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huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!

A photo of a game of "Fang den Hut" in progress is the feature image for a Wikipedia article about Boris Johnson. The purpose of the game is to steal your opponent's hats, so read into that what you will.

This one might be one of my faves.

##WikiGlitch

A photo of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, radient and smiling, is the feature image of a Wikipedia article for John Travolta, who definitely looks nothing like Mansfield.

Does this happen to others?

#WikiGlitch

A portrait photo of Patrick Schwarzenegger is amusingly but accidentally the feature image for a Wikipedia article about United States presidential pets.

The @wikipedia.org app has a delightful glitch for me which sees newly searched articles appear with the feature image from previous searches. Please don't fix it, it brings me joy and I've started collecting some of my favourites.

#WikiGlitch

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet. On the eve of a key biodiversity summit in the UAE, scientists have issued a fresh warning about the health of bird populations, with 61% of assessed species now recording declines in their numbers. Continue reading...

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

Surely it's finally tawny's year!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#BirdOfTheYear #TeamTawny

Painting of a Kangaroo Island Emu standing by a coastline, with the crashing sea behind it. The bird is standing half in profile, and appears to be making eye contact with the viewer. Art by Terry Matassoni.

In the lead up to #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, we're reflecting on the species that we have lost, and the future we need to protect.

These poignant artworks depict some of the unique Australian animals that are now extinct, as well as one species we can still save.

1) Kangaroo Island Emu (Extinct)

We will never know the true economic value of the environment; it's a fool's errand. Nature's most important values are priceless, they can never be measured in dollars and cents, but they must be conserved.

least surprising heel turn in history

Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' items

NEW: Displaying a watermelon in solidarity with Palestinians has been flagged as an antisemitic visual symbol at a pro-Israel summit on the Gold Coast.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelon...

Meanwhile, at the Australian Mayor's Summit against Antisemitism, watermelons and calling Gaza an "open-air prison" have been deemed antisemitic.

The fifth horseman of the apocalypse, Misinformation.

Exactly

Survival Simulations In The Art Room We’re raising kids in potential war zones and calling it school.

"I can’t keep having conversations about laying my life on the line for America’s children while working 50+ hours a week..earning less than $50,000 & fielding debates about whether I should carry a Glock while passing out the drawing supplies."

Cried reading Webworm:
www.webworm.co/survivalsimu...

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds | Bluesky | The Guardian | This quotes me

Calls for attack on Aboriginal site to be declared hate crime The attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty is just the latest attack on First Nations sites and people. Indigenous leaders want it declared an act of terror.

Not sure how there's even a question about this. It's #Terrorism and a #HateCrime.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

#CampSovereignty

there has been a bit of reporting in NZ about webworm leaving substack, and i wanted to clarify a *few* things that got missed (a text version of this is available here: www.webworm.co/moresubstack...)

A homemade cardboard protest sign reading "get in closer, we're going to not be complicit in Genocide", after a quote spoken by the character Regina George in the movie Mean Girls. We see a photo of Regina in her convertible car and a Palestinian flag.

Get in loser.

#Naarm #FreePalestine

Don't forget transcripts for video and audio. These will help blind users and low-vision users, deaf and hard-of-hearing users, people with ADHD, and people with audio-processing disorders. Transcripts also benefit search engines, people in quiet spaces, and people in a hurry.

Falling In Love With A Bot We tend to love things that can’t love us back.

"As the well of readily available data runs dry, it's grimly inevitable that these companies turn to their users to keep the supply flowing... If intimacy is trust, pseudo-intimacy is commerce."

Ross Palethorpe for @davidfarrier.bsky.social's Webworm:

www.webworm.co/fallinginlove/

#ChatGPT5 #LLM

#NoTechDay

Beautiful superb parrot feeding on lerps - keeps taste pretty nice and birds love the sugar hit

Three books on a glass table: Flash Studio Secrets by Glenn Thomas, The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Imaging by Isaac Victor Kerlow, and Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Trish and Chris Meyer.

Cleaning out my bookshelf and found a time capsule: books on #Flash (RIP), early #AfterEffects, and 3D computer animation.

Cutting edge in 2002, basically archaeological curiosities in 2025.

#FeelingOld

I, too, would like to be an omen.

Carving wood sent me 😂

YouTube video by Virginia Braun Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)

Brilliant keynote by @ginnybraun.bsky.social on #AI (in qualitative research, but relevant beyond).

As someone who feels a lot of pressure to use AI tools to be more "efficient" and "productive", this resonated.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

Thanks for this research—super interesting! I note the survey included folks from diff. disciplines. I’ve noticed migration seems to vary by field (chem/health more on LinkedIn; eco/bot/soc sci bigger here). Here in Aus, uptake feels slower too, esp with journos/media, so key in the sci comm space.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

"It dehumanises tens of thousands of Australians who oppose their government’s silence on Gaza...And it sanitises real authoritarianism by suggesting that mass protest against injustice is somehow comparable to the movements that engineered genocide, not those trying to stop one."

Two page spread of realistic watercolor paintings of a diversity of moths plus handwritten inked information including the common name, wingspan, and larval foods. The moths have shadows beneath them which makes it look like they're on a white sheet ready to take off. The moth survey is from August 18, 2021 at the Schulenberg Prairie at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL.

Finally finished the right page on my August 2021 moth survey from my IL Prairie Nature Journal. Just love the diversity of all these moths from the Midwest!
#SciArt #moths #naturejournal #prairie

The comments here perfectly explain the confusion that vision impaired people have with most images - trying to make sense of an image. Here it’s sighted posters who aren’t sure about what they are seeing. The alt text has helped them (awesome alt text!). That’s how alt text helps every image

An ink drawing of a bonsai tree on top of a stack of books. The bonsai is ina shallow rectangular pot, and curves gracefully to our left, with a single, delicate branch balancing the tree's silhouette to the right. We can see the spine of the book at the top of the stack: its The Thorn Birds.

I drew this for my friend who many years ago lent me the book The Thorn Birds. I was pretty sceptical since I'm not "into romance" or period-set stories, but absolutely loved it. I also enable her bonsai obsession, so i wanted to create something that felt like a natural homage to our friendship.