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You may notice from my Seven Wonders threads that the story of many of these monuments ends with "and then the British Museum excavated the ruins and took any sculptures and reliefs they found back to their museum. There is nothing left there since"

FOXES YouTube video by Red Means Recording

Me and @aran.pink wrote a song about foxes

I would love it if you would check it out and share it

Nothing bad can happen if you do

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Delicacies In The Garden of Plenty, by Sarah Peebles, Kyle Brenders, Nilan Perera 4 track album

Bandcamp Friday! My partner Sarah, who is, sensibly, not on here, would like you to consider this album; all of the proceeds go to second harvest, a food rescue org here in Toronto. Cover art by @minouette.bsky.social !!

secondharvestca.bandcamp.com/album/delica...

Wilderness

pline gets a crunchy

A bunny with a small camera stares surprisedly at a fox, who proudly has a fish it caught in its mouth. They are in the woods

Daily bunny no.3268 is proud of your achievement

I vote for (the) D

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

📰 Stone Age skeletons from Hungary suggest Neolithic gender roles were fluid, with some individuals buried with material culture and skeletal changes associated with the opposite sex.

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com

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He is currently sat on his brothers head

It's not that, it's that our fashion is too fast

Thank you! I actually went looking for something like this a while back but came up empty-handed.

Why can’t you tune your guitar? Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…

Unfortunately, the venn diagram overlap of people who like math and people who play the guitar is not large. But if you fall within it: www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-...

So the ideal realistic case for code LLMs right now is still sounding to me like "we're going to create long-term maintenance problems that unaided human minds cannot even comprehend"

Very possible in that sort of situation, yeah. And even if writing the code IS way faster, lots of important types of testing won't be because they still needs actual users. And that work was already basically always badly under-resourced bc mgmt sees new code as an asset but testing as a cost.

It depends on the software, but usually the biggest was some form of "figuring out exactly *what* you need to write", and the next biggest was testing.

LLMs are supposed to help the testing too, but that means if it gets the spec wrong it'll write the tests to match the screwup & it'll look fine.

In code-LLM discussions I keep seeing people talking as if the time it takes to type in code is/was a big development bottleneck, and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. In my whole career that was only ever true when developing brand-new software from scratch, & never stayed true for long.

Book about the search for the identity of a soldier killed in an avalanche in WW1, called “Under a Blanket of Ice”.

Map of the avalanches in Vallon Popera

The Vallon Popera nowadays

My book about WW1 on the Italian Front.

This new(ish) book is fascinating. It’s about the search for the identity of a soldier who melted out of the Popera Glacier in 1983. He was killed in one of the avalanches that overwhelmed the Italians on November 9, 1916. You can read about these extraordinary events, in English, in #TiTM.

At least eleven

This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice

Please enjoy the single most amazing quote from a paleontologist I have ever read: “The animal literally cemented itself—and its nether regions—into eternal history like the movie stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.” 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Mother fox ❤️❤️

Today I read about a famous gay couple who ran an inn on the foothill path towards Yosemite for 50 years. They met as young men on a ship to SF during the Gold Rush and were inseparable. People knew them as a couple.

glreview.org/article/absc...

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

A graphic with smoky white text and various colors of abstract marten heads advertises Mar-Ten, with the slogan "forget about mario day."

Nine more days until Mar10! Only 15 takers so far, and I KNOW there are more of you martens out there. Get you a free icon!

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you know what, that's valid

don't do it!! you'll end up accidentally creating them in the first place!

Remember to keep a small sketch book where ever you sit the most.

White cartoon rabbit wearing a pink skirt and boots and holding a sunflower that has magic and whimsy written on it, and a flame with political outrage written on it. The background is green. Black text above the rabbit reads We navigate these times by keeping hold of both

Having watched it for the first time a couple years ago -- there's definitely some really dated jokes but it holds up REALLY well, and with the exception of a few specific episodes, way kinder to its trans character than I'd have expected for the 60s.