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L'automate / The automaton - 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112475

Small evergreen trees growing on the lava flows near McKenzie Pass in Oregon

Butterfly resting on the lava flows near McKenzie Pass in Oregon

Life on the lava flow

The ground turned green since the aurora was so bright

The X-Files Opening Credits YouTube video by xsculder

Mark Snow, 1946-2025 youtu.be/v4-GcS1UQyg?...

variety.com/2025/artisan...

It’s also raining steadily in Portland. But chili and puzzle with college kids home is fine with me.

This is a real MRI imaging sequence. Through the brain. I have never seen it add any value, never showed me anything that I wasn’t able to see on the other sequence. I only like it because it’s so sparkly and has a liquid metal appearance.

Happy Winter solstice Australia.

Colorful geological layers.

Canyonlands National Park - The Needles District

Utah - 2024
My #hiking life
My #nature #photography
#landscapes

Another fabulous way to celebrate the #Solstice

The Last American Road Trip: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social memoir that's really about *right now* www.left-bank.com/book/9781250... (I share her "anticipatory retrospect" and love of Death Valley (March 2022). Grateful for the long arcs of 💔&♥️ she adds to my childhood in STL & Missouri & America & now)

Five turtles are on top of an old pipe partially submerged under still water. Two of them are looking at the camera and one of them has its front legs perched on top of the shell of another turtle.

Lots of western painted turtles soaking up some sun at Elizabeth Hall Wetlands today. Possibly the easiest place to spot Alberta's only native turtle.
#wildlife #Alberta #yql 🇨🇦

"The behavior described here is an impressive feat of intelligence, going a long way to explain the species’ ability to successfully colonize such unusual and dangerous environment as urban landscape"

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

A picture of Runge Prairie taken by Missouri Prairie Foundation

Prairie postcards on National Prairie Day www.instagram.com/p/DKmbmB_t7O...

A postcard of fish boats in Astoria, Oregon, with a hand drawing of a ship being tugged from San Francisco to Astoria by an imaginary Sea Rover.

A post card from 1907 sent from Astoria, Oregon, to Hanover, Kansas. Message: Hello Jake, how is you and the rest. I hope well. I am well and in Astoria, Oregon. April 6, 1907. Best regards from Frank H.

A postcard sent to my great grandfather with some 1907 humor: "This is the way we went to Astoria, haha"

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭

nso.edu/press-releas...

Perfect. I will listen to that today, too.

Lonnie Johnson-Saint Louis Cyclone Blues YouTube video by Traveler Into The Blue

St. Louis Cyclone Blues - Lonnie Johnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWBt...

via @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's Tornado Daze
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tornado-da... " (Thank you, Sarah. It was never lost on me that I grew up in "💔, Missouri" as you now go to the lake to wallow in your Missouri)

Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

Major expose of deep sea mining's lasting damage and huge risks.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The Little Sit My Binoculars to Binomials class is built around five modules, each with a different focus. Each of these modules has at least one coding assignment, and one birding assignment. I think my favourite o...

I wrote about one of my favourite assignments from Binoculars to Binomials, and some of the delighful things people have created in response:

www.jerthorp.me/post/the-lit...

🪶📊

5 stars. No notes. I have almost never seen a news program call out its parent organization like this. (Also, I cannot stress how important it is to watch NETWORK if you haven't already).

At STL with my grown sons, eating Dunkin’ Donuts, watching the planes take off in the rain. Nice way to close 2024 ❤️❤️

Two cedar waxwing birds perched at the top of a spindly pacific northwest evergreen tree

Instagram told me I took this 236 weeks ago -- today, it reminded me of Dr. Seuss

Here's a starter pack of folks who are either focused on information architecture or are IA-adjacent. Anyone else who should be on this list? go.bsky.app/GuDoxo3

A desk in a space between bookshelves. The desk is set in front of a bank of leaded windows. There is a green chair in front of it and a lamp on the corner of the desk.

“Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books.”

— Austin Kleon

Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive Important Technical Note:Thank you for enjoying the Oregon Trail! If your browser gives the error FAILED TO CONFIGURE EMULATOR upload loading, try opening...

Emulation in the browser is BACK at @archive.org - 250,000 programs playable with a click.

But let's get you to our #1 title:

archive.org/details/msdo...

Child’s wooden train set with various disconnected and partially connected pieces

A typical North American city’s bike infrastructure:

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Apparently in 1779, there were these things called message balls or message shells.

You hollowed out a howitzer shell, put your letter inside, and then SHOT IT AT YOUR INTENDED RECIPIENT.

Fiction has to be plausible. History just has to happen.