold, angular lines and intricate textures, and the bowl is illuminated , enhancing the colors and creating a glowing effect against a light background.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty!

Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy
Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria

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Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.

A timely read - Naomi Beinart, a high school junior, on what it felt like on campus last week, via Nextdraft: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

Roger is smart

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

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#standwithanimation

The Norwegian navy paints barcodes on the sides of its ships so that when they return to port they can scandinavian.

Yay, delighted to see this!!

The first chapter of The Expanse team’s new space opera, The Mercy of Gods, revealed And you can read it right here!

Tell your friends and alert your enemies.

sample chapter has dropt.

#jamessacorey

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Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.

This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified

Threads doesn’t want you to see this article.

Kindred Spirits, a sculpture in Co. Cork. It is make up 9 gigantic metallic feathers, arranged on their stems pointing into the sky, the whole has the effect of a flower. It is on a lush green field, on a cloudy day with the bluest sky.

Kindred Spirits, the Monument to the Choctaw People in Co. Cork.

Dedicated to the people who, 13 years after the Trail Of Tears, saw the Irish people dying under the British Famine.

The people who gathered their meager funds and sent $170 to the Irish people.

The people who just wanted to help.

world war 3 will start not because of skynet but because expensive autocomplete was trained on a bunch of racist conspiracy theorists

the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal

it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it

Star Trek Beyond I'm here to review a film. When the end credits roll, I know that I'm meant to go home and distil my impressions into words. Yet here the credits are, and I don't really feel like I understand what…

Tim Phipps's review of the 2016 Trek film did a perfect, perfect take on this

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Our culture has real trouble grasping that we can't bring back what it felt like to see The Prisoner/Ghostbusters/Star Wars the first time by doing them again, because the thing that made them compelling is that they were different. We can only feel that feeling again by making more new things.

I will say one thing for the explosion of "AI" crap, it's made me more appreciative of the people who are making real things. Not just the professionals who are practicing traditional art forms, I appreciate everyone who is taking the time to learn a skill and practice it at any level.

Environmental risks of car tire microplastic particles and other road runoff pollutants - Microplastics and Nanoplastics Tire wear represents a large source of microplastic entering the aquatic environment, however little is known about its environmental risks. Here, we provide the first assessment of the environmental ...

TIL learned a fun fact

the vast, vast majority of microplastics aren't actually from breaking down single-use plastics like I thought, but from car tires. Car tires, simply by being worn down while driving, emit more microplastics than anything by far

Alllllll the facepalms. Can't even. 🤦🏻‍♀️

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them. Two simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why aren’t we using them?

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Underwater photograph of a large whale with a diver in the background, next to an article title that reads "WHAT'S THE FIRST THING WE SHOULD SAY TO THE WHALES?" by Ross Andersen.

“Sorry”

This revelation throws into question every Hugo Award ever given. If the US & Canadian admins quietly disqualified people for political reasons this time, have they done it before? Will they do it again?

People keep asking me if this is worse than the Puppies. YEAH. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PUPPIES.

Wow. Just wow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Keanu telling y'all to calm TF down stop getting into useless arguments

Every time I think about getting into an argument online, I stop, remember this Keanu quote, and then go about my day.

"It's impossible to very quickly stop using this product I sell" is not really controversial from a fossil company CEO, but from a COP president, it's utterly unprecedented and COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.

Because it's not true: eliminating fossil fuels from society very fast is very possible.

That's an awesome guide, thanks for sharing!

I cannot express how much joy this video gives me, every time! vm.tiktok.com/ZMjXJCP7s/

I love this so much.

Bluesky: for people who don’t want innovative ways of socializing online they just want Twitter circa 2007

TGIF!! It's so lovely here, really reminds me of the early days of Twitter with lots of conversations. Now I just need to post more...