What kind of party is this exactly?
21.02.2026 20:46
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What kind of party is this exactly?
I got a reply from Senior Curator: Palaeontology at museum of Wales: editted to fit:
Carboniferous Limestone was correct... The fossils are corals. You can see the gridwork of the calcium carbonate 'skeleton' of the corals.. these look like several solitary corals...yours looks most like Caninia.
I am informed by a Paleontologist that based on the location found "it's probably carboniferous limestone. The fossils look like (but closer inspection is required) coral and possibly the tops of crinoids". But a botanist believes the leafy structures look like juvenile clubmoss. So... Dunno.
Another side of the same rock with more fossils appearing of similar type.
Close up of what appear to be numerous fossils of the same type.
Slightly different angle if the first side shown.
The least interesting side, except for the small hole which may or may not be another fossil.
Other angles and sides for those interested.
Swampy/wet forest area near Creigiau, Wales.
Sorry, not a geologist, just spotted it and noticed the linear pattern and picked it up. And noticed more and more detail as I turned it over.
A rock with some mixed fossils, that appear to be plants of some form. The poster is unaware.
Found during a walk in the woods.
Don't make me tap the sign....
Inspiration for talking heads (1985) hit?
Scary Santa is an old sepia tome photo from the 1950s. His eyes stare through your very soul and his hand is the size of a child's head.
This family photo has been in the album since I was born and is of my mom aged 5... It still gives me nightmares... "He knows when you are sleeping... he knows when you're awake..."
Image of Clippy from old PC days. Speech bubble says "i am here to tell you it isn't the dream you think it is".
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
I ask a question
Many answers forthcoming
Now give me secrets
"Adversarial poetry" anyone?
The once was an AI in the cloud.
The makers were all very proud.
When asked for illumination,
It often gave a hallucination,
But the answers were still used by the crowd.
Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life" - Socrates
I am reminded of this wisdom as I sit reading the paper with a cup of coffee and contemplating the day before it runs away with itself and it becomes tomorrow.
Photos from Bsides Cymru 2025. Credit to D Zilderberg. Many thanks for taking them.
www.flickr.com/gp/zilberber...
A photo from inside the witches tower near pontyclun. Looking upwards, the optical illusion is one of being in the bottom of a well.
A bit of rural exploring today.
Our newest Welsh cousins, Bsides Aberystwyth, will be holding their inaugural event on the 22nd November, & their CFP is now open!
bsidesaberystwyth.org/call-for-pap...
Pob lwc i BSides Aberystwyth, cefnogwch nhw gyda'u digwyddiad cyntaf!
#Security #Bsides #Aberystwyth #BsidesAberystwyth2025
Headline reads "octopus now a much bigger problem than feared".
A "colossal octopus" attacking ship, pen and wash by Pierre Denys-Montfort, engraved by Étienne Claude Voysard
Headline Vs. where my mind goes upon reading it.
Headline that describes someone's vision to turn the life of Lemmy from motorhead into a version of Dickens a Christmas carol.
I'll take "things that should not be* for 250 please Bob.
Bridge is puzzlewood made from dead wood.
Trees and paths of the ancient forest in Puzzlewood.
A strange door in the woods.
An old roman quarry.
Sunday stroll in the woods.
Cunningham's Axiom - posting any answer is effective enough to stop people looking further. 😉
RIP Ozzy. Your music defined a great part of my younger life. You shall be missed 😭
Let's try something different, there is one, (yes!) just one #BSidesLDN2025 Gold sponsorship space left to fill!
Don't be the one to make London the dinosaur sad, you simply have to sponsor us...
bsides.london/s/Bsides-Lon...
#Security #BSides #London #SponsorShip
you purposely smudge the screen with crud as a form of punctuation? please don't show me your semicolon. 🤣
It's the future (apparently)... Which of these "futuristic" cars would you choose?
Seems Victoria's Secret Has been handed a cyber wedgie by data knickers.
"I hope you'll join us again next week, when we will present you with another story of gripping, spine-tingling suspense, and three boring commercials to take the edge off of it."
Yellow Zany.
Whiskey Xpensive!
Unique Vocalist.