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Uho drawing outside the lines again

😎 can you make it available in the Australian App Store?

Protip: always carry a mini bottle of Tabasco with you so you can be sure you’ve got all you need for the perfect Bloody Mary anywhere you go.

He already played his hand: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

I initiated a starter pack for Audio ML. Let me know if you'd like to be added/removed.
go.bsky.app/LGmct4z

Almost All Languages Appear To Follow Zipf's Law, And We Have No Idea Why Even the languages we haven't deciphered yet, such as the one in the Voynich Manuscript, appear to follow this rule.

If you'd like to send yourself into a linguistics-based existential crisis, almost all languages appear to follow Zipf's law and we have no idea why
www.iflscience.com/almost-all-l...

Slow clap for the Aussie Macquarie dictionary word of the year ‘enshittification’

Today's Little Nemo "rerun" at GoComics. These creature drawings/desigs are absolutely INSANE. I love them!

The heatwave lapping New South Wales probably crests from today, with a few regions - including around Sydney - reaching "severe" intensity. (Via BoM)

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside

A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography

The scary thing is that for it to work it requires age verification for everyone.

I did the same thing by accident. Was tracking the container via my snowboard bag. It’s been fun watching my lil guy get around. Still want my stuff ASAP though!

Patience with a sprinkle of empathy is mind blowing