Full Rainbow - A daily word game Re-arrange the 7 letters to make a word, full rainbow if you're fast enough! New game every day.

Full Rainbow #772

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BRILLIANT! FULL RAINBOW

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Full Rainbow - A daily word game Re-arrange the 7 letters to make a word, full rainbow if you're fast enough! New game every day.

Full Rainbow #768

⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @5s
⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @7s
🔴🟠⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ @10s
🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @20s
🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟤🟣 @20s in 11 moves.

BRILLIANT! FULL RAINBOW

www.fullrainbow.co.uk
www.gylesbrandreth.net

That high resolution AROME model out to 9am shows gusts I’ve never seen this model show before for Ireland and this model is one of the best there is for Ireland. Anyone saying this is just another storm is in for a rude awakening. This will be an historic storm. #StormÉowyn

The UK Met Office have upgraded warning for Northern Ireland to Amber now also. #StormÉowyn

Social networking alternatives for the Meta- and Musk-averse Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.

Social networking alternatives for the Meta- and Musk-averse

Connections
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Deciding to read a book a week was the best new year resolution I ever made | Katie Cunningham I read 52 books that year and I’ve kept the habit up in the years that followed, the routine now firmly established * More summer essentials I’ve always been a reader. In primary school, I’d tear through 60-odd books in a month when the annual…

Deciding to read a book a week was the best new year resolution I ever made | Katie Cunningham

Created a Begonias feed for Bluesky. I will update it to use #begonia in the future once folks start using the hashtag more.

@fgfriendlies.bsky.social #ASongOrMovieForLeftovers
The Blair Sandwich Project

It’s Next Gen era Lieutenant Commander Data on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701D) in his gold uniform facing (then) Captain Picard, speaking to the Captain in his red uniform. The caption reads “the Irish Unification of 2024,” so I think we can all agree that either Data had a glitch, Star Trek canon “historical” records on this point were slightly off, or the next nine days are going to be the most epic days in Irish history. On the plus side we didn’t get the Bell riots either. Just some guy assassinating the CEO of a health insurance company.

Lads, Lassies, Ladles and Gellyspoons, it is Sunday the 22nd of December and it’s time to face one simple truth; either Star Trek got this date slightly wrong, or we are about to have the most epic nine days in Irish history. #SpéirGhorm #Treksky

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Why Your DNA Contains Traces of Ancient Viruses - Lovirae Discover how ancient viruses have shaped human DNA, leaving behind remnants that play a role in our evolution and health.

Did you know that some of the most fundamental aspects of our biology are shaped by ancient viruses?
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ionnalee's best songs, as chosen by her | Interview Swedish art-pop shapeshifter ionnalee / iamamiwhoami talks Best through five of her personal highlights from the past 15 years.

With a new mixtape out on Christmas Day – her third album of 2024 – Swedish art-pop shapeshifter ionnalee / iamamiwhoami talks @neverdoneing.bsky.social through five of her personal highlights from the past 15 years

Did Neanderthals Make You A Morning Person? YouTube video by SciShow

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Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in permafrost Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years

An AI started 'tasting' colours and shapes. That is more human than you might think The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the same.

bbc.com/future/artic...

Northern Lights: The aurora that dazzled us in 2024 There has been lots of aurora activity seen in the UK this year and there is likely to be even more in the coming year.

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What really happens when you ignore Airplane Mode—and why pilots truly hate it Here's what really happens when you don't turn on Airplane Mode. Plus, more flight tips you need to know.

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Flipboard’s Surf app is a feed reader for the fediverse - The Verge This might be the first great fediverse app.

Flipboard just launched its new Fediverse browser, which is like a Russian nesting doll of social feeds. It's can aggrigate federated Threads accounts, Bluesky accounts, Mastadon, YouTube channels, podcasts, etc.

www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24323903/flip...

Santa slays and jingle hells: here's why Christmas horror films are the perfect antidote to the season | Paul Syvret They can be silly and tasteless – and there’s something suitable for almost any age and audience A clown walks into a bar. Seriously. Bear with me a minute here. The clown sees a Santa Claus impersonator propped up on a stool with a beer. The clown…

Santa slays and jingle hells: here's why Christmas horror films are the perfect antidote to the season | Paul Syvret

‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism Oxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molars A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze…

‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism

Twitter's Traffic Appears to Be Falling Off a Cliff Over the last month, traffic to the site formerly known as Twitter has taken a nosedive as Bluesky continues to bring in more and more users.

Twitter’s Traffic Seems To Be Falling Off A Cliff.

“As of November, Bluesky was pulling in a full 21 percent of Twitter's monthly visits…an extraordinary accomplishment for a little-resourced upstart. Or, a striking testament to Musk's toxic influence over the formerly beloved Twitter.”

Love is a Skin love is a skin that protects you, a warmth that spreads from the tips of your fingers to your heart sorry – not love – glove, i meant glove Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.

Here's the cute shrub-like type Begonia listada, w/ its lovely light green stripes. Published in 1981 (but mentioned in The Begonian magazine in 1961 & 1962). Native to Brazil, Paraguay & Argentina. Suitable house plant, doesn't need a terrarium. Have found it easy to grow.
Photo credit: YBG 2010 🌱

Christmas adverts: decoding the trusted formula used to pull on consumers’ heart strings Is it manipulation or persuasion?

@mediamagemc.bsky.social one for you?
theconversation.com/christmas-ad...

As a youngster, this old rainforest oak may well have lived alongside wolves as ecosystem partners.

It's almost impossible to conceive just how much ecological richness, abundance, + functionality we've lost in Ireland.

But a lot could return: it's OUR choice. #Rewilding 🌍

Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality I know that all beneath the moon decays I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought, In Time’s…

Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden

The mantle piece mini tree decorations 🎄

Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago.

We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.

It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland – arid areas where agriculture is difficult – in the past…

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says