Ruth Comer

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

15.01.2026 16:57 — 👍 4926    🔁 1661    💬 179    📌 512

The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

01.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 865    🔁 280    💬 27    📌 33

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

03.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 241    🔁 156    💬 32    📌 35

A white and brown bunny sits next to a glowing bunny-shaped lamp on a blanket. Soft star lights hang in the background.

02.12.2025 17:36 — 👍 2730    🔁 626    💬 14    📌 11

Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.

28.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 77    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 2

The frogs have made it to Exeter.

25.10.2025 10:34 — 👍 92    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 0

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01.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

For me it is playing as "everything is broken"...

05.02.2025 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where I live we now have got through the 10 weeks of the year with less than 9 hours of daylight and are approaching what I like to call the "rapidly lengthening daylight" period of the year. This #dataviz shows the weekly loss and gain of daylight at 51 degrees north.

30.01.2025 09:48 — 👍 68    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 5

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

31.12.2024 19:12 — 👍 10006    🔁 2675    💬 203    📌 169

We've kicked off our #OpenCode4BetterScience campaign, and #GivingTuesday was a great start toward reaching our goal! Help us fuel the future of open source software by donating to support our SDG program. Learn more & become an individual donor or corporate pledge at numfocus.org/open-code

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